Trump and his 1% buddies are openly threatening to dismantle the government, denaturalize/deport immigrants, threatening political opponents, and tariff our imports to further inflate our economy until it pops. I’m here getting ready to go to work… it’s just surreal. All the warning signs for a fascist hitting office, and some are fucking cheering! The US, a keystone in stomping out Hitler, just elected Cheeto Hitler and it’s driving me crazy.

A lot of people are saying keep your head down for the term and it’ll blow over, but how can I when Trump has all the tools to “Legally” throw away future elections. When he’s threatening political opponents, any queer person for just existing, legal immigrants, public services that MILLIONS OF AMERICANS NEED TO SURVIVE. The wealthy continue to squeeze the US like an orange peel, either for self interest or foreign influence. It’s baffling…. And I’m still getting ready for work.

A lot of people are tired of the meat grinder the is living in the USA. Hell the Healthcare Shooter is an obvious sign of that. But the spirit of the workers, the day to day laborers, feels broken. We’re all dependent on our jobs and public services to survive, unless you have enough money to “fuck the system”…. And I’m getting ready for work.

I’m just fucking tired. Tired of being scared. Tired of worrying if me and my husband are gonna be arrested and executed in a few years because we’re gay and love each other. Tired of struggling to find higher paying jobs only for cost of groceries, expenses, and medical care to rise. Tired of the media not calling a leopard a leopard. Tired of ignorance and hate being disguised as religious righteousness. Tired of blatant hypocrisy. Tired of people worrying about the cost of eggs, instead of half the government openly welcoming Fascism…. And I’m getting ready for work like so many others.

Why?

Because I have rent due and bills to pay. Just like my neighbor, just like my mom, and just about everyone here.

Edit: to all the comments saying I’m being hysterical. I hope I am. I hope I’m proven wrong. I hope nothing goes wrong the next few years and we move on with the next guy in office. Because I’m terrified if I’m right.

This is so fucked up.

I literally just landed in a whole other country just to see this when I opened my phone.

My supervisor tried calling me but fuck him fuck that company fuck everyone involved.

I swear I was already looking for a reason to quit.

They expect you to work like you have no life outside. I'm sick of seeing them complain when an always punctual person is late. They could be having the worst day of their life, something horrific could have happened, but they inconvenienced your day because you don't put enough staff on so you have to blast them to the whole workplace.

I'm sick of peoples time off requests getting rejected eventhough they are there every single day and even help out when they're needed.

I've seen so many friends become a shell of their happy, fun loving selves because of their job. But they stay because there's a golden carrot infront of their nose.

They will have you ruin your physical health without a single thought as long as you're getting the targets met.

And if it's all too much for you, and your human needs pop up and you're overstimulated, hungry, tired and forgot how long it's been since you've had time for skin care and self love, don't you dare cry. One tear and the shred of humanity that your boss saw in you is now gone. You are no longer human to them because you behaved like a human.

That is all

I dunno, maybe EssilorLuxottica, who rakes in a gazillion dollars a year and has a global monopoly that includes price-fixing, could afford to be gracious and extend this additional PTO instead of asking employees to give up their hard-earned time off? 🖕

I work as a traveling supervisor for a cable/construction contractor. The company I work for is a large corporation in the industry and has more than enough money to be able to afford paying for travel and lodging for supervisors when in the field. However they have now decided that, despite being a good little employee and giving my two weeks notice, that they shouldn’t have to fly me back home from my current assignment.

I have worked for this company for 3 years, came up from the bottom as a technician to supervisor for a smaller company that gave a shit about it’s employees only for it to be bought out by a corporation. One that laid off half the company and gave a middle finger to the rest of us.

I thought giving my two weeks would make a nice bridge in case they ever changed policies, ever became better but after this I hope the company goes belly up.

TL;DR Fuck corporations, don’t give your two weeks just leave. P.S. if you have a company card just buy yourself a ticket home, fuck are they gunna do fire me?

EDIT: For the people commenting “don’t quit while away from home” I’m on the road nearly %100 I almost never go home, once every 4 months I would get sent home for a short stay of remote work from home. It’s never consistent nor is it guaranteed, I would be waiting for an extended period to put my two weeks in and while I don’t trust nor like companies, I didn’t assume they would fuck me like this. So forgive my ignorance I guess.
They also do not pay for travel home for vacation so before someone tries that angle I’d have been in the same position.

EDIT 2: like I said in the TL;DR DO NOT PUT YOUR TWO WEEKS IN These corporations don’t give a fuck about you, they will fuck you they will take advantage! I shared this just to share what I’m going through. Annoying that a lot of dickheads came here to act like they know everything and I’m an idiot for getting treated like shit. To everyone relating, giving genuine advice, and sympathizing you rock!

My girlfriend is currently manager right now . Today was supposed to be my off day. I'm currently in helping her serve. OUR COOK IS METHED OUT OF HIS MIND. We called our general manager who works with us because our one and only cook is methed out of his mind and is taking extremely long to bring out orders. We don't know what to do so we called and now our entire crew including employees that aren't even here will be fired if THIS ONE PERSON doesn't get it together.

Edit: The cook has stopped bleeding, and put a bandaid on his face, it was never like dripping blood everywhere though I ABSOLUTELY still understand the concerns and potential problems which is a part of why we wanted to close). Things have gotten better he's doing better now.

And for people asking why he isn't fired, I HAVE FIRED THIS COOK TWICE. There's a reply on this post about it. Our GM keeps giving him chance after chance after chance.

Pulled up to the building,tell them I'm here for my 8 a.m. interview. Guy looks at me like I have 2 heads and says to me "That interview was cancelled, no one told you"?

Apparently not because if I knew it was cancelled, I WOULDN'T FUCKING BE HERE.

This interview was set up on Monday for today. They had 2 1/2 days to let me know.

Fuck all this.

So fucking unprofessional.

By trade, I’m an artisan of stone. A single artisan in the grand tradition of craftspeople.

Well, more simply, I’m a builder.

Oh, how I like to think if I so pleased I could just go and make my own abode, seeing as it’s what I already do for a living. But hark! My passions have driven me to a life of labour and general state commonly referred to as ‘being broke’, and for this, have not the depth of pocket to purchase a property. The paradox being I’ve enough money for a deposit but do not earn enough for a mortgage.

My options present themselves as such: either I can buy the land or either I can buy the material. Neither of which constitute a home.

Pondering the plausibility of building out of mud, or straw, or stone I’m forced to acknowledge I’m unable to take a year’s sabbatical to build my dream home because well, I’m too busy building the homes of others.

Perhaps I could dwell in a quaint shack? Take the ‘rustic farmhouse’ look a little bit too literally with the materials provided by Mother Nature. I did do a survival course when I was twelve…

No, the police would surely object, huffing and puffing and commissioning the demolition of my twig house citing, structures from Le bâtiment du France’s building regulations.

Dreams whither like plucked meadow flowers when confronted with the practicalities of getting on the housing ladder, and thus I’m compelled to buy within my budget.

A plot of agricultural land in the middle of nowhere, it looks to be. I’ll just dig a hole in the ground and live as a badger.

The title. I've been working at a pharmacy for nearly a year now and every day my coworker comes into work smelling awful. She smells unworldly, I can't even describe the odor. It's not B.O. but an amalgamation of scents formed together to create one god-awful stench. She genuinely smells like she hasn't bathed in months. She's not homeless, she's not in a crisis, she just smells. She's a chronic oversharing so I know a little too much about her than I'd like to admit. She knows she smells bad, she doesn't care. Countless others and I have reported her to HR and nothing gets done—there's never a day where she doesn't smell offensive. My boss could give two shits and brushes it off every time. Coworkers have approached him, asking not to be scheduled together. My boss is so full of himself. He claims he can't let her go. His reasoning you ask? Because she has weekend and night availability and no one else does. Or at least, he can't hire anyone else with night and weekend availability. I am at my witts end and I'm so burnt out. I'm trying to convince myself I can stay a little longer. If I continue to work until the end of the year, I'll receive a nice bonus. Not only does she smell, but she constantly makes inappropriate remarks about people (& countless HIPPA violations...). She once blurted out that she "fucking hates" Hispanic people. Nothing was ever done about that too, no warnings just nothing. I don't know what to do. I want to get certified but I also don't want to pay for the exam out of pocket. Help.

I work weekends at a security shack for a location with very wealthy residents - judges, lawyers, generational wealth - and they causally tend to order non stop food since the cost is nothing to them.

I was speechless at first but now just bummed about it whenever I see a cascade of Uber eats or door dash drivers coming through and they’re either with their children, they’re older people who should be retired or people who can’t speak English all too well so they struggle to find meaningful work.

Last night there was an Uber eats driver at 2 am who had her two children in the backseat asleep and it’s just been messing with me since then. How fucked are things that it comes to that?

Was hired in at $70k/year. I'm expected to work overtime (I don't), and our benefits are honestly kinda crap. I just got a job alert for the role (there are 5 of us in this role, we're trying to fill 2 positions).

The new job posting says job starts at $80-$90,000 per year. What are my options here? Do I show this to management and ask for a raise? Bring it up in a review? I'm pretty disgusted, especially with the way they've been treating the staff (hence why 2 people are no longer working there now)

I'm in USA.

Only live once but sure let's let these capitalists feed us starvation wages for wasting 8 hours of our lives everyday doing the same fucking bullshit day in an out. I don't even want to live if this is the fucking society we live in. It's just not remotely worth it. Why the fuck do we put up with this mediocre bullshit especially when nobody can afford to live anymore anyway and we're on the precicipice of another world war? But sure business is usual. I hope the fucking system burns down.

I went on a date with a girl that is earning well over 100k a year, potentially upwards of even 200k. Not sure of the exact figure but I know it's alot. Now I'm not bothered by money and certainly not dating for it. But as we were chatting about work, she politely asked me what my salary is as a butchery assistant manager. I told her and her mouth dropped.

She told me that the rate that I'm on after 11 years in the industry and 4 years of getting my butchery ticket, she pays her brand new staff the same rate. So I asked what qualifications they needed. Her reply? Absolutely fucking nothing. They don't even have to be computer literate. Within a year they'll be on significantly more than me.

So why the fuck should I consider staying in the industry when I'm paid next to nothing. I work withing 8-12 hours overtime every week, we get a tiny bonus, if at all,at the end of the year and I've had to cancel multiple holidays this year because we're consistently short staffed. So I'll be looking for a new job very soon.

I started a new job a few weeks ago. This is a typical corporate job in an office setting.

At the end of my first week, it was one of my colleagues’ birthday. She brought in a bunch of treats from a donut shop. No one knew it was her birthday and everyone felt bad that she had to bring in her own treats for her birthday. I personally think it’s weird to acknowledge your birthday at work and I’m the kind of person that would rather no one know when it’s my birthday cause I DO NOT want that attention. But whatever.

The next week (so my 2nd week), the team is asking everyone for $50 each to get that colleague a “nice gift” to make up for forgetting her birthday. What the fuck? Hell no. I have never spent $50 on a coworker and I’m not about to start. I told them I didn’t have $50 to contribute. One member on our team actually said: “fine, we will remember this when it’s your birthday.” When they gave her the gift (a few different gift cards), the person who made the rude comment made sure to mention I did not contribute. Which is fine, I don’t care lol.

Why is it expected of me to contribute money like this? The actual job is fine but I’m sick of all this corporate bullshit. I’ve never had a job where birthdays were celebrated. It’s weird to me. They have all these holiday contests, gift exchanges and parties coming up. I just want to do my job, get paid and go home. I don’t want to spend any money at work. Ugh!

I work a business development role and have recently been cracked down on. One of the new terms I have to abide by is a STRICT 8am start time. I work in a remote territory where I am the only employee. I come into an empty office. Nobody is depending on me to be anywhere at a specific time that early. I have timed appointments and meetings that normally don’t start until well after 10am.

After I was told about the new 8am start time, I started strolling in between 8:00 and 8:30. Most days I clock in at 8:05. My manager drives up 6 hours simply to reprimand me for my “chronic tardiness” and “insubordination”. He says I need to develop more discipline. I essentially told him if he feels the need to come down on me this hard they need to just go ahead and fire me if they’re looking for a reason. I tell him I struggle with the 8am start time and if they need someone to be there that early, they should find someone else. Anyway, I’m still employed.

2 weeks later, he’s still on my ass about this start time. Making passive aggressive comments, talking shit. It’s like everything else I do doesn’t matter because I clocked in at 8:06 that morning. My performance is exceeding all metrics otherwise and I’m not worried about being fired because I will have a new job in .2 seconds. I am so tired of strict start times and this boomer mentality that coming in a few minutes past some arbitrary start time is some sort of glaring character flaw. If anything I am MORE productive when I can clock in when I want. Rant over.

I'm just expressing some frustration here on everyone's behalf. If you're reading this, I imagine everything written below has already occurred to you.

Now that a few days have gone by since the slaying of Brian Thompson, it seems it's becoming increasingly fashionable to make apologies for a man who spent his life ruthlessly exploiting the health needs of the working class. A common claim you'll hear in his defense goes something along the lines of this:

"Brian Thompson was not responsible for UnitedHealthcare's policies."

This is the particular claim that really gets my goat, because often the same people making this claim are the same people who argue that CEOs deserve their inordinately huge compensation packages because they "lead companies," "generate profits," "innovate," "create jobs," "drive the economy," et cetera et cetera, all the lame propaganda that's been parroted since the Industrial Revolution or probably even before. In other words, there is a patently hypocritical attitude that CEOs are entitled to the fiscal spoils of their companies' policies, but also that they are somehow not responsible for the societally detrimental outcomes of those policies. (Nothing new, I know.)

This view begs some rather obvious questions. Let's assume that it's true that Brian Thompson did not have the power to influence UnitedHealthcare's policies (which is probably naive, but let's assume it anyway). How, then, do you justify him raking in a whopping $10 million a year? If the whole point of CEO compensation is to reward executives for their leadership, and Brian Thompson was as inert as his apologists are making him out to have been, then what the hell was he making all that money for? (Rhetorical question, obviously.) Point being: whether he was authoring/approving the policies or not, he certainly benefitted immensely from them and the system itself, which makes him a complicit leech in the whole thing either way you slice it, as far as I or anyone with their head screwed on right is concerned.

Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg with this guy. All that's to say nothing of the whole antitrust/corruption thing, which is a whole nother story.

And one last thing. As for whether this guy "deserved" what happened, it's like Eastwood said: "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

I will never understand why some managers pull this nonsense. If it was so freaking urgent, why couldn’t this be assigned or notified earlier in the day. I am not staying late because you cannot plan your shit accordingly. You may need it by end of day. But at 5PM. I am leaving and it will be finished tomorrow.

Don’t assign tasks that late in the workday, especially if you know your employees are preoccupied with other tasks to work on. “Urgency” is not a substitute for absentmindedness. The same applies for clients who respond to an email you sent earlier in the day at 4:58 PM, and expect an immediate response.

I work in a group home for disabled clients. At a house meeting a few months ago, my boss said something transphobic so a coworker and I (both trans) walked out of the meeting.

After walking-out, I texted her and politely let her know that it wasn't appropriate, which she was very coy about. Instead of growing as a person and doing better, she talked shit about me to (at least one) coworker, who proceeded to make a fake Facebook account and attack me online.

Because of this, I reported her to admin and HR, who promised they handled the issue. That's whatever, but this coworker is being such a dick that it's making work a very toxic environment.

Then tonight comes around (I work graveyards) and my shift partner called out for the evening for a medical emergency. Boss did not even try to find me relief and when I called her thismorning to ask if I would get any help with the hardest part of my shift, she caught herself in a lie and lied further. She said she didn't think that she could find anyone that late and then said that she couldn't get anyone that late. Multiple coworkers have let me know they were never contacted and that they totally would have helped me.

I'm so done with her bullshit.

When I talk about my anti-work attitude, people look at me like I'm crazy, but they're going to work losing their life for a broken system like nothing is off.

I feel like I'm the crazy one. Like I want to shake people and ask how are they happy wasting their life working. Outside of the this subreddit, I feel like no one really gets it. If they did, they'd be rioting for change.

One day, we were born into our world, and we have to play the game with rules we didn't get to choose. But we hit this world running in a race we didn't understand - we just knew it's what we had to do because it's all we were ever taught. We ran this race every day of our lives until it was too late or we're too tired to try to fight for change.

I wake up, everyday in a melancholic haze and in a deep ennui, fed up and not entirely sure I know how to be happy anymore. I don't want this for my kids. I don't even want it for me. And no one else seems to get it.

At least it's in the job description, but a job I was interested in specifically said no visible tattoos. In my opinion, in 2024, if DISNEY allows tattoos then everyone can. Disney was the strictest and they relented. I totally understand they're subjective and what offends someone doesn't offend someone else, and some people just hate them in general. It's sad that so many people have them now but we still have no protections.

Corporate greed at its finest. People better be there on Thursday for the brunt of the storm. I also expect the GM will not be there because what's just how selfish these people are. Let's give credit where it is due.
Edit 10/8 @ 4:42pm: restaurant is closing tomorrow. I believe this is because of this post, the reviews on Google, and emails to corporate. We're on our way to Atlanta right now. Hopefully there is gas somewhere along the route. We have a full tank to get us half the way. Everyone else in FL, be safe.

Received this text from my new-ish manager this morning. For context, he’s been micromanaging me for the last month or two. Berating me with almost hourly calls and asking what I’m doing and what I’ve accomplished. I’m at a laid back office job, I do my job efficiently, so that’s not the issue. I’ve worked here over a year before he got here and never got a complaint on my responsibilities or work ethic until he got here. Mind you, it’s a smaller company so if the CEO has a problem, he calls you personally. Never got a call from him.

After receiving this text, I gave him a call and let him know that his micromanagement is taking a toll on my professional confidence as well as my mental and physical health outside of work. He gave your usual cold and calloused response of “well, this is what I’m asking, so this is what I need done.”. Even in the military, I managed millions of dollars worth of equipment (92Y!!!! bullets don’t fly without supply! 😂), and was NEVER micromanaged nearly as much as this guy has within the last month or two. Thought I’d share this because it was insane to me. Guess I gotta let them know when I’m using the bathroom too.

So far, FOUR PEOPLE have hit "reply all" instead of just responding to that one person. The last time this type of thing happened, over 45 people "replied all" variations of "this email was sent to me in error", and "stop hitting reply all".

People are so God damn stupid.

UPDATE: Super surprised, but it only went as far as the original 4 people a couple days later. I'm actually kind of disappointed it didn't go further.

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.