Rascal

Curiousity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back// I'm obsessed with myself until I'm not// she|her & he|him // genderqueer // 33|Canada|bipolar //I don't explain, I just exist 🩷

[swarnpert]

NO MORE SONGS UNDER 3 MINUTES. GO BACK INTO THE STUDIO

[remyxavierr]

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN ME BITCH AND WHINE ABOUT MY JOB AT THIS SHITTY STORAGE PLACE FOR THE LAST 10 MONTHS: I got a new job! I got the job offer today!! I get $2 more an hour AND I'm working at a fish market! I love fish! I love talking about fish and eating fish and learning about fish! I'm so happy and grateful! I could cry! I did cry! I could cry again! 😭🩷

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

[simplysnaps]

Death by spreadsheet is an acceptable degree of separation for most in middle management. They can sleep at night without guilt for what they've done, because the system charitably setup twelve degrees of separation between their choices and the real-world harm. But do not be fooled, their choices set that harm into motion. Without their reckless disregard for human life, the harm would not be done.

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

Yes, managers work you to death. That's their job.

[aspiringsorceress]

Every single labor protection is written in the blood of those who were literally worked to death, and business owners and profiteers would claw those protections back with glee if they could. They will squeeze every red cent from your body if they are allowed, and write off your death for an insurance payout that they'll try to pocket for themselves while hiring your replacement for half the pay they gave to you.

[fluoresensitives]

Women stick thin and malnourished on the red carpet, and people are saying you can't point out that these women are dying because that's body shaming. Girl.

[doctordaemon]

@whitenikes

[remyxavierr]

I'm just so mad. I have spent my entire 30 minute break bitching on tumblr. Someone let me press the big red button, I'm going to bomb the whole world so the human race can start over.

[remyxavierr]

Working at this storage company job has made my self-esteem absolutely plummet, my mental health is shit, my migraines are worse because getting yelled at almost daily is loud and stressful, and hope has become very scarce.

I can't believe this is how life and the world has become. We just get paid barely enough to live and also have to be actively treated like shit by our management. The future is garbage, the present is garbage, what do we, as common folk, have to look forward to at all in life? Working til we die? Dying way earlier than expected because we have to break our backs to make enough money for rent? Giving all of our paychecks to all of these people who require money in exchange for BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS?????

[remyxavierr]

If I can give any advice to everyone, it is this: DO NOT EVER WORK FOR A STORAGE COMPANY. EVER.

I don't think I've ever worked somewhere worse, and I got carpal tunnel in both hands from working at a cleaning company! You literally just get yelled at and cursed at because our reservation center (whose not even in our province) actively lies about our unit amounts to make a sale, and then when they come in to see it and we tell them we have other units of the same size, if they'd like to see them, we get verbally DEMOLISHED by these people. I HAVE TO SPEAK TO THE POLICE AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK BECAUSE OF CLIENTS GETTING SO VERBALLY ABUSIVE THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE THEIR THREATS SERIOUSLY.

And then, when I talk to management about maybe not doing that so we don't get abused everyday as a job, they say "well we have to create urgency, we have to make the sale". Right, forgot I had to risk my life for this company where I only make $17.00 an hour. Riiiiiight.

[remyxavierr]

I've had a migraine for almost 2 weeks straight without any relief, and then I get a call today about a neurology appointment and IT'S IN FEBRUARY OF NEXT YEAR!!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???? I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN AND NO MEDICINE HAS WORKED OVER THE PAST 6 YEARS AND I JUST WANNA GIVE UP AND DIE!!!!!

I could cry my eyes out right now but I'm at work and working in pain because the government doesn't care if you're suffering since money and capitalism rule everything.

Cool.

[the-moonlight-witch]

This is still one of the greatest things ever made.

[mitzumiremade]

happy pride month

[soniatera]

[coffeefocusrat]

you're just mad because you're hungry and tired and your legs hurt and you head hurts and you're too hot and you have depression

[remyxavierr]

Welp, that's cool. In the job where there's break-ins multiple times a week, I have to deal with gross police at least once a week, and where grown adults fully yell in my face everyday, I work 10 days straight. 👍

I've been applying for jobs for 9 months and have only gotten 3 interviews in that whole period of time. 👍

My medicine is doing all it can, but this job really makes me want to kill myself. 👍

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[remyxavierr]

I'm really grateful for hyperfixations because sometimes, when my mental health is really bad and things in life are very tough, I almost forget what it feels like to feel strongly about something or anything at all. I've been told my whole life to put my emotions away because it's "dramatic" and I need to "stop being so sensitive about everything", but should I not feel a little bit lucky that bipolar lets me feel so deeply and so big sometimes? Is feeling for things in this world, whether it be love, food, music, friendship, hobbies, nature, should that not be celebrated? Is being able to feel not something we should treasure? I know sometimes it can be disruptive, but when it's not, wow, sometimes me and the world seem to be meant for each other.

[hellenicpaganism]

Hecate Guardian of the crossroads, keeper of the keys

[tothechaos]

[suddenly very embarrassed about walking on my knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting] [realizing i know nothing about the soft animal of my body] um . does anyone know how to live a life not spent on their knees. asking for a friend.

[remyxavierr]

I believe mental health information should be taught in schools. Elementary, middle/junior high, high school, college/university.

There's just too many people who are too unaware of something that affects SO MANY people. On the World Health Organization's website, they have stated that 1 in 7 people ACROSS THE WORLD have a mental illness. And for the USAmericans, that's MORE THAN 1 in 5 people.

I understand we are currently doing work in trying to destigmatize mental illness, especially the "scary" ones that people think it's alright to demonize in entertainment. But I feel like people don't understand how serious mental illnesses are. Anxiety can be so debilitating that someone stops leaving their house. Depression can be so debilitating that you become a shadow of yourself. And those are just the ones people talk about the most.

My colleagues are aware that I have bipolar, but they have no idea what it even means. They think bipolar means depression. Some people think bipolar means homicidal.

The internet is at our fingertips and yet we are more ignorant than ever.

YOU HAVE TO EDUCATE YOURSELF, YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT LOOKS STUPID WHEN YOU CHOOSE IGNORANCE OVER KNOWLEDGE. AND YES, WE ARE ALL JUDGING YOU WHEN YOU CHOOSE IGNORANCE.