Ari
@saucyscribe.bsky.social
Photographer, painter, cross stitcher, cozy gamer, animal and plant lover, makeup fiend extraordinaire. Mental health advocate. 🫶🏼
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"It’s the armchair experts demanding you act unbothered through an experience proven to wreck nervous systems, drain bank accounts, and unravel a person from the inside out."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"It’s the armchair experts demanding you act unbothered through an experience proven to wreck nervous systems, drain bank accounts, and unravel a person from the inside out."
"You’re not broken. You’re reacting exactly as a human would under conditions no human should be expected to endure.
If anything needs fixing, it’s not you."
If anything needs fixing, it’s not you."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"You’re not broken. You’re reacting exactly as a human would under conditions no human should be expected to endure.
If anything needs fixing, it’s not you."
If anything needs fixing, it’s not you."
"So if you’re in it right now… losing sleep, losing savings, losing the version of yourself that used to feel anchored, listen to me: you’re not weak. You’re not dramatic. You’re not 'taking it too personally.' You are living through a medically, psychologically, and financially documented trauma."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"So if you’re in it right now… losing sleep, losing savings, losing the version of yourself that used to feel anchored, listen to me: you’re not weak. You’re not dramatic. You’re not 'taking it too personally.' You are living through a medically, psychologically, and financially documented trauma."
"Your body is treating this like an emergency because it is one."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"Your body is treating this like an emergency because it is one."
"We’ve built a hiring system that inflicts medical-grade trauma and then asks people to smile through Zoom interviews. That wrecks cardiovascular health and then wonders why candidates seem 'low energy.' That doubles depression risk & then passes on applicants who don’t seem 'enthusiastic enough.'"
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"We’ve built a hiring system that inflicts medical-grade trauma and then asks people to smile through Zoom interviews. That wrecks cardiovascular health and then wonders why candidates seem 'low energy.' That doubles depression risk & then passes on applicants who don’t seem 'enthusiastic enough.'"
"The financial devastation doesn’t leave once you’re re-employed. Studies estimate losing a job reduces earnings by 20-40% for the rest of your career. You lose a job in 2024, you’re still paying for it in 2040.
All this, & we’re out here acting like the real issue is resume formatting & keywords."
All this, & we’re out here acting like the real issue is resume formatting & keywords."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"The financial devastation doesn’t leave once you’re re-employed. Studies estimate losing a job reduces earnings by 20-40% for the rest of your career. You lose a job in 2024, you’re still paying for it in 2040.
All this, & we’re out here acting like the real issue is resume formatting & keywords."
All this, & we’re out here acting like the real issue is resume formatting & keywords."
"Displaced workers have twice the risk of developing depression, four times the risk of substance abuse, and six times the risk of committing violent acts. The same rejection that made you cry while walking your dog is the same rejection that’s quietly rewiring the inside of your brain."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"Displaced workers have twice the risk of developing depression, four times the risk of substance abuse, and six times the risk of committing violent acts. The same rejection that made you cry while walking your dog is the same rejection that’s quietly rewiring the inside of your brain."
"For healthy employees w/o preexisting conditions, odds of developing new health conditions rise by 83% the first 15-18 months after layoff. Your body is keeping the score for something you never signed up for. The psychological & financial pressure can increase the risk of suicide by 1.3 to 3 x."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"For healthy employees w/o preexisting conditions, odds of developing new health conditions rise by 83% the first 15-18 months after layoff. Your body is keeping the score for something you never signed up for. The psychological & financial pressure can increase the risk of suicide by 1.3 to 3 x."
"It takes an average of two years to recover from the psychological trauma of losing a job. Two years. That’s 730 days of your nervous system acting like you’re being chased down an alley by all your worst-case scenarios at once."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"It takes an average of two years to recover from the psychological trauma of losing a job. Two years. That’s 730 days of your nervous system acting like you’re being chased down an alley by all your worst-case scenarios at once."
"Studies found that losing your job ranks 7th among the most stressful life experiences: more stressful than divorce, sudden hearing loss, or the death of a close friend. As in: there are only six worse things that can happen to you, and most of them involve funerals."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"Studies found that losing your job ranks 7th among the most stressful life experiences: more stressful than divorce, sudden hearing loss, or the death of a close friend. As in: there are only six worse things that can happen to you, and most of them involve funerals."
"So, can somebody tell me why we act like job seeking is a character-building obstacle course?"
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"So, can somebody tell me why we act like job seeking is a character-building obstacle course?"
From LinkedIn:
"Reading this on the Department of Labor's website knocked me out: 'being laid off from your job is one of the most traumatic events you can experience in life.'
Yes, the government put job loss right there with divorce and death. Yes, they used the word trauma."
"Reading this on the Department of Labor's website knocked me out: 'being laid off from your job is one of the most traumatic events you can experience in life.'
Yes, the government put job loss right there with divorce and death. Yes, they used the word trauma."
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
From LinkedIn:
"Reading this on the Department of Labor's website knocked me out: 'being laid off from your job is one of the most traumatic events you can experience in life.'
Yes, the government put job loss right there with divorce and death. Yes, they used the word trauma."
"Reading this on the Department of Labor's website knocked me out: 'being laid off from your job is one of the most traumatic events you can experience in life.'
Yes, the government put job loss right there with divorce and death. Yes, they used the word trauma."
Thank you to those who have just said, "checking in", or "thinking of you and Zoë", and just generally being KIND. And to those who have actively been a fellow unemployment buddy sounding board, or offered to send my resume on to their contacts, thank you x 1 million. Those gestures mean a lot.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Thank you to those who have just said, "checking in", or "thinking of you and Zoë", and just generally being KIND. And to those who have actively been a fellow unemployment buddy sounding board, or offered to send my resume on to their contacts, thank you x 1 million. Those gestures mean a lot.
... so to say I feel a little lost right now is the understatement of the century.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check on me beyond a "good luck" to offer help with even things like groceries (I'm ok financially, but that won't last forever the longer this job market stays shitty).
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check on me beyond a "good luck" to offer help with even things like groceries (I'm ok financially, but that won't last forever the longer this job market stays shitty).
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
... so to say I feel a little lost right now is the understatement of the century.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check on me beyond a "good luck" to offer help with even things like groceries (I'm ok financially, but that won't last forever the longer this job market stays shitty).
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check on me beyond a "good luck" to offer help with even things like groceries (I'm ok financially, but that won't last forever the longer this job market stays shitty).
It's losing confidence each interview because your immediate future is LITERALLY in someone else's hands. It's networking and applying and connecting every single day. I've basically held some form of job or another since I was 14, and I haven't been unemployed since 2003...
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It's losing confidence each interview because your immediate future is LITERALLY in someone else's hands. It's networking and applying and connecting every single day. I've basically held some form of job or another since I was 14, and I haven't been unemployed since 2003...
Ah, ok! Good to know.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Ah, ok! Good to know.
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Also, I DID add alt text, but not sure it worked correctly. 🤨
Also, I DID add alt text, but not sure it worked correctly. 🤨
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Also, I DID add alt text, but not sure it worked correctly. 🤨
Also, I DID add alt text, but not sure it worked correctly. 🤨
S T U N N I N G photo!!
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
S T U N N I N G photo!!
What a sweet little face he (she?) has.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What a sweet little face he (she?) has.
Nice "following" number! 😅😈
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Nice "following" number! 😅😈
(She) haha BUT THAT'S OK! I end up with the most beautiful cats.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
(She) haha BUT THAT'S OK! I end up with the most beautiful cats.