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Posted August 07, 2017
Retail work: Dealing with angry customers and whiny little brats all day, never getting any respect, making a shitty salary--fuck it.
Policemen, firemen, soldiers: Risking my ass for ungrateful assholes, dying in pointless wars, being tortured by cruel leaders and slowly being crippled by my wounds--why does anyone do this shit?
Garbagemen and janitors: Cleaning shit, getting no respect, driving a dank, smelly truck all day, being infected with diseases--how could it get worse?
Mining: Trapped in an underground hellhole, constantly in fear of poisonous gas, cave ins and Oxygen deprivation, getting blacklung and watching rich, powerful executives get rich off the shit you find.
Posted August 07, 2017
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brilliance: Retail work: Dealing with angry customers and whiny little brats all day, never getting any respect, making a shitty salary--fuck it.
with you here. XD Did it for ten years....IN A MALL!!!!
Posted August 08, 2017
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brilliance: Retail work: Dealing with angry customers and whiny little brats all day, never getting any respect, making a shitty salary--fuck it.
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tinyE: with you here. XD Did it for ten years....IN A MALL!!!!
TinyE's job at the mall
Posted August 08, 2017
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tinyE: Did it for ten years....IN A MALL!!!!
Walmart Madagascar?
Posted August 08, 2017
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Stevedog13: What utter nonsense! If an employer is willing to pay someone to do a job, and another person is willing to do it at the agreed upon wage then that job has value. No amount of elitist smarm, from an anthropology professor or anyone else, diminishes the value placed on that job by the employee and employer.
I know what you mean, and I agree to some degree (it's one of the first thoughts I had), however, the point is that the same resources could be used to have someone (maybe even that same person) in a position where they actually contribute to the company, their co-workers' well-being or society or whatever. Plus, bullshit jobs are an indication that a company isn't managed efficiently to begin with, potentially putting the entire company and all its employees in jeopardy.

Now, I'm fairly certain that most companies that offer bullshit jobs are ones that have more resources at their disposal than they can effectively manage but I guess the real problems begin when a company has to downsize and bullshit jobs are kept and the actual workforce takes an unnecessarily large hit, especially because a bullshit job wage can be easily worth numerous actually valuable jobs. And I think that's a real problem.
Posted August 09, 2017
Anything related to call center.
Posted August 09, 2017
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Kaesemeister: Anything related to call center.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
Posted August 09, 2017
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Lifthrasil: Of course not. Communism, in the way it was conceptualized by Marx, doesn't exist and never did. It actually can't exist, because people are not nice. The communist idea is far too easy to exploit and there will always be persons doing so. Using the controlling positions to gain more personal power. So real communism always turns into a dictatorship of some kind. Ideal communism would only work if ALL persons in that commune would be nice, altruistic people. But if you would have a community of only nice, altruistic people, they wouldn't need any political system telling them how to behave. So that's the crux: in a real world, Communism doesn't work. In an ideal world, however, Communism would be pointless.
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toxicTom: When it comes to large structures, you are right. Communism works in small structures (communes), I know some people who live like that. But of course this is only possible because all the people there chose to be "nice" and live in this way.
I don't think these people consider themselves overly altruistic though. It's more like a fellowship where every one does their part to keep things going.
This is why something like the Resource Based Economy (amazing as it could be) also wouldn't work, because there's always someone that wants to be in charge, classes, elitism and ownership will always exist.
Post edited August 09, 2017 by X-com
Posted August 10, 2017
Funny video about workenvironment in modern techcompanies I thought might be interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw
Posted August 12, 2017
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X-com: because there's always someone that wants to be in charge, classes, elitism and ownership will always exist.
It really frustrates me that many people seem to believe that hierarchies are solely the result of the egoistic drive of individuals or groups.
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