I guess that's the one good thing about working a garbage fast food job. There's no opportunity to trick myself into thinking there's a desirable future there so I'll probably never wake up one day and realize that I just can't go to work that day as a district manager or whatever and now most of my adult life was in all practical senses of the word a waste.

My mom didn't have a job she hated but a few years ago she got a new boss who basically ran her out, and the job market was/is ****, starting pay for positions she'd be qualified for wouldn't cover her monthly expenses, and to top it all off much of the reason she wasn't able to fight for her job was because she had a long-term, debilitating illness that almost killed her that also prevented her from getting a new job. Now she's got some weird cognitive issues going on that have made it nearly impossible to hold down a job and she's hoping she can get on disability before she loses everything.

Over two decades of a job she liked and was committed to flushed down the drain and the only thing she has to show for it is a house that's now an anchor around her neck, without even the ability to make a new life for herself. That's the kind of **** to destroy your faith in the world.

I wish I had given notice but at the time I didn’t care. It’s hard to say now but giving notice might have been the wrong move for me though. I don’t how it would’ve all gone down. No one got arrested or hurt- maybe at that point in time I did the right thing the right way. Hindsight isn’t really 20/20.

I could’ve done something crazier and I could be in prison thinking **** I should’ve just stayed home. Who knows? When I left the last day I was like if one more person ****s with me they’ll ****ing suffer.

Giving my two weeks was the one right thing I did. At least I'll get a crappy retirement check in a few years. The thing is, I felt so liberated for a while. I lived off a bunch of credit cards for a year and a half and went cross country. I'm paying for it now, but for a short while, it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.

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That totally ****ing sucks.

I’m sorry man. That’s ****ing heartbreaking.

I’m doing a Chapter 7. Got a lawyer looking over all the debt. Filing in about 10 days.

To make matters even more depressing the lawyer she hired to present her case to... the disability board didn't do his ****ing job right, so she got turned down and now has to wait two years before being eligible for a new hearing (which is coming up in about a year I guess) with no guarantee that she won't get turned down again and have to reapply yet again. It doesn't help that she's got a mental rather than physical disability that's proven incredibly hard to diagnose due to doctors not really taking her seriously at times.

And of course if you take a job during the time you're waiting to get on disability that immediately shoots your claim in the foot because of course someone with no income should just bleed money for two years so that a few *******s gaming the system don't get to be welfare queens. As a result I'm pretty sure her savings are almost completely gone at this point and she's not even sixty yet.

**** me, man I was gonna leave those five extra beers I have lying around for some other day but that's going out the window right the **** now. God bless, America.

Holy **** dude. I've never known this I think. Wish there was a way I could help. That's gotta be rough.

Man I am so sorry about that, dude. I know we all give you **** here like you're just a loser going nowhere, but that's got to be hard to accept and live with. Heart out to you man, heart out.
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****. That sucks. Sorry man. I hope things get better.

A girl I've known from school was murdered six weeks ago.
I haven't seen her in ten years and didn't have any contact, but we used to be friends at some point.
Random guy tried to rape her in broad daylight, she managed to fight him off, he still strangled her.
Today they caught him in Spain.