all the rich ppl here neatly make your way over to c/mutual_aid for voluntary expropriation :chavez-guns:
Never too late to lie about your work experience, put your friends down as your previous managers, spruce up that resume, and hit the job sites.
That's the thing about the PMC discourse. For as much as people say the PMC are class traitors with no revolutionary potential or whatever, very few of those people would turn it down if they found an easy way in.
The thing about class traitors is that they are the exception to the rule. The rule is still true 90+ percent of the time, so if you're truly an exception (whether PMC, white, Western, male, soldier/veteran or whatever combo of things people trash on cause they suck) then you nod along and let it roll off you're back cause they aren't wrong and they aren't talking about you.
Yeah I run a squad of mercenaries keep an eye out for our exploits soon you'll recognize me because I'll be twirling around revolvers for like 30 minutes. My coworker really likes bees
Sort of. Definitely was PMC prior to taking on this job I've had for the last couple years. Most of my friends, those I grew up with (the few still alive and not in jail), would say "he's made it."
The odd thing for me when I was still semi-indoctrinated: the more I ascended the less it all made sense to me, while those who were on similar career trajectories seemed to drink more and more from the kool-aid stand. Capitalism is a fucking cult. Year end shindigs were the fucking worst with everyone taming their shrews over meaningless promotions and bonuses. All the while, the whole trip is just a write off so the CEO and his wife can go to Vegas on the company dime and report the loss to the IRS.
Anyhow. Getting into the PMC isn't hard, work wise. I don't have a degree. No letters after my name. Just wear a suit, kiss ass, and learn how to use MS Office, on the job. Most any other tasking can be figured out via Google. Anyone in the PMC who thinks they have "talent" is delusional. I can count on one hand in 15 years how many people I worked with who were actually brilliant.
Yeah I what I have found is the most common trait among the c-suite isn't intelligence or education. It's how willing are you to be an asshole? How irrational and insistent are you willing to be. How many people are you willing to blow up at in order to "make things happen"? Can you intimidate and bend people to your will? You will advance in capitalism.
And I wouldn't say "hard work" correlates per se, but what does is your willingness to give up your life and your free time for your career. And that's very different from "hard work".
Depends on the line of work. The slave driving at my old job(s) wasn't necessarily in holding people down and increasing productivity. It was usually in spending countless hours every week chasing "new business" on top of the job we were hired to perform. I'll have to leave it at that in order to keep from self-doxxing. But the result is the same: doing 1.5 - 2.5 times the work or equivalent in hours so the Director or CEO above you doesn't have to do shit and scrapes a percentage off the top.
It's not difficult work, but it is hard to get in, you have to be part of the club. You need some combination of social connections, cultural signifiers, and putting in enough time to convince your superiors that you're reliable and willing to put the organization first. Kind of like the mafia.
Most companies who operate as I've described refer to themselves as "family."
Holy shit are you right about the kool-aid drinking that some of these ghouls do. When I was promoted to supervisor in my department, another woman about four years younger than me (I guess she was like 27 at the time?) who also worked in my department was simultaneously promoted to supervisor in another department and she legit turned into a monster almost overnight. Everyone in her new department (including her!) had been unironically referring to her as "the terminator" because of how many people she would write up. She transformed from a fairly agreeable person to absolute scum within two months (or probably just revealed her true colors).
Generally I'd test the waters with other folks about the company doing shitty things and not respecting work life balance to see if they are on the same wavelength, around 20% will commiserate, 80% of the time they will either humor me or disagree. The worst part is that it seems to me that somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of people who get promoted to supervisory positions immediately let that tiny scrap of power go to their heads and turn into petty tyrants. Meanwhile I see my reports sticking around for five minutes past when their shifts are supposed to end and I'm like what the fuck are you still doing here, we aren't saving lives, the work will still be here in the morning.
Glad I got out of that shit hole, my new company seems better so far but I haven't even been there a month so I'm sure I'll run into some petty tyrants soon enough.
At the end of my run, someone whom I consider a friend asked me to help with a weekend project for the Director because the Director-person was too lazy to do his own shit and there was some deadline, blahblahblah. I told my friend, not doing it because my off-time is too valuable. And my friend was like, "but this is for meeeeeee. They'll promote me if this goes through."
Oh little lamb. They're never going to promote you.
She rekt herself getting that project done. Wasn't enough to pass muster. She was never promoted. Director-person is still at that place, making people miserable.
I think I went camping that weekend. It was great.
So many people were putting in like 20+ hours worth of (unpaid) overtime, working 7 days a week, etc. for years and they had absolutely nothing to show for it. Meanwhile I got a 20% raise to do significantly less work and have 70 minutes less commute time by finding a new job.
Job hopping is 100% the way to go for advancement. Companies have no reason to pay you more if they know you won't leave even though you're miserable - if you're doing above and beyond what's expected of you and not demanding a raise? That's even better for them.
Build experience, expand your skill set, work smart but not too hard, and demand more money. If they don't give it to you, don't work harder - spend that energy searching for a new job because they've already shown their hand. Most PMC folks think that they can just slave their way over any obstacle but that's not how it works.
Totally agree. I job hopped the first 5 years in my line of work. A lot.
A L O T.
Then at my last place of employment, once I was in a position where everything depended on me, I demanded more money. MGMT caved, kicking and screaming. Man, did they hate the fact that I smelled blood in the water, and it was their wounds I was feasting on. They never officially made me a manager or keyholder or whatever you want to call it, but I ran the floor. At the end of my tenure, I was working from home 95% of the time, basically doing whatever the fuck I wanted.
I still got jaded. I knew it was all bullshit. I hated it. I hated everything that was associated with "business." I hated my boss and my boss's boss. I knew they were empty vessels filled with nothing more than catch phrases and slogans. Tangent: funny how business people love to shit on pyramid scheme victims but the truth is, the difference between LuLaRoo, et al, and most places I've worked is the entry fee to get in.
The next big revelation was realizing that being "established" allowed me to opt out of the whole business scene. It can be done if you know what you're doing. But I can't go into more detail without self-doxxing.
This will mark my 6th consecutive year at minimum wage in the same job.
My career at this point is a piece of performance art that attempts to demonstrate the futility of graft and perseverance.I can hardly manage myself, however I do spam “group-up” in overwatch. So 50/50.
For you assholes who answered yes to this - pay for my top surgery lmao
Guess ya gotta start somewhere with purging the bourgeoisie from this site: step 1, ask politely
Nah, I'm barely scraping by and one missed paycheck from homelessness so I'm doing great lmao professionally manage these nuts
Yes. AMA. If it helps, I use my blood money to donate to ChaCha. So that's basically the same thing as praxis
I think they're combined, so it still counts if you're white collar and within shouting distance of middle management
