Halyah said:
Ramzal said:
This sounds like a personal problem. Generally if I am unhappy at the job I work at, I find a new one and quit the old one. I worked at Walmart for all of 2 days and the BS there was not my cup of tea so I moved on.
I get this creeping suspicion that you probably didn't actually have to work there. That you use it as though it's a particularly egregious example suggests a fairly sheltered experience. I'm glad that you've had this freedom of economic mobility, but let's not pretend everyone has it. That's the sort of naivety I expect from Trsutafarians.
And you know what? It's fine if you've never had to really work. But don't pretend there aren't people out there holding down three jobs and barely staying afloat. Or that someone might not have the same freedom of "choice" that you do.
Okay this is actually where I am pretty pissed off. I DID have to work. I'm a student with loan debt that surpasses 50K and I don't live with my mother/father, on top of working for everything I own. I never had anything handed to me on a silver platter nor am I someone who doesn't understand the need for work when it is severe. What I DID do is save money over time so that should I actually come to a situation where I was forced out of work or I disliked the work I was in, I can have something to live off of should I not be employed. I've been saving money for situations like this since I started working in a pharmacy when I was 15 and living in Harlem where we'd barely be able to go to work without being harassed by some jackass who wants to take what little I have.
Just for your information, I HAVE TO WORK to help with finances at home with my wife. She needs the car and we only have one of them, so what do I do when I have to go to work and she needs to attend her 24/7 job? I have to wake up and haul my ass at least 2 miles in what can be -30 degree weather at worst by means of walking. Everything I have, everything I do, and everything that I am I worked for and made my decisions on how to maintain my own financial and personal happiness. I REFUSE to work someone I am not happy with and I based a lot of time and money on this premise.
FYI, I lived in poverty for 98% of my life never making more than 13 dollars an hour so far and I am technically still in it. I based my life on securing my own "choice" and my own happiness. Keep this in mind the next time you decide you have this "Creeping suspicion" and decide to judge someone's lifestyle that you have no damn idea about. I am being a bit defensive and I hope that I am not penalized for this but you really had no right to assume jack-shit about my life when you don't know a damn thing about me. I know what a hungry stomach feels like, I'd had months where all I could sustain myself on was soups, rice, and even mushrooms that I found around the town I am in now. (I know enough about fungi to know which are inedible and edible. So yes, I am careful as I took a year of education on campus about fungi.)
Oh, just so you know I also know what it's like to work 3 jobs just to keep things afloat. Did it when my brothers left me and my mother alone when she got sick. One of those jobs I was dealing with an overly verbally abusive boss while time continued on and I quit that job when a broad line was crossed. No one HAS to do anything. We are adults that have choices and decisions to make and though it seems at times where we don't have choices, we often do. If you stay where you are miserable you have no one to blame but yourself for STAYING.
Check yourself the next time you decide to come after someone personally.
TLDR: Don't ever try to judge me, you don't know the first thing about what I the hell I have been through nor do you know what my current situation is. If I get a hit from a mod from this than I apologize to them but I feel I had to speak up for myself there.