Thank you for your empathy, nightowl.

It disgusts me how employees are now treated like objects, too. I know that, in a sense, you can't blame the employers because they have a business to run and their bottom line, but it just sucks that their standards are so unrealistic now. It's completely disgusting how they expect you to have NO life outside of their company. You have to be a "team player" and not just be honest about the fact that you're an employee there because you need to make a living. You have to put their company over your family because, if you won't, they'll find somebody who will. You have to basically be willing to work for them for pennies because you're supposed to just love the company so much that you would work for them for free if they wanted. It's not okay, and something needs to change.

I'm so tired of begging for the privilege of being able to pay for my own rent and food. And I'm tired of being told that I don't "deserve" to have the medical care I've been needing for months because I don't have a job. I don't know how people handle this kind of rejection all of the time. I just want to crawl into a hole and disappear, and I can't even talk to someone about how I feel because that costs money too. I just can't deal with the constant stress anymore.