Dear LFTP: the unemployed, depressed alumnus resenting successful peers
- Dear LFTP: how should the unemployed, depressed alumnus deal with resentment toward successful peers?
The second Dear LFTP letter comes from a prestigious-college graduate, 35 years out, with no job, debt, depression, and phobias, resentful that the alumni magazine only publishes successful peers and that Facebook friends are doing well. The hosts roast the writer's victim posture — 'John' becomes the stand-in for everyone-has-it-better entitlement — while conceding times are genuinely tough. The secular advice noted that others share the feeling, which the hosts read as a window into the Occupy movement's victim mindset.
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Dear LFTP 1: loud coworkers, the joining-in manager, and the Psalm 126 follow-up
- How should employees handle loud, disruptive coworkers whose manager joins in?
Mike reads the first Dear LFTP letter: a shared workspace where one department talks nonstop about non-work topics, and their manager joins in rather than correcting them — the writers are desperate for a reasonable work setting.
From No. 593 · Do You Hear What I Hear
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Dear LFTP: the rain cloud and the value of work
- How can I get out from under this rain cloud at work - do I want too much out of life?
Mike reads the second letter: a woman in her early thirties, happy in marriage and new house, but miserable in high-stress tech marketing - 'How can I get out from under this rain cloud?
From No. 577 · The Spirit, the Goldfish and the Way
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Dear LFTP: the boss who assigns personal errands to his only employee
- How do I refuse my boss's personal errands without losing her job?
The second Dear LFTP letter: a single mom of two, the only other employee in a small office, says her boss increasingly assigns personal tasks unrelated to the business — the…
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Dear LFTP: the paramedic's overtime fight
- How do I address my wife pushing me to work more overtime while spending her own vacation without me, without starting a fight?
A paramedic writes that his wife pushes him to pick up twelve-hour shifts while taking none herself, citing housework, and spends her vacation at theme parks without him.
From No. 516 · Pastor Rico Suave