Is a few days too early to resent an employer? Not for me, apparently. I’ve never reached the point that I need to set my boundaries with an employer up front, and if they can’t respect that they can go to hell. The new gig wants me to be clean of THC, something I very much could have and would have done if they had asked nicely, instead they sprung it on me when it was far too late to get clean enough for a drug test. So I went immediately out and took that drug test, if this practice is more important than employee recruitment or retention, we can just call the whole thing off right away.
Had a blip of possibility; a friend of mine is GM at a local vape store, and they need people. It’s a chill place, I could be content with that. That was on Thursday I was told that, two days gone by and I haven’t heard anything. Not conclusive but certainly not encouraging. Supposedly I have a therapy appointment on Monday, I say supposedly because the therapist missed our last appointment, so I no longer count on them showing up.
Do you know what the largest predictor of revolution is? Able bodied young people with nothing better to do. I know for a fact I’m not the only one, the question is do the people that run things care if they experience stability? I’m sick of protecting them, and their backwards ass priorities. They can go to hell, and it will be one they made for themselves.
Suddenly after years of being passive, I’ve found my limit. Now it’s a matter of holding the line. If they want to hire me, that’s nice. If not, that’s fine too. I’m making more money every year in equity on my house than I’ve ever made in my life. It’s as though the economy is saying; “Why bother doing anything? Inaction is more profitable.”
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What revolution man? Unemployment is skyrocketing amidst record malnutrition, school dropout rates, hunger, and this fucking virus. But as much as I see the youth suffer, they’re far too busy on Instagram, or jerking off in some obscure corner of the internet, and complaining they’re depressed but never doing anything about it to effect a revolution. And what’s the object of a revolution even? The world’s evil but nobody can quite say what exactly is wrong with it. Don’t delude yourself, there’s no change around the corner. The best you can do is fight tooth and nail to keep yourself afloat.
I might stretch to say, that soon as AI robots become good enough to replace most employees, the corporations then the companies will jump right on. They just need something that will make them richer.
But, until they can move to such technocratic heights, they have to fob off slaves with just enough cage peanuts to keep them hooked to their assembly lines, like rats on crack. It has always and ever will be like this.
This is in my personal experience with the job system of course.