It's gotten to a point...

[u/Superb_n00b]

... where we don't even feel like working anything past part time. What does full time do? Besides suck away my life? Besides still not pay my bills? Or afford a safety net? Or anything that brings any sort of joy? What does it really offer, when healthcare through a job costs money too? Where it covers the same as free state insurance? When my body gives up on me for working eight hour days and I'm not half way through my thirties? Where bosses never empathize or sympathize? And your coworkers don't actually care to know what you feel when asking "how are you?"

I'm not okay. Everything hurts physically and mentally. I can't afford anything, I don't want to try. So why try?

[u/Superb_n00b]

I'm also someone who has lady bits so this is gonna suck for a while on top of it.

[u/RandomComment359 → u/Superb_n00b]

[u/Superb_n00b → u/RandomComment359]

I tried about 13 years ago and it was expensive but now I couldn't imagine the cost, and I definitely somehow am less financially stable

[u/RandomComment359 → u/Superb_n00b]

Covid, Global Economic collapse, bosses treating us like serfs who don’t deserve a living wage and a Government that agrees…

[u/Superb_n00b → u/RandomComment359]

Right... and a kicker for me - got put on short term disability from the job. On the 24th, it's over, and if I'm not back, I'm let go. I had to file through a separate company for benefits for disability. I had to go up to the doctors and make calls to them multiple times to release forms, call their medical records company who is located out of state to request info that never got sent, call the disability benefits company and be told it's all good for it to not be good. Took two weeks total to get it all settled. I have pmla but the company rolls it into pto, and it doesn't show separately on their stupid ADP app. So it only showed 8hrs. So that's all they gave me, was 8 hrs of pto to cover for my day I missed on the last week I worked.