"Resignations are rising because people are seeing more job listings, not because they’re feeling more Marxist."

All the recent union pushes are just coincidence... I guess.

  • redfern45 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Honest question; people don’t hate their jobs right? They hate their pay. If I could make the salary I do now (nothing exorbitant; I promise) working in the deli I did in high school; I’d rather work the deli job

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've definitely been very well paid at jobs I still hated.

      I mean, there's a level of pay I'd still put up with them, but at that point the only reason I'd want more money is so I can quit the job sooner, so there's a limit.

      • redfern45 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I think I meant I’ve basically hated every job I’ve had in my life but getting paid more helps as long as my work isn’t contributing to anything I disagree with ideologically

    • Circra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I hate the low pay, lack of resources, the fact that we have appallingly low numbers of support staff and the bullshit hoops we have to jump through. I mean yeah apart from that.

      Having said that if I owned a complete fucking rust bucket of a car that fell apart every fifty miles and cost a fortune to run I would sure as shit hate driving.

      • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Isn’t that hating your job? The why is usually the pay for the work

        not necessarily. you can find your work enjoying and fulfilling, but resent that you aren't making enough to live off of it. This is the case for most artists, for example. They have to subsequently get other jobs that they hate to make it by.

      • redfern45 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yea seems like a contradiction to me. Like there isn’t a job anyone won’t do; just a wage they won’t do it for. I’d clean toilets for like 90K a year but I wouldn’t like it

          • redfern45 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            That’s also true. I’ve got a very good friend who works for Raytheon but makes well over 100K which is money I can only dream of. They just aren’t in the same place as I am ideologically but I think you’re onto something

              • Multihedra [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Olufemi Taiwo touched upon these things in an interview (podcast Last Dope Intellectual) for his upcoming book Elite Capture.

                I think it’s more broadly about all things the elites capture (for instance, regulatory agencies), but tbh I don’t have the best memory/the interview was more free-wheeling than “give an outline of your book”.

                The context was about people taking on the class-characteristics of their peers/whatever the job requires, regardless of how they may have started ideologically (to some extent, it’s contextual, etc).

                This is all to say, I’m very much looking forward to that book, I thought it was a very interesting and worthwhile topic

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I've hated every clerk job I've ever had, and would have hated it if it made me a millionaire. I wouldn't have quit so quick if it made me a millionaire, but I'd still have hated it.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Honest question; people don’t hate their jobs right? They hate their pay.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

      The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs:

      • flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters, makers of websites whose sites neglect ease of use and speed for looks;
      • goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists, community managers;
      • duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive;
      • box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, quality service managers;
      • taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals.