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I've been thinking of buying stocks, futures, and maybe even gold with the few laborbux that I can spare. I want to build up some kind kind of wealth that I can fall back on if I'm ever unemployed for some time or if I have an emergency. Is it immoral by leftist standards to invest in the stock market or is it okay?
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>>1177
>Is it immoral by leftist standards
what are "leftist standards"

if youre a consequential then that means 'its okay when we do it'


you could also short

moralism shouldn't be a consideration if you are a marxist. marxism is by its very nature anti moralist, whether or not investing in the stock market is immoral is irrelevant, if it would improve your material conditions go ahead

>>1235
Read what? What am I looking at here?
Yeah you made some returns. No shit.
Like good for you. You wigggled beyond the cuck le'terms of service of what lottery ticket you can purchase and when. You want me to clap for you?

>im a middle classer but i feel le bad over it
lol join the leftoid club

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>Is it immoral to invest in the stock market?
no, but it is basically gambling if you don't have access to the same analytics and insider trading knowledge that the bourgeoisie have.
>it immoral by leftist standards to invest in the stock market or is it okay?
In the United States, if you deposit your money in a bank account, the bank basically gambles with it, whether you put it in a savings account or not. This is because banks not only operate on the principle of fractional reserve banking, but because of US deregulation that dissolved the legal distinction between commercial and investment banking. Basically porky already invests your money against your will whether you do or not. May as well do it for yourself since it's going to be used for that purpose anyway, and for their benefit instead of yours.


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Do you lie about ur job experience in ur resume? Not like saying u know how to use python when u dont but like saying u worked somewhere u never did. Im on job search rn and atp im thinking about it but i heard they sometimes call companies to check if u really worked there

>>1276
do it for a company that went bust so they cant check

The only lies on my resume currently are stretching the length and responsibilities of roles I did undertake, but generally I abide by the rule of thumb that jobs that are older and less related can be lied about with greater impunity. Use companies that have gone out of business to lie about completely.

It depends on the level to which you're applying to how well it will work, but generally the worst that can happen is that they don't hire you. Apply to as many places as possible so it doesn't really matter.

Dunno man, if you actually live in Germany I would expect the goons from your employer to actually call and confirm, lmao.

I was the regional manager at blockbuster

Always lie. Especially to the porkie.


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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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>>59
What about doing help desk for like a year or two with the intention of becoming a Linux SysAdmin?

>>1237
Just had an online interview that went very well

I started my PhD program back in 2021 when everything was still in lockdown. I crashed out because I left all of my old friends and didn't know how to make new ones. I was just stressed out and isolated all the time and I didn't feel like I belonged there so I couldn't study well. It's been over a year since my graduation I had a job as an adjunct professor but I fucking sucked at it and was consistently late in my grading so they didn't take me back for the fall. Wtf am I supposed to do? I just feel like a shell of my former self. The only friend I have is my bro and he has his own life/responsibilities. I feel like my degree is useless and I don't even feel like I don't even deserve it because I basically got it as a consolation prize. I would like to take on programming since I actually did pretty well with that in college but it seems like that's going to be replaced with AI so what am I supposed to do?

>>1270
just curious what did you struggle with about adjuncting? how many courses did you take on? were you able to write your own syllabus?

but sorry to hear it anon, really hope things turn around for you

>>1248
Personal interview next week.

I am dying.


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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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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.

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>>1273
I'm actually to the point where I'm acting to them like an stereotypical incel would to a w*man
>Hello this is (insert name) I'm still interested after applying on indeed about two days…
>No response
>HELLO THIS IS (INSERT NAME) I'M STILL INTERESTED AFTER APPLYING ON INDEED RWO DAYS AGO

God help them if they just let me send voice clips. Imma make silly noises and talk about Jews and moderators guaranteed.

>Inb4 a libshit acts like he's morally superior denying me a job I was never going to get
>Literally the schizo face I'd make before making him a new pussy hole with his slit throat but not before having some fun first fucking with these HR nobodies


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What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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Anything related to (((banks))).

Factory farm/slaughterhouse worker. You have to be sadistic paychopath to work there, even if you are not when you start you will soon turn into one.

According to the customers i served, hospitality/bartending apparently (i served the person first in the queue and didn’t make their drink right away afterwards)

>>1250
Get those echoes outta here fash.

>>579
He said non-violent
Merc work pretty violent dawg

I guess some that come to mind is like… only fans or HR
The former isn't really a job so much as a sales clusterfuck


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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

Yeah no shit. Anyone who stays in America is retarded. What do you expect from a country born to bootlick the wealthy?
>MUH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
<WE FOUGHT FOR LOWER TAXES ON OUR ELITES
retarded country. retarded people. retarded system.

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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China launching a new H1-B type visa called K1 to poach some tech talent. Theyve been loosening visa travel requirements too.

Would you take it anons? Im ready to go, if I can get that shit Im out of this shithole

https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/latestreleases/202508/14/content_WS689dd0d3c6d0868f4e8f4d1e.html

Will need the education for it but I'm up for that yeah. Whatever gets me to china the fastest.

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>>1255
>Would you take it anons? Im ready to go, if I can get that shit Im out of this shithole
If I met the requirements, I unironically would. Unfortunately, I'm just a pleb with an Associate's I was unable to do anything with.

No, I am not a STEMlord so they wont take me, and I like white women too much to leave Europe.

>>1264
>I like white women too much to leave Europe
Racist ass cracker.


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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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That's cool, but unrelated to communism.

>>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/


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Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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>>1120 (me)
Also just found out the company I work for went through a personnel cut which I survived, so yay I guess, 3 more months of anxiety

>>1121
Time to start looking for a new job. When there's one more come.

>tfw the main or only thing preventing from trying to get a job as a deep-sea fisherman is my fear of getting raped whilst trapped in a ship and none to call for help
Should I just stitch my asshole shut with dried shit?

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>retail wageslave
>ask for a week off around Labor Day (US)
>they give it to me, BUT I have to come in the night before Labor Day

Why even bother approving the request if they're just going to break my week's vacation into two segments? As if I wouldn't just call in that one night and use some of my sick time instead. What are they going to do, fire me?

>>1232
just say "no, sorry can't make it that day" easy as that


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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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>>1042
>But why should we have so many people making a livelihood in service jobs like that while more essential jobs like nursing, manufacturing, construction, trucking, etc are left lacking in manpower?
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.

>>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.


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