I had to switch off the audio on a zoom meeting early today, and ask a coworker to lmk when people actually started talking about work, the conversation was so inappropriate. Middle aged men, VPs and Directors at a billion dollar company, bragging about how they beat their kids and could kick their teenage sons' asses in a heartbeat. I can't wait to start shooting these people, they're all monsters.
not recording all this
The bourgeois decency brigade is trying to turn the cameras outward. I hope you recorded all that. Recording is ever more appropriate what with the attack on youtube-dl and our ability to have private memories.
a recording could be sent to Child Protective Services, if you are in a two-party consent state you may need to take pains to remain anonymous
Work becomes a lot more pleasant when you discover that you never actually have to be sober. It sucks that so much of my paycheck goes into substances that make getting my paycheck bearable, but what can you do. Besides overthrowing capitalism, I mean.
When I was working at a soul crushing retail job quite some years back, I thought about driving my car into the meridian going like 90mph almost every morning. That type of thought mostly only happened in the mornings, since I had to get up at 4:30am every morning to open and I dreaded it so much because normally I am a night owl, and sleeping is very hard for me to do before 12 or 1am. So I'd always be on an incredibly low amount of sleep, and knew I was walking into a shop that did fuck all the night before because we were both very understaffed, and the managers were quite seriously, the worst bosses i've ever had at any job. They actively made things worse when they were there. It was always a stressful hour or two in the mornings trying to get everything right before opening, and we'd always not have at least 3-4 products not prepped for me to use that I needed to go on display otherwise it's a huge empty spot. so I was doing two jobs in one at a time for at least half my shift. I'm rambling right now, but I can't express how much being paid slightly above min wage, super early in the morning, while feeling like I'm the only one who actually did their job and having to hear my managers every morning get mad at me for things I had no control over every single day, that they, themselves COULD help with, but chose not, even when asked. The gaze into the abyss was very very real.
lmao I'm going to hate programming despite it being my only somewhat creative outlet. But a programming job is all I can get so fuck me.
Not a union but you may enjoy https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistprogrammers/
I've left work twice and wanted to live after defeating loss prevention by lying my ass off confidently. The amount of shit I took is remarkable. The amount the supervisors stole was astounding. The amount the owners stole from us... I know. Tiny victories tho
Yeah. I've had a couple legitimately enjoyable jobs. One of which I had to leave because of COVID. :(
Fuck, that was depressing. First reddit thread I've read in a week or two and I remember why I stopped.
The only times I ever looked forward to a shift was when I was friends with my coworker and it meant we got to hang out and get paid to hang out while doing the job tasks. And it was more in a "oh today is going to have additional comedic relief and emotional support rations" way than really looking forward to going to work.
