Saying it louder for all of us in the back 🗣️🗣️🗣️
We’re not “grinding” by overworking ourselves to exhaustion at multiple jobs. We’re being exploited by #GreedyCEOs.
Somebody's grandmother is out here making a pound cake with no recipe written down anywhere, and when she passes, that knowledge is just gone. We treat that like it's normal. It's not. Write it down. Record her. That recipe is an heirloom.
Unless I’m working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.
The older I get, the clearer it becomes: people don’t disappear into gardening, baking, books, and long walks because life got boring.
They do it because peace became priceless.
"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl
After 8 billion doses (yes 8 BILLION, not a typo) Covid vaccines are at this point one of the most tested medical interventions in history and one of the safest ever