I meant to post it in @verreauxi's corporate overreach thread, but even though there is a lot of talk about the severe stagnation of wages in relation to the cost of living, there's another more insidious type of inflation happening inside the work place. Companies have never had more access to the granular metrics of the workplace and can basically bean-count every minute you're in there. This leads to obvious issues, like lumping more and more work on to people to achieve the unrealistic objectives that they have set.
Where people were once able to manage their own discretionary time in the workplace, they are now forced to expend unprecedented amounts of mental effort just to fulfill their burgeoning array of responsibilities. People are putting in far for effort for far less pay, and are essentially blamed when they inevitably burn out. Companies have pathetic "wellbeing initiatives" to cure the disease they have caused themselves and wonder openly about how to stem attrition, when they're essentially driving people out of their company with a whip. None of this is your fault, look for a new job and get out of there and, with any luck, they are not the utter psychopaths you are currently employed by
.Last March[2023] i felt a lump in the upper midline of my stomach, and because i am a male i ignored it.....naturally. My dad and older brother both died of liver cancer. Given those odds i am not too kean to pick up the phone to my doc. My appetite is in the bin,i have lost weight my poo looks like a cup of black coffee and 20 rennies wont shift my indigestion. I am scared to death of the answer not knowing is bliss.
