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I slam the door. I take these drugs! I go to the mental hospital! I am in the garage. The boat in texas. Getting jumpin in by a bunch of black people. MS gay teen. I slam my head on the table. 4/5/2025

Ok

Schizo

Sounds like a Death Grips song



 

/finesse/ general

Tips of stretching the dollar, getting one over on the small business owner, etc

Tips for working to rule/stealing time, finessing free food, side hustles and quick cash, etc without fucking over your fellow worker

I clock in late then clock out early.

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secure yourself a sinecure then do a 2nd job while clocked into your sinecure

>>510
only works for techbros that can get remote jobs



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Seeking good contract language protecting political activity and speech to reduce the risk of getting fired over being a communist or anti-zionist. My workplace is majority anti-zionist Jewish people with a plurality of reds. A handful of zionist and rightoid pricks really hate that fact and keep trying to wield management against us and call in outside zionist orgs for backup because our existence fucks with their messaging that all Jewish people support Israel.
We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.

To make it more clear: we're unionized and almost done forming the bargaining committee and starting negotiations. There's strong buy-in from members for political protections because even the resist lib types are scared of getting retaliated against these days.


rape is bad because it's not corrective violence. it's just gooners taking advantage of a sitaution



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Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?

Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?


Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.

I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.

I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.

I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.

School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design

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It's probably just a lot of grass is greener stuff. People are getting up and working every day now, they haven't been to school for a decade so probably don't remember the shit bits and think of it as a simple time with less worries.

>>412
And unfortunately, Gen X, Y, and Z with their normalisation of awkwardness and anti-worldliness wants to bar the youth from any single worldly affair as vicarious reaction towards hatred of working.

It really depends, some people like their work just as some people like their field of study, I suppose people hate work more universally because it's not optional for the vast majority and therefore you get more incongruity due to alienation.

Fuck school
Fuck labor



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Are master's programs really just cash cows like everyone keeps telling me?

Tldr all the arguments I hear against doing one:
>costs too much
>easier admissions process
>bad quality of education
>more debt
>can get a job without one anyways
>mainly used by internationals to game visas
>most jobs dont require it

But, I cant help but feel a lot of this is cope from people that dont have one. It has to help get more interviews easier and the wages are probably higher.

I got an admit into UCLA and feel like I should take it. My undergrad was in a shittier state school and the rep would help me out. But its going to be 40grand and dont know if Im just about to get scammed
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>>351
Only good reason I can think of to have a Master's is if there is a specific job you want to do that requires you to be educated to Master's level. Otherwise, most people I know did it because they were interested in the subject or they just didn't know what the fuck to do after they left uni so they decided to stay on another year or two.

It depends.
Some degrees are absolutely useless unless you at least have a masters. Honestly, just do trades if you don't care about doing anything in particular. I don't really hate the "PMC", but there is a lot of bullshit that comes with the territory. If you just want money without spending years in academia find and don't mind working with your hands that's the route I would go. Even better if you can become a millwright.

I have yet to find a professional Master's degree that is actually useful. MBA? Trash. MPH? Double trash.
The only reason to get a master's is if you want to work towards a PhD and live in academia. The only graduate degrees worth a damn otherwise are medicine, law, dentistry and perhaps engineering.

>>351
OP I am going to be frank with you: Discussions about college degrees on the internet are 99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.
I would speak with an actual counselor and figure out what exactly your future career prospects would look like, and then with that baseline you can do further research from there. Obviously the counselor is part of the university so they wouldn't give an absolutely objective viewpoint, but they would still give you a general idea of what exactly it is you're looking at career-wise.
Is it actually true that you could get a job with the degree you already have? Have you tried to figure that out? You would know better than us. It's your money/debt, your desires, your time.

>>441
>99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.


Bruh, I hear more people fellating college degrees and treating trades as fascist breeding grounds



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Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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>>379
>Anime is fascist

I remember when anime was considered "commie"

>>379
Please go outside

>>64
How did that go?
>>76
> IT support 1st level here for a company
> Am i being turned into a labor aristocrat?
Anon please, the labour aristrocracy is an abused classification. You're just a prole who was lucky enough to get a decent boss
>>77
>>80
Why do all morons think that proletarian, bourgeois and labour aristocrat categories are descriptors of one's side in the class war, instead of being the various factions of society than already exist?
You can have class traitors all over the place, from police to Engels

>>446
>Engels
???

>>451
Famous class traitor



 

Im a man and I DO consider myself, really, very manly. But I genuinely suffer daily, or extended angst, because my "material conditions of existence" don't allow me to ,not even TRY OUT FOR, extreme manly lifestyles….
Special unit active-War soldier, SWAT team member\SORT member, or even mma\bluhurt\rugby amateur player. non-violent yet extreme jobs like Underwater Welder, altitude rescue\medicine missions. etc
WTF Am I supposed to do? i changed and suited my whole lifestyle to be manlier: diet, sleep pattern, exercise type, so on.
>inb4 being a rEAl Man is about being a (((householder)))
No. Im Celibate.

Goon or jack off or whatever

Dont fall for that psyop unless you want lifelong joint pain. Judt be average eith some muscles

you literally cant become "alpha" or "chad" or "le real man" the second you start getting all insecure and fretting over if you got the sauce or not. A so called real men doesn't question if he is one cause he just knows that shit already and doesn't feel a need to question it or prove it others.



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Do you consider certain jobs off-limits, for youself or in general from the perspective of a leftist or for personal reasons, such as military, the defense industry, banks, maybe even the meat industry or the work in capitalist governments?

Do you think that there is a point in entryism into those spaces?

Do you judge people based on the profession they chose, independent of their personal circumstances or do you take that into account even if it's probably? Is there a difference if you are talking to someone who 'should know better' i.e. is a self-styled class- or otherwise politically conscious person?

Should a leftist who can't afford or sustain to be a 'professional revolutionary' seek out professions that seek to 'ameliorate' the worst effects of capitalism, like social work, teaching etc.?

Or is just obsessing over the ethics of one's job just moralist lifestylism, akin to 'ethical consumerism' and basically 'anything goes' since the profanition is considered absolute?


What are your thoughts on these points?
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>>390
idrc

>as long as I am paying my party membership dues?

yeah joining some reformist party is par for the course for your types

>>391
What if it's a radical party that even is kind of spicy (like being observed by intelligence services for having contacts to what the government considers foreign actors and 'antagonist governments')

>>392
sounds just as impotent lol, you think proletarians associate over ideas and not necessity?

>>393
You think there is no necessity for radical political parties?

>>388
what's the actual real answer according to you?



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I work at a shitty grocery store in an even shittier area. People come in who are completely illiterate and need to be walked through each step of paying. Basically everyone uses foodstamp payment and we get robbed every single day whether it's the carts and baskets getting carried off or someone running out the front with food.

Is it anti-Marxist to prevent shoplifting? Should I just ignore people blatantly stealing when I am working the self checkout machines?
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>>323
You shouldnt usually for your own safety. Many homeless people have nothing to lose so they stab you for less than stopping them from shoplifting. Then if all the lumpen know you wont stop them from shoplifting it could encourage them to shoplift even more during the hours you work and situation can get out of control. Its not an easy yes or no question.

>>342
illiterate retard award

It's not your problem. Do be careful to not lose your job though. There's also a chance that the branch becomes too unprofitable and ends up closing, and that means you lose your job, so if someone is constantly stealing expensive shit all year it might be in your best interests to intervene. Otherwise fuck them boojs

>>342
Dumbass

>>323
imo, you should close an eye as long as you dont realistically (that is, not out of paranoia or bootlicking/stockholm syndrome with bosses impulses) jeopardize your position and that of your work mates. You otherwise, you dont benefit from stopping shoplifting as you are going to be paid the same, the only one that could loose is the porky in question, which is already gaining more than he should. i personally call shoplifting from porky redistribution of wealth

>is it anti-Marxist
lmao
Dude, Marxism is not some kind of lifestyle movement or religion. Anyway, just let them shoplift. You have no incentive to stop them unless your store has a fucked up policy where people are fired to make up for losses.



 

I'm so fucking tired of my job, it's so boring and soulless. All I do is stare at a computer all day and contemplate my life decisions.
Worse of all? I have to work another 40 fucking years or so until I retire, which at that point I'll be an old fart sitting in some shitty nursing home watching the window and praying that someone dares to visit me.

Work all year round just for two rest days where I have to do other life shit. The reward? Living with the basics and a two week vacation. Fuck this man, I can't stand living like this anymore.
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>>346
>That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is spending almost all my waking life making profits for a fucker that doesn't even know my name.
thats your biggest gripe?? lol

>>349
>thats your biggest gripe?? lol
well working my life away is indeed my biggest gripe, yes
man, we're only in this reality for a little while, 80 years tops most of the case, and you work for most of your waking life for a shitty wage
I firmly believe that most mental issues come from this fact

>>347
>Yet you guys downplay and dismiss that
Who are you quoting? I don't downplay it, school is, as most institutions, a tool of the bourgeoisie. And, as such, it reproduces capitalism.
Most things do, even hospitals are there to keep workers healthy enough to continue the reproduction of capital. Nothing escapes capital, nothing.

That's alienation, OP. I'm sorry, for real. I hope you can at the very least get a less insufferable job, and/or learn how to remaing employed while procrastinating at work.

>>347
Shut the fuck up newgene

>>365
No you.
You think work is a punishment in itself



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