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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 129 points 5 days ago

8 hour workday of doing fuck all

I'm not going to argue in favor of 50s gender roles, but ~~fuck off~~ c'mon.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've worked with many many people this decade that got paid more than me to do literally fuck all for the whole shift and got approved for overtime more frequently where they continued to be absolutely useless but they kissed the correct asses and sucked the right toes.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

Maybe it's just the kind of people I work with, but I know very few who wouldn't prefer to be stay at home parents, given the option.

[-] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

Well, yeah. Most people would much rather spend their time and energy taking care of their children than laboring away for someone else's profit. They may not phrase it like that, but raising children is far more self-fulfilling than working a job could ever be for most people. I imagine in most cases, people prefer tons of hard work raising a child when compared to working the easy cozy job, because at the end of the day the job is just a means to an end.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Speaking as a working parent (married to another working parent), it's worth pointing out that this dichotomy isn't mutually exclusive:

raising children is far more self-fulfilling than working a job could ever be for most people.

I agree with this! But I also would note that of the 168 hours in a week, being away from them for 50 of them (especially if they're at school anyway for 30 of them) doesn't really detract from my ability to do both big picture parenting (teaching life skills, moral values, building memories, being a role model) or even the small stuff that adds up (cooking meals, helping with homework, listening to them, talking to them, taking them to and from extracurricular activities, pursuing hobbies together, etc.).

So it's not an all or nothing thing. Most working parents can still raise children in an immensely fulfilling way, so the fulfilling part of a stay at home parent isn't actually exclusive to the stay at home parents.

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[-] msprout@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Are you describing cops?

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[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

This post was brought to you by people who have never worked a manual labor job in their life

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ah, I miss it. Just me, an offset serrated knife, a bag of onions the size of a child, a slippery floor, a nearby open flame, music that hurts my ears... And not an email in sight.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago

I loved cooking in a professional kitchen. The job itself was great. Some of the coworkers were all over the place, but I fucking loved the good ones.

And there's something immensely satisfying about the teamwork behind turning a bunch of raw ingredients into multiple delicious meals, perfectly timed out with each dish hitting the table at the right moment. (The frustration of a kitchen that isn't doing this is a separate story.)

But the industry itself has so much toxicity. Bad managers, bad owners. Substance abuse problems. And the real reason I left wasn't actually the bad pay. It was the miserable hours. I was always a night owl but I couldn't deal with the isolating separation from my family and non-industry friends from working nights, weekends, and holidays when everyone else was building memories and reinforcing bonds.

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

I don't miss it at all. Physically I was busy enough, but it was excruciatingly boring.
That applied to my work, but I imagine that building, landscaping and other trades that require actual skill can be engaging, if one chooses to learn an improve.

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 80 points 5 days ago

The real reason behind all the gelatin salad abominations is that after gelatin was first discovered/isolated, it was very costly to produce, but new technology made it much more affordable.

Isolating gelatin requires long cook times (which require lots of fuel) at ideally fairly low temperatures. Then there needs to be some level of filtration to make it as flavorless as possible, and then dehydration to sheets or a powder.

Finally, to actually make one of these "salads", you need refrigeration.

Production of gelatin was industrialized to make it much cheaper, and refrigerators became normal household appliances. You went from gelatin being only really used in "fine dining" to something you could do at home. In the same era, pineapple went from being a fruit that only the rich could get to something anyone could, so it went through a similar explosion of popularity.

The alternative funny answer is that the company that sold gelatin, Knox, was run by a husband and wife, and all the crazy stuff didn't start until the husband died, so either he was holding her back, or once she lost her husband, she thought everyone else should, too.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

Grief does weird things to a person. Some mourn their entire lives, some force other people to eat gelatinous creations. So sad.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 days ago

it was very costly to produce, but new technology made it much more affordable.

Applies to basically anything shortly after WW2.

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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 81 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Are you saying this mayo horror wasn't cooked up by a pure well-meaning heart?

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 days ago

Mayonnaise. Salad. I just…can’t.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

Don’t worry, the recipe offers a seafood variant!

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago
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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I mean.. I'd try it. I might not like it, but I'll give it a go.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago

The exclamation marks in "Surprise!" evoke the same energy as "Oops! All Berries," like you're biting into a "salad" and discovering it's Oops! All Mayonnaise.

[-] frezik 14 points 5 days ago

Sometimes, I don't know how America avoided a collective heart attack before Kennedy was assassinated.

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[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago

The reason the workplace death rate for men is 100x that of women is because they are most certainly not doing "fuck all".

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago

We're not talking about an average man. We're talking about a man whose wife puts unholy things in jelly. There is something wrong with that man.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Or it could just have been the benzos

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[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 45 points 5 days ago

workday of doing fuck all

Oh fuck right off with this bullshit. I suppose you think the attractive secretary's remarkable physique as exposed by their tight cardigan is just going to ogle itself? Presumably by the same magical fairytale critter that smokes all those cigarettes while knocking back a liquid lunch? And I suppose this wonderful creature takes care of water-cooler conversation as well, recounting golfing bon-mots, making sexist jokes and espousing low-grade racism while the man just does "nothing"? Get a grip.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 19 points 5 days ago

My mum was pissed when work from home started and found out the job my dad does is mostly just having leisurely conversations all day while she works her ass off as a primary school teacher for far less money and far less respect. Stg if you do a job where you have to stand up and walk somewhere, your job is more demanding than the people who make the most money.

[-] msprout@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You are correct that office jobs are less physically strenuous, but they come with their own unique mental horrors. Nobody at a factory spends a week working on a report, only for their boss to decide on a Friday afternoon that everything is wrong and needs to be redone by Monday with no overtime pay, or any opportunity to say 'no, I can't take that job.'

Especially with Work from Home, there is no separation between the stress of needing to perform and the relaxation associated with home. You are on, ALL THE TIME, and most people who work at offices for salaries are expected to be available to chat / meet at any time of day, including at 2 or 3 AM if you are working with Indians or Hong Kongers.

Yeah I am not destroying my knees, but my self-confidence and mental health are absolute dogshit.

Don't be classist, folks. If someone needs to work to survive, they are more alike you than they are not like you. Separating ourselves from each other only serves the wealthiest among us.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 4 days ago

"Nobody at a factory spends a week working on a report, only for their boss to decide on a Friday afternoon that everything is wrong and needs to be redone by Monday"

This is absolutely not true. Mechanics, factory workers, labourers all get fucked over like this all the time. The mental strain of a job isn't greater for people who work at a desk it's just the only strain they experience as opposed to someone who works with their hands who has to deal with the physical and mental demands of their labour.

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[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago

Hi, I'm here for the job interview.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 40 points 5 days ago

The first time I had Thanksgiving with my first wife's family, one of the dishes was blackberry jello with green grapes in it. I was never a big jello fan, but I took some of everything to be polite. I put a fork full in my mouth, bit down, and thought "oh no, something is rancid!" The texture was wrong, too. I was just going to spit it into my napkin when I realized it wasn't rancid, but it took a moment for me to place the flavor. It was a green olive.

That should have been a warning that there was something wrong with that family.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Everything about jello is off. The texture, the look, the taste, not to mention what it's made from.

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[-] lividweasel@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

sublimated

Angry women transformed directly into a cloud of fury

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 22 points 5 days ago

These people were obsessed with eating canned food. They thought that they could make it palatable with stuff like slathering it in mayonnaise or suspending it in jello.

Boomers are sociopaths. Years of leaded gas exposure gave them lifelong cognitive decline and propensity towards erratic behavior.

[-] frezik 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It was mostly Silents/Greatest generations who were doing that kind of cooking. They were only feeding it to Boomers. In fact, Greatest gen should probably get more flak for making Boomers the way they are. They were super horny and literally fucked the Boomers into existence, but didn't know what to do beyond that.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago

Yeah, their WWII PTSD really boosted the canned food craze. But the Boomers (no pun intended) ate it up, and carried it along and put it all in plastic.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

I was reading the other day that Gen X technically got the highest lifetime lead exposure. Boomers didn't grow up with it.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

Boomers for sure did, leaded gasoline began being used before Boomers were even born.

What likely leads to greater exposure is how many cars there were by the 70s and 80s. But lead exposure is cumulative over a lifetime. So I would be curious to see that research, as Boomers had roughly 40 years of exposure from 1950s to 1994. Gen X wouldn't have that much by decades.

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[-] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago

It's how couples communicated in the 50s. If he showed her ass pic to his friends, she put chopped hot dogs in the next aspic.

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