Don’t worry everyone, the billionaires are working on automation so they don’t need us to work anymore and we can all just starve.
It’s kind of comforting to hear people from across the world with a very different culture has the same problems.
“I cannot do what I love anymore, so I am always tired and unmotivated,” she says.
Too real
Working fucking sucks, and we need to stop blaming young folks for the problems they inherit from us.
All the people at the top now either started rich or started in a time where companies still had a lady going around offices bringing people coffee.
I’m surprised cubicles have not been traded in for a treadmill to generate power yet.
Meh. At least online there is a doomer mentality which turns into anger when you point out that a homes and a decent life are actually obtainable, followed by countless bootlicker comments.
Attainable by 100% of people?
Most
‘Most’ isn’t good enough
51% is ‘most’
If you scored 51% on a test, you would fail65% trailing the EU by 4%. Your metric is absurd 🤣 comparing a school test to home ownership historically. What an insane argument. Tell me you’ve never taken a statistics class with out saying the word 🤣.
If you think 35% of people not being able to afford a home in a world of plenty is ok, then I think you have more to learn about than statistics
Point out where I said it is okay?
Maybe you shouldn’t be looking for an argument. 65% is the status quo. And it’s not like most of the renters are living homeless. Hence the doomerism.
However, that excitement soon faded. “HR said they wanted fresh ideas from young people, but that was not really happening,” he says.
His marketing manager, 13 years his senior, often found his content unclear or unconventional.
In the first two weeks, each 300-word post required over five rounds of revisions. Eventually, all his original ideas ended up being altered.
Hire someone for a creative job. Committee the creativity to death. Wonder why employee is unhappy.
I’m not saying you have to give your employee free reign but you hired someone and then ignored them, maybe the company is wrong.
I hate this. When I was first hired, I really poured in a lot of effort. I took on extra projects, did extra work, trying to get ahead. But every extra project I completed would get sent to a supervisor and manager, they would absolutely wreck it asking for changes that made little to no difference, but took a lot of time to implement. And then they would just… keep requesting additional changes. for months. back and forth and back and forth.
I got so sick of it, I don’t volunteer for fucking anything anymore. Oh, you want my input on this document you’ve changed as it affects how I do my job? Like I give a shit. Whatever I say will just get garbled and edited and ultimately you’ll just do whatever the fuck you want anyway so… No. I won’t suggest any edits or redline your document. I don’t care anymore. Just tell me what to do and I’ll do it till my shift ends.
Just a bunch of middle managers who all want to look at fancy spreadsheets so they can appear to know what’s happening on the manufacturing floor instead of, ya know, actually going down to the floor. Then they all can pretend to know what’s going on to their higher up, who is in turn using that to pretend to know what’s going on to their higher up, each one knowing less and less, until you get to the CEO or Site head that knows absolutely fuck all about what’s going on, with even less of a clue on how to influence it, all because they don’t want to actually visit the floor or talk to the poors running their machines.
I went from running my own business to this garbage, and although the steady middle class paycheck is nice, I regret it every day.
I’m so lucky with my job. Whenever I see something that needs improving, my bosses are behind me 100% and I get loads of support. We just don’t have enough people, is the only problem, because the company refuses to hire more. We have the support but not the manpower.
I’ve seen this happen. They think they need a designer and then can’t actually find work for them or don’t really know what work they want. Then it becomes a suffer fest for the poor designer.
Many years ago, I worked at a Walmart.
One of the only events that staff would look forward to was an employee profit-sharing program.
It was essentially an annual bonus, and it was typically worth about half a week’s pay. Most places that would be an insulting low bonus, but when you work minimum wage and don’t get benefits, anything extra is appreciated.While I was working there, the store went through some major renovations to become a Super Centre. If you’re not familiar, that means they added a bunch of refrigerators and such so they could sell fresh groceries instead of just pantry items.
It was a huge pain to deal with during the renovations, they were super disruptive to operations, but the store never closed. We just had to work around the contractors, and the customers were more ornery than usual.That same year they opened another store across town. Ours is a fairly small town, at the time I wouldn’t have thought that our town would support two Walmarts. But since our store was going through major renovations, the other location cannibalized a lot of our traffic.
We didn’t get our bonus that year because we weren’t profitable enough. We didn’t decide to do renovations. We didn’t decide to open a new store. We all had to work harder to accommodate the grander corporate strategy of strangling the life out of our town’s economy.
This was at least ten years ago. Income inequality has only gotten worse since then. Why the fuck would I do more than the minimal effort if they’re going to squeeze me for the minimal wage?
Bullshit Jobs get bullshit treatment.
I recommend this book constantly. It’s relatable to basically everyone except the 1%.
I take issue with these: administrative assistants, public relations specialists, airline desk staff who calm passengers with lost luggage, middle management, leadership professionals.
These all exist because humans aren’t perfect. I haven’t read the book but it’s hard to believe the author knows anything about how businesses operate if he thinks a healthy one can be successful without those positions.
Ex. I work for a startup that is growing rapidly and doesn’t have administrative assistants for higher levels. For the most part it’s a disaster leading to a lot of wasted time without them being as productive as they could be. AAs have skills that the regional leaders do not. It’s a symbiotic relationship.
Anyone who well and truly enjoys their job has severe mental issues that need to be worked out. Why would someone give effort towards something that won’t ultimately reward them? It’s not their project, it’s not their company, it’s not their passion.
Hmm, I always give my best effort, because that’s how I learn the most and sharpen my own skills. Job skills are like any other, they atrophy if you don’t stretch them, and they don’t grow if you don’t push their limits.
Give your effort for your own benefit, not because you expect a reward from your current employer. When you outgrow that relationship, and your employer doesn’t value your contributions, then move on.
You are always working for yourself, even if you’re getting a paycheck from someone else.
How’s that boot leather taste?
That’s what you got from my comment? Do you struggle with reading comprehension?
Read this again:
You are always working for yourself, even if you’re getting a paycheck from someone else.
That’s because I got a 3% raise when I needed at least 15-20%. All the bootlickers got promoted with higher raises and now I work (literally) more than ever before. It’s a free market. I’ll adjust my labor effort accordingly and you will not know about it.
65%
