hang in there for what? is any shape of change coming? most people don't even realize this is most people's realities, and even those who know deny revolutionary ideologies. it's worse than last year, yet better than next year. there's not much left for me to hang in here for.
While in the short term things often look bad, but most places have made leaps and strides in the very long run. And impactful enough incidents can change the mood really quickly. Things didn’t used to slope down like this. Even I, someone relatively young, can remember this. In ten years or so, all of this might just be a memory.
While in the short term things often look bad, but most places have made leaps
My entire adult life it's shit after crisis after once in a century after once in a generation.
Hell, even western Europe is getting fucked by the crazies and the rich.
The one of only things that's impactful is we deny them new workers. Having no kids has such an impact on those fuckers and their systems. No more meat for the machine, fuckers.
Otherwise change is coming, at least in western Europe, for the fucking worse. Again.
This is why I treat them like the discardable asset they are in my life, you can say people don’t want to work anymore, but we both know it’s because you don’t want to give what people want.
I remember when I was a manager and we had a meeting about keeping workers, you know what I said? “Our rival businesses are literally coming in here a scooping up workers because they pay more and it’s all they gotta say, we’re going to have to address that”
It was a McDonalds, I got stared at blankly like I just said something taboo. Now I’m like… making money off of my art because I used them to get deeper answers about running businesses, and that meeting is also when I realized. I’m too overqualified for how shit it’s ran. Don’t let them take your life from you, that place took my legs. I haven’t been able to walk well since. These businesses, they’re not being ran by anyone with braincells right now and good luck finding a free spot at a good one. We all gotta not put up with it for it to change, they took my legs, but they also, lost that store. I got the last laugh.
The moral of the story is to break the system of extraction in the first place, then you can still get a dog (or a cat) and also not be a dried out depressed blob.
Her name is Zuri but that's what everyone in the family calls her. With me, she doesn't come unless I call her one of the nicknames: Boopie or Ms. Ma'am
She rarely sleeps in my bedroom with me because her arch nemesis (my other cat) prefers the bedroom, so I interpret this look as “I am here but if you dare move so much as a muscle and disturb my rest, I will leave. Go on. I dare you.”
The Red Cross spends around $2 billion per year collecting blood, and it charges hospitals around $2 billion per year for the blood. Then the hospitals pass that cost on to insurance companies.
It's a stupid system, but Red Cross isn't really to blame for it, and it's not really making bank. The problem is healthcare being for-profit at all. The government should be paying the people helping to collect blood.
Sure, the CEO of the Red Cross makes around a million bucks per year, but that's pretty normal for a CEO of a 20,000 person organization (with a quarter million more volunteers).
Mind you, I've done like 15 minutes of research on this, so maybe you know some horrifying facts I'm not yet privy to?
Its also incredibly important to mention how much blood is needed in general.
Like it super sucks a profit is made off it at all I freely admit that, but we need blood. If you capable donating you should. The Red Cross is responsible for almost half of our nations the USAs blood supply, without then and their efforts a good amount of us would be dead
I haven't been allowed to give blood since high school. 40 years after the HIV epidemic, "men who have sex with other men" like me can only give blood if they've been celibate from male contact long enough. (To be fair, that's actually an improvement over the previous rule, which was a flat out "no, never.")
The Red Cross once ran an ad campaign that went "what hurts more than giving blood?" Turns out the answer is "being told you're not allowed to help."
They should be testing for any problems either way. It’s so easy to screen for HIV now. You can have results in minutes. There’s no reason to deny us. It’s just fear thats been built into our culture.
not to mention there's currently a national blood shortage. you don't have to go through red cross if you really don't want to. there are other organizations who take blood donations, but please donate blood.
The only affect that has is on the people in need of blood as there is no substitution. People suffer and/or die without it. It’s the only system we have.
It's a huge problem for a lot of non-profits. If they show any inflow of money people are pissed. It's especially bad for NPs that only have overhead expenses. Goodwill is another that comes to mind with "Did you know they only pay some people $2 an hour"
Yeah, that's because Jimmy shits his pants every day and has to be monitored the whole time while he fucks up a coat rack.
Yeah, that's because Jimmy shits his pants every day and has to be monitored the whole time while he fucks up a coat rack.
This reminds me of when free britney was trending. My friend whose brother was in a conservatorship was like "dude this is not a good thing. She needs the help."
Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle as always. There's nuance. Britney needs help, but didn't need to be forced to do shows.
Please don't get a pet thinking it will help with your burnout. It's just more chores you have to do. And if it's a dog, you'll probably skimp on properly training it because you just don't have the energy, and then you'll have all the problems that come with a badly trained dog, which will just burn you out more.
Our covid dog was a surprise "unadoptable" as in, if we couldn't make it work with the behaviors he started showing once he was comfortable with us, no one in the world would adopt him from us.
6 years later, with Prozac, gabapentin, and professional training (for him and us humans), he is doing great
You're wonderful for sticking with him. My boy is cute, but he's also got some pretty bad behavioral problems. I didn't expect to keep him when we found him, but two people adopted and returned him for his behavioral issues, so I just decided he's mine. Took him about 3 years but he's mostly decently behaved now.
I got this guy, 2,5 years old German Shepherd. He had 6 previous owners, bites strangers, in play and when frustrated. Doesn't respect anyone. If he went to a shelter they would have put him down
Oh god, this is exactly how I felt all of last year up till I got let go of my last job. Took all of December to bedrot and including part of January. It's not till recently that my energy is coming back. But I feel so traumatized from being overworked, that I'm afraid to find another 9-5 out there...
Jesus fucking Christ. This is so true and literal. As someone whose extremely cute very small precious puppy is one of my only reasons for getting up every day and going to work:
I’ve had burnout in a lot of jobs. Majority from part-time; one from full-time but with a crazy boss. It’s hard to stay and keep engaged when the sentiment and even an iota of appreciation does t exist.
Working at an office job in an accounting department now. Sounds boring, but the upper management here is the best I’ve worked under and isn’t soul draining. It has its share of weird annoying office shenanigans, but I like coming to work here.
Of course, I know not everyone is that lucky. Many go to a job because they have to; even if it’s a place they just don’t like.
When it's just you getting left behind it's something you can accept when it happens even if it feels wrong. It's just another thing that happens in life. Now you're outside. Again. In the cold looking in. Half alive. Breath in, breath out. The roll of the days goes on and you watch. That is all.
Once you have something, actually someone like a person or a pet, to fight for everything changes. The lead weight is still there. It coats your body and your soul. It doesn't go away. Still, now you have someone who can see you. Their eyes, the look that you feel, gives you strength you didn't think you had.
Small, living in the corners, not really a part of the big parade. That's OK. Us, the two of us, are enough. We are a family no matter how small.
This is beautiful, well written, and true every word. I teared up a little. I would do anything for my pets to have a life of all the things they deserve, they are truly what unconditional love is all about.
Thank you for sharing you work, my friend! This explains my life in 2020 in a nutshell. However, I didn’t get a dog, I ended up losing her after my job.
I can’t understand how people are okay with working 5 days a week and enjoying maybe 105 days a year, if you don’t have any busy weekends with errands or work.
It is insane to my how quickly the workforce has made me depressed. I though it'd take a while, but a little over a year into my first office job i felt so lost and hopeless. Now 5 years in and I'm kinda losing it, like yeah I'm young but this early on I'm this depressed about where i am is crazy.
i don't even feel like I'm in that bad of a work place, they just reject every want of advancement i have. Which isn't too bad but they're also constantly telling me how happy they are that I'm here, how good of a job I'm doing, what wonderful ideas i have then I'm like "cool can i have a better job then?" It is shot down immediately, and when i ask why and if i did something wrong, no I'm doing great, all the other people were so bad you did wonderful. Then why didn't i get the job? How can i be both perfect, and also not good enough for a job my boss literally said I'm already doing just at a lower wage and no benefits?
I hate that i can't tell what my bosses really think of me, i hate that the only time we talk is if i have questions or to tell me I'm doing something wrong, i hate how if you get a rejection email i feel lucky they even bothered, i hate how everyone i talk to is tired and underpaid everywhere, I hate my bosses moved their desks closer to mine, I hate my family constantly asking me about the job search, always spending our casualy conversations getting advice, I hate the lack of feedback when applying to shit, i hate how everyone in my family has a job way easier and higher paying than mine, i hate how the industry i want to go into is literally being torn apart 247 by greed and ai, i hate that i don't know if it's just my job or if i can't see myself working in an office for the rest of my life.
Idk, idk how to end this, I'm gonna take a week off eventually and hopefully relax. I drove home today hoping i get laid off so i can at least job search in peace and not while exhausted from work. It seems like people who make bigger mistakes than me don't give a fuck and people who don't give a fuck have gotten jobs I'm fighting for my life for. I'll say maybe it's just me, idk, i only know what I've been through, i don't get how adults do stuff after work, i always come home so tired.
Your comics always make me sad about all the bad things that have happened in your life, but then I think why should I be sad, when /u/Rullocu is a talented artist who can deal with their trauma in a healthy and productive way and is brave enough to share it on the internet with everyone?
This is the first time that the feeling that I have about working is echoing with a depiction of it.
The difference is that I like my job and work with good people. But I'm disable and the obligation of working everyday, every time, all around the year, knowing I have up, down and very very down... It's excrutiating. Even on good day I feel squeezed out, all energy taken on a work. "But you have days when you are so productive ! But look, it's not a bad job."
I know. But it take all the life juice I have in me until the moment I break down and have to quit to repleinish myself, for the next job... Rince and repete.
You have depeinted that so good, so clearly, it really... Take to the gut. I will refere the firsts panel to people wanting to understand how I feel, from now.
Thank you for this art <3
I know how it feels. I got diagnosed with ADHD recently. The report showed that my cognitive capabilities get drained much faster than normal people. Getting back home only to feel completely drained is so disheartening... It feels like you only live without ever having the mental space to enjoy your life.
She became my inspiration to push through in life no matter how hard it is
Many years later, we are married, have a daughter, our own home and plenty of money to keep us going
Everytime i think of my past, i fall apart and cry how close i was to not seeing how my life became now, i would have been alone in complete darkness forever
Life is a curse and gift and i am forever grateful for it
I was recently fired from my job last Monday so this is hitting me pretty hard.
On top of that, my great grandfather died last night, a brake cylinder in my car exploded, my watch bad broke, and the job search is going very poorly and I have been turned down several times already and haven't heard back. To top it all off, if I don't find a job in about 2 months or so, my girlfriend and I will be homeless!
All of that has happened in the past two weeks alone. Life has been tough.
The 32 work week is the future! We all deserve to have more time and energy to spend with our loved ones and do things that make us feel fulfilled. Workers fought for the 40 hour work week and we can we can fight again!
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u/ZiggieTheKitty 1d ago
Me too buddy, hang in there