I work in the labs of a pharmaceutical company, overworked, overstressed, ever shorter deadlines, not enough staff etc, we had a rarely used lab that was known as the crying room when that converted to offices we were really worried about where we could go. Toilets were on another floor so if you had a sudden breakdown the whole building would see. It now takes support and coordination of colleagues to give you space in one of the other labs for a good cry.

This is so true!! The people that are served could most likely not last long if they did the job Like be real.. how long could Jeff Bezos last working in a fulfillment center? I'm guessing not a shift

This is heartbreaking

my parents always told me to "grow thicker skin" and to "stop being so sensitive" or "stop being so dramatic" but now my skin is so thick that i hate everyone all the time (except a few close friends, my chosen family) and they still wonder "why do you act like you hate me?"

Heartwrenching

n we get more details like what kind of job tit was?

Good for you. She deserved it.

In 2009, the minimum wage was raised to $7.25 an hour. The average house cost in 2009 was about $200,000. the average gas price was $2.35/gallon. Presently, the average cost of a home is around $400,000. The average gas price is $3.398/gallon and the minimum wage is STILL $7.25 AN HOUR!

Here we go with another reason why universal healthcare is direly needed. But heck, USA, you do you, we just watch and shake our heads.

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Every human being I know has wept over their life some time...

OMG. Big panda huggs for you.

those people are the absolute worst. they dont deserve the poor animals they're neglecting.

This sort of approach make literally NO sense and yet it's so common. Unless an incumbent is bad at their job - in which case take steps to rectify or let them go - then paying them more is a massive investment. You get less turnover, spend less time hiring and training, and generally it's better for the company. I don't understand not doing this.

Every day. I feel like there's nobody who feels like the same but I guess I was wrong. I entered this profession 18 years ago to try to make a difference in people's lives and I come home covered in sweat and s**t

That's how Amazon and Walmart do things. Many of their employees are on welfare and other social programs.

But many today blame the present situation on you, a "boomer", I blame the peope who make the laws

This sounds as if some level of salary would compensate for a job that leads to panic attacks. I would argue that is not the case.

My mom is a teacher. When she started 40 years ago the class was calm and quiet, if a kid occasionally misbehaved they got a note to be signed by parents who would punish the kid. The biggest scandal ever was a kid caught smoking behind the bins. Today the class is like a herd of wild animals who can't keep quiet for 5 seconds. Kids get bullied for not having the latest iphone or sneakers. 12 year old stabbed his classmate during class. Sending a kid home with a note means his parents will come next day to scream at the teacher swearing their Kayden couldn't have done wrong. Hats off to anyone willing to teach these days.

I used to be a lab tech in a major trauma hospital. A two year degree was required. When I got hired, I was told it would be M-F with one Saturday a month. I was also told major holidays would be off, with pay. The reality of it was working six days a week, every week, no holidays off. For six years I worked in a windowless basement laboratory, six days a week, arriving in the lab when it was dark outside and leaving when it was dark outside, driving 1.5 hours each way to and from, never having Christmas or any other US holidays off (such as Thanksgiving, 4th of July, etc), missing everything my then-young son was doing in school, never taking a single vacation in that time. When I contracted swine flu from work during the outbreak and was subsequently hospitalized with pneumonia as a complication, I was written up upon my return for missing 10 days of work...because I was in the hospital on a respirator. The lab directors had the audacity to wonder why the turnover rate was so high.

Ugh bumping down a nasty comment.

Had to deal with a racist security guard at one job who hated people of Latino decent. Apparently because I have olive toned skin (Mediterranean descent), can speak some Spanish (thank you school languages classes), and once lived in New York I MUST have been from Spanish Harlem and therefore hated. First off, NY is big damn state and I was from somewhere way tf away from the city. Second, we were living in Florida at the time which has an extremely high population of Latinos. He thankfully got over after that particular facet of his personality was found out. Never understood hating people based on racial grouping. Guess it’s good he never found out I was attempting to learn Korean, German, Italian, and Arabic (fairly unsuccessfully ☹️).

oooo yeah, that's the worst.

My mom is a teacher's assistant in the San Francisco Bay Area in California aka one of the most expensive places to live in the USA and she barely clears 1500 a month after taxes and she has been doing it for 20 years!

If you think about $20 and what that can get you, then think of time, about 2 hours, and ask yourself if 2 hours of the work you do is worth $20, you'll get the perspective that we're all working for nuts.

In the UK that is why there is a huge turnover in teaching, the Government does not try to understand

Worked at a U-Haul traffic dept call center I cannot count on 2 hands the amount of times I was yelled at, cussed out, or had my life threatened because someone kept the trunk over their scheduled time or a reserved truck was put of commission because the catalytic converter was stolen off of it.

Hope you are out of this now.