Remember:
If you saw someone living a decent life while “working” a bullshit job, no you didn’t!
Yes you did, now go and demand a better working environment for the sake of “competitive pay”
Yeah no. If I’m starving working 50 hours/week I’m gonna be pretty fuckin pissed seeing someone do fuck all for more.
I’m not saying I’m gonna take it out on them but if they ever complain about work I’ll eviscerate them.
Instead of getting mad af someone else’s begter paying job, maybe work to improve your own?
And this isn’t always possible. In fact it commonly isn’t. I do agree the people who don’t do anything and complain is stupid but many jobs don’t have any opportunity for more and you become stuck.
Then find something else, expand your skill.
If everyone did that, those jobs would have to change or nobody would do them.
Live your life for yourself, not for others.
So… teachers should all just quit and become finance bros or programmers. Because fuck the youth amiright?
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, eh?
Ok boomer
This is a bad take.
It’s kind of a crab bucket mentality. Virtually anyone any of us have ever seen, who had “jobs” of some sort, were working class, and not mill/billionaire class. We all have more in common with each other than with the one percent, and if someone I know has figured out a way to claw a little bit back, then more power to them so long as they’re not hurting someone. Oh, boo fucking hoo, they figured out a way to scam a livable wage out of a Fortune 500 company! I say, good for them! We should all be so lucky.
Instead of getting mad at a fellow worker for having a job that doesn’t exploit them, why don’t you get mad at the people who actually exploit you?
I just want to see more misery in this broken world😔
She’s possibly a manager of some kind, I have seen plenty of managers that have days that are kinda like this, though less extreme
Ahh yes, the air stirrers.
We call them “flow through heaters” because they take the same info anyone already has and restructure it and put it in a ppt or something.
You guys need to read Bullshit Jobs. Some percentage of jobs just don’t need to exist.
That percentage being fuckin most of them.
Fantastic book BTW.
But people need them to have a decent quality of life unfortunately
So then why do other people have to break their backs or starve?
Ask the bosses that. Would you rather we all suffer? Or would you rather we make it so the people breaking their backs no longer need to?
Trying to drag down the people who are slightly comfortable seems counter productive.
When your slightly comfortable isn’t contributing and is ok with my back pain, I start wondering why your comfort matters more than mine.
Where did I say your comfort doesn’t matter? You’re the one making this a zero sum discussion.
I’m also not okay with your back pain. That fucking sucks and anyone that’s getting disabled by their job should be given the time and money to recover. But we’d need stronger unions to enforce that.
It’s not a zero sum game mate.
literally
then me
This is how I know the OP isn’t out of high school.
Regrettably I know many professionals whose grasp of written English is worse than OP’s.
Can’t tell you the insane amount of resumes I’ve come across that I just want to send back with corrections lmao
You’d be shocked to learn that more than half of Americans have at best a 6th grade reading ability, so their writing won’t even make it to a high school level.
Oh, it will. Bigly.
I don’t see the problem. She makes more, then him. Is she available?
I also choose this guy’s wife!
The ironic part is that the only changes are her lack of commute times and where she clocks in. Oh, and that he now knows the insides details of what she does. He should be grateful that she’s earning a paycheck and quit whining (assuming it’s even a true story). Most people can’t even afford an apartment without 2 incomes.
Dude I find guy who get weird about their partner making more money than them sorta odd. Fucking please, by all means honey go make significantly more money than me.
It’s a toxic masculinity trait. His value is tied to how much money he makes in his mind, and because men are supposed to be more valuable to society according to the patriarchy he is therefore a failure.
But those marriages are more likely to fail (https://www.chicagobooth.edu/media-relations-and-communications/press-releases/when-women-earn-more-than-their-husbands )
Well it’s plausible that men overall are uncomfortable enough about their partners making more money that they’re willing to tank their marriages.
His make believe wife’s make believe job
Yeah I bet it’s really annoying for your wife to contribute to
heryour shared income with her hustling skills gtfo. This is either fake or they’re both professional workers doing so well the man-child has to whine about how much moneyshethey make.I am an elementary school teacher. I took a personal day and I was hanging with my friend. She works virtually for an NGO. She replied to a few emails, updated some data in a spreadsheet, she called a few people. That was all she did. I made some snide remarks about it and she was like ‘oh I’m sure your job is so much harder.’
The sheer audacity. I do all that shit she does, in 20 minutes before class starts, while I am slamming coffee and doughnuts. Then I do exhausting work all day.
If every worker wants other’s to have it as bad as them we’d all be slaves, blame the employers and economic conditions rather than the worker who has it better than you. Really if your job is stressful and more work you should want better conditions for yourself, not worse conditions for someone else. She has knowledge that professional employers think is worth paying for, that’s not something you should blame her for.
IMO I think for teachers and nurses, they should be way better compensated, and even treated as a special class.
While I agree, and I am a part of my teachers union, I also don’t see any evidence that teachers will suddenly become respected and well paid. Like, Suddenly we all realized that we should feel grateful that we can read. Nope.
My NGO, WFH friend thinks she is working hard. The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.
Their goal is to help save fisheries and wild fish stock. In reality she doesn’t even know what salmon looks like unless it’s on a bagel.
You think these billionaires are just a billion times more hard working? They are just manipulative, insular, myopic, and selfish. Those are the key ingredients to success in our system. Surprise surprise, they are the opposite characteristics that a good teacher requires.
The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.
That’s not her fault though so resenting people for who have these roles is indirectly resenting your own ability to achieve what they have. Billionaire employers are a different story because they’re billionaires by virtue of those they employ. Overall the wealth gap between employers vs people like you and your friend who have to work everyday, regardless of what that entails, is wider than it’s ever been. The problem isn’t really that someone has a cushy job it’s that those billionaires who do nothing are taxed lower than they’ve ever been and have your money, you’re educating their future employees and they’re not paying you/us a fair wage for that service they benefit from.
Fellow teacher here. Wow thats crazy and you totally got it right.
Meanwhile I doubt her clients argue with her about stuff.
Hey teacher! Actually I wanna ask you a question. I’m trying to find teacher spaces to replace reddit. Any luck with teaching stuff here?
I haven’t seen anything yet. I still actually browse /r/teachers because of that same issue. Hopefully something gains traction, though!
Ooh look at mister fancy-pants over here who can have coffee and donuts at work.
Before work. I don’t have time to eat during work. Not to mention pee.
Wow, being envious of his wife’s job makes him a man-child and incapable of understanding how marital income works.
You read that much into a fucking greentext 😂😂
I’d do it again too
You go girl
I’m detecting angry vagina vibes.
Lol, lemme just vagina-splain how money works when you’re married.
This was my job until this week. Got onto a new team with a great manager. Now I actually have to work, but I’ll get to enjoy what I do again.
Sounds like a good job.
It’s because anon can’t spell than
Or she’s paid for her skills/experience/contacts, and
heanon doesn’t have any of those.edit: She probably makes lots of money for her employer in those 1 or 2 conversations per day
Doesn’t make it not absurd.
Eh, I’m not pro-management or anything. Maybe anon should be angry at their higher-ups instead of being annoyed at the success of their wife
Doesn’t seem to me like op is annoyed at wifes success. Op os annoyed that bullshit jobs make tons of money and the actual hard work only earns you a broken body, depression, and poverty.
You dont think laborers deserve ample time off and good pay?
Please explain your position.
That sounds awesome! Are they still hiring?
Grab an application for me too
Ah yes, Federal employment. Can confirm this is the case for almost all of us.
“Work slow, look busy”
Why do you work eight hours or more, we’d both have jobs if you only worked four
This is half the reason social services suck so much.
The other half is funding. But even with all the funding in the world, if the staff is a bunch of lazy asses, the service will suck.
The vast majority of social services are handled by state employees, not federal. Those state employees are often underpaid and overworked, and often only stay in their position because they understand the need too.
The problem with federal employees is that they’re often underpaid compared to similar jobs in the private sector. Most of them only choose to remain federal employees because it offers a lot better work life balance compared to the private sector.
She could be a sex worker
I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages. Does data entry in the field of sex work qualify as being a sex worker or are you merely a sex industry ghost writer?
I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages.
I think most public figures with large social media accounts do. It’s not really possible for a single person to answer messages for someone with millions or even thousands of followers, but the appearance of personal connection is important to build your brand. All of it boils down to the commoditization of the fear of loneliness.
It’s very unhealthy.
I bet she also complains that she works too much
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