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I used to think differently about service jobs for years as I wasn’t one of those “if it isn’t blue collar it isnt a real job” socialist nut heads, but my feelings for that idea has shifted towards it for different reasons.

I dont think a socialist movement is possible of servitude and service work is allowed to continue. It took ages to illegalize slavery and yet there is more of it than ever—mainly through the never ending flood of terrorist and kidnapping groups that make eradicating the problem fucking impossible without eradicating kidnapping.
Service work doesn’t fair much better as it is only barely above servitude and slavery in terms of dignity but falls back to that status if public services are ever bought out and stolen by private actors.
Outside of being undignified, these jobs just flat out and do not have to exist in a socialist society. They’re just bad jobs period and it would be better for everyone if they went away. No one really needs a consultant, housekeeper, motivator, receptionist, gig workers, restaurant service workers, or whatever other petty job that a person—a normal person—can do themselves without guidance.
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>>1081
Hazcel detected, opinion rejected

>>1017
service workers are semi-proletarians. your time is better spent with proletarians, as a proletarian.

>>1083
this is actually really insulting to the other russia movement, pls dlete this

>>1084
That's not what semi-proletarian even means. The restaurant owner owns the real estate (capital) and the service worker is divorced from it. They are proles.

>>690
Industrializing domestic labor is essential to emancipating women and preventing gender division from interfering with class struggle you dunce.



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Is the economy really as bad as everyone says right now for jobs? People keep crying online about how theyre not getting anything for months. Just wondering if its even worth applying or its already ogre.

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It'll settle down but yeah there's better things you can do to make money right now than waste your time on job applications, they're all fake rn.

Go see if your local mom and pop shop still exists, and if they need the trash taken out or an oil change or something. Go see if the local petboojes need their lawns cut or their street number repainted, etc… You won't make much but it's better than nothing.



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What is /labor/'s opinion on making content about your job to share on social media? Is this an effective method for spreading class consciousness? (Ignore the genpol shit please)



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a thread for salting, becoming a salt




You just went from working a solid career-type job to working retail or fast food again? Become a salt. Recession compression creates ideal salting conditions–downward mobility, employer arrogance, worker bitterness. Embed without announcing. Become dependable, a communist should be the hardest working man in the shop, stay observant, find the cracks, then slow corrosive. Learn the workplace rhythms, identify informal leaders, exploit management contradictions. Never preach–weaponize the material conditions and shared misery. Reinforce that exploitation isn't personal, it's structural. Organize under cover of small talk. Normalize resistance. You're not radical–you're just the one who says what everyone’s already thinking.

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https://industrialworker.org/salt-is-back-on-the-table/
For those unfamiliar, salting is when workers seek employment for the purposes of kick-starting an organizing campaign, or to assist an organizing campaign already in motion. Salting can come in a variety of various strategies, depending on what organizing looks like in a specific shop or what the conditions are like in a specific industry.


https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-salting-organizing-tactic

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>>1122
>because the more essential jobs require you to pay out of pocket for education/training and if people don't have the money to pay for the training they won't get it. make sense? in a planned society you would just put people in those jobs and pay for their training socially.

Yet people have no problem taking out five figure loans for college education that they won't be able to pay back in their lifetime.

>>1125
bankruptcy is not so bad. your whining is bourgeois

>>1126
>Whining about bankruptcy for working class folk is bourgeois

And then you people wonder why leftism is not getting any traction

https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
DSA runs a national salting program and will try to place you where you have a good job of actually organizing to take money from capitalists and give it to workers.

>>1042
porky outsourced. blame them.



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Open Insulin are an amazing co-op, and unlike most they aspire to be more than a coffee shop. They are trying to create a pharmaceutical co op that will distribute insulin to people with diabetes. They are in the process of fully developing their production techniques.
https://openinsulin.org
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>>909
a worker-owned co-op developing open-source medicine is literally communization in action comr8

>>909
fuck off

This is very cool. We should do the same for HIV meds.

Recent insulin glargine results from Counter Culture Labs
>Over the past year the Open Insulin chapter at Counter Culture Labs has focused on refining our techniques for using transgenic Pichia pastoris in order to synthesize glargine, a type of long acting insulin. In 2024 and 2025 there have been two flask culture runs and one bioreactor run that have been confirmed to have successful glargine production with protein gels and western blots.
>The bioreactor run from 6/24/2024/ to 6/30/2024 has the most promising result because the other successful results were cultures grown in flasks which are less useful for producing large amounts of Insulin than cultures in a bioreactor. The synthesis pathway for glargine that was integrated into Pichia pastoris is methanol activated, meaning it will only produce glargine when methanol is added to the feedstock.
>The Open Insulin team at Counter Culture Labs has confirmed glargine expression from this bioreactor run as well as two flask runs. The first of these flask runs was grown from 11/25/2024 – 12/04/2024 and the second one was grown from 02/05/2025 – 02/24/2025. The former run was confirmed only via a protein gel; the latter run was confirmed via both a protein gel and a western blot.
>While these three cultures showed that the Pichia pastoris strain developed by Open Insulin is capable of expressing significant quantities of insulin glargine, expression is not consistent . The next step in our work is to continue experiments to obtain reliable and consistent expression.
https://openinsulin.org/recent-insulin-glargine-results-from-counter-culture-labs/

This is dual power.



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Neo-Job Finding Be like:
>High-Grandeur Doctorate Schaeffer Degree in Fancy-Schmancy
>5 years of experience in a similar field (optional, even though its not XD)
>Certificate of courses in Fancy-Schmancy levels AC30 (minimum)
>English certificates (even if you're proficient, cough up money for courses, useless lessons and taking tests for least a few months of your life)
>Driver's license (ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY)
>CV/portfolio
>Dicksucking loyalty to customers (you MVST be VERY SOCIAL AND LOVE ZE CUSTOMERS)
>Handling finances, personal information, anything that can get you sued for slight misconduct (YOU MVST BE GOOD AT QUICK MATHS)
>Computer proficiency (Expert at word, excel, foxit, WPS office, Abaqus FEA Software, Google Ads и Meta Ads Manager and all these awful program things with awful interfaces)
>Ability to stand and bend and crouch 12 hours (NO SITTING ALLOWED!)
>Flexible time (whenever you can have the bravery to BEG the manager for a DAY OFF so they can SIGH at you and treat you like THE FILTHY TRASH YOU ARE, LITTLE WAGIE, YOU MVST BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR COWORKERS WHO WILL HAVE TO WORK HARDER BECAUSE OF YOU, THINK ABOUT THE SHIFT SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE!)
>Able to take responsibility for projects worked under set deadlines and copes well working with short time frames;
>CV/portfolio
>Teambuilding events, be prepared to meet your dandruff coworkers off work
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>>1053
I'm compiling a big list of vape shops to contact and see if they're hiring. It aggravates me how there's literally a vape shop every block or so yet i never see ads for them on indeed or Craigslist

Also if I'm willing to compile this list im willing to sass them if they say apply online
>you could've just said you're not hiring… Do you even use crypto boomer?

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for me the worst part is needing to both send in my resume (which ill customize for the job in question) and then answer everything all over again on their job portal + a bunch of extra shit they throw in. why even have me send in a fucking resume

>Thanks, we should get back to you in a week!
>(ghosts you)

>>1229
well obviously,they litterally need 1 or maybe 2 guy at most,and most of them are just them working in their own store.
they aleady personally know people they can hire too the minute their friend quit.



 

Are u anons ready for slavery again, without even being fed by porky this time

>porkies trying to prevent workers from quitting

>using already existing indentured slavery model, where you have to pay off company loans
>trying to make it apply to on-the-job training now as well
>prevented nurses and other essential workers from leaving to other hospitals for hell
>pushing to make it wider
>Rightard states rejecting any legal challenges
>calling them TRAPs to rub it in

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/corporate-america-noncompete-workers-traps

America never left slavery.
If we are entering slavery again, that would mean loan debt and compulsory law never existed between 1865 and 2025



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I applied for it because I desperately need a job and they gave me an 'audition' (wtf?) and it is like I am meant to be a performer or something. My friends say its a strip club but online apparently its not. I don't want to be a stripper BUT I NEED A JOB. Is it worth trying or is it sex work? Damn on the googile images it really looks like a strip club.
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>>1218
I think you're the jokester, considering I cleared more on a Thursday night at bars than in a whole week at taco bell, and that's the third biggest money night.

>bouncing your tits around is "sex work"
what the fuck does sex mean to americans

>>1220
You're asking the wrong people about sex

>>1219
It depends on what kind of bars though

Can't fight the moonlight.



 

>Finished with my graduate class.
>Resume gap pretty much filled.
>Mostly finished teaching myself necessary skills.
>Not motivated by the slop or the cardboard boxes.
>Decided to job hunt anyway.
>Can only procrastinate making NEET threads so long.
>NEET excuses running out.

How do you go about looking for jobs anon?
So far have only skimmed through Indeed and applied to jobs that caught my attention.
Got nothing back from these, but that was before my resume was specialized.
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Am up 80 applications so far but no bites yet. Lots of internships applications too, and have been pumping out personal projects for the portfolio.

>>1123
So did finally manage to get out of bed and get to looking at least.

>>1123
Make it 100 lol.

Damn, is it really that bad out there? I'm considering another job but I have no idea what to look for or where to look.

>>1132
Prostitute



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I want to become either a lawyer, a social worker, or a psychiatrist SPECIFICALLY to divorce Parental Authority from Legal Power over children. I don't like that two humans have legal "ownership" of a third human, merely because they choose to have sex. I believe that the State should, or, MUST, provide children, teenagers, etc, with work permits, housing opportunities, etc so they can leave the Parental house as soon as they wish.
I also oppose the family: I don't mean a half-assed petite bourgeoisie position of "i oppose the trad. west family, but i support SSUs\ polyamory\ single parent " NO!! I oppose ANY AND ALL family-unit, and exalt the individual among all. I, also, wish to work towards these changes.
Which career path is best for me??
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>>1104
The boomers were lumpem because of how adults dismissed bullying as "kids being kids".
Also, they were treated more like adults.

Also, I hate when people use the word modern to refer to any chronological comparisons within a three decade range.
Modern means any time era that uses printing press, guns, Hindu-Arabic numeral system, and was involved in colonialism
And lastly, lumpenproletariat doesn't mean just criminals. It also means people whom are not allowed to industrially participate.

While juvenile delinquency has decreased, it also resulted in arrested development. We see more people having personal disorders. Not even talking about congenital either but more social ones.

It's making a more incompetent society.
We see it with how damn near difficult it is to secure a gf let alone get a decent paying job.

Millennials are advocating to raise the age of majority to compensate for maturational deficiency

You're not going to destroy it in any sort of individualist coup, in one fell swoop. However, I actually agree with the Bakunin/Nechayev goal of installing yourself into the positions of power that would theoretically allow you to assist in destroying the hierarchal family structure.

Lawyer is an obvious one, but psychiatry presents an interesting chance to actually destroy the psychological hold the family has on the individual after they grow up. I see this, *everywhere* to the point where people are letting their parents commit fraud in their name purely because of the ideological power they created for themselves. I think studying that with a lot of focus on Freudian psychoanalysis would be very productive.

One of the most disturbing trends in therapy I've seen is this forced acceptance of age regression therapy, where the adult is hypnotized into an adolescent state so they can properly be implanted with the memories of a parental figure that may have been missing. This is one of the most conservative, reproductions of ideology I've seen since "pray it away" therapy. This isn't just some abdl fetish roleplay, it's deeper than that and is absolutely used in real life, prevalent even. This needs to be combatted.

>>1106
>One of the most disturbing trends in therapy I've seen is this forced acceptance of age regression therapy, where the adult is hypnotized into an adolescent state so they can properly be implanted with the memories of a parental figure that may have been missing. This is one of the most conservative, reproductions of ideology I've seen since "pray it away" therapy. This isn't just some abdl fetish roleplay, it's deeper than that and is absolutely used in real life, prevalent even. This needs to be combatted.


This is part of the infantilisation epidemic in the west.
They already socially castrated young adults with the "brain development" theory.

>>1097
Minus the fornication, what's so bad about condoms and porn?
Also. Most parents think kids having a sex drive is some sickness

>I also oppose the family: I don't mean a half-assed petite bourgeoisie position of "i oppose the trad. west family, but i support SSUs\ polyamory\ single parent " NO!! I oppose ANY AND ALL family-unit, and exalt the individual among all.

https://anarchism.pageabode.com/book/j-6-what-methods-of-child-rearing-do-anarchists-advocate/
or, TLDR, you're retarded. Social bonds exist whether you like them or not, and the role of parents in an anarchist society is not to beat their kids into submission, but to essentially provide guidance so that their children can grow up to be free, healthy, individuals by allowing them to live freely, but providing love and stewardship where needed. Humans survive through social bonds, it's just that they don't have to be coercive and forced. Frankly, you don't sound like an actual anarchist, just someone LARPing as one because you have daddy issues. To reject families completely is to reject being human at all, so again, you're a retard.

https://anarchism.pageabode.com/book/j-6-what-methods-of-child-rearing-do-anarchists-advocate/
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