Month: June 2022

I don't think any but the absolute laziest among us is literally against the very concept of work. Personally, I fucking hate Bullshit Jobs. Jobs that have no intrinsic value or purpose and thus suck the soul out of anyone who does them. I think a lot of people here are anti useless management. Middle managers are quite often a Bullshit Job. Not doing or producing anything, just reporting to people who report to people who don't actually care what the real work is. “I'm not close enough to the detail” is a phrase I hear a lot from people above me. They just need to know what the spreadsheet says. I've literally just not done several tasks or left them for days on end, but if I game the reporting system correctly people will barely ever notice. So I must have a Bullshit Job too. And I'm getting the…

I know that inflation and such was out of control. But am I the only one who thinks that there's more to the recession than just controlling that? During the 2009 recession, everyone became so afraid of losing their job the companies had all the power and were able to exploit us more easily. I watched my dad, who is a facility manager for a bank, go from managing about 15 branches to 60 in a year. No raise, no increase in anything except his workload. Now that we've had the great resignation and are starting to claw back some power from these corporations, I can't help but feel the timing of this recession was designed in such a way to stop these movements and continue to leave us hungry and desperate, and therefore easier to control. Thoughts? Maybe I'm just a crazy conspiracy theorist lol.

They aren’t doing this for you. They aren’t doing this because they’re good and caring companies. They’re doing this to avoid having to pay maternity leave, to avoid a worker dying and having to hire and retrain a new one, they’re doing this to save their bottom line. $4k to cover abortion or 8 weeks maternity leave? This makes them look like moral and caring companies when in reality it’s all about the money.

How do you find a job like that? I got lucky with one a couple years ago and did an insane amount of schoolwork on company time and it was glorious. Ive never been more productive when I feel like I'm beating the system, and I just want another sweet taste of doing shit for me on my bosses dime.

i don’t have any desire to work ever, i don’t have a dream job, i don’t dream of labour, i’d rather be dead than working at LEAST 40 hours a week, still being barely able to afford rent in a shitty flat, destroying my body and further destroying my already extremely poor mental health and for what? what am i working towards? the only thing i’d be doing by working is keeping myself alive by being just about able to afford food and rent. it’s so scary, i can’t imagine a future like that. i’m soon to start my first year of uni to do a useless degree with zero job prospects but it’s the only thing i enjoy. i have worked before, just a small cashier job, and i’d come home after a 4 hour shift and be barely able to walk the 5 mins home, i’d be writing…