This is my post from another thread, I think it gives a good idea of what can go on. My city of 500k has gone down hill a lot in last 10 years due to dirty business tolerated to point it is really affecting a lot of businesses and lives of locals with decreasing pay, increasing cost of living, more social pressures of stigma ā¦
As a female, I have seen members of my community become aggressive/predatorial toward female coworkers. As I get older, now at early 40s, I witness male coworkers TOTALLY acting inappropriately at work/education/church trying to bully women in the community. Things at some local jobs, predatorial male sexual harassers are retained at companies who just run through cheap female labor every 6 monthsā¦Some places WILL NOT LET A SINGLE WOMAN work there, the lady will get tortured and sometimes ruinedā¦in some cases, the office POS tried to stalk her for relationship after getting her fired. Local educators are teaching management workshops on how to terminate people on medical leaveā¦Women are being forced into mental care after leaving relationships, called crazy by the male that is done with them/(or rejected) and ruined for a while, sometimes unable to work due to mental problems. There is NO WAY locally in courts or policing to ditch any unwanted male that wonāt leave you alone, leaving some women resorting to dating someone else to be left alone or just moving. Many of the ruined women are leaving community after being ruined at multiple jobs, lost their home for 10+ years and car wonāt even run out of here due to local crooked car repair guysā¦these things just hit the women in threes. Women screwed out of the jobs are almost always denied unemployment, most run through their retirement accounts ā¦
Jobs here are just paying too little to bother with it ā work environment, few legal defenses any more, aggressive pests/predators in community and wages that wonāt pay for cost of living alone. Funny, after the locals began to leave, saw lots more people hired from out of town, screwed and left within a year. Found out this just happens in some smaller citiesā¦
Some of the churches here have worked on āhealingā of schizo symptoms leaving their members almost nuts sometimes and stalking/verbally harassing people who got into mental care & needed SSDIā¦Many of these filed for SSDI themselves and could not wait for an approval of benefits so the hatred and passive aggression is terrible force to recon with in this community if you ended up on SSDI. There is SO much anger to tap. This hatred just adds to the toxic work place causing a āhostile work environmentā where some mentally ill professionals think there is a ācauseā for their own symptoms and pursue a specific coworker for ruinā¦Some are so messed up, they think their employer is the problem and they will work on ruining the employer financially by ruining equipment or not sending out billings to cause revenue dropā¦Sitting at a restaurant and an old fart couple starts to discuss disability payments and āsome people should be taken out and shot for going on disability paymentsā, is an example of some of the ugly people who may be working at the next desk. Some communities made so many of these folks in the under 35 crowd, they interrogate a visitor about his employment to find out source of income to determine how to treat a new stranger ā Some cities have so many people who act like this, local business owners had a lot of people they just could not hire without a huge risk to business so hiring out-of-towners was only solution. Outsiders were lured into the community only to find a zombie army of local youth who are passive aggressive/predatorial who jealously preyed on the new workers who came to town calling the crap ādramaā and torture of these new workers began if person could not handle it without much response or tried to ask questions. Destruction of private property/vandalisms/theft/fires/burglaries/worse happened when some of the local crazies blamed a new local for causing more mental symptoms for the locals if a treated schizo person moved there to workā¦Groups of kids roved poor neighborhoods in gangs of 10+ harassing new workers as an initiation, threatening new people who moved there to work. People who left were told discussion of any localās behaviors would result in retaliationā¦many times social problems with your new cityās screwed up people.
Some bigger communities have managed to form an apartheid system of separation for the people who were actively psychotic a lotā¦these people were tortured out of the school and any advancement they sought, told they must work in restaurant or retail harassing some of the unwelcome customers. Most of the skilled jobs went to the older adults who would not act crazy or got along with the REALLY aggressive predatorial office Alpha Top Dog. As these retire, the foreigners and people from out of town had to take the employment, tolerating the stiffling bull-crap of the communityās ruined called ādramaā. Sadly, the fast food poverty caste frequently had to resort to drug dealing to pay the bills after working for fast food wages in city cost of living area. All sorts of people dealt drugs to survive, but no one left the drug dealerās ranks unless in jail or worse. Not easy to quit the drug dealing cultureā¦Some middle class women were misled into relationships with a new man who tried to shack up quickly, then informed the woman she would be living in a drug house.
I became aware of smaller communities that would advertise for their jobs in regional newspapers luring in females who tried to leave the city for calmer life. Some of these women, sometimes ladies hired repeatedly for same job, became target for local drug dealers, were tormented until a nervous break resulted and man tried to ride the womanās SSDI check. Local police would lock women who argued about the drugs up in mental hospital at own expense whenever neededā¦This is way area got new women. Some small communities do protect their abusers and a new resident to town will be pursued for vandalism/theft at home or work stoppages/stolen work equipment to make new residents compliant to local abuserās demands.
Some workplaces will just create an annoying environment like group of coworkers who sat there babbling crazy talk to each other for days, especially if you ever discuss SSDI check, your diagnosis, worry aloud or share much about your personal life. While other situations are great, just horribly short staffing and terribly low pay being my only problems with itā¦great coworkers can still be found if you work hard as a rule, show good nature/patience and do not complain much. Some places will have the coworkers acting nutty if you discuss any of the community ādramaā after you moved to a sick community.
Males who are confrontational are tortured out, fired and harassed by all kinds of strangers. Sometimes the next job will be ruined or equipment stolen if the male continues to complain about local abusers/harassment, even if he moved.
If you ever found anything wrong at a job, you need to keep it quiet if you cannot resolve the problem with management/coworkers. Talking about it in community can result in unwanted attention for some from the wrong kinds of peopleā¦Some communities run such a sick place, people are encouraged to only share positive information and never refer to anything negative where you feel you got screwed/mistreated or the problem may come back to haunt you. If you just leave these situations quietly, the troubled people would leave it aloneā¦
Getting involved in any causes, social stuff or even church in a sick community, you could be opening yourself up to be ruined, especially if you were not invited to these by a person you have known for a while.
With the wealthy nut-jobs āspecial interestsā who have extensive history of abuse of people in the community left in place by cops, politicians and courts, the divide between power and peasants increases. The Bill of Rights should decorate many a bathroom as time passes, as US moves closer to ruin and govt is running things on funny money from abusers. Business leaves US, India can run the luxury engine of the internet. There are a lot of people who would be sickly satisfied by US becoming a third world country for trying to just run restaurants/retail and ran out all other employers from US.