The vibes at my work have been especially terrible to the point where even the bootstraps tugging elderly conservative chuds on my team are jaded and fed up. People are losing their jobs for the first time in years (the rare times it happened before someone was pulling some blatant fuckery), the only people getting promotions are upper management's yes men located in an entirely different office, no new employee hires in years, and the only good middle manager switched to an actual capable team recently and left the rest of us on a sinking ship. To add insult to injury, they're segregating employees from contractors by not letting contractors receive the occasional free meal. The employees literally sneak out as quietly as they can whenever they get to go out to eat. It was already bad enough that us contractors don't get any paid days off and a lower overall pay rate, but it just feels like we're hated at this point.
Despite my own personal situation being relatively good now that my partner is making more than me hourly, I don't really have hope for anything this year. I burned out earlier this year from a failed work project (it was mismanaged, surprise surprise), and despite being on new anti-anxiety/anti-depression meds I still feel exhausted most the time. My remaining dreams are in the far future, but the American proletariat rising up seems a lifetime away. Things are going to have to get really nasty before enough working class people revolt, and with the world's largest military being freely deployed on its own citizens, it seems like we'll need a much larger percentage of people than previous uprisings.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that yeah, I feel powerless and alienated too. 