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Ginn's avatar

This may sound like it’s out of left field, but thank you for helping me understand why my daughter stays in her adequately paying, benefit giving job instead of reaching “higher.” Although I’m a baby boomer, I got caught up in the “do work that you are passionate about” frenzy FOR HER and have been advocating a career change. That stops now. Although she has experienced the burden of being asked to do more for the same money, she also gets occasional bonuses and fair treatment from her boss. Her value to the company is recognized. It’s not an ideal situation, but I know she wants that stability. It’s time for mom to mind her own business.

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Stephanie's avatar

I'm a public librarian - a branch manager specifically. My overriding feeling throughout the pandemic was rage. Rage at everyone else who got to go home and work from there. Rage at the decision makers who recognized that not everything could be accomplished from home but didn't go further along that process. Rage at the people who decided public librarians were somehow the best people to do all of those things that couldn't be accomplished from home. Rage at the decision makers who just didn't care at all if people fell through the cracks because they needed help in person. And, so on and on and on. Why was I the one who had to come into work during a pandemic so people had a place to go, when I wasn't actually the person who could help them? I could do absolutely nothing for the homeless man who qualified for social security but couldn't get in the system because no one was working in the office and he was relying on a crappy cellphone to try and be available at the random times they assigned him "phone appointments". I felt like I was managing a holding pen for people who were just hoping they could hang on long enough to make it to the point when the people who work in those offices that actually do the things that help them come back to those offices. I know I'm supposed to think that it was great that all those other employees got to work from home because it helped prevent greater spread? Or something? But, if it wasn't important for me to be safe at home, why was it more important for them, the people who could actually do the necessary things? Ugh. This was a mess of thoughts. I really am not okay.

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