#work abuse

[all-made-of-stardust]

i've about had it up to here from horror stories from my friends regarding their jobs not respecting them, so i made this shitty meme.

know your fucking rights.

(had to crop the meme so you could read the text, id under cut)

(ID: the "don't make me tap the sign" meme, but cropped so that the image mostly shows the sign portion. the sign states "I once had a coworker who was forced to work a 36 hour shift with zero time given to sleep, eat, or even pause to catch a breath. this was 100% bc the company knew that she was desperate to keep the job so they purposefully exploited her, physically/emotionally abused her, and put all the blame on her bc she "didn't get the work done in time for her to go home." do not become this woman. do not give your boss a single SECOND of your own time that wasn’t explicitly agreed upon first. do not let your boss not pay you for overtime. do not let your boss abuse you like my company abused my coworker. KNOW YOUR FUCKING RIGHTS. KNOW YOUR OWN POWER." End ID.)

#about me #work abuse #worker's rights #unions #labor rights #unionize #labor unions #i feel like this is especially relevant because of the ongoing strikes #fight the power #fuck corporations #fuck capitalism #literally i am seething with rage right now bc of a friend's current situation #DO NOT BECOME THE 36 HOUR COWORKER #politics #i really usually avoid this shit on my blog #but lately that's all anyone's talking about #do not go fucking gentle

[darrenhobsonpoet]

Worldwide horror story

Monday morning anxiety overloadOn the train all aboardClocking on nine to fiveDo you have enough to surviveWe don’t want to kill ourselvesWorking until we are bluePulled into the machinesAs safety devices are manipulated Continue reading Untitled

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#accidents #death at work #human rights #labour day #manipulation #mayday #mental anxiety #primo maggio #rights for workers #work abuse #workplace #worldwide horror story

[soul-skaterz]

So I resigned from my job after two half years 11 months of pure verbal abuse and breaking you till you cry I finally felt it and sent my letter in and honestly I’ve never felt better. My manager said you can move departments or resign I don’t care if you leave.

They do not care about you or anything because I can be replaced. All my hard dedicated work to them is going down the drain

#personal #work abuse #emotionally #and mentally

[gepm251-blog]

Thinking about that sicilian song

Where a servant went to not any square,

But this square

Some time ago

And prayed a Christ (it was any Christ)

And was saying to him

Lord my master knocks me

He treats me like a street dog

He took away everything with his ugly hand

Even my life he says doesn't belong to me

If I complain he worse threatens me

With iron he punishes and imprisons me

Therefore I pray to you

This evil race

Destroy it for me

And the Christ answered him

And you, do you have perchance

Crippled arms

Or were they nailed like mine

Who wants justice

Must make justice for themselves

And must not hope another does it for you

If you are a man and not of foolish mind

Put to fruit this statement of mine

That I would not be on this ugly cross

Had I done what I said to you

But that was too long for the children of today, as it was the long song of the mines and the farms and they have no time for marching, only for running.

So they sing instead

You complain

But what do you complain for

Take up your stick

And show your teeth

And they sing it again and again

And I hear my brother singing it in our house and on the streets

But I'm a woman and I'm made of older songs

So I sing

Tonight I go running with the wind

To open the doors of history

Tonight I want to give for a moment

Voice to the past and to memory

Tonight with the heat of love

I dig the tomb

The tomb for pain

There is more pain

There is more torment

Then joy and love for humanity

It isn't the crying that changes destiny

It isn't the fear that stops the path

I open my fists

I count my fingers

I search for who I am

I flow through life

I sing and I count

I count and I sing

To not lose count

I open my fists

I count my fingers

I stay who I am

I calculate life

I count and I sing

I sing and I count

To not lose count

Nobody blessed my path

Not even the small hand of a priest

And I still go as wind goes

Searching for peace even for a moment

I want to break the skies

To make love rain

There is who tricks you

There is who governs

And who silently mute stays

It's having power to that strengths the powerful

It's the silence that kills the innocents

I open my fists

Count my fingers

I stay who I am

I flow through life

I sing and I count

I count and I sing

To not lose count

I came to the world when The Conscience

felt disgusted street to street

Times of abuse of hunger and war

I grew up in the middle of bad years

Mute tears I cried and how many

My innocence was divided among many

The evil people, the bullies

Many are many in this society

It's not love that grows everywhere

But the favour that who governs divides

I open my fists

Count my fingers

I stay who I am

I flow through life

I sing and I count

I count and I sing

To not lose count

And my brother sings from the other room

Take up your stick

And show your teeth

And I answer and I sing

Like this salt

Melts in the sea

May they too melt away

Like this coin

Sinks and is lost

May their heads

Sink down and be lost

As the ground I work

Has been my family's grave

May their heads be dazed

When my knife deeps down

#sicilian songs #this shit is centuries old #we play a lot on words that sound similar and that is lost in translation pity #communism #revolution #protest #colonialism #colonialization #work abuse #slavery

[chittychittyyangyang]

Listen, you should never film strangers in public without their consent, but I swear there need to be fines or something for people who do that shit in some spaces. For example: I had to go to the ER last night, and some jerk filmed a woman who just came in and was clearly having an asthma attack. She immediately got to go back, and he was unhappy about that. Believe me, I get that it sucks having to wait when you're in pain, but you don't get to pick who deserves care when. The medical system in the US is a nightmare, and the ER could be the worst moment of someone's life. No one deserves to be recorded because some jack ass believes someone doesn't look like they need care.

This is fine to reblog. People who film strangers should be shamed if nothing else.

#ccyy talks #sorry for posting this here but I'm pissed and this shit really needs to stop #For all I know he recorded me too cause I'm young and look healthy but got to go back next #Sorry about your cough buddy but the way things work I was a more immediate emergency #1k #5k #10k #30k #this post clearly has a life of its own now #and in case someone wants to know some clarifications for common points #people in a position of authority/actively hurting someone with the intent to protect/help the person is fine #so cops doctors nurses mental health workers and educators (to name a few) who actively are abusing their power and authority? free game #this post was filming random ass people for Content(tm) #random ass people more so those in distress aren't your content and you do not know the harm you can do to someone by posting that shit #50k

[kidmachinate]

Two Sides

Light and dark, good and evil. That's things people like to hear about. Certainly people don't want to hear about the literal two sides of a coin. Some of the most recent two sides of the coin one could say would be quiet quitting and quiet firing. While I understand the use of these terms, like most new made up terms, these things were happening already. We just have buzzwords for them now.

Quiet Quitting can be unfair to a company, assuming the company is good. The employee chooses out of nowhere to simply do the bare minimum. To a company this looks bad. How dare they do what they are supposed to do for the amount of time they are supposed to do it and then leave on time. They literally decide to do their job...and that's it. No more, no less. There's technically nothing wrong with this but just don't expect to get promoted when doing so. The only part that truly makes it unfair is where the quitting part comes in. Alongside doing what is required, it is done in silence. They will provide next to no input things, keep to themselves, look for the next role, and then just up and go. This is also pretty much the default state for many my age as stability is hard to find at times. We like this. We get toTake the Power Back"as they say. This is harder to do in a role where metrics come into play. Everyone has them to some extent, but sales roles or money driven companies all about their KPIs are probably gonna flip the switch.

The other side of this coin blindsides the employee. You get denied a promotion, a role switch, or assigned a role you didn't ask for. A complete turnaround you aren't expecting. Before you know it, a lot is changing...but it is to force you out. Quiet Firing. Why do we need buzzwords for this stuff? It was already happening. Anyway...all changes and even if you were trying to go because you see the writing on the wall, they want to be the ones to put you out...except if YOU quit, no unemployment or severance for you. Even if they eventually cave and fire you, even after putting you in crap work conditions, keep in mind there are sneaky aspects to this as well. Severance is basically hush money and who can blame anyone for taking it...but the company gets to avoid guilt and/or not be out in a bad light by a disgruntled employee. People like to toss around the word gaslighting a lot when it comes to abusive relationships but work counts too. Your boss or other authority figures can very much make you feel crazy for your valid concerns.

Both situations are a bit uncomfortable and I'm not on the side of a company really, unless they are truly one of the good ones, or the only way to know 100% is if you're the one in charge of the company and hopefully you don't do the same thing to others. The point really, as many things or people can have two sides to them, you only focus on your two sides. Do you let yet another setback, caused by you or not, turn you into a caring and or determined person, or does it turn you bitter and resentful. I recall a particular role in which I was given the chance to shine before a shift in management. One where I was able to manage for a bit. I liked having a team and helping them along their path because a year before then, I was on the same one. I didn't forget where I came from. Didn't just bark orders and expect my team to cover up my for shortcomings, or take credit for what they did. Didn't want to show two sides. Just the humble one that got me into a good place to begin with. Money itself isn't evil it's the people that use the tool, which then choose whether to be a good or bad person with it. Even life or death is two sides.

The whole premise behind this page is to keep choosing the former against all odds and not have each and every post made be the last, unless we choose it to be. Then we make new stories, even if not told here.

#two sides of a coin #life #jobs #career #gaslighting #work abuse #quiet quitting #quiet firing

[beybuniki]

alternative universe where there are TWO epic fail sons in the todoroki familiy

#i cant get into itttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt but dabo/toya and shoto goign through the same thing and toya being overwhelmed #because he hasnt worked through his own abuse yet so how is he supposed to be of any help to little shoto aoughhhhh lets throw up together #so much projection and resentment and guilt and unfair and immature beahvior we're all walking on egg shells in that beautiful house #bnha #todoroki toya #dabi #todoroki shoto #saw this pose and wanted to make it about the todoroki brothers holding hands i need them to hold handssssssssss #toya au

[kindnessoverperfection]

Please, if you can, take a moment to read and share this because I feel like I'm screaming underwater.

NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) stigma is rampant right now, and seems to be getting progressively worse. Everyone is using it as a buzzword in the worst ways possible, spreading misinformation and hatred against a real disorder.

I could go on a long time about how this happened, why it's factually incorrect (and what the disorder actually IS), why it's harmful, and the changes I'd like to see. But to keep this concise, I'll simply link to a few posts under the cut for further reading.

The point of this post is a plea. Please help stop the spread of stigma. Even in mental health communities, even around others with personality disorders, in neurodivergent "safe" spaces, other communities I thought people would be supportive in (e.g. trans support groups, progressive spaces in general), it keeps coming up. So I'm willing to bet that a lot of people on this site need to see this.

Because it's so hard to exist in this world.

My disorder already makes me feel as if I'm worthless and unlovable, like there's something inherently wrong and damaged about me. And it's so much harder to fight that and heal when my daily life consists of:

Laughing and spending time with my friends, doing my utmost best to connect and stay present and focused on them, trying to let my guards down and be real and believe I'm lovable- when suddenly they throw out the word "narcissist" to describe horrible people or someone they hate, or the conversation turns to how evil "people with narcissistic personality disorder" are. (Seriously, you don't know which of your friends might have NPD and feels like shit when you say those things & now knows that you'd hate them if you knew.)

Trying to look up "mental health positivity for people with npd", "mental health positivity cluster bs", only to find a) none of that, and b) more of the same old vile shit that makes me feel terrible about myself.

Having a hard time (which is constant at this point) and trying to look up resources for myself, only to again, find the same stigma. And no resources.

Not having any clue how to help myself, because even the mental health field is spitting so much vitriol at people with DISORDERS (who they're supposed to be helping!) that there's no solid research or therapy programs for people like me.

Losing close friends when they find out, despite us having had a good relationship before, and them KNOWING me and knowing that I'm not like the trending image of pwNPD. Because now they only see me through the lens of stigma and misinformation.

Hearing the same stigma come up literally wherever I go. Clubs. Meetings. Any online space. At the bus stop. At the mall. At a restaurant. At work. Buzzword of the year that everyone loooves loudly throwing around with their friends or over the phone. Feels awesome for me, makes my day so much better/s

I could go on for a long time, but I'm scared no one will read/rb this if it gets too much longer.

So please. Stop using the word "narcissist" as a synonym for "abusive".

Stop bringing up people you hate who you believe to have NPD because of a stigmatizing article full of misinformation whenever someone with actual NPD opens their mouth. (Imagine if people did that with any other disorder! "Hey, I'm autistic." "Oh... my old roommate screamed at me whenever I made noise around him, and didn't understand my needs, which seems like sensory overload and difficulty with social cues. He was definitely autistic. But as long as you're self-aware and always restraining your innate desire to be an abusive asshole, you're okay I guess, maybe." ...See how offensive and ignorant that is?)

Stop preventing healthcare for people with a disorder just because it's trendy to use us as a scapegoat.

If you got this far, thank you for reading, and please share this if you can. Further reading is under the cut.

NPD Criteria, re-written by someone who actually has NPD

Stigma in the DSM

Common perception of the DSM criteria vs how someone may actually experience them (Keep in mind that this is the way I personally experience these symptoms, and that presentation can vary a lot between individuals)

"Idk, the stigma is right though, because I've known a lot of people with NPD who are jerks, so I'm going to continue to support the blockage of treatment for this condition."

(All of these were written by me, because I didn't want to link to other folks' posts without permission, but if you want to add your own links in reblogs or replies please feel free <3)

#actuallynpd #signal boost #actuallyautistic #mental health awareness #narcissistic personality disorder #people also need to realize that mental health professionals aren't immune from bias #(it really shouldn't come as a shock that the mental health field has a longstanding pattern of misunderstanding and mistreating ppl who ar #mentally ill or otherwise ND) #the first therapist i brought up NPD to like. literally pulled out the DSM bc she could barely remember the criteria. then said that there' #no way I have it because I have low self-esteem lmaoooooo #anyway throwback to being at work and chatting with a co-worker. and the conversation turning to mental health. and him saying that #he tries to stay informed and be aware and supportive of mental health conditions & that he doesn't want to be ignorant or spread harmful #misinformation. and then i mentioned that i do a lot of research into mental health stuff and i listed a bunch of things. which included #several personality disorders. one of which was NPD. #and after listening to my whole ass list he zeroed in on the NPD and immediately started talking about how narcissists are abusive and #he knew someone who had NPD and how the person who had it had an addiction and died from the addiction in a horrible way and he #was glad he did #fun times #or when i decided to be vulnerable and talk abt my self-criticism/self-hatred bc i knew my friends also struggled w that and i wanted to #support them by sharing my own coping methods. and they both(separately!) started picking and prodding at my npd through the lens of stigma #bc i'd recently opened up to them abt having it. they recognized self-hatred as a symptom and still jumped on me for it. despite me #trying to share hurt vulnerable parts of myself to help them and connect with them. #again..... fun times

[howlsnteeth]

24/05/2022

#i write phrases and poems and shit and have dozens of them tucked away. went through them the other day and this one stood out to me #i'm doing fine sometimes it's just good to doodle something conceptually very sad #alluding of abuse etc. also this was within the month my dog passed away so i was going through it #also i'm working on like a bigger cotl project which is taking a whileeee sorry #artists on tumblr #digital art #pixel art #vent art #canine kin #canine therian #abuse tw

[sapphic-sprite]

A reminder that lesbians need abortions too. There are tons of reasons why a lesbian might need an abortion so kindly stop saying we are lucky we don’t have to worry about the current state of the US. It’s stupid that I even have to say this and I’m tired of seeing the take that we shouldn’t have to worry about abortion access being taken away in many states.

#lesbian rant #it’s as if y’all forget trans sapphics exist #or that lesbians can do sex work #or that lesbians can be abused #you just look stupid saying stuff like that #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbian #@ the people in the comments thank you for the info I changed them here and will keep that in mind

[makiruz]

#Capitalism #Harry Potter #work abuse #my post #Youtube

[faerieicetea]

i wanna go back and hug my younger self so bad, that little girl went through so much

#mental health #mentally exhausted #mental abuse #mental illness #autism #pda autism #audhd #self love #self care #self healing #self worth #self help #self awareness #self improvement #self esteem #inner work #inner strength #inner child #inner peace #positivity #positivity blog #spilled heart #spilled words #spilled ink #spilled feelings #spilled thoughts #light academia #classic academia #romantic academia #dark academia

[srapsodia]

Maaaaan, that was close...

#persona 5 #p5 #p5 fanart #phantom thieves #my art #holding atlus by the neck LISTEN. you cant make your character's whole deal the fact that he's a survivor of abuse and then use him as a #as a literal punching bag as a joke. you cant. the joke doesnt fucking land and i WILL kill you. #anyway everyone should've rushed to hug ryuji in absolute relief when they saw him and then thank him for what he did #and congratulate him on his great running cause he's been working so SO hard to get back to that point and he deserves the praise

[thebibliosphere]

Remembering a 'fun' moment through the haze of drugs yesterday when I asked the nurse for something to brace my knees with because I could feel my hips starting to dislocate when they turned me onto my side.

The nurse, god love her, got down to my eye level on the gurney and very sweetly told me that when joints click, they're not actually dislocating, and it's just ligaments sliding over each other causing gas pockets to crackle and pop. This is true for most people and is actually what makes that satisfying crunch sound when you go see the chiropractor. So I knew right away she was thinking, "A chiropractor has told her this; this will be an Educational Moment."

Meanwhile, I was trying to figure out how to tell her I know this, and that's not what is happening as a teeth guard was being slipped between my teeth when my GI doctor went, "Did you not read the note I put in her file? She has EDS. When she says it's her joints, it's her joints. Listen to the patient!"

He then showed her how to hold my shoulders in place while he was doing the upper endoscopy exam so my shoulder wouldn't randomly slip out and make my chest muscles seize. As I was laying on my side and he was double checking my position he leaned in and let me know with a wink that he'd asked a physical therapist what to do and hopefully I wouldn't be in too much pain with my joints tomorrow. (I am not.)

He also brought an extra nurse in from the allergy department (Sam) to monitor for signs of anaphylaxis because, apparently, it looks different when the patient is sedated. The fact that I "woke up" from my sedation (I don't think I actually fell asleep) and gave him a thumbs up when he announced "excellent prep" to the room at large made some of the nurses flutter because they'd given me enough fentanyl to knock out a horse, but I have a vague memory of the allergy nurse and the GI doctor sharing a look over the top of my head before starting to talk to me in calm measured tones to let me know it was okay that I was awake, but I needed to stop moving. Was I in any pain? Could I squeeze Sam's hand once for no and twice for yes? Okay, good, we're almost done...

It was a weird but validating experience.

#chronic health tag #medical procedure #I feel like this GI doctor is trying to make up for every instance of medical abuse I've ever experienced #and it's working #I felt so safe

[nerdpoe]

Young Justice is always a little...concerned. With Phantom's living situation. Now they're outright afraid for him, and Bart has decided it's time to Ask An Adult.

It was the little quips. The tiny little things. Stuff that didn't seem to matter to Phantom at all, or appeared to be normal for him, that he didn't realize weren't normal at all.

"Oh, better not hope my mom catches me." "Doing what, staying out past bedtime?" "Nah, using my powers; she'd vivisect me!"

"Another stab wound. Great." "Don't worry Phantom, I've got the med kit-" "Oh, I'm not a baby or anything, I can handle it just fine. Just gimme a sec to take it out."

"My dad has better aim than that." "...Like, when he's hunting, right?" "...At what other times would he be shooting at me?"

"Huh. Not as bad as my parents place. Look; they have a decontamination shower!" "Phantom, this lab has been vandalized to the point of needing a hazmat suit." "Did I stutter?"

Finding out each others identities did nothing to soothe the worry. Tim quietly told the others that every time he tried to run facial recognition, he kept hitting a government firewall he couldn't breach. Phantom never told them his last name, just his first, and 'Danny' is super common.

The thing that really did it though, the thing that made Bart snap and run off to ask Max, was when Danny had a nightmare.

He was talking in his sleep.

"No. Don't-stop. Stoooop. I need...my skin. Mom, no. You can't...peel off...my skin..."

Bart didn't even wait for them to wake Danny up before he was standing in front of Max, talking a mile a minute as he tried to figure out what to do, with Wally staring in horror over a plate of waffles as he computed everything that Bart was saying.

~~~~~~

Danny had a dream about his mom and Skulker arguing about how to skin him. He wouldn't really call it a nightmare, because it was just Skulker, but the scariest thing was Skulker insisting to his mom that it was possible to skin him with a potato peeler. Dream mom was arguing that it was not, and that from a scientific standpoint that was a really piss poor way to preserve a specimen.

He hadn't been begging them to stop hurting him, he'd been whining at them to knock it off.

But when he wakes up, it's to a room full of worried friends and an old man who calls himself Max.

"Kid, I think we need to talk."

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #first convo was with cassie #second was with bart #third was with kon #fourth was with tim #max is fully prepared to take in another kid #bart is fully prepared to share #wally went to dick to ask him to put his detective training to work and find phantom's parents #wally was just visiting max #catching up #shooting the shit #when suddenly bart comes in and just trauma dumps about one of the other young justice heroes #who is apparently in a super abusive situation #and probably needs help #body horror tw #skinning tw #but only mentioned in the context of a super weird dream #danny's living situation COULD use some improvements #but it's not as bad as everyone thinks #anti ecto acts are still a thing #but as long as danny is with young justice the GIW leave him alone so #eh #not like they're good at their jobs anyways #max is about to blow his mind with the following information #“you are not okay. it's okay to not be okay. but kid. you need help and we're offering.”

[politijohn]

Source

Just a week after Indiana proposes legislation to allow kids at age to 14 to work on farms.

Can’t make this shit up

#capitalism #child labor #child abuse #death #news #current events #end capitalism #labor #unions #unionize #working class #us politics