I hate hate hate these people. I have so many of them in my life and they are so stressful to be around. Always talking about how hard they work and bitching that no one works as hard as they do, always making you feel lazy for wanting to have a goddamn life. I swear this type of bootlicking coworker is one of the biggest roadblocks to better working conditions. I know, I know, worker solidarity and all that but damn it's hard not to want to scream at them to fuck off sometimes.
Also requesting a /c/vent for when people need to yell at the void
"Lazy" has two uses:
- A bludgeon to beat workers into shittier pay/conditions: "Oh us poor small business tyrants are suffering because people just don't want to work anymore," or some asshat claiming they work 100 hours every week.
- The justifiable frustration workers themselves have when one of their coworkers isn't pulling their weight.
The first one is bullshit, but the second is legitimate, and you don't have to be some striving overachiever to experience it. It sucks when you're closing up a restaurant late, you're tired, and you want to get the hell out of there, but someone is taking forever to finish up. That person's either keeping you on the clock when you no longer want to be, or forcing you to pick up their slack, or otherwise creating some problem you don't want to deal with. Most people don't want to work with the striving overachiever type, but they don't want to work with lazy people, either.
But I don’t even think I would call that laziness because chances are they’ve got other shit going on in their lives, are already tired from working hard, etc.
This is certainly the case in some situations, but come on, sometimes people just take advantage of the fact that if they don't put in the work, someone else will have to do it for them. I don't know what else to call that but lazy.
I think there's an easy explanation for this behavior that doesn't require any significant issues, or any truly malicious behavior: a lot of parts of any job suck, and people don't like to do things that suck. If there's a choice between doing something that sucks or dragging one's feet and getting someone else to do it, plenty of people are going to pick the latter. Avoiding things that suck (especially avoidance via inaction) is a pretty common human characteristic.
Thanks for the book recommendation -- I was just looking for something new to read earlier today.
Oh hey it's my dad. A guy who's been shit on by work and bosses his entire life and yet takes a bullet for them and has zero class conscious.
This reminds me of my uncle. They almost died in an oil field explosion, and shortly after getting bandaged up they were forced to leave the conference room so the suits could use it for a meeting. When I told him that those guys didn't care about his wellbeing at all and wouldn't have lost a bit of sleep if he died, it was like he never considered the thought.
He has a lot of stories like that from a few different construction or oil jobs. He worked hard his whole life, and is still scraping by while the assholes that almost killed him are retired and living at The Villages.
I hate when people say ‘no one enjoys work, that’s why it’s called work’ or ‘thats why you get paid to do it’
Eh, this is pretty spot-on for most paid jobs today, which is what most people think of when they hear "work." It's also pretty useful for cutting through shit like "our corporate family" or "here's a few nice bells and whistles to dazzle you instead of a bigger paycheck."
Those sayings can compliment (or lead to) broader discussions about how work should be defined or about how people might feel about work in a socialist society.
I have nothing but loathing for that kind of person, I sympathize. This is exactly what my stepfather is like and he's fucking awful.
I sincerely love working hard, but not for 40+ hours a week, and I like it less the more alienated I am from the product of my labor.
I mean, if that's what you love, I'm all for it. It's just the people that get a weird competitive thing about their job that annoy me.
Sounds like :brainworms: hate the phrase because the implications but it's supposed to be work to live not live to work.
It really feels like you either work so much you don't have a life or you don't work enough to afford to sustain life. I'm inbetween work right now and the only viable prospect I have is to go back to pulling 12 hour days, seven days a week like I was doing.
I have conditions that make keeping to a work schedule hard + makes me constantly exhausted. working for long periods literally drives me insane. It sucks.
Can't even afford a doctor to get a diagnosis on whatever issues I have, and even then getting help would be an uphill battle. Just sucks man.
My roommate is like this, always coming home and telling me how long she worked that day (at her managerial job) and how much better she is than her dumb coworkers. I typically give her no response, since I know shes seeking validation.
Oh god managers are the worst. I have worked with so many of them and they're all like this.
