Month: May 2022

Saw this post that with automatisation, we shouldn't all be working an we're changing perspective. But most of it is rubbish that is endoctrinated in us. A lot of things can't be automized. And those jobs are just outsourced in poor countries, that have to work their ass off for us to keep having our western lifestyles. The problem isn't work. Work is good for us. It gives us purpose. A sense of achievement. It also keeps us healthy. The problem is the scale of it. When you work for corporations so big you never even know who your boss is. The problem is hierarchy. It is abuse. It is mass industrialisation and the loss of all real trades. Here's an example : stonemasonry. It is a complex craft. That asks advanced 3D vision and understanding. Knowing how to make a proper mortar depending on weather, type of stone, etc……

This may be a little long, but I'll try to be brief. I'm in the mood for telling a story, I guess. TL;DR – I would love what I do even more if I could do it for free. I've been very lucky in my life in regards to work. I went to hair school at 19 which enabled me to be my own boss, for the most part, for about 15 years. About five years ago, I just lost all motivation and desire to continue with the drama and pettiness of the salon environment. I've worked enough “regular” jobs throughout the years to know that I can't handle having a boss constantly breathing down my neck. I've been pretty good friends with the only shear sharpener I could trust ever since I was in school, and while I was talking to him one day, he told me he thought…

I worked as an accountant but I had nothing to do with payroll. One day I realized I could see the payment files from the payroll account so I did what any curious human would do, I exported the data and figured out what everyone's salaries were. I used this information to negotiate a 15k pay rise plus 10% annual bonus. I never would have aimed so high and negotiated this without this secret knowledge. It turned out if you worked for the company and had a penis you got paid well above anyone rocking a vagina. Because it was a smaller employer (

Hi Reddit, I come to you seeking advice and condolement in my time of frustrations and stress. I work at a tech company that sells office equipment to other businesses. I originally was just in the call centre providing tech support to users, but management decided to put me in a “hybrid role”, where half the day I'd be providing tech support to users via the call centre and the other half I'd be working as a network admin. This was their solution to solve their staffing problems – have one guy do 2 jobs. Sounded great when it was pitched to me and I lunged for it thinking I'd learn tons of new stuff as a network admin. But in reality they've got me doing 2 jobs whilst paying me just for one, and it's absolute torture. For starters, I'm not actually doing any network admin work. Our “network”…