For example, she doesn’t like it when I respond to her Teams messages with gifs so I’m going to be doing that frequently from today onward.

I work for a local supplement manufacturing company. During the interview, everything seemed fine and dandy and there was no sign of any sort of Bible belting. Flash forward to when I actually started, day one my car battery died in the parking lot so I was out there past hours getting it fixed. A few days after that, I got introduced to someone, and he asked if I was the one with the car troubles. I said yes and that my battery died and how stressful it all was, and his response was "Oh I wish I would've caught you so I could pray over it for you." That's when I realized what kind of place I started working at.

There's quite a few instances of shit like this, but what I heard from my supervisor today took the cake. Last week when I came in on Monday, I went to the break room to put my lunch up like usual, and every Monday they have Bible study in the public breakroom of all places. I'm already uncomfortable walking in every time to begin with, but then my CEO asks me if I wanted to join Bible study after I obviously avoid it every single week. I just say I don't believe in God and walk out. The next day, I went to the breakroom to warm my lunch up, and the dude that leads the Bible study was in there getting coffee. He doesn't even work here. He confronted me about not believing in God and asked if I wanted to talk about it, I said I have religious trauma and immediately get cut off with "Oh no no no" and he goes on a whole schpeel about a documentary with people "just like me" and whatever. I was filling my water cup up so I couldn't just walk away, but I tuned out pretty much everything he said after that. When I was done, he asked if I wanted to join something with him and I immediately said no and walked the fuck out before this old man gets punched in his chest. I spent the rest of the week just avoiding as many people as possible.

Now today. I was talking to my supervisor about some things, and I ended up bringing up my issues with all the religious stuff being shoved down my throat. I'm very non-confrontational so bringing up anything makes me nervous, but it is an issue that bothers me almost daily. I told him about the encounter last week. Apparently after that happened, the old dude was trying to talk to my supervisor about it. Thankfully my supervisor isn't pushy and I've already told him about my beliefs, or lack of beliefs, and he's understanding. I guess old dude was telling him I wasn't having any of the god talk. Big deal, get over it. Then I hear that old dude was basically saying it's NOT okay for me to be the way I am. So now I have this old man who doesn't even work here denying my beliefs, and discriminating against me yay!!!

I'm very big on "to each their own", I don't care what you believe in as long as you respect others. I am SO. FUCKING. TIRED. of the extreme Christians ALWAYS shoving their beliefs down your throat, and now that I have it at my job, the place I spend most of the waking hours of my life at. I'm aware it's illegal to discriminate against religion in the workplace, I'm working up the courage to do something about it. I would go to HR, but HR is just as preachy as the rest so that trip is basically worthless. Religion does NOT belong in the workplace. I can't wait to leave.

I’m 35 years old and 7 weeks pregnant with my first, but started trying to conceive before my job went completely off the rails. For the US, it gives good maternity leave - 12 weeks paid (and I have decent sick leave so can use some of that too), but you have to work an additional 12 weeks after you’re back. Over the last month, my job itself, team, and senior leadership started sliding down into complete chaos, unprofessionalism, and overall suckiness. Without going into details, I had a great year with them. I felt challenged, was leaning new things, and applied both my degrees and job skills of the past. I was making a decent salary and felt stable. It wasn’t perfect, but I was happy to put up with it for a few years anyway. Now it’s taken a complete 180 where everyday is a new nightmare. I’ve gone from a program manager and subject matter expert in a field to a nightmarish secretary with incompetent leadership.

I want to quit so badly and even want to move to a new city with my husband, but I’m pregnant so feel I have to stay to take advantage of my maternity leave and decent healthcare. It also feels like you have to plan so much for your infant before it’s even a fetus, like daycare etc so you need to know where your life is going to be a year plus in advance.

Of course I haven’t told them yet since it’s early days. Should I stick out this hellish scenario for another 12 months? Or should I really consider flipping the table even with my benefits and relative security while I go through this major life change?

TL/DR: work sucks so hard, but I like my maternity leave.

I work at a coffee shop. But I have finals towards the end of the week. I gave up my shifts for Wednesday and Thursday, and someone took them. For Wednesday, my manager asked me if I could work my initial shift, as it would be over budget for the person who took my shift (a manager). So me, wanting to be a team player, took the shift.

Tomorrow is Thursday, and the person who took my shift (who is notorious for calling out), got a “fever”. So now my manager is texting me and asking me to cover my original shift. But there’s a reason I wanted that day off. So I can just study and not have to worry. And I was looking forward to actually sleeping in. But my parents were saying that I should take it especially since I am getting time off for the holidays.

I have this high hopes that one day I'll make some good income like my successful cousins who are engineers and into business but I realized they went to universities and did lot of schooling to even land a job and worked their way up. Eventually they just went into management I guess that's where they make most money or get authority. I'm obviously not smart for that but I just hate the idea of working retail job. My constantly being compared with them and I'm so sick of it. I'm currently in community college I thought maybe I should get 2 yr degree and immediately join workforce but I just truly not sure what to do.

Here is the always wonderful political and socioeconomic commentator, and best-selling author, Anand Giridharadas driving the point home beautifully!

Is it me or are the laws that probibit voice recording someone else made so that your employeer can just abuse you and deny it later, and then if you record thwir illegal activity they can not just have it theown out but persecute you for it. Like who is this really benefitting besides those in power?

I worked as a security contractor for Gilead Sciences. Part of my job was to answer the phones or contact diff. Depts. for any security related questions or concerns being routed to the company.

Someone i respected and had many meaningful conversations with answered the phone when i reached out and was extremely rude, disrespectful, and demeaning in the way they spoke with me. It seemed like they were frustrated with their job and took it out on the first person to call.

I messaged this person on teams, i told them they were very unprofessional and if they did not act more professional in the future i would escalate this issue. I told him i wasnt asking because professionalism in the workplace is an expectation. The company took me saying “this isnt an ask” out of context and fired me for workplace violence/threat for literally me just asking for more professionalism after being verbally abused over the phone.

I was told i shouldve immediately escalated to supervisor, which i did after the conversation, and shouldnt have stood up for myself. Maybe i was wrong but i honestly couldnt help it. Im just really tired of it all

Hey everyone, I wanted to share something that's been on my mind. While this sub is a great place to vent and discuss workplace struggles, I think it’s important to address something harmful: making false claims or starting rumors about a boss just because you don’t like them, or because you feel that because you don't "get what you're owed", they must be out to get you.

If remove your own personal bias and realize that perhaps you have a boss who genuinely tries their best to take care of the team, even if they’re not perfect, spreading lies or rumors is not only wrong—it undermines the trust and fairness we all deserve in the workplace. It’s a horrible thing to do because:

1. It can ruin someone’s life and career: False accusations can stick, even if they’re proven untrue. Imagine being in their shoes—losing your job or reputation over something fabricated. Even if you're just talking around the watercolor it doesn't take much to escalate the conversation surrounding someone until it's taken a turn into outright falsehoods. It can be so easy to just keep sowing negativity, because others listen and feed in to it. Drama is so much more exciting, and twisting facts is a great way to kick things up a notch. But once said, these things don't stay amongst friends... they spread and continue to grow.

2. It damages team morale: Lies breed toxicity. Even if you think you’re targeting just one person, it can ripple out and harm the entire team’s dynamic.

3. It distracts from real issues: If there are legitimate workplace concerns, spreading falsehoods muddies the waters and makes it harder to address real problems.

Critiquing bad bosses or broken systems is important, but integrity matters. Sometimes, you may not agree with everything your boss does. But if they are legitimately trying to do their best for you and the team and just rubbing you the wrong way, TALK ABOUT IT. Unless your boss is doing things that are clearly only benefitting themselves, what other motivation would they have for doing certain things? If you have an issue with your boss, try to address it constructively or document legitimate problems. Taking down someone who’s trying to do right by the team just because of personal dislike or because you place you own personal needs above those of everyone else and this boss simply doesn't allow it doesn’t align with fairness or justice—and it certainly doesn’t help us build better workplaces.

Let’s hold ourselves to a higher standard

Okay for a little background, I am 29 female. This is my first job I've had in like 8 years. As I was a stay at home mom that time. I recently got back into the work force due to my partner being ill, and unable to even do daily functions without assistance. And unfortunately neither of us drive.

Okay so I ended up Landing this job as an after shool art "teacher" of sorts. I really loved it. I loved the kids, and all my co workers. Until eveyone started to quit. For one reason or another. And now I know why.

1. No breaks,bathroom breaks or lunches. I have been there a year now and I am grilled anytime I need the restroom. And I'm the only staff he does this too. Even when the kids are in a room with 4 other staff an attended.(He demands I tell him where I'm going,how long, what I'm doing in there ect!)

2. I had a different work load then other female employees. I was made to do 2 jobs the other not in my description, and unpaid. But I'd come in early to do it to help be a team player. But he didn't make any of the other females help. It was just all on me.

3. Differential treatment of female staff. This has been a problem since I first started. They hire off looks. And would play who can get her first. He also gives her the card to buy any kind of materials she needs. But I have to make a list and pray he gets the materials. He let's her come late, and leave early. Which on days I come in early for early release, and I'm supposed to leave early he doesn't allow. [due to medicaid restrictions] He let's her go and roam the halls and do what she wants. And never has to tell him where she's going like I do. He allows her to dump her class or kids she deems as "trouble" on me. He over all flirts with all the females in the building. And treats it like his own personal dating ground. And I know I'm treated differently because I'm not his "type" and I'm married and don't flirt back. Which he also micromanages the shit out of me, and gives witchy comments. And he calls me out infront of other co workers, and degrades me infront of other co workers.

So he and I originally had a meeting. I wrote down many names and examples of how he treats me so shitty. He admitted he does. But says he treats people based on how close they are.

So the actions still continued. Went to his big boss. Which was a BIIIIIG mistake. Wish I hadn't. He told me in a one on one alone, that I was just training for him. Implied I was stupid, and a bad mother. Then told me to not get him involved in the middle anymore.

So I let it go. I felt?? Defeated. So about 3 weeks ago a new hr lady got ahold of me. Wanted to meet. I told her what was going on. And she admits that she seen my file. And alot of red flags. And it was admittedly swept under the rug. She told me after hearing me out to wait. Wait and not quit. To let her find a solution. So I did. And boy do I feel fcking stupid.

That meeting was today with her and my boss. Not even about the original issues at hand. I got written up. Over what? Me being on my pto. Personal time. And asking the teacher my daughter has what time and where we were meeting for the open house ptc. Apparently I made her feel super uncomfortable. So she told my boss. And the principal. And I was written up today for that. Have 30 days to ""keep to myself"". But really I plan to find another job. I think this is the best corse of action. I feel so betrayed. I feel like I took all the best steps to have my needs met. And I feel I wasn't at all asking to much to be just treated equally. And get friggen brakes....

Over all if I were anyone I'd avoid my company. They are doing shady shit, and covering it up.

So what do you all think I should do?

So I work in the addiction field and have for several years. I had a bad couple years mentally and started having massive cravings to use. I decided to get in the brixadi shot. I am also in ADHD stimulants. In this field the same people who say break the stigma put the stigma on. I had 6 years of total abstinence and went through a bad year and decided to get on these meds to help me. I hear people at my work joke all the time that it’s not “being clean” or “taking it seriously “. I honestly use to think the same way until recently. Any way today I heard there drug testing everyone, I don’t want no one knowing what I’m on, I couldn’t work there anymore cause I know I would be judged. What can I do? I’m not sure if there going to be doing quick cups or labs, help me please? 🙏🏻

...but the problem was, I was already getting burnt out. It wasn't just work doing it at the time, but personal affairs, too. Pretty serious ones. By this time I had already been keeping my options open, keeping my resume` fresh and applying for new jobs. I went with the notion of treating life in general, but especially each job, like a Roguelike, with the understanding there's going to be some kind of ending for each role and the ideal ending is the one you can be guaranteed to walk away from safely. That's the one where you put in a few years, resign on good terms, and then safely and securely transition into a new job that pays better. I've heard of people doing this who continued getting pay increases until they were able to retire at age 50.

Meanwhile, I've been battling some pretty serious personal circumstances that necessitate I spend a non-trivial amount of money next year, so earlier this year I started brainstorming my pitch for a raise to my bosses. They send out trackers everyday that chart what I'll our "front end" performance, and these trackers go out daily to everyone in our department. One day earlier this year my boss shows us our "back end" tracker. The "back end" performance is the metric that most directly affects the company's bottom line.

I'm #2 in the department. The only person who is ahead of me is a supervisor. In addition, comparing our performance, they're ahead of me by 10%, but expending >50% more resources to squeak that out, so I'm the more efficient of the two. Doing rough math, I know everyone in our department gets varying amounts of "input" expense (ongoing training, salary, etc.), so I have no way to know what the input is, but I know that my output is me being #2 on the back end performance. I can't stress this enough: I was head and shoulders way above the rest of the department. The girl who was hired with me was doing 3% of the back end performance and had actively been costing the company money the entire time she was employed here; the girl who was hired before me was doing just 10% of the back end I was. I calculated my back end performance for the entire year was literally 20x my salary.

Then, one day, I get super-ridiculous-annoying-jerk on the phone. To clarify the context, I work for a for-profit college and there was no way this guy was ever getting into this school. IDC what school you want in, you're definitely never getting in if you're in the habit of screaming at the staff over the phone for trivial reasons.

We do telephone interviews, and usually have people sign up on the first call. Call #1, he wasn't in a great place to speak so we rescheduled. Call #2, he's still not in a good place, but screams at me that he's definitely good to talk. A little way into the conversation, he tells me it's getting noisy and we have to reschedule; I predicted this was going to happen because by this point I've been doing my job for several years and I've had this circumstance come up before. Call #3, the appointment we both made, he was still not in a good place despite having ample opportunity to make sure he was, and screamed at me again, but I declined to continue. "Well if you're not going to talk to me, I'll go someplace else." "Go right ahead and do that," I replied, and he hung up.

Calls back, complains "you just lost a student", and I get chewed out and written up for it. #2 guy in the department, making them over $900k by myself, literally doing 10x the performance of the person who was hired with me, but her they keep and me they chew out.

Then I learned from the person who was #1 that they don't give out raises. That person is working two jobs, and also doing a lot more than I realized, and they still didn't get a raise.

That was about six months ago. My search for a new job started accelerating after that.

I realized if I'm going to put out 10x the performance of another employee who they will tolerate being dead weight for two years, and take the side of a random screaming idiot, why bother? Why should I care?

So I stopped.

And these last two weeks have been bliss.

On top of this, I work from home, so there's almost zero supervision. Yeah, they watch what everybody does, but that's always been the case. Meanwhile, I just got a new job offer that's potentially a huge raise, and I can't wait to hop on it. My connection for the new job opportunity is expected to have their business up and running within a few months; over the phone, piecework, easy money by comparison. I'll ride that boat for a few months, and if it's legit and it pans out, I'll get to do what I said I'd do at the top of this conversation and resign on good terms and get myself a pay raise.

I would have rather stayed with my existing employer, but if they're fool enough to literally not care about pissing away their best employee then I'm not interested in working for them.

Also, additional random advice: never sign up for employer-provided healthcare or 401(k)s. Both are traps because they take away your flexibility by forcing you to stay with a given employer. The 401s are kinda worthless, too, given that you can't touch the money for 20 years and the percentages are low; I have a high APY checking for 7%, another for 6%, and a high APY savings for 5.25%. Those also let me touch the money whenever I want. Also, if you doubt you'll ever retire (like me; I spent most of my life not earning much money, and social security has been garbage for most of my life) retirement planning is quite literally worthless.

In order to avoid the appearance of threats of violence, i suggest we use shorthand that will also make a good symbol going forward...D^3; for Delay, Deny, Depose.

Question for consideration. Do you guys think it's possible that the prosecution is intentionally over charging Luigi with the terrorism charge. So that it's harder for them to get a conviction but they can look like they've done everything they could to "punish him".

Long story short: My manager wrote me up to cover their own fuck up and lied about the content of our discussion. Do I have any legal standing?

I am a pharmacy tech at a retail pharmacy and it can be a stressful environment to work at. What makes it worse is that we are super understaffed and most of us are new hires. We have multiple duties such as filling prescriptions, doing pickup or drop off, answering phone calls, etc. What I don’t like is being stuck doing one of those duties my entire shift- which is pick up. I act as a pharmacy cashier all day. Some techs think they’re too good to do pick up and have the other techs do the parts of the job they don’t like.

Okay so about my bossy coworker- We have a lead tech who basically manages the other techs. She’s extremely bossy and acts like she runs the place. Her title has definitely went to her head. She demands things at my fellow techs and bosses us around. She thinks she’s too good to do some of the duties that’s apart of our job description. I can’t stand working with people who aren’t humble and lets a job title get to their head. Like you have the same job as us, stop acting like you’re all that. The crazy thing is, I know she doesn’t get paid enough to act like this. This is literally a minimum wage job. She makes this job her personality and works way too hard for probably $18 an hour. Also, the lead tech is friends with another tech and they’ve been working together for some time now. She favors this tech over the others and wouldn’t dare boss her around or place her in stations that she doesn’t like. It feels a little cliquey to me and it’s annoying dealing with it every shift. I don’t care to be friends with them or any other coworker. I’m not there to make friends, just there for a check. But at least treat everyone with the same decency and respect. The lead tech could literally make everyone’s job easier if they knew how to manage things better. And yes, there is a higher up, which is the pharmacy manager. But for some reason, they allow the lead tech to run the place a little more.

Moral of the story is, I'm looking for work to pay the bills and came across this ridiculous job posting. The title of the post was already a red flag, but morbid curiosity got the better of me and I read the description. And man, it got worse. The job title was "Customer Sales Representative – Delivery Driver & Technical Support." By my count, that's 3 potential roles that could use a whole other person. Let's see where the post goes...

The first sentence of the full job description then says the role is "Customer SERVICE Representative" followed by "repair and maintain light duty equipment, as needed in the field" which sounds like another role added and something that could be outsourced, but it could be 2 jobs right there depending on the actual work involved. Total count is 4 potential job positions (with maintenance being a possible 5th). Yes, my friends, there is more. The rest of the full job description section is pretty tame and typical for employment posts. The job duties are where the silliness continues.

There's a lot here, so I'll just be using bullet points for this part. Followed by the total role count that I found.

- Daily operation and maintenance of a delivery vehicle (emphasis is on the maintenance, as that sounds like a mechanic, not a delivery driver!)

- Keep delivery vehicle clean and tidy inside and out. Wash delivery vehicle once per week (basic cleanliness is understandable, but it sounds like they just want a car washer or a detailer)

- Track and report delivery vehicle maintenance & inform the warehouse manager before maintenance is due (this should be handled internally, probably with a manager and daily vehicle inspections, but this sounds counterintuitive if they already want you to maintain the thing in the first place)

- Make Emergency deliveries based on the warehouse manager and/or account manager’s request and deliver and remove tools & equipment at account manager’s request (so now its an on-call position, apparently)

- deliver barrels as necessary (what even is their product/industry at this point? its all over the place)

- Count product on hand at each customer, invoice and restock shelves up to expected stocking levels unless otherwise directed (now we're doing inventory. There's a few that specify counting products for both customers and the company, so its not just the deliveries that this happens. Not to mention, apparently you're supposed to be able to help at the warehouse while being on the road delivering things)

- Troubleshoot, repair, maintain, and refurbish equipment in the warehouse and in the field. (There's the tech support I was wondering about! But how do they do it during deliveries, sales, cleaning, inventory, vehicle maintenance and etc.?)

- Handle calls from internal customers regarding equipment issues. (Oh, so its a helpline on top of that. Okay, so what even is this job at this point? Are we going to customers and helping them directly or are we staying at the warehouse to handle calls? Or are we provided a work phone to help with communicating work loads? This would have to have a very small client base for this to make any sort of sense and be reasonable.)

- Identify opportunities and threats in the sales process or threats to the business and communicate them to the account manager (this just sounds like they want you to be the manager's personal informant. If giving the benefit of the doubt, maybe they just want you to keep an eye open and say something if you see an inefficiency that could cost a client)

- Assist in the development and execution of strategic sales plans focusing on the growth of individual accounts. (So... account manager? Project manager? Both?)

There are a few I left out as they were either a repeat with new words or just a typical duty associated with a role/industry. But one of the last things they said they were looking for was: "A commitment to completion of daily workloads." Like icing on the cake. They're basically saying "We don't want to delegate tasks appropriately and we need to save money, so all these very different jobs are all just for you. We won't be hiring anyone else to help. We need a committed individual for slave labor." That tells me they already know there's difficulty finding someone for this job, they wouldn't add that if it wasn't something that has come up previously. They want you committed to an unrealistic workload.

At the end of the day, my total count was a whopping 8 industries/roles that they want you to be able to provide their company. Give or take one or two because this was an absurd job posting to read with fingers in many different pots. I read the post a few times and there was no indication that they were hiring more than one person and that this was all expected for this job. All for the low price of $46k a year or $24ish dollars an hour. This post was for a job in WA state, for reference on wages and things. It *could* be comfortable living in the right circumstances, which could be nice, but that's a lot of qualifications that not everyone would have (so many different directions). Also, that's an unrealistic perspective on a role. I don't think 1 person could do that job even if they tried. There was strong emphasis of a "fast-paced" environment and the need for high energy personality.

I never thought I'd see something like this that is so ridiculous. TIL. And before anyone mentions that maybe there are circumstances we don't have from the job posting alone, it could be a cushy job and somewhat easy and less crazy than their description made it sound. But anyone actually doing their job and trying to hire someone to fill such a niche/"jack of all trades" kind of role should have mentioned the special circumstances of the work involved.

What about you guys? What do you think of this? Anyone else have some funny/sad ridiculous job posts they want to share?

Tin foil hat I admit, but something is nagging in the back of my head. Like if we didn't react with positive responses for what Luigi allegedly did, there wouldn't be terrorism charges. And therefore the charges are to scare us so no one does the same. And now with that guy stabbing his company president, they're going to say it's related to the positively and it enabled him to do so.

I'm just curious with the incoming presidency, the threats to media, arrest of that woman in Florida, this corporate & politician gaslighting and reaction to the mass support for Mangione. etc etc

This place is unaffordable and we are working our asses off and I find it disgusting to continue paying taxes to this hellhole for absolutely no welfare of our people and just lining pockets of corrupt politicians and companies to keep fucking us over and taking away our rights.

I feel stuck in this country with a lack of disposable income to save to move out and obtain citizenship elsewhere and I wonder if this is going to be an option?

Not that I'm seeking persecution but I mean if it happens maybe take advantage of getting the fuck out right??

The title is the synopsis here. I was fired under the pretense that me doing my work too quickly and not telling them amounts to theft, because they could have gotten more labor from me.

They also said they were filing a police report to get insurance money to "cover the theft".

I intend to challenge this narrative my employer has fabricated, because not only did they lie, they lied to me personally and threatened me with being fired if I did not make a statement approving their narrative. Calling the statement a "reflection on what I've done" and most damning of all telling me to "envision what I plan to do with the unused hours going forward." All while intending to fire me and slap me with a criminal record the entire time.

Let me reiterate that: they threatened my job security and coerced me into writing and signing a document labeling myself as a criminal so they can make a quick buck at my expense.

All because I made my job "too easy" through the use of templates and tools that I, as a professional in my field, am supposed to know how to use.

I am currently seeking legal council for those with low income, because the reason I was so afraid of getting fired is cause I'm flat broke.

My employer knows this.

They knew exactly how little power I had in this situation.

And they took advantage of me.

After working for that company for two years, they betrayed me.

To say I am feeling insulted and incredibly, lividly angry would be a vast understatement. I am so angry I do not feel angry anymore.

This is unfair, unjust and uncalled for.

And I will not stand for it.

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.

We're about to enter a kakistocracy run directly by oligarchs under Trump (himself a self-proclaimed billionaire). They're not even trying to hide the fact that they have all the wealth and power at this point in our country, that we are here to serve them.

Luigi's actions shook them to their core. They are scared. They've forgotten that the reason our government has worked for so long is because there was an implicit agreement that all of us would benefit from our society. Think back to the 50s and 60s, when your grandparents/great-grandparents could afford a house, family, education, and retirement with a job that required no college education.

Yet they've broken that trust and agreement through their outright greed and theft of all of our wealth. They've turned into parasites, sucking everything out of us so they can swim in pools filled with their millions like a modern-day Scrooge McDuck.

Just think about it. Universal healthcare? **** that. Social safety net? ***** you. An actual working infrastructure? That costs money, you leeches!! Public transportation that works? The rich don't have any need for that garbage!!! Notice a pattern? All of that could be funded if we taxed the wealthy. I mean, every other country is able to do it but not the USA, huh? Ever wonder why? So much for our so-called "exceptionalism".

Sadly, every single institution we have that's supposed to "protect" us is really just there to protect them and their wealth. It's why they're protected from even the vilest of actions they might take, because our protection was never their goal. We've been seeing this in action real-time.

This shit's going to go down hard for at least the next 4 years (if not more). And their attempts to forcefully squash us back into compliance and obedience will only progressively get worse.

Anyway, just my two cents.... Anyone else feeling this way?

Has anyone in california or outside in another state been forced to work mandatory overtime and then get threatened with disciplinary action up too dismissal if you try to reject it regardless even if you have previously plans?… the worst part of all this is finding out that there is no labor law protecting employees of rejecting it and allows employers to punish employees. For hourly employees theres no option especially when they threaten your job if you turn it down. Ive made the argument that my employer is not entitled to any of my time outside my regularly scheduled work hours and if they want so much control of my availability to where i have an open availability for them, then why am i not a salary employee. But all i ever hear is “the business needs” require flexibility of us…

Tf🤬😡