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>gov't subsidizes student loans
>colleges jack up tuition prices
>outsource jobs anyway

The only power they have is scarcity. Employers do everything they can to eradicate that scarcity through immigration and outsourcing, so employees retaliating with collective action is fair game.
It's all just a big brawl between interests, there's no "real" equilibrium, and treating it as justified when one side does it but unfair when the other does makes you a fucking retard
fucking retarded

>>1655
college isnt even a guarantee of that anymore, even the "useful" majors like CS or business are becoming useless you are the top of the class or have connections



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I've gotten ghosted by two employers before even reaching the phone interview stage. What the fuck even is the US job market at this point? Both were jobs I'm very well qualified for and don't even paying a living wage. Why the fuck would you reach out to me to schedule an interview and then never confirm a time? Are they fucking punishing us? Is this a humiliation ritual?
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>>1647
they are worse because you need to convince 5-10 people instead of just one person

Just completely bombed a second round job interview I faked my way into.

They all say fake it until you make it but sometimes you until fake it until you meet a hiring manager who is actually competent. This job would have basically made up for all my life failures up until this point and put me on the same level as my peers.

Now I am doomed.

>>1711
>This job would have basically made up for all my life failures up until this point and put me on the same level as my peers.
I doubt that. But my condolences and welcome to the failure club.

Its just a consequence of alienation. Employees are objectified and seen as replaceable parts so they give two shits if what theyre doing is reprehensible or hurts your feels.

>>1712
No, it actually was a FAANG-tier job in my industry. Now it doesn't even matter.



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There's been lots of speculation around if AI hype will actually materialize into real job displacement but this study from nov 2025 pretty definitetively shows we are in the beginning stages of it. https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/CanariesintheCoalMine_Nov25.pdf

>Early-career workers

(ages 22-25) in AI-exposed occupations experienced 16% relative employment declines, controlling for firm-level shocks, while employment for experienced workers remained stable

so basically the only group still experiencing headcount growth are mid-career professionals 35+.
22-25 are declining, and 26-34 are stagnating and likely to start declining as well.
And keep in mind publicly available AI only just came out in 2022, and yet this level of displacement has already started, You don't need some futuristic level AGI or something like that, its already happening. This also can't be explained by tarriffs or general business uncertainty as well, because the GDP growth is up 4% and the study controls for firm level shocks. If you're in a white collar profession, especially if entry level, hold onto your job for dear life and hoard savings.
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>>1573
this is solved by boomer dying

when I was younger I never understood how people kill their parents, now I get it

Sad that it's the young, entry level workers who are getting fucked as predicted. There is literally no bottom rung of the ladder anymore. I look at people age 18 to 30 in my life and most of them are truly broke. I'm 30 and I only have one friend who owns a home and it's a modest one he needed a partner to afford.

dunno if this is the right thread, but does it seem like tech jobs are picking back up to anyone else? is AI not convincing managers anymore?

>>1605
my feel in the tech industry is that nobody has the money to rehire to previous levels or expand. it's lean times for the orgs that buy software and their IT depts, lots of cost cutting and penny pinching right now, and that means lean times for the software sellers

>>1705
Well no, but that seems true of every industry barring healthcare, we ARE in a recession right now after all. People are struggling to decouple the recession numbers from the AI numbers but I don't think anyone has cobbled together a convincing picture yet



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At nearly 30 I got my first job, a dead end job in a supermaket from a huge chain in my country
It is only for a week but they might permanently contract you
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One more tip: Unlike online jobs, this is a great chance to hone your rhetorical skills.

You are always in contact with many comrade employees. Improve your social skills, and you will even be able to engage customers on socialist ideas.

Eventually, you will overthrow your boss to create the Socialist Democrat Soviet Republic of Walmart, when american civil war #2 starts.

>>1613
Been in the grocery game for 15 years now, get out before its too late. By late I mean injured. I've seen lots of people that get hurt over the years and end up stuck here

>>1613
Last day is today, I'm completely exhausted both physically and mentally, I'm in pain in my entire body, especially lower back and knees, I don't know how people put up to this shit because I'm fucked up in a week let alone a month

>>1639
never worked as a cashier I see

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>>1639
Not to mention, i like the super market
It has stuff i like
Like yum yums. I remember working Wal-Mart and would just eat breakfast there. Skittles and monster coffee. That was my breakfast and i liked it. No twat mom to tell me that isn't a meal.

I liked organizing the aisles. I put this box on the shelf. No faggot boss is gonna go out of their way to tell me I'm putting it on the shelf wrong (some will still try…) There's no optics over how i put cereal on the aisle shelf. Ain't noone gonna be sued because the cereal called someone a racial slur or pushed them. (I might though lol)

Same even with cleaning. I mean people are nasty, but cleaning up aisles is fine. Oh your kid vomited? Thats ok. His diet is composed of sunshine, lollipops, and the belief that there's still good in the world. He doesn't goon all day, pretend to be a femboy "not like other girls teehee" than ghost you the minute he gets your cum like a fucking succubus demon. This is why LGBT face violence, this is why Jeffrey Dahmer existed.

Work isn't what makes jobs unbearable…people are.
Not some random ass customer.
Not someone bringing in their cute little dog.
Not even some belligerent crackhead.
The people I see every mother fucking day and still gotta argue with, deal with gas lighting and downright lies. I guess the "we're like a family" part is true. So like family I'm not above throwing a beer bottle at them and pulling their hair out.



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Does anyone here help organize like labor unions and tenants unions and so on?

I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize. It could help mitigate some of the harms of the nonprofit activist industrial complex by giving more power to the workers instead of the CEOs. I'm sure lots of NEETs here interact with social programs. It takes five seconds to ask your support workers if they've looked into unionizing.

Anyhow would love to your thoughts on praxis in general
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>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?



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is there really a shortage? I think I can fake my way into a job in accounting with a bit of studying if anyone is hiring, rather do this than apply to a billion ghost jobs in tech

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.



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>Always worked off the books
>Decide to try being legit
>Make LinkedIn account
>Find interesting new job opening, save it
>Next day: Closed, 30+ applicants

Why the fuck does anyone bother with this shit?
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>>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



 

Childhood
>veterinarian
>pilot
>sorcerer
Teen years
>soldier
>musician,
>serial killer(Yes, I'm from the U.S.)



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>>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.

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

wagie wagie lift with your back or knees agie



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I just started making money off of this and to be honest it came at a crucial time. It sucks they don't tell you what you are doing wrong. Feels Victorian, doing piece work. But it pays. Does anyone have advice for it so I don't get 'dropped' (stupid euphemism)?

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>>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

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>>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



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