i am fucking beat.

as i said a while back im a programmer but currently the market is in crisis and i got fire and remained unemployed for almost a year, so i went to work in the factory to at least not run out of money in difficult times we are facing.

i was never a athletic person, even as a kid when playing outside always had week constitution, run slow, tired easily, shit coordination and never got better.

i applied for a job in a shoe factory, and got put in storage and man, labor sucks major ass. it porly organized so a lot of work was overdue and the rhythm was frenetic, slowed by outdated software and so on.

anyway, perhaps this is the cue for me getting my shit together and study hard for public employment, less physically tiring and better pay.

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    Been doing factory labor for five years now and yeah, you have to sort of build your life around it. I need to shower every night because of all the sweat, my wardrobe consists only of sweat whicking fabrics, I own several pairs of work shoes and rotate them throughout the week to make them last longer, I plan and time my meals to ensure I don’t get super hot on a full stomach but also don’t come home starving, and I pretty regularly have panic attacks and sobbing fits.

    I don’t hate it but holy fucking shit it takes a lot out of you. Really need to go back to school…

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      i feel you, i need to buy some clothes specific to be drenched, specially in brazil hot climate, as for shoes thank the left by law they have to provide us with personal protection equipment so they lend steel reinforced boots, still i need to also acquire a water bottle because cups don’t come by easily there, and the salary sucks, anyway we fucking need communism right now to make factories decent places to work.

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        5 months ago

        Oh yeah, last year I lost consciousness because they didn’t install a fan in my work station even though I told them every week and submitted continuous improvement forms and everything.

        The DAY I passed out they installed a fan. Fuckers could have done it whenever they wanted they just didn’t give a shit.

        Death to capitalism death to America inshallah