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Where do they get off?
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That happens sometimes
Yeah, it's a disgrace!
Boss don't do shit why I gotta do shit??
Look I didn't get a job because I needed work, I got one because I need money.
I mean, yeah, being required to do something or else you'll be starving and homeless is pretty fucked up and worthy of a day being ruined.
Yeah i dont think a lot of people appreciate that its by coercion.
There's never been a point in human history where that hasn't been the case for most people.
But at no point have we ever been so detached from the means of production. Growing food has a different feeling than sitting in an office.
You're heavily romanticizing agricultural work if you think it feels better than sitting in an office.
I get it, cube farms swallow your soul. But if it wasn't more comfortable, then more people would be out in the fields growing crops and those jobs wouldn't all be outsourced to migrant laborers.
The real travesty is the appropriation of the surplus value of labor, which results from the alienation of the means of production.
The tragedy of the commons isn't that we're no longer out there doing subsistance farming. It's that corporations and private equity own everything, so the people doing the labor to produce can hardly afford to consume.
I'm speaking from personal experience, so it's more anecdotal I guess. I find working with my hands to create something I can directly trade with the person growing my food to feel alot more fulfilling than just working in an office all day. It's not just agriculture itself it's just being connected to the source of food.
The audacity of some people.
At any given moment, an ambitious snake of a coworker will ask you if you can just do the job youre currently engaged in for them please.
Its specifically your job, and you were in the middle of it, but now you're doing it under the direct instruction of this lazy fucker. You can say no, look petty and aggressive and he'll get chosen for promotion over you. Or of course you can do it, and management will applaud his initiative and he'll get chosen for promotion over you.
Brace yourselves, itll happen to you.
this is when you bring it up to your boss
"hey I was working on ___ and soandso was asking about it, are there any new requirements I'm not aware of?"
"Sure, just let me finish "
But I am too busy thinking of fixes for problems we haven't run into yet, why do I have to deal with this problem we did run into?
I don't get it. He hates his job? Is that the joke?
I think it's just a human reaction to work sometimes. Like, it's clearly your job and why you're employed, but part of you is also like:
As an engineer, ill frequently get an email or slack message asking me to do something Im employed to do but haven't done in months. I have to drop my current work and try to relearn something that is now slightly different in unexpected ways. And its already broken too, thats why I got the message. Def ruins a day.
Ugh, sometimes it sucks hard when that happens, at least for a moment.
That looks kind of like Philadelphia.
Your mood is your own
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