/labor/ - Labor

>>1986
>>1988
A lot of adults often have this mentality of bullying that its a “rite of passage”
Lots of boomers and Gen X ers especially even say that they’re proud of bullying because it “toughened them up”.
They think that removing kids from school due to bullying is “coddling them”

(Yet these same adults will go apeshit over teens having sex or romance.)

>>1844
My favourite job (apart from my current one which I actually enjoy) was doing recieving at a steel mill. Trucks would come loaded with steel slabs for the rollers. Drivers gave me their paperwork, I scanned the barcode, clicked a couple things on a computer, and sent them along. I sat alone in a trailer for 12 hours each shift doing this. No coworkers, drivers barely said anything apart from some small talk (most of them were Indian and didn't speak much English anyways). Usually there would be no trucks for the first few hours of the shift too, so I would usually just read a book. Some days would be slow with only 1 or 2 trucks an hour. Even on busy days I could obviously scan the paperwork faster than the trucks could be unloaded, so I'd usually have to signal them to wait for 20-30 minutes once enough had gone through. On two separate occasions I overslept and showed up an hour late with no consequences since there was nobody else there. Literally the chillest job I ever had.

>>1845
And you think you'd be able to bond with middle aged mombies with no personality?

Its just a little annoying when my mostly female co-workers ask about my love life since it's nonexistent. And, I wouldnt dare tell them about where I go and what I do in the wee hours of the night. But it's nice they actually try to set me up and bring up other girls etc they know in the area. Women I used to work with never used to try, so I must be doing something right if women at work are trying to set me up.

Dealing with a foreman who’s flexing his machismo bone sucks fucking dick

>>2078
>but you aren't getting tips because you don't serve, you deliver.
These fuckers try to get you to. They can send you texts in the middle of the job asking you to do things. Some family ordered like a dozen burgers from McDonalds and they were like:
>Can you make sure they aren't missing anything in the order? Last time they forgot a burger.
Despite the fact that McDicks gives the orders in tamper proof seals. I ain't opening it, I'm not going to ask the McDicks employees:
>Uhhhh, did you remember everything? As they hand me the sealed bag.
Either it's in the bag or not chief, at least when it comes to McDicks.

But you're right tho, that is one of the perks of the job is not having to interact with the customers usually. Well what about customer service workers? How come the guys at the customer service desk, or the hardware store employees and etc., how come they don't get tips?

I think waiters and waitresses manage to get tips because they've managed to get everyone to believe they're going to spit in your food. Delivery people could to, but they don't even tell you how much they tipped until after the trip(they give you a combined offer of base compensation from the app+tip.) But then again, servers can't spit in your food after the check comes and you don't tip. I guess people fear they will return to the same restaurant and get their food spat in whereas the deliveroo driver will never see them again.

If tip is mandatory then why is it not already in the bill? For the dumbest country in the world US sure loves doing math after dinner and a few drinks.

>>1957
the lack of a labour movement in the restoration industry is the clear problem, or rather, the conditions for such an absence

>>2048
working with food is like the most defining human social activity, its only a hellscape now because of capitalist alienation
>NIMBY
the Zionist "Abundance" guys demand their serfs make them treats

>>2089
The image presents a false dichotomy. Preparing food has been a social activity for most of human history and neither did it depend on the concept of dining, nor the conspicuous consumption of hobby cooks.

aren't egoists supposed to know this already

Well, if you’re opposed to this, why do you support compulsory law for schooling?

>>1972
thisssss

China isn't a socialist country because they have a fucking labor reserve

I like that this Glownonymous made this thread by tacking on my post to his thread after the original thread got deleted. It's almost like I made the thread. I should get more of my posts stolen it might make interesting threads. But like half of the responses will be Newgene's. But at least that will keep it interesting.

this is bog standard institutionalization for a mentally ill person. The nails are a dead giveaway We wouldn't shave someone's head because of our unique history, but they have this dude doing exercise in the sun and gardening therapy. He was crying so they brought him to the store to buy tissues. The communist part is that there is a sweet BMW.

>>1969
You should ask yourself why are they NEETs in the first place? Maybe because they're afraid of worker exploitation? And in a country that's supposed to be socialist no less, who were betrayed by the revisionist Deng just like Gorbachev betrayed the USSR.

NEETs are a symptom of a much bigger problem, they should be liberated.

>>2068
That’s true of literally every wave of automation that’s ever happened

>>2069
and tell me about the current success of gas lamp lighting unions, saddlemakers unions, etc.

IT workers had to gradually get proletarianized because they started out as petty bourgeoisie and labor aristocrats highly adjacent to the military industrial complex. It took several decades of privatization deregulation and outsourcing for this process to reach a fever pitch, and now maybe tech workers will begin to develop the sort of trade union consciousness (let alone class consciousness) that had to be developed independently by manual laborers in the 19th century.

>>2068
> it's like a machine is scabbing you all the time.
That's not … ugh never mind. It's the tor node baiters.

>>2881565
labor struggles are the core of socialism. if anything we should have a /geopolitics/ containment board, that's the real offtopic shit.

I think i got the job and the petite bourgesisie millennials were nice to me. Although i feel slightly bad because its a major place for beer but at least as a line cook i can say they are at least trying to move away from just feeding alcohol addictions.

>>1918
It was a really short interview and they just asked if I could work and previous experiance, wasnt that bad

ive been applying to jobs everyday for 2 months and have heard nothing but silence and the occasional "we selected another candidate" email
dont fuck it up OP

>>1922
hope you will get it

Update on the job? How are you liking it so far? Have you burned yourself yet?

what is there to even do anymore?

Do you have medically assisted suicide in your state?

Are we the same person anon? previous job caused immense cardiac stress and had to quit it or i'd fucking die due to being on stim meds. Now i'm stuck for the past 2 months looking for a new one, doing shitty gig jobs for any survival in the meantime. At this point i'll probably just sell my soul to bezos…

>>1885
even at wal mart they're made to do performative bullshit. there's lots of humiliation rituals at jobs that have nothing to do with value production. i think it's to separate the "true believers" from the people who just want a paycheck so they can promote the bootlickers to overseer

>>1852
The entire process is automated now, I wouldn't be surprised if no human eyes have actually seen any of your applications. You're getting filtered out before then.

>>2037
That’s how schools operate as well.
Teachers complain about kids “being apathetic” for not “going the extra mile” in their schoolwork.

im scheduled to work 6 day this coming week after working another 6 days in a row, as a cook.

They figured out i am competent. I hate it. Now they have me working the jobs of two people while paying me the entrance amount for a fucking McDonald's worker.

I took this job because i thought it would fit my schedule, would be low stress and it was close. It has continued to be close by and that's all. I dont need the money right now, i got two other gigs lined up for the next month that i can easily make more money from doing shit thats much easier, i also watch people's houses and take care of pets and plants and shit like that and do construction work.

They keep scheduling me to work at 6 am. I already have insomnia, so im tired as fuck all the time and now ever more so because there is no consistent start time, or days when i work, or schedule so half the time i have no fucking idea when im going to work until the coming day.

Ive only seen my kid once this week and that was only for a few hours. I basically missed this whole summer with him because I've been working.

I just wanna spend time with my kids in the summer and not be so tired all the time and cursed for being good at my job by being fucked over till im burnt out.

Also i keep having horrible dreams. My main job right now has been processing meat, turning whole chickens into smaller bits. I ripped the spines out of so many birds, i keep cutting into their meat, i never really used to feel gulity about it before but now every time i break a bone or rip out a spine or cut up some other meat, my brain goes "look at that blood, this thing was alive, now its dead so that people can ignore it and it be thrown into the trash later because they didnt want to eat it" and i feel bad about it. Im used to making food people waste, but not at this scale, i feel like a needless butcher. I feel like i have more in common with the chickens, i feel like meat waiting to be wasted for some ungrateful bastard that never cared in the first place.

My immediate boss is a Trumpy, misogynistic bald white dude who, for the sake of my job, ive been trying to be nice too. Im nice too everyone at work though. Also he stole my work weed and then paid me for it…
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>>1888
>I've been unemployed for 5 years.
anon, how the fuck are you alive?

They do loud work at 3 am here, I don't have sleep issues so it doesn't bother me. Only hear it when I wake up to take a piss.

You will work under the sun. You will dehydrate. You will pass out. You may die. And you will like it.

>>1858
i saw some guys doing vital infrastructure work at 12pm the other day in 95 f (35 c) weather. it was fucking bleak. i was on my lunch break and these poor souls were all suited up and covered in dust

>>1858
at least in the burger state I live in the DOT workers only do big projects at night

>>2033
Because otherwise they'll cause traffic chaos if you do it in rush hour traffic. Less traffic in the middle of night or twilight hours.