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So, i am sitting at home, bc one of my employers thought it pruedent to not employ me anymore. I am working in special ed.
Seems like the bottom line is more im portant than he care for the kids.
I am in the employ of three different institutions, doing similar work with the same kids. - That's just how it needs to be done.
But today, i was given notice, that my work is no longer needed, bc i am too expensive.
just a small FYI:
I am payed through a statefunded educational fund.
I have seen - and been told by now former colleagues - my replacement. they are two young, barely adult ppl, being paid through a differnet institution. they are by all metrics way less qualified than me. and i can not get rid of the feeling, that this is somehow related to my salary.
This part of my job was never the most demanding, but i loved it, and the kids did, too.
Now it becomes even more of a kids herding operation.
whatspaulplayingtoday
Near perfect loop. I love it.
NaughtButOne
VaultGirl69
Time to move. Better opportunities await.
megiddo6
Same bro. Was fired from my previous job because i made more than the new manager so she worked her ass off creating false reports against me.
I'm sorry that i can run every single machine on this floor and you can barely operate your own laptop.
Idiot.
/notsalty
certainlynotaserialkiller
Syko73
shitheadtookmyname
Narrator: it was depression
Manhoarder
Something something the system isn't broken, it's working just as intended, one would argue it's actually been perfected to make most people too depressed and apathetic to revolt.
LincLoud
williagr
Paid through a state-funded educational fund... but it's capitalism's fault...?
ImgursLibertarian
Yes. Capitalism is a synonym for greed. It's not anything else at all. Never has been. At least not to plenty of folks.
CraftyGiant
yes capitalists constantly argue that such funds need to be stopped and that churches will step up to fill the need. (which isn't true or we wouldn't have created the fund in the first fucking place)
williagr
Oof, the angst is dripping off of this comment. Nobody mentioned churches bud, calm down. My point is that OP admitted they're paid by a state-funded educational fund. What do you think happened here?
CraftyGiant
You don't seem to want to understand.
SmugDruggles
Just patiently waiting for the revolution. I’m 33 now and really REALLY hoping it starts before I have to waste the next 30-40 years of my life living in this fucking nightmare.
MikeyNike15y
yay! get those prices under control!
PibbleZoomies
Are you me? I'm also experiencing a "re-shuffling" of teams to satisfy the investors.
aoshistark
I feel you OP. My last job let me go for the same damn reason. I was a front end web dev who was on tier 2 salary. They literally hired a new person and then one month later fired me to cut costs. Fuck capitalism. Fuck At Will employment for employers. These people are parasites.
Littledirtybirdyfeet
My mother in law was similarly laid off almost two decades ago. She was also a special ed teacher. She slipped into a deep depression that is now treatment resistent and has been on disability for years. The only thing that has helped is my son keeping her doing things. Since he's been going to school full time, I worry about relapse, but she's been doing daily walks, and it seems to be helping and giving her a sense of accomplishment.
Hope you find a new position with better admin!
TeaOverdose
Just got fired unfairly and I already deal with recurrent depression. I'm hanging tooth and nails to my new medication, hoping my mental health stays afloat because I can't afford to crash.
Littledirtybirdyfeet
Hold on to anything good that you are grateful for and ruminate on them. One day at a time. I am rooting for you and hope that something better comes along for you.
sundaymondayhippyday
Walking in nature for half an hour brings all the good chemicals up and stress hormones down- hopefully a walking partner can help
Littledirtybirdyfeet
My son and I like to hike. He brings his RC crawler and I bring my camera. We invite her to join when she's around.
JackHL01
Whelp, THAT was actually one of the activities i did with half a dozen kids 1/week
tjinme
Capitalism is modern-day pathological greed.
Puchonson
RickO3611
If you get to the root of this malaise, it goes back to the glorification of m I ney above all else, the true and complete worship of which truly took firm root under Reagan. Thus we have Musk whose opinion that was not requested or desired or wanted, is somehow relevant because he has money. Thus we see the blind adulation of a grifting con, who will rape what he can't have. Because money. Because Capitalism. Disrupt the world for money? Its the Capitalistic way. TLDR: FUCK CAPITALISM.
VitaminJay
I have 99 problems and capitalism is all of them.
NaughtButOne
MrsMericulous
Thank you for reminding me about the masterpiece that was Inside Bo Burnham.
insertwittyremarkherelater
JackHL01
thank you!, I think i might aswell use this. Will it get bigger if i scream into it enough?
insertwittyremarkherelater
Oh no no no. You want the Abyss for that!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Xymu69-GVwk?si=FWScmB3G5g22PfMX
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Back in the day, when I was looking for a new job after spending barely four years on my first job (so I had very little experience, but still SOME self worth), I was told by a potential employer that for what I was asking, they might as well hire two people straight out of uni with no experience at all. Mind you, I was just asking what I was paid by my previous employer! Didn't even try to round that up or anything!
Employers always think only of their own pockets.
rudejohn
I mean... it's POSSIBLE that your previous employer was paying way over market rate for the skills you brought to the table. If you worked four years and you were making DOUBLE what people straight out of uni were making, that sounds fishy to me. My software engineers, for example, get 5-10% raises and should be making ~25-45% more than freshers at the four year mark (average performers vs. superstars).
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Yeah, it was absolute bullshit, just them trying to force me to accept lower pay.
rudejohn
Jerks. Some of the best employees, from a value-to-contribution perspective, are in the 3-5 year range of experience. Losing those employees is a recipe for disaster; they should be rewarded and prevented from being flight risks.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Yeah, that was just scumbaggery and an employer bullying you into lower pay.
Mnemloch
I feel this, in different ways. The VA just cut off my Dry Needling. I utilize it for pain management bc I don't want to do narcotics/opioids. But it is cheaper for the VA to do vicodin than to let me get needled. Really makes you want to burn it all to the ground.
nutmegonyourdoodle
This is awful, short-sighted and plain stupid. It will cost so much more for you when the opioids make you sick and they will. Be careful with that poison. I know you are in a rough place. Can you appeal the VA decision? It’s hard to speak up when you hurt. It’s hard to do anything.
Mnemloch
Im not taking them, right now I am mitigating as best as possible with gummies/vape and a 90% or more reduction in activities (which actually hurts more in long run). Have a Senator's office involved, but who knows the outcome. Fingers crossed it's reinstated, one way or another we will get to a resolution.
nutmegonyourdoodle
Good on you! I also use med cannabis for reasons. Try higher dose ibuprofen +gummies if you can. Works for me. Asthma means no vape for me but I’m not complaining. It’s even harder to be better when broken if the health care system is also broken. I wish you strength. I wish you health.
whitefoxkei
An older customer bought a handful of groceries, saw the total at over $40, and commented that they must be paying us a fortune if the prices are that high. I just gave him a pained smile and said "Nope. Someone's getting paid a fortune, but it's not us."
CraftyGiant
I HATE this about older people, the assumption that the people they are talking to face to face are the ones making the money is INSANE, it has NEVER been true on a large scale.
TheMurderousCricket
Unfortunately, yes - this IS capitalism. There is a huge chasm between people who work due to idealist goals like you and the companies who simply want to earn money and reduce the costs as much as they can.
Just because a company hires people who save other's lives doesn't mean it genuinely cares about people's lives.
JackHL01
I would love to edit my post, but i can't find the button to save the changes, can anyone help?
aslum
This, recently watched a john oliver on Hospice - pretty disgusting the lengths companies will happily go to make money.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Company isn't changing what they charge, guaranteed.
Just what they're paying.
RibbonDye
Yeeep, can attest, just cause a company donates to charity or claims to be all about helping means squat when it comes down to the bottom line.
Bluekitten03
That's actually the reason I'm no longer in daycare. I genuinely loved being there to encourage the kids in learning and experiments and discovery! But having to fight over something as simple as having paper to learn writing... it kills the spirit
JamesTDG
Hospitals will nickel and dime patients and then barely pay their own staff a lot of the time now. There's actual nurses who are homeless because they can't get a wage that will actually cover housing costs
NotSinceTheAccidend
Nurses where I live make over $50/hr. I live in scary socialist seattle
JamesTDG
Granted, I'm not saying all of em, but a large quantity do pull this stunt
suggestedCleverUsernameGenerator
Sounds like we need some of that good ol’ French Revolution but in North America
Foxsayy
Unfortunately, the French Revolution did not go well for most people.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Yes, but hundreds of years later, the country is better off than we are now. We have to revolt for our grandchildren's sake.
Foxsayy
History is typically a weaker area for me so I can't argue that, but it sounds plausible.
FrankensteinUnleashed
You don't need a degree in history, just Google French social systems or why France has such great benefits for citizens today.
sjs9702
I teach horticulture at a community college so we often end up talking about global food shortages and the loss of land and whatnot. I frequently tell them that we could readily fix a ton of issues if we could convince a bunch of people to stop loving money so much.
NaughtButOne
vegivamp
No service to the populace that constitutes a necessity of life - no, not a single one - should be allowed to be run for profit only.
Every single one of those services MUST have a state actor in their market, to set minimum service levels at reasonable pricing. The market is free to make their own offerings available, but the state actor must be there to set the standard.
Emrys12
This whole "increasing value for [insert group of people]" thing really seems unscalable. I am most recently reminded of a workers strike in NL where they demanded less hours and more pay, to which the govnnt responded, to keep NL economy high and growing we need u to work more with less pay. Which just sounds incredibly close to "we would certainly like some slaves rn." Fortunately theres educated respectable people who point to actual research that reducing hours and increasing pay works well.
aslum
It doesn't just seem, it IS unscalable. Line goes up literally isn't possible, eventually you can't sell more than you did last quarter,
aslum
eventually there's no one left to wring another cent out of.
Emrys12
Yeah not so sure about this last one with the way things are going. I don't think we could reliable hold anyone accountable for this unless it is through some big government push. But we would be asking the government to punish the government at that point. It surely goes all the way to the top
montyman185
It's a race to the bottom until they all start losing money because everyone's too broke to buy any of their shit
supercerealsteph
We’re running our government like a company in capitalist America, but why?
vegivamp
Because we have allowed "success" to be equated to "making money".
Once that was firmly embedded in progress minds, they were ripe to be made to believe that the way you run a company for profit is also good for running a public service... So the same kind of people could move into politics.
And from that point on, politics started relying on business to define what is good policy.
4etherling
Because shareholders bought our government officials.
sindail
cyanideremark
more 'affirming', than 'good' per se
JackHL01
Well, in this case, both is bad
Howdoyouknowshesawitch
True, but still accurate.
dalaiyoda
Is this gonna be one of those Homer+Mysterious Shopkeep good thing/bad thing threads? Or a depressing journey into the soul-crushing nihilism of reality?
ButterfaceTaintClown
I'd rather be depressed with socialized healthcare.
JackHL01
well, i am in germany, so thats a plus
AyatollahBahloni
Corporations and companies do not care about their employees. If they can save $1000 over the course of a year, you're history - they'll hire someone less qualified and cheaper. Sorry that happened to you.
NorwegianSheepknuller
I live in Norway, socialist by nature, but capitalistic by means.. I honestly don't know why I'm depressed. Even got diagnosed clinically "chronic depression". Guess the sheep's ain't enough for me.
JackHL01
I am just a little south of you in northern germany!
JackHL01
Wrong kinda sheep maybe?
SmergBlaerghl
With all that sheep ...activity, at least you're getting exercise.
SmergBlaerghl
Hi, fellow Norwegian. I don't think it's helpful to look for a "why" with depression. It's an illness. You're in it, it sucks. I've been living (just existing, really) with M.E. (and depression) for many years and, honestly, getting to the point of acceptance was probably the most helpful thing for me, in going forward and trying to slowly get better.
Since you're diagnosed, you're hopefully getting the help you need. I hope your winter will be a good one 🙂
nutmegonyourdoodle
I hear you. Please take care. I’d make you a cup of tea if I could.
NorwegianSheepknuller
If you have orange tea, plain orange tea I'd be tempted to travel to wherever you are.
nutmegonyourdoodle
That sounds nice. I could use a cuppa.
BorkasonBork
Gå på tur. Isn't that how you guys say it? Go out and walk every day, in your beautiful country. 95% of world population would like to trade places with you.
NorwegianSheepknuller
Done that, now what? 😅😂
nutmegonyourdoodle
Now make that orange tea and know far away imgurians are wishing you well. If that’s what you can do, it’s a lot! I hope you had a nice walk.
NorwegianSheepknuller
I know I know, funny thing it doesn't make it better even when I know most folks would trade places with me.
EternallyIgnorant
Depressed? go knull some sheep.
NorwegianSheepknuller
Doesn't hit the spot as it used to.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Any source of the song?
Rogahar
For real tho lol, I love comedy songs, especially when they're satirical jabs at real issues, and there's few enough women doing them - let alone doing such quality work - that I wanna support this group if I can.
KatinkaKreisch
Try out Rachel Bloom, a comedy singer and actress :)
wylkyn
I Googled "are you depressed or is it capitalism" but all I could find are TikTok and Facebook links. Looking it up on YouTube I found this: https://youtu.be/Lugo3jNSqkk?si=h8R5IpufZ2qDSWoR , but it doesn't have the video, just the audio with a picture. The singer/songwriter seems to be Céline Tshika.
4etherling
Capitalism.
Idontneedrealfacts
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IdoWalk
Bien joué Monsieur
[Well done Sir]
rudejohn
This is the original creator. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9JuQsmqbSB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Thanks!
quietwalker
One thing that workers tend to forget is that our primary job is to make more money for the business than we cost, and the second is to reduce the cost as much as possible - to produce the minimum viable product in most cases.
That means you only need people who are just barely skilled enough, who will take the lowest pay possible, and then a few specialists or halfway decent managers to constrain them.
quietwalker
I say this as my company was taken over by an investment firm and our entire department is in the process of being laid off. My last day is Oct 9'th, in 8 days, and what's left will be gone on Nov 4'th.
They didn't pick some of the star performers to pull into the remaining company. They canned everyone. They're not interested in the company, the employees, the customers, or the business. Just a short-sighted 3'd quarter stock price bump before they dump it without concern for future revenue.
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
This shit needs to start being prosecuted as fraud.
quietwalker
It's not fraud though. It's just folks who are interested in short term gain at the expense of long term profit and good service.
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
It is. What they did is buy revenue and reduce costs at the cost of deferred revenue loss, which will not show up in the annual report, because that loss in revenue is deferred. It won't appear on the books until later, after the executives have been awarded their performance bonuses. They are misleading shareholders by making the acquisition look more profitable than it is.