I work with a mixture of normal humans and absolute brainwormed automatons that pour themselves into their work, are constantly work-stressed, and think "the work" will offer one day absolution for wasteland of their personal lives. they are not recognizing that when their health decays and they burn out, the organization will move on from their carcass and onto the next dispassionately.
like, no joke, one of their number, a bright star in the prime of their well paid career committed suicide less than a year ago.
anyway, when one of the automatons tries to humblebrag about choosing to work 50+ hour weeks while only getting paid for 40, I just roll my eyes and say "sounds exhausting. probably shouldn't do that."
Even the people who want to work their ass off young and retire at 40 are out of their minds. How many fun things are more enjoyable at 45 than 25? How many things (e.g., anything active) are off the table for a lot of people by 45? What if the economy does an oopsie again, or you get sick and a health insurance company takes all your money, and now you're 60, haven't worked in ~20 years, and you're running out of money?
It's ridiculous even assuming no major changes will be forced upon us by climate change.
absolute brainwormed automatons that pour themselves into their work, are constantly work-stressed, and think “the work” will offer one day absolution for wasteland of their personal lives
One of my earliest radicalizing points in this regard was watching how my dad's company fucked him over. Now, my father is a dick.; but he is an incredibly competent chemist in what he does (crop science), and won several awards, was constantly getting good raises, etc. Well, after 20+ years of working there and nowhere else, they stuck him in a position he absolutely hated, and a few years later moved the lab he worked in out of state, over 1000 miles away, and he was not going to make that move. Now that isn't totally abnormal in and of itself, but they tried HARD to stiff him on his severance pay, despite everything else.
Really solidified to me early on that it doesn't matter how capable you are, you will always be considered as completely replaceable.
I work with a mixture of normal humans and absolute brainwormed automatons that pour themselves into their work, are constantly work-stressed, and think "the work" will offer one day absolution for wasteland of their personal lives. they are not recognizing that when their health decays and they burn out, the organization will move on from their carcass and onto the next dispassionately.
like, no joke, one of their number, a bright star in the prime of their well paid career committed suicide less than a year ago.
anyway, when one of the automatons tries to humblebrag about choosing to work 50+ hour weeks while only getting paid for 40, I just roll my eyes and say "sounds exhausting. probably shouldn't do that."
Even the people who want to work their ass off young and retire at 40 are out of their minds. How many fun things are more enjoyable at 45 than 25? How many things (e.g., anything active) are off the table for a lot of people by 45? What if the economy does an oopsie again, or you get sick and a health insurance company takes all your money, and now you're 60, haven't worked in ~20 years, and you're running out of money?
It's ridiculous even assuming no major changes will be forced upon us by climate change.
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getting a promotion by doing all that extra shit is basically taking Pascal's wager
One of my earliest radicalizing points in this regard was watching how my dad's company fucked him over. Now, my father is a dick.; but he is an incredibly competent chemist in what he does (crop science), and won several awards, was constantly getting good raises, etc. Well, after 20+ years of working there and nowhere else, they stuck him in a position he absolutely hated, and a few years later moved the lab he worked in out of state, over 1000 miles away, and he was not going to make that move. Now that isn't totally abnormal in and of itself, but they tried HARD to stiff him on his severance pay, despite everything else.
Really solidified to me early on that it doesn't matter how capable you are, you will always be considered as completely replaceable.