Well getting to go home is huge upside. No free meals and you have to pretend to do something anyway though. Win some, lose some.
No free meals
Just wait until you learn about companies which pay per diem when traveling.
Well you don't get to go home those days so it needs to be balanced out.
You've clearly never worked Hospitality:
"If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean"
Ive done both, their similarly bad, but i do prefer having nothing to do in most cases
I enjoyed reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
It's not that my job is a Bullshit Job, more like an Over-Hire. The vast majority of tasks is done by an existing employee. I was hired to support him, but there is just not enough to do for me.
I think this feeling is used as firing practice in Japan called Oidashibeya.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.