I am a home care nurse, (pediatrics) my supervisor called to let me know about a possible new patient and to meet her at their house to do an assessment. On Tuesday we meet up at the patient’s house. An older lady answers the door and states she’s the grandmother, we introduce ourselves and she invites us in. The house is very unkept, with clothes and trash lying everywhere, dishes in the sink, and empty boxes stacked up. Grandmother talked with us for a few minutes apologized about the house and said “It’s been rough, the cat died.”

We didn't end up assessing the patient as the grandmother wasn't her guardian, and the guardian was “taking care of court business.” Fast forward to today when the guardian /mom of the patient is going to be there. She answers the door and says “ Before you come in, I have to apologize about the house and the smell, the cat died and I don't know what to do with it, so it's “sleeping” in the chair”. I just stood there in shock and was at a loss for words. My supervisor said, “Excuse me, did you just say there was a dead cat in the chair?” The lady responded, “Yes, what should I do, call 911?” Supervisor told her, “No you will need to bury it”. “Oh ok, I will have a little funeral for him THIS WEEKEND, come on in.” Needless to say, we declined and supervisor explained it wasn't healthy to leave the cat in the house, but the lady said she didn't want to “just leave him outside, he’ll be ok, maybe I’ll put him in the fridge”. Supervisor finally convinced her to call animal control, which she did. However, we still left and CPS was notified about the condition of the house and safety concerns.

The way I see it, if you're doing a job that pays enough for your lifestyle and you tolerate the job, then you're winning...BUT....

Be smart with your money folks, as that's the tool towards the freedom you seek.

I'm a cart pusher. I hate trading my time for money so I save aggressively. I will retire early and I only need to work part time to afford my life.

Career ambition isn't for me. Here's my channel if anyone cares.

https://youtu.be/mLIcLl0VYQ4?si=pzUFYkrhiz_-7LPB

Looking for discreet tech options that will help me keep up appearances while I do other work on the DL. I work in an office and use my laptop but don't have a great way to conceal 2 laptops. I have a tablet but don't have a keyboard for it.... should I go that route?

Just walked in to get breakfast because I didn’t have time to get stuff for lunch today.

They have a sign up for smash burgers that they’re doing now.

Single patty: $8.79 Double: $14.49 Triple: $17.59

Over $5 to add an additional meat patty to make it a double…then another $3 for the triple.

The only difference between the sandwiches is the meat…

Preface: I am pretty much exclusively talking about corporate jobs. I understand that retail or "blue-collar" jobs are completely different. Though there are things to address in those fields.

How in the world have people lied to themselves and to others that their jobs aren't complete wastes of time?

For a little background; I have been working two full time jobs for almost a year now (felt underpaid even after being told I was one of the top employees at a company). I am losing my mind because I can easily get by on ~10 hours of work at each when I'm actually trying 💀
At one job I work on a product that is used daily by tens of millions of Americans. At the other job I just maintain an internal tool.

I know productivity soared late last century, so WHY DO WE ALL STILL HAVE TO WORK? More realistically, WHY DOES NOBODY ADMIT THAT THEIR JOB IS PRETTY MUCH A COMPLETE JOKE AND THEY PRETEND TO BE BUSY FOR 60%+ OF THEIR TIME?
Can we admit that we don't need to be working the majority of our waking time and still achieve quite a lot of things? For fucks sake I don't think anything will ever change unless enough people admit to themselves that "hey, my work doesn't really matter that much" or "most of my time isn't actually productive."

How could some of our parents work meaningless jobs and never consider how they're wasting their life and how they're not changing the world at all so their kids will have to do the exact same thing?

I'm fed up. I would love to hear anyone else's thoughts on this because it feels like everyone else is living in a different reality than me.

Thanks for listening to my rant. I hope you all have a good day.

... So says the General Manager after yet another fruitless interview.

So, I'm on the job search and as usual I'm dealing with the fact that most places I apply to won't even reject back, a small amount will, and an even smaller amount will set me up with an interview.

To which I go to the interview, build some rapport with the manager on duty, only to hear them say that they need to speak with an even higher-up manager, aaaaaand I hear nothin' back.

Anyone else going through this?

Okay I recently took on a manager position at a fast food place not great money but close to home management above a joke want nonstop work from crew everything by the book basically expecting the workers to be non talking drones can't figure out why they lost 6+ workers in a week and a half when one manager is a bitch about no downtime and other manager constantly berating and talking down to the staff basically treating them like they are all idiots and mad when they have to do work themselves and they expect me to come in and break all the bad habits cause the one manager everyone liked is quiting wtf do I do

How much Land does a man need? By Leo Tolstoy

The answer may surprise you!

I started a new job position in the billing/payroll department where I work, and honestly it’s been absolute hell. The person who trained me was leaving, so she didn’t care enough to show me how to properly do things. So I’ve basically been figuring things out on my own. On top of that, I’m training a new hire, who’s awesome and has been super understanding about the whole situation. My manager has also been out for 3 weeks, so I’ve been dealing with owner who can admit that he doesn’t have any idea what he’s doing and gets upset when I don’t either.

There are a LOT of moving parts to this job. I need access to a ton of different files and spreadsheets, but when I ask the owner about it he says he’ll get to it and never does. Then he gets upset with me and is confused as to why I don’t have access. The thing is, I literally had NO IDEA I needed access to these things because no one showed me! Now that I understand most of the processes, I’m seeing mistakes that the previous person made and have brought them up to the owner. I outlined the problem, how I’m fixing it, and where I’m at in the process. Despite that, he has tried to place blame on me for not noticing this issue that started TWO MONTHS before I even stepped into the role.

I’m honestly exhausted, I’ve been trying to hard to do well in this position and all I’m getting is negativity back. I wasn’t trained properly and it honestly feels like I was sabotaged (this person didn’t like me very much). My manager hasn’t been around to talk to about these things, which really is the main problem. She was supposed to help me learn the role and be a buffer between myself and the owner.

I’m not sure exactly what I should say to my manager when we finally get a chance to have a meeting. Her being out isn’t her fault, so I have no ill will there. I’m just super frustrated by the lack of support and clarity on how processes are supposed to work, but I do really like the job itself.

I worked for an American employer for the first time in a decade from May 2024 to January this year. Employer was toxic and two faced. Prior to this, I worked for a Europe-based company (let's say HQ was in Poland). Unfortunately I was let go so that other parts of the company could survive. 3 other people were let go on the same day as me.

The American employer hired me without a contract and fired me just as quickly, except they made me sign a termination agreement. I also relocated to America to work for this employer - once again, without contract. When my European employer terminated me, they told me 30 days in advance and I handed over my work to an outsourced team of 4 people with 30 days to train them.

I got injured working for the American company, but the injury was not at work. It was on a day off while we were deployed at a work location. Did not qualify for workman's comp, did not qualify for social security. I worked at some companies in Asia and it was written into my contract that on sick days I would be paid half of my salary assuming I worked 8 hours a day, so I would be paid for 4 hours daily while I recover.

I just had another job interview for a remote position at a European company. They asked about my previous two jobs and I told them my American employer hired me without a contract, which they thought was strange, and then I told them, "You can be hired in America just as quickly as you can be fired."

i rarely get sick but i call in sick basically whenever i really really cannot be bothered to go to work. i know it's bad but some days i wake up and just think nope.

have you ever done it? how often?

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Hey! Are you or someone you know putting off having kids due to the cost? This is your reminder that even livestock are provided the resources necessary to reproduce. Your frustrations are valid!

I’m in a hospital ensuring tests are run properly. Each test error costs $10,000. Before my position came up the error rate was almost 50% now it’s less then 1% Got news last week my position is being cut. Ironically last month I got a breakdown of my job over the last year, and how I’m saving the company $10,000’s of thousands a day…Not bad for someone working for $21.50 an hour one of the lowest paid positions in the company. They told me “because of financial issues we no longer can keep the job open.” Then told the staff “because this position is such a success we are reallocating our resources” Then went ahead and offered me a different position with overnight job and cut hours. Not the job nor the hours I agreed to when I started working. I cannot take it do to personal issues. And now because “they have a position for me” I am considered as a resignation instead of a layoff and will not receive unemployment benefits.

For the last nine months, I’ve been hazed by my team. The only reason I’ve survived this long is because one (ONE) person on my team refused to participate or look the other way. He stuck by me when I became a pariah. I’m forever grateful for that.

My supervisor told me it’s my fault. I’m “unlikeable” and “not endearing.” I needed to get over it. Do better work. Don’t be so needy or annoying. Figure things out on my own and stop asking stupid questions. And I tried. I became the island he wanted. In the process, I’ve relapsed in my addiction recovery three times, needed to get on sleeping pills for extreme anxiety, and at some point, I was checking which psych hospitals take my insurance. You know what makes this funny? I work in mental health.

I’m slightly better now. I’m in mostly regular therapy. It helps that my spouse and I are moving to a better place and my commutes are getting shorter. But I’m also angry. Furious. I don’t expect my boss to actually stop the hazing. He can’t even get my co-workers to meet their deadlines for their work, much less stop a group effort to haze the new employee. But I can’t forgive him for blaming me for my own bullying. At some point, he was constantly tearing into me in front of the colleagues he knew I already was isolated from for anything and everything he could think of. I can’t help but wonder if he gets some kind of thrill on being one of the crew (ironically, the more he tore into me, the more the rest of the team softened on me. I guess they felt bad for me. Not enough to actually help me. Enough that they don’t actively sneer when I walk into the room).

Now? I’m cut off from my one support line. I’m truly an island. And that’s also somehow my fault. My boss told me this employee complained about being too overwhelmed (he was too overwhelmed with work as a whole. My boss made it seem like he was too overwhelmed with me, specifically).

I’m constantly overwhelmed with pure rage. Rage that I let it get this far. Rage that I actually let this man convince me to not document any of this. Rage that I believed in him at all. Rage that I survived hazing and all I got was trauma and a resurgence of my alcohol problem. Rage that we’re all 30+ years old and yet you’d think this was a high school. Rage that a licensed social worker thinks it’s funny that his subordinate is being hazed.

How do I make it through the next three months without punching this man in the face? I can’t forgive him. I will never forgive him,

If they are actually just taxes, why do it?

Because people have DMed me, the app is called Bopeep Petition (bopetition.com)

My coworker showed up 15-minutes late to an important meeting and our manager blew a fuse. She yelled at him in front of everyone. She literally called him a “t@rd,” and when he said that was inappropriate, she said “no it’s not, you were tardy so you’re a [t@rd](mailto:t@rd).” She then declared that from now on, everyone has to arrive 15-minutes early every day.

We thought she was just trying to make a point, but the next day she gave everyone who didn’t show up 15-minutes early a verbal warning. We are not being compensated for the extra time. We’re technically salaried, so this isn’t illegal, but it is an obnoxious power trip.

I got almost all my coworkers to sign a petition using an app that has the petition start out anonymous, but then it reveals the signatures when enough people sign.

So now I’m sitting locked and loaded with a strongly worded petition that 80% of the entire team has signed about how inappropriate her reaction and the new policy are.

The app will let me anonymously send the petition to anyone I want, and cc anyone I want. Who should I have the app send the petition to? Who should be copied?

My boss is one of two branch managers who are both equal seniority. Above them is the regional manager. Above that is the regional VP.

My plan is to have the app send the petition to my boss and copy both the regional manager and the other branch manager.

Thoughts? Any other suggestions?

I have a job interview tomorrow. I'm going to be asking for a few dollars more then then what they listed. What do you say when they hit you back with "the old timers" don't even make that or somthing like that.

Thanks for the help!

I've worked too many hours

to be broke

and stuck

at my grandma's house.

That sentence alone should be proof

that something is deeply wrong.

But instead of outrage,

I'm met with shrugs,

lectures,

and a thousand excuses.

They tell me this is normal.

It is not.

This is failure.

Not mine--

the system's.

We were told:

Work hard.

Get educated.

Play by the rules.

Success will follow.

But we did all that--

and we're still sinking.

Not because we're lazy.

Because the game is rigged,

and the rules were written

by people who no longer play by them.

Our parents don't understand.

Not because they're bad people.

But because the world they grew up in

doesn't exist anymore.

And admitting that

would mean everything they believed in

was a lie.

So they deny it.

And in that denial,

they pass down our pain

as if it's our fault.

But we see it.

We feel it.

We know the truth:

Suffering is not noble.

Struggle is not sacred.

And survival is not the meaning of life.

There is enough.

Enough food.

Enough housing.

Enough wealth.

The only thing missing

is permission to share it.

They use the generational divide as a wedge.

Father against son.

Mother against daughter.

Because a divided people

is a controlled people.

But the real war isn't between us--

it's between awareness

and denial.

The scariest part?

The world doesn't have to be this way.

And deep down,

most people know it.

But they're scared.

Because if they admit it,

they have to change.

And change is terrifying

when comfort is all you've ever known.

I believe there is a plan--

not to fix the system,

but to push it

right to the brink.

To make collapse

the teacher.

But I don't want to learn through wreckage.

I want to learn through realization.

Through truth.

Through unity.

Because if we wait for the crash,

the vultures will write the next chapter.

And they'll call it salvation.

We don't have to burn it all down.

We just have to stop

pretending

this is fine.

This is a call.

Not to arms--

but to awareness.

To clarity.

To courage.

If you feel what I feel,

say it.

Share it.

Scream it if you must.

Because somewhere,

someone is drowning in silence

waiting for a voice

that sounds like truth.

You might be that voice.