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For me it’s the fact that where I work the management don’t give a fuck about the staff and the fact that we got promised new equipment which we got but a week later they chained up to a rail so that only one shift can use it.

So let some steam off and talk about it.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

The fact that through all this gaslighting and society falling apart the best therapists can do for me is to give me techniques to ignore it all.

Like at what point do we stop making it the job of people who have been broken by this society to fix them fucking selves and control their emotions while all the assholes who keep making it worse are never expected to fix shit about themselves?

The worst literally just shrug it all off and keep being assholes. When the fuck are mental health professionals gonna acknowledge maybe its not up to us to fix ourselves when society itself is breaking our minds?

The gaslighters, abusers, and selfish all just get to keep doing what they're doing and all of us halfway decent people have to do "better" because of them. It's literally the same stupid attitude that allowed our country to be dragged into fascism.

Stop making the fucking victims of it all be the ones who have to put in the work to fix anything!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If humanity can’t take care of its environment, then that’s what it is. If we do, great. But it doesn’t look like we can. And yeah, that’s sad—but it’s also okay. Because that’s nature. That’s reality from a perspective beyond just humans. If we can’t sustain ourselves, then so be it. Nature and time will carry on. And that has to be okay—otherwise, you’ll always struggle.

If you decide to adapt this view you will struggle less. Also, it won't change how you choose to behave either. You can believe this AND care for your surroundings. I still do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

100% Agreed !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That's just kind of how therapy works. They can't fix other people or society for you. The only reason to go is if you need help managing your own shit.

I agree that therapy is dogshit for depression because my depression won't be fixed by anything internal, but what is therapy good for besides internal change?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I work for a big fucking store that shouldn't exist and it makes me mad every day.

Holidays are the worst. At Christmas the two big things we push are electronics and cheap chocolate, aka the two things almost universally made by slaves. Imagine your religion's flagship holiday being a celebration of slave labor. Wild.

Every season we stock countless shitty synthetic t-shirts nobody's going to buy, of some overrated cartoon character with a different accessory badly edited on. The amount of plastic going into landfills in the name of Stitch or Charlie Brown makes me sick to think about. Don't come at me for calling them overrated, neither is worse intentionally destroying a planet for.

The amount of plastic waste we make on the job is awful, too. Half the time I bag an order, the bag splits and I have to grab another one. Do you think we're always in reach of a recycling can? Nah, that shit's going in the trash, along with the "paper" (plastic) we use to print our labels that misprint 90% of the time, the extraneous plastic bits that fall off the milk jug, and so on.

But it's the best wage I'm getting. So I silently fume for eight hours every day while I contribute to the ruin of a planet I ostensibly love. Oh well!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

how much capitalism has feasted on our youth as a society, our inability to protect our bodies against fast food, our nature against developers, our data against tech oligarchs, our democracy against corporations...all of it just us being young and naive as a society and unable to pull together for the greater good before greed driven leverage drank blood from our still warm bodies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I got gifted a bottle of home-made premium beer just for myself, but it's bottled up in such a way that it's still technically brewing, and so I'm not allowed to touch it for two weeks. That really frustrates me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Being real?

Half-assed motherfuckers that talk big shit, but won't do a damn thing when someone else is taking the risk of trying to organize shit. Like, motherfucker, a year ago, you were all rage against the machine, now you're fucking Taylor Swift.

Don't talk shit out at the shooting range like you're Mr Che Guevara jr, then be all piss baby when someone tries to get something moving. Wah, I can't. Wah, maybe next weekend. Wah, maybe if you can get more people.

Fucking useless motherfuckers.

Like, you punk-ass little wimp, GTFO. Calling motherfuckers bootlicker and capitalist pigs until there's an possibility of doing something. Fuck you, and fuck everyone like you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hear, hear. That's some bullshit.

We're about to enter an era where literally the only kind of thing that might work is a General Strike which is gonna mean people literally having to plan a month of eating very little because they won't have income to buy fresh food. Packing stores of water in case your water gets shut off.

It's gonna suck real bad, but all these people are like "I want to get involved, but I've gotta go to work." Motherfucker unless your job is literally saving the lives of people, your job can do without you. You can find another job. McDonald's and Home Depot aren't making the world a better place.

Further, maybe we should all be bailing on these worthless jobs that aren't contributing to society and instead give our skills to Mutual Aid Groups. Maybe our labor would be better spent on our communities rather than selling worthless plastic shit and unhealthy food back and forth to each other?

You know how Amish communities get together to raise a barn for a neighbor? Yeah, that's what we need to be fucking doing. The Amish suck in a lot of ways, but they understand that they have to pool their labor together to meaningfully take care of their community. We need community-driven Habitat For Humanity on fucking steroids.

"We'll still be expected to go to work during the apocalypse." Yeah, only if you choose to bend over and fucking take it. You could also walk out of the fucking job because it's the fucking apocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Getting another job at McDonalds or walmart would not help a general strike i think. Are you talking about after the strike is over?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I live in Los Angeles and I’d say that people being completely unaware of their surroundings and other people.

People don’t move out of the way unless you confront them with a loud “excuse me” and that’s a gamble because they might try to start shit with you.

While driving people don’t move to the rightmost part of the street to get out of the way while making a right turn despite the right lane (usually) being super wide to allow for flowing traffic.

When ordering at a food establishment, people don’t decide what to order before/during the time they’re in line. Instead, everyone looks kind of annoyed that it’s taking so long but once they reach the counter it’s their turn to leisurely browse the menu, ask stupid questions, etc and hold up the line.

My motto is “don’t these people have anywhere to be? Anything to do?” I’m originally from the Midwest so it’s weird to me that people move this slow and act so clueless in an urban environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't live anywhere near LA but I work at Walmart and this is basically my inner monolog. My job is judged on speed but everyone needs to be in my way, moving as slowly as possible, usually with all 5,000 members of their immediate family spread out across the aisle in case an employee dares try to get anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I feel you. My first jobs were in fast food, then Walmart, then warehouse jobs after that. So even though I’m a web developer now I still have that eternal frustration with people moving too slow.

[–] nullPointer 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

motherfuckers who don't know the difference between than and then. both written and verbal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Modern problems, modern solutions

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

subordinates complaints about work place equipment

/joke

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Pretty funny to be fair, that’s not the whole picture if you knew it all you’d be horrified lol