Asklemmy

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

subordinates complaints about work place equipment

/joke