I texted my boss this morning because I woke up with a sore throat and killer headache which was not going away despite taking OTC meds for it since yesterday.

You can see the response I got.

Thoughts?

My husbands boss consistently does not pay him on time. This week the excuse was “ they didn’t send me the check” meaning the payroll company didn’t email him the check to print. It’s so annoying because now by the time my husband gets his check, banks will be closed and the money won’t actually clear our account until next week. (And no, the employer won’t do Direct Deposit)

Anything we can do?

What is wrong with the people on earth? I live in the Chicago land area. Why are randomn strangers constantly in my business, acting nosy and gossiping constantly? I have been sitting in several different shelters across Chicago because I have been homeless for the last 4 months and I have been dealing with individuals who want to constantly natter about other people or want to be hostile and aggressive towards each other. I also dealt with this when I had my own apartments on the north side of Chicago. I would be sitting outside by myself doing fine arts in a park or just anywhere near my apartments(yes its plural)and I would have some randomn creep; men and women, approach me, to harass me about Jesus or just to wag their tongues at me in a creepy perverted way. They approached me to talk to me about some type of lust. When I would raise my voice at them and tell them that their behaviors are unacceptable, they would try to blame me and say something like, "they don't like my aura or energy" or some weird hoodoo shit like that. And then they would say that I am the cause for them approaching me because of my "aura". I have had people who work at homeless shelters, police officers, and security guards falsely accuse me of being a disruptance in society these past 4 months. I have been kicked out of hospitals and also police stations for the past four months and accused of being a disruptance. I have only been going to the hospitals and police stations because I was told that they were placed peoplr could go to if they are not able to get into homeless emergency shelters immediately. I never initiate communication with others unless for business. In situations that are non business it is always somebody else trying to initiate the conversation.

Like what is this?

I don't talk to people at all. I have not consistently worked since I turned 18 years old and I have not completed college due to the fact that I'm physically disabled. I am getting SSI and have been disabled since I was 16 years old. But I don't have a psychiatric Illness as my disability. I am very particular and very aware and observant. When I am outside I have a very meticulous and narrow focus on my own tasks that need to be done to support my lifestyle. My narrow focus stems from the fact that Im not taking on any type of extra weight from anywhere else. As a single female adult who has no children I shouldnt have to take any weight unless it is from my career/job.

Is the entire planet just filled with criminals who have extra sensory perceptions or just mentally unstable people with extra sensory perceptions? Because I have speculated that individuals are using extrasensory perceptions out here. I have thought for a while that they are looking for others to harm through EP. I also have thought that I was using telepathy and calling other people to myself on accident. But I really don't want to ascribe to the whole psychic spiritual woo woo stuff.

To be honest even if I was calling to other people nonverbally with something like telepathy, people should control their responses. Individuals out here should know better than to randomnly run up on somebody to harass them and threaten them with physical violence. If I were to hear a random call for my name in my mind (which I have) I would not approach the person calling me telepathically. I'm a stranger to them. Why randomly harass a stranger that is not physically interacting with you or even giving you eye contact or facing their body towards you? It's irrational to put my attention on people to that extent.

Time to go home🫡💪🏽

What do poor people think of rich people's dogs who live a life much easier than theirs?

Most rich people own pets (particularly dogs) where they can spend $1,500/month for their pets alone. I wonder what do poor people think about this? Do they ever envy these pets? Do they ever think "why do rich people care more about mere dogs instead of helping fellow humans?" Do they ever think that it's kind of humiliating that you, as a HUMAN, have to live such a hard life living off minimum wage while some rich people's DOGS get allowance almost as much as the amount you receive working 50+ hours a week?

From Eric Hoffer's The True Believer.

The disorder, bloodshed and destruction which mark

the trail of a rising mass movement lead us to think of the followers of the movement as being by nature rowdy and lawless. Actually, mass ferocity is not always the sum of individual lawlessness. Personal truculence militates against united action. It moves the individual to strike out for himself. It produces the pioneer, adventurer and ban¬ dit. The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person. The Christian converts who staged razzias against the University of Alexandria and lynched professors suspected of unorthodoxy were submissive members of a compact church. The Communist rioter is a servile member of a party. Roth the Japanese and Nazi rowdies were'the most disciplined people the world has seem In this country, the American employer often finds in the racial fanatic of our South—so given to mass violence— a respectful and docile factory hand. The army, too, finds him particularly amenable to discipline.

In addition someone posted this on Reddit.

I’ve just delivered some tables and chairs to a furniture hire company for my first run this morning, where the site was like a ghost town in the middle of nowhere with nothing unsafe whatsoever, but the PPE extreme was as far as being required to wear a hard hat on site.

I’ve been to factories with more dangers in them and not even a high-vis jacket in site.

What’s your examples of where you’ve shaken your head about how daft health and safety has been?

And this post too.

That’s right. I took a job as an operator at a factory and it was crazy difficult. The operators there knew all of the complex mechanics of the equipment and steps of the processes, and no mistakes were allowed— they had to be on their feet and constantly ready to think quickly in case something went wrong. Also we worked difficult hours (long night shift). I had a masters degree in chemical engineering and I was totally lost. They were better engineers that I was!

Now this makes me curious. Is being employed in the assembly lines of the factory hard work and dangerous (or at least strenuous for the body)? Even for the modern age with all its safety laws and well-organized procedures at least in the West? Even for simple tasks like inserting a leg piece to torso of a toy lego-block style clipping?

I mean as a college student I've learned how brutal it was in the UK during in the Industrial Revolution from my history classes and same with a lot of 3rd world countries from my sociology and anthropology.

But the real reason why I ask this was that my uncle recently asked him to do the task of inserting a ton of coins into a specialized booklet binder with special pages specifically for inserting coin collections. I thought I'd be finished in like 5 minutes. Bam it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes just to insert all the quarters alone. For the dimes and pennies which were less than half the amount of quarters combined, they took me about 15 minutes each in a separate booklet.

This was a simple task reminiscent of the "small easy" jobs in the labor of division in a factory and not only did it took me longer than expected to get it done, my fingers were numb and aching afterward! My whole hands were in an arthritis-like feeling the next day!

So I ask how dangerous and difficult is working at a factory is? Is doing even o-called easy simple tasks like collecting macaronis with your hands and dropping it in some machine much harder than most people who never done manual labor think (as I discovered after organizing the coins in that booklet)?

My manager is giving us a wrench that we will use to do our job with the condition that if it goes missing we will pay for it and could be deciplined at there discretion. I refuse to have it cause it doesn't feel right. Am i wrong not to?

Hi, I am a social media manager in ph and I have this one client who always pays me super late. There's one time they paid my salary 15 days later. and i'm the type of person who's really shy to ask because why do I have to ask for my salary 😭😭😭 it should be a given. so I was told by my friend that if they're not paying me yet I should not post any content on their social media. I'm just curious is that OK? Since I'm supposed to be taking care of their content, but is it really fair to keep working and posting even if I'm not paid yet?

Bowling is seen so much as a beloved past time of the American lower classes especially the manual laborers and store and restaurant service workers. That not only did bowling alleys explode in popularity after World War 2, bout long before that at the start of the 20th century, even a decade or two prior one can argue, so mauuch of the AMerican poor were already playing games related to throwing a ball on the ground and watching it roll to hit pins or some other heavy objects and the early predecessors to bowling alley had frequent customers coming in. That it was not unusual to see 19th century club have a tiny platforms to roll and hit pins and some of the larger ones like the biggest YMCA facilities even hd a special room with a small actual lane, if not multiple, for bowling activities. While in the rest of the world like the UK, not only were predecessors to bowling associated with upper classes, but the post WWII economic boom that came across the world (in places that weren't devastated by revolutions anyway) after the recovery decade, despite incoming times of prosperity bowling was solidified into a primarily middle class hobby that the poor only played infrequently (like once a month at most, more commonly once every season or evenjust less than 3 times a year). That in entire regions like Indonesia and Egypt bowling even became associated as a posh rich man's sport even after the economic boom that followed reconstruction and recovery after the war.

So why I have to ask did America buckle away from global trend and took in bowling as the blue collar hobby? That families who barely were able to pay off monthly bills would take a good amount of their spare recreational cash and play a couple of games at the local bowling alley during the weekends, if not a couple more times a week? Even reported cases of doing it daily after school and work?

Honestly almost all the old people who play at my bowling alley tell me they came from lower class families and bowling was one of the past times they did growing up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.Where as last week I saw a thread of people from the UK complaning that bowling rental fees had gotten so expensive its now an upper class sport and some even remakred before the rising prices, theywere in the middle class bracket and other posts about how they'd only bowl once or twice a year even back in the 2000s and 90s because there are far cheaper hobbies. I twas in these posts that I discovered skittles which was the only form of bowling ever popular among the low class British strata and that a good number of poor bowling fans in UK today would due to cheaper fees would rather just play at a outdoor yard or use old primitive alleys from the 19th century where people had to set pins up manually, return the balls to the player by hands or rolling it back amd use a market or chalkboard to keep scores! That old versions of bowling like skittles are making a revival in specific cities and rural villages and towns!

Where as as I mentioned earleir, all the old people into bowling I know born before Rocky was released in theaters who grew up in lower classes before rising up or remained as blue collar and pink collar workers all their lives spent a lot of their free time, if not almost all their recreational hours, at the alleys knocking down pins at lanes! While lots of people who were 8 to ten years old of the core 80s decades and especially those born in the 90s and 2000s only bowled once a blue moon like for birthday parties or class field trips or some other occassion. I even know current mid 20s people who hasn't bowled at a lane since Obama's presidency! Forget that I personally know lots of zoomers who never visited a bowling alley!

I myself am a millenial but until COVID closed the local bowling spot, I'd bowl at last weekly (did even more when I was younger but had to cut time off because of college and the first 2 years of work). Now tha tthe bowling alley re-opened up this year after being closed for over 3 years since COVID, I been at my local alley at least the whole of every weekend (including Friday afternoons), and when I have free time I even bowl there daily as much as my work schedule and body would allow me to!

So I'm really wondering why bowling was welcomed with open arms by Americans below middle class for much of the 20th century especially after World War 2's end? Why did the opposite patterns occur in the rest of the world in which bowling is seen as something for people with more means and even the blatantly rich folks?

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I have a friend who just recently got fired so a family member of the person who owns the store can work. Is that legal? The family member had worked there before, but had gone to college, and was returning wanting work. There was no other given reasons for her getting laid off. The store is family owned if that makes any difference.

Why is it the workers who get pay the most strike the most often. UAW workers get paid more than other auto workers now they want more pay and less work. Kaiser workers who get paid more than other healthcare workers on average, also talking about going on strike. Lazy people veering manipulated by union leaders who yells the loudest. Fire them all and hire immigrants who are willing to work for reasonable wage. Heck ship UAW to Mexico and watch them strike there

Thought this was interesting? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682761.2020.1807194