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Blue collar work breaks your body, but white collar breaks your soul.
If it wasn't for the physical constraints I'd love to to this more regularly…
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>>819
White collar work actually does that more.
All that sitting down at desks all day staring at computer screens affects your health and it makes your spirit numb with all the focus on numbers.
Humans and supplies are seen as elements of mathematical sentences

I work retail and I got sciatica and hip problems and I'm only 33 fuck this shit

If we say that retail and food-service aren't "blue-collar" they're "dog-leash" I agree with this. General labor like warehouse stuff feels like just getting paid to exercise but trying to tank aggro from an endless stream of burger-crazed salaroids will take everything from you

>ohhhhhhh my poor le soul!!!!!!
Lol. White collar work is much better and cushier than blue collar work, what the fuck is this shit.

>>938
I remember seeing a bunch of articles and shit a few years ago about trying to find ways to deal with the back problems office workers get sitting down all day. I'm not saying it isn't a problem, but they can go for a walk or do some damn stretches, nobody's tryna figure out how to help our asses standing up and actually doing shit all day.



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Anyone regret being in this porky hellscape
>spend all day every day learning a billion different tech stacks
>by the time ur caught up 30 new technologies to learn
>constant boom and bust cycles that leave u jobless
>workers are greedy gusanos that just came here to make money
>no solidarity at all, techbros happy to step on u to keep their job
>eyeball retinas are just deepfried
>have to produce some shit datamining sw
>grind ur way through 4 years of theory just to fail some shitty coding autism score test
>work under h1b immigrant managers who force u to work all day so they dont have to go back
>get outsourced anyways
>PIP factories to keep ur penis in pain
>get attitude from FOBs who think theyre hot shit because they make more
> the smell
>daily stand ups and justifying ur existence
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>>905
> labor aristos
Most abused marxian category ever
Still, thanks for the link
>>913
Practice. Although from what I have gathered it's mostly an american problem

>>905
The blogpost you linked claims that they should, not that they are. Instead they are just bitching about Indians taking "their" jobs, like OP does.

>>913
Not really something I've encountered at all in the logistics industry. You'll get paid less, but working for a small/medium sized company that isn't primarily software oriented is a much comfier lifestyle.

>>913
Practice a lot. If you get a good interviewer doesn't matter how well you do the problem, but about how cool your are, how communicative you are, and if you can think of different strategies even if they're wrong. Structuring code, naming variables correctly, stuff like this.

Practicing is very important and will give you an edge. Finally it's a numbers game, you need to go through this humiliation ritual several times, and face rejection. Think of it like practice.
>t. Have worked for Big Tech, in several countries around the world, senior engineer, have interviewed numerous people as well.

Anybody here been a network tech?
I'm in school about to graduate with a degree related to networking after switching over to it when I realized that I hated coding. I'm not expecting to make >40k to start off with, but I'm worried that I don't have enough experience to skip over more help desk stuff (did that last year) and that hating coding will bite me in the ass, since one of my instructors mentioned that the orchestration that lots of companies are turning to is more reliant on coding the control plane than loading up a config onto a switch/router.
I'm also very weak so I don't think going the cabling route will necessarily be a path forward either.



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YOU WILL MAKE THE MILKSHAKE WAGIE

I ONLY GET A 1 HOUR LUNCH BREAK WAGIE

YOU KNOW WAGIE IF YOU HAD A
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OF A BRAIN YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET AN OFFICE JOB LIKE ME, YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS
>throws bald man
HOW HARD IT IS WORKING IN HUMAN RESOURCES?
>throws cups
DO YOU?
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you know who's going to clean up after all that? that's right, wagie is. chop chop!

I always find it strange when people act like this. Sometimes people will act out because they have something going on you don't know about but then you have people reacting to it in odd ways.

>>793
The only thing Amerisharts will simp for faster than women is consumption of product
Thank God she didn't burn a Nintendo switch flag

>>771
Escalating a problem and then being totally incompetent with the level of violence you escalated to is pretty burger coded.

>>787
I mean it was warranted to try to subdue her but the chokehold the guy didn't know how to even do right was excessive.

>>918
IDC. If it was a man acting like that, you wouldn't feel as bad.
>>916
Gynocentric moralism isn't limited to US unfortunately



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I just found out they tried to arrest the entirety of the staff of two unions over "extortion". Police said the workers were asking for higher wages under the direction of the unions to increase their pay and hence pay higher union fees

This assault on bourgeois labourism will heighten the contradictions and further class struggle. The fire rises



 

hell hello this is a labor of love i guess you could say LOL which is why i post it on /labor/ with my two capivt audience watch my labor of lov and i think i did pri gud wat u thinK???

Can't watch YouTube without an account. What is it?

>>795
How come? It works for me. It's a video titled " IMG 8552" that was uploaded 6 days ago and has 19 views.



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>In 1868, the Money Order Office in London put in a formal request to the Secretary of the Post Office to employ three cats. Their weekly allowance of one shilling went toward food for all three cats. This arrangement was dependent on the new employees’ ability to lower the mouse population- a job they proved born to do!

>The outstanding performance of these brave mousers led to the formal creation of The Cat System, which began hiring at various branches across England. The standard weekly wage was between six and seven pence per-cat, which was barely enough to maintain their morale. Branch managers began to demand wage increases on behalf of the post office cats in order to fairly compensate them with food and healthcare.


>Minnie the cat served a long and successful career as a mouser at the Post Office Headquarters Building in London. Following her death in 1950, the position was passed on to her son, a large 23-pound Tabby cat called Tibs. Earning a certain celebrity status and the title “Tibs the Great”, he was celebrated for outstanding service up until his death in 1964. Sadly, around the same time that Tibs retired, pesticides became widely available which eliminated the need for post office cats on the official payroll.

Tibs is remembered with an impressive legacy. During his 14 diligent years of service as the Official Post Office Headquarters Cat, he kept the building free of mice and raised the standard for the treatment of great mouse-control cats everywhere.

railroad baboon is my favorite one

basically a baboon to assist a paraplegic man in pulling signal switches for trains to stop. look it up. I think it’s the most wonderful thing.

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>>741
>The standard weekly wage was between six and seven pence per-cat, which was barely enough to maintain their morale.
This is hilarious

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Jack was an employee of the railroad. He belonged to James “Jumper” Wide who worked as a signalman until he lost both legs in an accident. Wide earned the nickname “Jumper” due to his habit of jumping from one railway car to another and sometimes swinging from railcar to railcar. One afternoon in 1877, near Kleinpoort in the Eastern Cape, he attempted to leap to another car and fell underneath the moving train. The massive metal wheels of the train severed both his legs.

Jumper was devastated. Not only had he lost his legs, but he would be of no use to the railroad. He took a post as signalman at Uitenhage station, where he made himself two pegged legs he carved from a piece of wood, and built himself a small trolley he used to get around. Still, he was limited on how well he could perform his job.

One afternoon he was visiting the marketplace in Uitenhage where he saw a baboon leading an ox wagon. He met the owner who demonstrated how smart the primate was. Soon, Jumper was convinced the baboon could serve him well. He pleaded with the owner to let him have the baboon. The owner didn’t really want to give up his favorite pet, but he felt sorry for the crippled man.

He gave the baboon to Jumper and thus began the most unusual friendship in the railroad’s history. The two lived in a cottage a half mile from the railroad depot. Each morning Jack would push Jumper to work on the trolley. He would push the trolley up a hill and once on top of the hill, Jack would jump on the trolley for a fun ride as it rolled quickly down the other side of the hill. Once at work, Jack operated the signals that instructed train engineers which tracks they would take.


The working relationship between Jumper and Jack worked well and the two forged a strong friendship. Many locals would go to the tracks to see if the story of a baboon working the signals was true. Most marveled at how well Jack performed his job.
He knew the difference between the “home” and “distant” signals, and also the engine whistles; and although he was always under the eye of his master, he never made a mistake or required telling twice. Jack was one of the sights of Uitenhage for many years, and his astonishing feats of intelligence was the wonder of all who witnessed them.

Then one day, a prominent lady on route to Port Elizabeth observed Jack working and was horrified at the prospects of a baboon running the signals. She notified the railroad auPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This was how humans used to work until after the Industrial Revolution when we switched over to pure artificial pesticides.

Instead of chasing away birds from the parking lot., keep them. They help take away trash.

Cannot pay humans to clean up shit because they just half ass and make more mess.



 

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY EVERYONE

post kino songs to celebrate the 1st of May ITT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIDEv1b4F0
turkish song about the 1st of may
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgoMC1wHUE
the battle is going on again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzm5HhjMqqg
turkish recreation of "the battle is going on again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9foCTOba0
turkish communist song "don't give approval to this order"
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Angloids aren’t workers and must be annihilated

I blame porkies of creating material conditions of where im always hang over during workers day so I cant join marches.

>>879
>no! valborg/vappu is a bourgeois concept. do not show up hung over on may 1st.

May Day fell flat for me, it was mostly middle-class libs and leftists protesting Trump/Elon.

Nice day!



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/labor/

is the working name for a series of articles/essays I would like to get off the ground

each month we cover a different job working with someone who has said job as to see what skill that job has, how people might get that job, labor struggles, unionization efforts, the real, raw reality of working hard ass jobs

"dirty jobs but leftist"

not sure the best approach on it, im thinking we want to give it a low to the ground, insider feel, you ever seen the leaked footage animal rights activists take from the factory farm slaughter houses? shits brutal asf, its unmasking, its real shit.

im thinking we can take advantage of the anonymous nature of this board to facilitate real stories/photos/the same kinds of reveals. we could have a pro-salting line, oh shit you work at the worst rated taco bell in Dallas? let's hear about it, let's hear about the guys who got fired for organizing before it even began. that sort of shit. you work at the mechanic shop and your boss stiffed your check? lets hear about the bullshit. that sort of thing but with a bit more of an essayist gleen



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MAY DAY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY THE 1ST OF MAY WORKERS' DAY LABOUR DAY

Post your posters post your marches post your festivals post your banners post your flags it is Workers' Day let us all unite in celebrating it.
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>>851
>I really should have heard about this through Palestine Solidarity. These people are so disorganised, it's really distressing.
Trades Councils (which organise May Day events) are geriatric even places where they are vibrant, let alone outside of the metropoles. They can't use social media for shit and are very bad at publicising their own events to their own audience (trade unionists) let alone outside of it. Good tip for local anons is to look up "X District Trades Council" (if you live in a small town it will be your local government district) and they will likely have something on their facebook.


>>857
Shay is alive?

>>848
>>851
Went for ps solidarity group, It was pretty small, maybe only ~100 people. sad.

>>859
As I said anon >>856 (me) unfortunately trades councils are shit at what they are meant to do nowadays. If you have the wherewithal to sit through a dull meeting once a month and pick up the huge amount of missing load I'd suggest trying to get involved to bring things together. They usually won't offer resistance because they want someone young to do these things. Still it will mean you are own your own though.



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ITT we share our experiences with the NGO industrial complex while still deluding ourselves that entryism is a valid strategy for anyone except feds and hawks.

This evening I went on a deep dive on linkedin and just googled a whole bunch of political foundations I was interested in and laughed at all the weirdo glowie-adjacent people that work for them.
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>>296
maybe get some shit on your cv to increase credibility but i wouldn't give it too much thought

Could you try unionizing? Might help protect against getting fired for actually trying to help people.

>>188
>ITT we share our experiences with the NGO industrial complex while still deluding ourselves that entryism is a valid strategy for anyone except feds and hawks.
I don't do that. I just work here for the money and flexibility.
Also: especifismo > eNtRyIsM

>>189
>Work tips to keep this thread bumping and for me and anybody else are much welcome🙏
Actually take the time to make your work station ergonomic. It is not a meme. Your health with thank you. Also do kegels throughout the day.
>>283
>Also I use all their milk.
bassed

Will doing an internship at the imperial bureaucracy (i.e. a Western government ministry) forever tarnish my credentials as a TRU-leftist(TM)?



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