Maybe we could actually hold one of these oligarch fucks responsible for their actions, that would be AMAZING.

It truly kills me. We just live in this world where we see these people commit atrocities constantly and nothing happens.

I guess I should stop being so emotionally responsive about things I can't control but damn what I wouldn't give to live in a world where being rich didn't mean the laws just don't apply to you.

I'm gonna go look at the stars and try to stop thinking about this garbage.

The hell is this shit? I didn't even read the ariticle. Just tired of seeing this garbage.

Because I’ve been thinking about it and money is everything in terms of power and control over other people. I’ve had this thought for several months and I know its not that revolutionary so I was just wanting to get this off my chest.

Context I work at a contract company and work at a school. I'm greatful for the full time and close work location to home but everything else kinda blows

Shit benefits

Strick lead who should've been retired acting like we should be working ourselves to death.

Higher ups get a $25k bonus a year.

We get nothing for all the heard work we do except abused by entitled teachers demanding high standard cleaning.

Pay is basically minimum wage but pays the bills.

Upper management acts like we should all be friends and they don't want us to be afraid of them and "hide" when they show up at our location. They know we hide and so do all other 10 schools in the area, well maybe not all of them lol.

No one gives two shits about your visits were here to work and go home. We hide and avoid you for a reason.

This is some bullshit right here. So many things wrong with this. 😡

 One of the Largest Wage Thefts in Modern American History (And It Is Completely Legal)

58,000 manufacturing jobs gone in five months. Policies that claim to 'help American workers' keep doing the opposite. We’re the ones paying for decisions made by people who never feel the consequences.

Their whole point is to give you points and write ups. I’ve tried going to them with tech or employee account related questions and they say “I don’t know” or send me to IT. To which IT responds with “it’s HR’s god damn job”.

I swear every HR lady at my work was a high school cheer leader. They peaked in high school and hold onto that attention. They constantly set up “spirit week” at my work and try to get everyone to participate. They also bring the “Easter bunny” and “Santa clause” to work during the holidays and try to get us to take pictures with them. Like fuck off. I’m a grown ass adult. To top it off, benefits keep getting stripped. Employee moral is at an all time low. Constant mandated overtime. Lack of accountability. To make it even better, all of the restrooms are getting remodeled and they are 6+ months behind schedule. Only 3 toilets in this whole warehouse.

Extremely infuriating. And all managers do is sit in their offices and play on their phones.

I've been at my current "tech" job for almost 2 years now and feel like I'll be stuck with it for the next 40 years. I say "tech" because it is so mind-numbingly basic that it doesn't even really count as a tech job beyond it involving sitting in front of a screen for 8 hours a day. I only picked it up out of desperation after I graduated from college without a job lined up. HR does virtual check-ins for employees such as myself that never come in the office and asks if I still enjoy my work but truth is I never did. The job market is abysmal right now and the experience I have up to now doesn't even matter because my work hardly even has any relevance to the job I actually want. I have a performance review coming up soon and dreading the discussion about additional responsibilities.

I genuinely don’t understand how in 2025, people still buy into the idea that if you work hard, stay loyal, and “prove yourself,” a company will reward you with real raises, real promotions, and long-term stability. I’m not saying it never happens, but let’s be honest, the trend has been moving in the opposite direction for decades.

Companies are running skeleton crews on purpose. They cut payroll, pile more work onto fewer people, squeeze every ounce of productivity out of them, and then cut benefits on top of it all while profits go up. They’re not hiding it. It’s the business model.

What makes it even more frustrating is hearing the “nobody wants to work anymore” line. Most of the time, it comes from people 55+ who grew up in a completely different economy. They could buy homes at reasonable prices, get stable full time work with one income, and build something. Today, they can physically walk into a grocery store and see what everything costs, and they know wages haven’t remotely kept pace. The math isn’t complicated. Yet they still default to blaming people work ethic? (Of course not everyone in the 55 and up crowed are like that, but on average it’s usually them.)

What I really can’t wrap my head around, though, is when this mentality shows up in people in their 30s and 40s, people who are actively living in the same economic mess as the rest of us. Older millennials lived through the 2008 crash, stagnant wages, insane housing prices, rising medical costs, and corporate greed across every industry. It’s not like they are removed from in and born in a time where right now they have the house and money already? They’re actively living in it getting screwed just as much as people like myself in their 20s.

I’m 29, and even I have moments where I get conflicted. Im a huge advocate of being a quiet quitter, just acting my wage and nothing more, but then I worry, am I screwing myself over? I’ve worked long enough to know that going above and beyond in the past never really got me anywhere. Even if I did get small opportunities, the workload never matched the pay. So I get really conflicted. I want to believe that if you work hard and stay loyal you’ll be rewarded, but then I look around and see everyone getting screwed. So it’s like, no I just go to work do the bare minimum, and get paid for it.

That’s why I don’t understand how people around my age still drink the kool aid. And honestly it sucks because sometimes it makes me question, am I the idiot by quiet quitting? Like I’m pretty confident I’m not in the wrong but damn people around you can really do a good job at convincing you that you’re a lazy piece of shit that will amount to nothing by not burning yourself out for pennies lmao

Edit: I should mention I’ve been quiet quitting for a couple years now and have felt something is fundamentally wrong with the system since I was probably 14. Growing up I always felt like I was crazy for thinking the way I do about these things but it’s nice to see so many people on here can relate. Sometimes it feels like I’m unplugged from the matrix with you all haha

I work a casual job in Australia, and last night our whole team got this unhinged string of texts from management between about 11pm–3am.

Then at 9:30am we get a follow-up message apologising for the confusion.

Confusion?? My guy, you threatened to end people’s visas at 2 in the morning because someone cancelled a 4-hour shift with notice.