OMG I had a visit in elementary school from these guys! The school was a sad fundie kid-prison, but these guys were pretty neat. Rolled up a frying pan and did the blowing up a hot water bottle thing.

I find it so weird hearing about them again lol.

IDK, power to 'em. (Lol pun) Unlike a lot of nasty political preaching, I hope these guys are just being straight-edge motivators preaching the Gospel.

those who have obligations to the public.

I’m so glad I quit the library.

Same, but was a library clerk that was for “everything even vaguely computer-tasky for geriatrics and people 20+ who never touched a computer and don’t even know how their $3000 phone works.”

Yeah I had a plan when I quit: Quitting was the plan. Instant relief of so many mental symptoms I could name and some I probably couldn’t lol. Don’t care what happens now. Anything is better than that.

Without looking too far my prediction is to see 2 varations of replies mostly:

1.) I do something completely unrelated and enjoyable because my job is chill, or I’m good at it, and so on…

2.) I actually do my boss’s job and maybe even their bosses’ jobs, because I actually do the work that gets done, but am still paid at peon-level.

Used to work in this exact environment. This tormented me daily.

Along with crap like “You look pretty smart.” or “Hey I bet you’re a genius.”

Or just typing their email address into the URL bar.

Or just barking at you “PRINT.”

Or “Why this no work, I click ‘E’ for ‘internet’.” (We had a stubbornly archaic IT lead who insisted on keeping Internet Explorer around for ages.)

All sound advice, but coming across the extra capital to invest, much less in your 20’s, is a harder prospect than it sounds for most people these days.

I’m not sure if you can get fractionals of SPY or VTI, but $300-500 a paycheck or even a month of money you can’t use on the moment is a hard ask for much of the working class.

It’s less like “Stop the avocado toast and lattés and netflix” and more “If you stopped buying a new graphics card every month you could afford stonks that will be mature when you are elderly.”

Lol like, we aren’t living in luxury and frivolous with our money in the first place, it usually poofs away into food and rent these days. (And gas and the car, if you aren’t in one of VERY few places that are walk and bike friendly.)

But for people who have it. This is a sound strategy. On that note, I have a relative who’s got very few expenses, often broke…and they’re constantly buying new full-priced releases on Steam. This degree of resource mismanagement vexes me so. Lol

Omg you knocked it out of the park with this one. Everything is such a race to the bottom in this system.

It’s always about competitive undercutting, and what’s the most ruthless cold-blooded calculations one can get away with, and this Type A disease of being obsessed with zero-sum conflict to reveal who’s the absolute best of everything.

“Why can’t we just chill and it’ll get there when it gets there?”

“What?! Look at (for example) China! Do you see them chilling? No! They normalized 12 hour shift burnout before us, this will increase their production 3%, and then undercut us by 12% and steal all our business and we’re screwed! So we need to squeeze our people harder to beat them!”

“…And then they’ll squeeze their people harder…so…?”

“…”

“…”

“This might be a good time to inform you we expect you to train the new overseas team before we’ll surprise ambush-fire your entire department.”

…Repeat the above but for undocumented immigrant labor…then maybe child labor…then probably right back around to slavery again…

“Oh no we all agreed this would be so bad for humanity, but gee, the competition did it and we wanna stay competitive so…”

Man seriously why can’t we all just be doing our own thing lol…

Fantastic thought-provoking points here. You’re right, that’s something I had kinda forgotten about when I wrote before:

Helping-professionals are (ideally) in those professions to help people, so their employers essentially hold patients/clients/students up as shields.

You’re right, to change things would require a cultural shift that sees providers as “people” rather than “services.” But generally it would be an extremely difficult PR war to sell to the people who require such services.

The soulless bosses are basically comic book villains: They know heroes will put themselves at considerable risk for the greater good, but won’t risk the harming of innocents…

…so the greedy ownership class hides behind those innocents and, what’s worse, trains them to accept such a low standard that any action that would drop that standard would turn the peoples’ anger against the heroes who already sacrifice so much to help them.

I hate not knowing what to do past understanding what’s so wrong. :(

Reminds me of that “I am 12 years old and what is this” meme lol

Either that or a know-it-all tryhard personality who’s hustling everywhere across the entire platform, solely interested in raking in spam-money. See: Quora

So true. “Progress” seems to be defined as an arbitrary jagged line that can never ever seem to be high enough. What’s the point then? 🤔

I think like in many helping professions we have a majority of very idealistic people who don’t negotiate very well.

Maybe that’s exactly what we need: A training course for helping professions that teaches them to ruthlessly negotiate fair terms against capitalists.

“Do a job that you love and that’ll substitute as half your pay! 😁”

$50 per call but you can bet the patient is being billed $5k minimum for the ride, probably pocketed by insurance agencies or the hospital execs.

I can’t understand how people are EMTs and why there haven’t been riots over this, but God bless them.

It creates:

• Statistically, a constantly desperate hand-to-mouth workforce that must depend on employers to sustain their existence.
• Armed forces signup incentives.
• Easily-swayed consumers of products and services. (Run by those with access to nepotism and/or education, naturally.)
• And easily manipulated voters.

Underfunding education and having people basically born into debt isn’t a neglectful oversight, it’s a deliberate strategy.

Perhaps you misunderstand.

The hours are very high and the classroom time is only a small part of it.

The billed hours are extraordinarily low. :D

Warm and fuzzy feelings of inspiring the next generation are supposed to stand-in for actual wages in the USA.

Also better have plans to fill in that summer gap. I’m sure it’s not fun vaycay time for teachers like it is for a lot of the students.

Which is crazy, because it widely depends on the district.

You could be in rurals-ville, FlyoverState, USA and make a pittance. (Oh plus BTW, the excitement of torches and pitchforks coming for you, your staff, and your collection. Politicians also attempting to undermine the entire institution of libraries for strategic mob-outrage points. Ah, perks!)

Or in some urban areas that are well-funded, librarians and especially branch managers are paid stupidly well. Their jobs mostly being general management duties, listening to the complaints of the insane and unreasonable, tresspassing the insane and unreasonable, and answering “Do you work here? Where’s the bathroom?” Of course, that’s when they’re not stuck in pointless meetings.

Lots of stress sometimes. But BMs make low six-figures. I imagine there’s worse jobs.

But it’s one of those things where a spot usually opens up only if someone moves, retires, or expires.

Yeah this makes a lot of sense, thank you for elaborating!

I think I understand the idea: Plan things out, have backup plans, have some sense, and one should be fine. You can’t just expect to get a friendly rescue within the hour.

I think this is common here in North America too, for instance, people get into trouble because they treat a National Park like a theme park, and underestimate the realities of the wilderness.

They won’t have maps, or enough water, or will try to pet a buffalo, or poke around in caves, or snap selfies dangerously close to the edge of the Grand Canyon. It’s insane how little they consider the dangers of the wild.

This was a hilarious case of language misunderstanding. XD

I’m still laughing at how accidentally switching two similar words meant that comment must have sounded REALLY freaking weird to you LOL. I learned a valuable lesson here.

Yeah, in NA this is called “limp biscuit”…there was a popular band named after the concept. Gross. 🤢

Okay. You. You’re a sneaky sneaky one, you. LOL That comment made me laugh so hard.

So, sadly, with my internet-ruined mind, I kinda guessed this when someone said “cookie game.” Over here in NA it’s called “limp biscuit” (like the band), and knowledge of the concept alone is enough to hope it’s just an urban-legend joke and nobody’s actually played it. 😂

“I am the Cookie Monster” ROFLMAO!!!

Messed up, but really damn funny. XD