/labor/ - Labor

It's a combination of factors.
<money laundering
<scapegoating
<performance for shareholders
<performance for management (convincing yourself you're actually doing something)
<actually trying to trim the "fat" in the business
etc

>>160
its several things
-rubber stamping
-status signaling
-self soothing

>>160
Undoubtedly there will be someone in the comments who will make a bad argument as to why
Y'all act like Siberia is for shit posting when clearly labor should be renamed into wagie cagie or labor aristocracy

Storytime: I was hired as a consultant.
It was a staffing agency that called everyone a consultant for the reputation.

From 1950 to 1980, manufacturing went from all in 1 roof to sub assemblies with interchangeable parts to minimize the impact of labor unions.

From 2010 to 2035, all online labor will move over to contracting to avoid certain labor laws and to hot swap staff in the event of unionization.

>>1596
Get back into your wage cagie labor aristocrat.

i gave up applying to jobs. i survive off 1900 bucks a month in a mcol in burgerstan. knowing the economy is going to shit has me more precarious than ever. I'm forced to live with an ex and life is hell.

I finally got a new job. McDonalds, took a few applications to one location to get a call back. Did my training shift, and then got my schedule. I got three 4 hour shifts. The total pay will be less than $150 after taxes.

When I first got hired I felt some relief, finally a job, finally stable income, finally no more e-begging. But the job doesn't pay nearly enough to actually do anything with the money. My weekly rent in this motel is $364 dollars. I'm making less than half that on my current schedule.

It's hard to not feel despair at this, because I will almost certainly be street homeless within the immediate future, even with a job. And it took so long to get hired for even the most basic of jobs that finding a second one seems like it will take just as long.

If I'm street homeless, it will become especially hard to maintain my magazine/website, thankfully I have a team now who works with me and can takeover if I'm in a position to not do it, but still.

Compound that with all the internalized capitalist propaganda I still have within me, the burger flipper narrative, the "useless eater" narrative, and it's a harsh set of emotions. Really doubting myself lately, despite knowing the logic, the statistics, the theory, the feeling of being a "failure" is very strong right now. The feeling that I haven't done enough, haven't worked hard enough, contributed enough to deserve to be housed. I know its a spook, but it still haunts.

>>1564
Why not get a trade and earn real money and what is your magazine about anyway and why are you publishing a magazine when we have the Internet

Some dickhead wanted me to give him a deal on a pizza and when i said I'd get in trouble he was like "you'd be making my day" bitch I just said i could get fired

>>1591
Wait I just remembered, he said "Have you ever taken a leap of faith?"

>I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize.
I've recently begun considering social work as a career path is it worth it?

>>966
That's fucked up

>>674
You should study the great October socialist revolution.

Creating a participatory/democratic class organization is the correct thing to do. The bolsheviki created the Soviets with other left factions and then struggled democratically within them for political leadership over the movement. If you don't commit to a structural Democratic form of organizing the class you end up in a position where political line gets propagated and accepted on the basis of the technical skills of whatever cadre follow that line not actual mass acceptance of the political doctrine behind it. This leads to an overestimation of forces and political prematurity. You can look at the humiliating failure of the dual union period in domestic communist policy in the United States for a clear view of what happens when you try to organize all of the radical elements and organizations separate from the rest of the class rather than creating democratic class organizations and functioning within them for political leadership. The reason that the strategy of boring from within was defeated in addition to the overall political moment was the fact that existing unions were not democratic, but when you're creating new organizations you don't have that problem. The Union Democratic struggle also allows communists to establish themselves in parallel to the proletariat's overall political task as described by Lenin as " the vanguard fighter for democracy".

>>667
its only econonmism if you're purely focused on just extracting concessions. Unions that strike for more than just labor issues are good. Like the unions who striked in minneapolis.

>>1588
There were strikes?

>>1569
as in they realize association among proletarians leading a stateless propertyless moneyless society as a necessity or do they just want welfare reforms?

>>1570
I've directly spoken about marxism and not gotten a negative response so thats hopeful

Networking is just a euphemism people with actual connections use to obfuscate their nepotism.

>recruiting event
Literally pointless. It's basically just one big ad these days. It's just 100x different iterations of 'please apply at our website, scan this qr code'/'we don't have any current entry-level or intern positions available'.

Networking should just become a euphemism for sex or something. It would be a more honest way of getting a job.

>>1576
Yes recruiters literally meet hundreds of students and get thousands of emails, what makes anyone think they’re special or will be uniquely remembered unless they have some special connection.

the "shortage" is overstated. The shortage mostly exists among late career professionals and AI and outsourcing is not helping things either. You'll need a 4 year degree in accounting to get hired anywhere. There are opportunities and certainly not as bad as tech is, atleast right now, but I can't say how it'll be in 4 years.

>>1383
tbh that's recent now that everything is total shit, every job i've landed except my first two was through linkedin's inbox

>>1448
Why are you even on leftypol if you can't even bring yourself to criticize LinkedIn of all things?

Go stick your face in bourgeois asshole and take a big smell of the farts over on linkedin

>>1558
>Why are you even on leftypol if you can't even bring yourself to criticize LinkedIn of all things?

Are you functionally illiterate? I just explained to you why linkedin is crap. Wow, those corona years really did a number on your people's education.

Just get a goverment job like me
The pay is meh but it's safe and they desperately need people so your CV can be overlooked

half of jobs on linkedin are fake and just there for data harvesting

>>1546
>serial killer(Yes, I'm from the U.S.)
its hard but if you get into Delta Force you can get paid to be a serial killer.

>>1549
It's just too hard to be a serial killer nowadays. Maybe if it was the 1970s or 80s it could be an actual goal.

>>1546
legit no one ever asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up so I didn't give it a single thought. It ended up screwing me though because I didn't have an idea of what to do in college and switched majors like twice, dropped out, and returned like 10 years later.

>>1550
it's hard to determine,because it's reverse survivor bias,if you don't get caught,you can't appear in the statistics
and if you look at the number of unresolved murders,it's probally either easier than you think,or the pigs really do not give a shit anymore even about the most ethical part of their jobs.

>child

<Engineer
don't ask what kind of engineer i just used to watch this show called "tiny planets" where they had all these contraptions and i wanted to make them
<Guerrilla fighter
i grew up listening to stories about the FARC from my father
<Game developer
I used to make RPG Maker tech demos with a friend who made plugins for it
>teen

<Gunsmith
I picked up learning about guns because i was a nerdy feminine kid so i figured i had to learn about ways to defend myself
<Mercenary
I drifted through the idea of joining the YPG or leaving to the French Foreign Legion to get military experience then join any PMC that would take a brown repper
<Transexual pornstar
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>>1526
It probably depends on where you work

I always wanted to be an inland waterway boatman when I was younger. I thought the biggest part of the job would be drinking tea and watching the world go by. Don’t know how it really is tho.

Computer programmer. You just sit on your ass all day solving fun puzzles while making huge amounts of money and changing the world for the better.

>>1531
now give us your serious answer

>>1531
I do this except the money isn't huge, just comfy, and I don't make the world a better place. However, the puzzles are fun and I agree it's the coziest job if you have the right personality to stare at a screen all day.

>>1543
I'm sorry but this is ver funny, cartoon villan shit.

wagie wagie lift with your back or knees agie

>>1334
My friend works as this and messed up an interview at Apple for the same role. The job is pretty much deadend and sticking out will be an uphill battle as its really just like a factory line. You can try going above and beyond by asking ur manager if you can help with random shit or take work off their plate. Hopefully your at a good company that does internal promotions, otherwise it will be the same. Your next move up would be a data auditor and data quality guy

>>1334
just making sure for a question, this is the site correct? and if so would this possibly be a good side-job to do whilst I am primarily a lumberjack? applying now but wouldn't know about this otherwise, if so thanks OP