I hate my coworkers.

This entire year has felt kind of bonkers and the politics leading up to the end of the year have been awful. Nonstop advertising on TV and streaming services, nonstop noise from all forms of media, text messages, phone calls, every day multiple fliers in the mail for months.

But what is even worse for me is knowing that the majority of Americans would rather vote for a liar, cheat and criminal. A lot was at stake during this election and I feel like my fellow countrymen (and women!) have let me and those around us down.

I felt pretty bad and even called in to work the next day. Eventually though after talking to a friend I realized that things probably won't change much directly for me. I am a middle aged white man, I have always been blue collar, I have always lived paycheck to paycheck and ultimately that isn't going to change for me regardless of who is President. Although I still worry for my friends and family and for the women of our nation in general.

Let's just get through the next four years and see where we're at, right?

Unfortunately I discovered that I was a minority at work. People with singing and dancing and talking about how much better things were going to be. How the price of gas was already going down (it's been going down.) and how the country can finally get back on track.

It's been like this every day at work. And that may have been fine until tonight when I walked in to a powwow with everyone sitting around and talking in the breakroom. I don't just work with hardcore Trump supporters, I work with anti-mask, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorists talking about how bogus Covid was.

One woman started talking about how it's impossible to cure illnesses and diseases and they'll always be around, besides, "My body, my choice."

I have been minding my own business all week but when I heard that I just lost it. No, when you become a disease spreader that whole argument goes out the window. You are not entitled to expose other people to illness while preaching about bodily autonomy.

I also told my co-worker that she lacks not only intelligence but imagination as well. That at one point measles, rubella, and polio were all considered eradicated until idiots started spreading their filth around again. And even if something like Covid isn't eradicated now does not mean at some point in the future it couldn't be.

I may not have a job tomorrow because I was pretty heated. But I started looking for work as soon as I got home anyways. I cannot continue to go to a job 40 to 60 hours a week surrounded by this nonsense.