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This Online Group Documents How Upside-Down The World Of Capitalism Is, And Here Are 50 Of Its Best Memes
When you get up and go to work each morning, do you look forward to your trip to the office? Or are you dreading the day from the moment you wake up and spending 8 hours dreaming of when you’re finally off the clock again? Unfortunately, it’s quite common for people to hate their jobs, as a whopping 70% of workers report feeling dissatisfied with their career choices. So if you’re one of those people, you might need to take 10 minutes out of your day to deal with your lack of passion for your work in a healthy way: by looking at memes and funny photos.
Below, we’ve gathered some of the most painfully true jokes and memes from the Antiwork subreddit that might inspire you to start dismantling capitalism while on your lunch break, as well as an interview with Bursts, co-host and producer of The Final Straw Radio to learn more about what's really wrong with capitalism.
Be sure to upvote the posts you find relatable, and let us know in the comments how your job has been treating you recently, pandas. Then, if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring memes that might make Karl Marx proud, look no further than right here!
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#1
Keep Your Nose Out Of Other People's Business
Sonja 3 years ago
It's never easy to make that decision. No woman just decides to get an abortion just for the lols. And if there was one, she really shouldn't have children anyways and it's better she doesn't have them. A pregnancy is difficult. Even when the woman doesn't know it yet, her body starts to change. Then the hormones kick in. If she still wants an abortion despite that, you can be pretty damn sure she needs it and has darn good reasons for this.
Emie N. 3 years ago
No Sonja that is not true. MANY women don't want to be pregnant, it's as simple as that. The hormones don't do c**p for us.
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Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
"Morals" are a tool of oppression that fall apart when you do the slightest inquiry into their bases.
Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
Those old white men who never read their precious Bible in it's own context, but only in combined verses from various books and chapters, that have NO relation to each other. Just like the church wants them to. The preacher doesn't want them to know what the Bible really says, but what's in HIS OWN best interests.
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SarDemMin 3 years ago
Been there, done that. Best decision ever. It was an unexpected pregnancy 2 months into dating my now husband. We both were not ready - mentally, emotionally or financially. 2 years later, we reached there and made a conscious decision to have a kid. Will I do it again? Not after what my mind and body went through. Body made a great recovery. Not sure if the mind will. But it was a smart decision.
Krysta Pandoo 3 years ago
This is not an issue in the UK. Want an abortion? Okay. No further questions.
Phil Green 3 years ago
It's perfectly ok to not personally like abortion. But it is not acceptable to ascribe your own opinions on others and force them to accept your morality for themselves. What is right for one is not necessarily right for another. We all have rights, we all have responsibilities and we have our own moralities too.
Sunaliana 3 years ago
Grant me the serenity to not read the comments, the courage to not read the comments, and the wisdom to not read the comments...oh dear, too late.
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Lyone Fein 3 years ago
I love this. It's about the Patriarchy, not capitalism. But I still llove it.
Wayne Reynolds 3 years ago
What a woman chooses to do with her body is about 'the patriarchy'?
Load More Replies...If you’re not already familiar with the Antiwork subreddit, it is a massive and powerful community online. It has amassed 2.4 million members since its creation nearly a decade ago, and it provides a platform for “those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.” But along with all of the passion the members of r/Antiwork have for dismantling capitalism, they also have a great sense of humor. After all, there’s a bit of truth in every joke, right?
If you are interested in why so many people are upset with the system, let’s discuss some of the reasons why capitalism might not be enhancing your life. Capitalism is touted as a great way to build wealth and have freedom over your own company, rather than having too much interference by the government. It’s the antithesis of communism, which has been shown to prove many issues in practice, so plenty of people have gotten on board with the idea of capitalism. But in practice, it is prone to showing flaws as well, such as massive wealth inequality. Yes, you have the chance to become exorbitantly rich, but it’s also possible, and much more likely, to have very little money at all.
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#2
Explain It To Me Like I’m In Kindergarten
Jake Banana 3 years ago
This statement is so on the nose it's like hitting a freckle with a dart from 40 feet. Bazinga! Put another way, "If you can't pay your employees a decent wage, then your business model is unsustainable."
R Dennis 3 years ago
I love that capitalism should only exist for the wage-earners, not corporations or the wealthy...
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I can explain this like you're a kindergartener. Let's say your friend Jack has all the crayons. And you want to color a picture blue. Jack does not need the blue right now. In fact he has 10 blue crayons, but he won't let you have even one. Because Jack is selfish and doesn't care about you. He never did, and he never will. As far as Jack is concerned, you can eat s**t and die. This is why your employer (Jack) will not pay you a living wage (blue crayon), because they think you are subhuman (you). How was that?
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
"buy less lattes" NO PLEASE YOU'LL PUT ME OUT OF BUSINESS. I NEED TO PAY MY BILLS TOO :(
GingerPanda 3 years ago
How are you still here? I thought you disappeared at midnight on Oct 31st.
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Leon Falcor 3 years ago
Those executives made lofty goals and took major career risks and were rewarded as their contracts required. Maybe skip the latte to meet your contractual obligations.
Julio Red Cloud (Julio) 3 years ago
I want to work for you, Andrea. Will a $200,000 starting salary be okay:
Mistletoe 3 years ago
I'm sorry but if you want to be able to save money for something (like paying your rent) it's really dumb to get takeout all the time, have your groceries delivered for a fee, insist on having the latest phone, only wear brand name clothes, pick up st---bu--s instead of making your own coffee....
#3
Please Come Save Us Alien Invaders
My O My 3 years ago
Will you teach us how to roll up to littly spikey balls?
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BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
We have tried everything else so might as well try you ET guys too!
To gain more insight on the topic of why we should be dismantling capitalism, we reached out to Bursts, co-host and producer of The Final Straw Radio, a weekly anarchist radio show. He was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and break down the main issues he has with capitalism. “For ease, I’ll be speaking of Capitalism as a wide political and economic system, and maybe guilty of some generalizations for the sake of brevity,” he first noted. “Capitalism is based on the parceling up of the world and its inhabitants into resources that are owned or rented by individuals or conglomerates like companies and governments,” Bursts explained.
“Private property is the right to sole access to a place or a thing for nearly whatever purpose as protected by threat of the State’s violence. This must be differentiated from personal property (the house we live in, the implements we have made or traded for, the items we regularly use), or the commons that we share or cohabitate with others as we go through life,” he continued. “The State, as an institution, fosters the centralization of and privatization of property into the hands of powerful individuals who could be called a class to the exclusion of other classes of individuals. People are forced to rent their labor to employers to pay for a place to live because places to live are privatized as a source of profit for landlords.”
#4
Maybe You Are Right
Ghaniyah Verma 3 years ago
I'm sorry, what? How do you pronounce that name?
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The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
I wish we could obliterate billionaire-ism. Tax the rich... then eat them 😂
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
Musk cannot afford even our most basic social programs for 1 year. The government is milking most of it thru taxing the middle class or lower.
Duane Johnston 3 years ago
It's not the best system, unfortunately it's just slightly better than the others people have tried
Julio Red Cloud (Julio) 3 years ago
Yes, a better system is where nobody is motivated to do anything. Sloth is the way!
#5
Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
Antoinette Maldari 3 years ago
At first, I thought it was the author of the quote, then I said it out loud in my Brooklyn accent.
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I had a boss that wanted me to take a training position and I told him no thank you. When he asked why, I said I knew five people in that position and they were all miserable and why would I do that. He then said it was $5000/yr more money. I followed with the fact I told him day one money was not a motivator and that I needed to be happy. If I wasn't happy, he would know. If things didn't change, I would quit. He didn't like me much after that... one of the benefits of growing up in poverty: good money is good enough money and not chasing it is liberating.
Mama Penguin 3 years ago
Yep, that's it. I just want a relatively peaceful life with enough money to live comfortably (I don't mean excessively).
JustJackie 3 years ago
Sounds really entitled to me. Literally no one wants to work anymore /s.
Glen Ellyn 3 years ago
I've always been the same way. There's something to be said of "steady Eddies." They're the people who keep things running.
Lisia Smith 3 years ago
Me too. And if I had even more, I would not be displeased. Just sayin'.
Bruce Horton 3 years ago
Good, perfectly satisfactory, recognize however there are people who are ambitious for whatever reason and they will be rewarded.
Performingyak 3 years ago
I want the highest pay for the least amount of responsibility please.
#6
I Want To Watch This Show!
Detective Miller's Hat 3 years ago
Exactly. I don't understand why people fawn all over them like they're so great for..... being rich.
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Zenozenobee 3 years ago
And, for the following Season: they work for less than minimum wage in the overseas factories that craft the products they make money with.
The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
I've never seen the Kardashians, but I've seen enough memes to support this idea!
Ghaniyah Verma 3 years ago
Why do people watch reality shows anyway? Look, I just don't find them interesting, so someone explain what's so interesting about them.
Printerman 3 years ago
That would be the closest I ever come to watching something with a Kardashitan in it. (& no, that wasn't a typo).
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
This I agree with but I still wouldn't watch. All of them make money thru you watching.
“The State requires access to the resources of the rich class for public projects, to get elected or to create employment opportunities in their districts. Similarly, the rich classes are literally represented in the state houses because the powerful heads of state and business and their lobbying groups often come from the same neighborhoods, schools, churches and jobs,” Bursts explained. “Starting as close associates in many cases, the relationship between government employees and the business class continues to be tied together through lobbying efforts, election fundraising, and public-private partnership, protecting the centralization of wealth and strengthening those bonds between state and capital.”
#7
So Close To The Truth
Caro Caro 3 years ago (edited)
@Nona Wolf. These Money Wolves pay less tax (percentage) than we do. They have the best accountants, tax havens, write offs, etc to ensure that they keep all their loot. THAT'S why people are pissed off beside the fact that they actually underpay their workers or have you never given a thought about workers at Amazon ??? EDIT:Taxes are not stealing - they ensure roads, education, security, etc.
Mama Penguin 3 years ago
Caro Caro, I think Nona Wolf just needs to wake up and read actual news instead of reality show disguised as news i.e. Fox News.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
@Nona Wolf: Tax money helped you go online to say that. Tax money paid for roads so you could go somewhere. Taxes helped fund your education. Taxes are what we call "contributions to our nation in order to keep infrastructure functioning", such as the power grid. The class war is real. There is the 1%, the 1%'s bit*hes, and the other 90% of us on this planet who want a living wage. Peace. And good luck to you. When your 1%er attitude gets you sitting on a corner with a Will Work For Food sign, I'll give you $5.
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
Like saying you're closer to anywhere else on earth than to the moon.You are moore like to become a billionaire than to stand on the moon.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 years ago
OMG. Of course they're stealing from you!! By not paying taxes you now have to pay more. Which is what you're complaining about. Taxes are necessary to keep a basic and safe society functioning. We need roads, schools, police, emergency services, etc. If these million/billionaires would actually pay taxes your taxes could actually be much lower.
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Retirement Age
CanadianDimes 3 years ago
If there's a minimum age to be a country's leader (as there is in the US), there should *definitely* be a maximum age at which you can run/be elected as that country's leader.
harpling 3 years ago
I think it ought to be a test of some sort instead of an age cap. There are plenty of conditions impacting peoples' ability to absorb information or think critically, such as early dementia or extreme arrogance. In order to hold any sort of position of power, people should have to prove they can do things like assemble an Ikea desk and bake a frozen pizza!
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
To paraphrase, “The torch needs to be passed to a new generation”.
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
There's a minimum age to run for certain offices in the US. There needs to be a MAXIMUM age as well. Like, once you're over so many years old, you're done being in politics.
DeoManus Argentem 3 years ago
Definitely need term limits! I'm not as familiar with other nations, but in the US "politician" was never meant to be a career! You serve/represent your community for a time, and then go back to farming or whatever you do - stay in touch with what real people experience! Also, stop electing lawyers - elect people with real jobs/life experience!
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
I agree maybe 70-75 should be a max age. My dad is pretty cognitive a 72 but for real don't want him making my life decisions.
yellowphantom 3 years ago
I am all for younger people in Congress, as long as they stop giving us young people like George Santos, Lauren Boebert and Madison Cawthorn. I'll take a dozen ancient Bernie Saunders' over them any day of the week
Emptycaketin 3 years ago
Why is it that a lot of people that want to be leaders and think they're going to be really good at being a leader end up actually being really, really bad at it?
#9
Self Care On Your Free Time Is Priority Above All Else
Headless Roach 3 years ago
It's also very hard to do - you never know when you're done. It takes expertise that is so underestimated.
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The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
My boss said because I don't have children and I'm single, I am considered to be always available to work.
Donna Gettings Apperson 3 years ago
Life Is What Happens When You’re Busy Making Other Plans - John Lennon
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Right? Sorry, I already have plans. My plans? Sitting in my comfy chair in my jammies and reading ALL DAY LONG. And NO - working from home does not mean I am available to watch your kids, pick your brother up from the airport or walk your dog at 3:00pm.
“The capitalist productive process is spurred by a desire to maximize profits at all costs, meaning that without meaningful regulation by the State, jobs pay poorly and those doing the work tend to have no say in the safety or stability of their income,” Bursts told Bored Panda. “Capitalist production promotes ecological devastation and pollution, overproduction of commodities, often unsafe products and work environments.”
“Because of the undemocratic and violent nature of the capital/state formation (whether in so-called Communist China, social democratic Scandinavia, the USA or elsewhere), there is unnecessary death, immiseration, and catastrophic climate change,” he noted. “The other side of that coin is the lost opportunities, ideas, art and music, animal species, joy and love that could exist with the abolition of capitalism.”
#10
Telling Them Not To Throw A Party, Throwing A Party, Then Getting Fired For Your Reaction
Emma S 3 years ago (edited)
I remember this story. Some media sources tried to twist it that he had been rewarded 450k just for being given a party he didn't want, but he was awarded the money due to bullying he was subjected to following the panic attack he had at the party and then being unfairly dismissed due to his mental health.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
More introverts and people with social anxieties need to know about this. I never heard it before.
Stephanie 3 years ago
The awarded sum was not for having a panic attack. It's because he was fired unfairly.
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What's With The Double Standard?
Bi Frog 3 years ago
If I hear my mother or anyone else say that homeless people are homeless because of their choices again I'm gonna flip out
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Some did end up homeless due to making bad choices, but others experienced a streak of lousy luck. People become homeless for a wide variety of reasons.
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Kate Jones 3 years ago (edited)
I don't blame wealthy people for being wealthy. A lot of wealthy people worked really hard to get there and they aren't all evil. I don't care what they spend their money on. I mean, sure I can judge someone for not being generous when they could be, but it's none of my business. And, yes, nepotism is annoying especially when that person was given the money and didn't have to do the work for it. But I think the problem is that we need to stop framing this as if we are jealous and envious of what other people have. The problem is that there needs to be a discussion as to why I don't have it, too. And sometimes the reason is legitimate. If you make bad decisions and are immature with money then, yes, you're not going to have any. But the wage and living cost problem in this country is a real issue and it should be addressed as more than just 'poor people complaining'. And we also need to address the idea of rich people buying political positions. We need to stop allowing the rich to buy political favor. We need a political contribution overhaul.
EnderVexer 3 years ago
But the poor obviously BECAME poor because of their poor money choices, so we should tell them how to spend it. 🙄
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Please tell me you're being sarcastic.
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Mattie 2 years ago
Because when we tell poor people how to spend their money, we kind of know it's not going to be theirs for long (they have to spend it in order to survive) so there's a greater chance it will become ours. We will never get a dime from the rich anyway, they can't be swayed or convinced not to hoard wealth, so what's the point? To be clear, I hate this. We should make all ultra rich people live on minimum wage for a month (working 3 jobs to barely afford food and rent). If by the end of that month they haven't learned, let's keep them poor for as long as it takes for them to GET it.
#12
Whoooops…
Dillon Brown 3 years ago
The secondary prize on the lottery's 1 million dollars. It was a sad day when I realized that wasn't enough to retire on. Even stretching it out into my yearly tiny income it wouldn't go very far especially after you realize you lose half right off the bat then get hit with an insane tax bill again come tax time for being in a much higher tax bracket. So yeah, basically enough for a modest house and a couple new cars if the price of those don't keep rising too high 😮💨😭
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BoredPandaSucks 3 years ago
i can assure you, 100k a year is a 300% (or more) increase over what a lot of people are living on
Rougarou Cher 3 years ago
Wow, this one right here. And I thought management where I work is tone deaf.
DelvianBlue 3 years ago
60k is still a lot of money to some people. You could live pretty well on that.
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Marnie 3 years ago
Well, I mean, 100K isn't enough to live on for the rest of your life if you're young enough to not be retired, so maybe that's what she meant. I feel like this is a "and then everyone clapped" type of situation.
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
It was 100k per year (assumably for the rest of your life).
Load More Replies...We also asked Bursts how he believes we can get on the right track in terms of dismantling capitalism. “Dismantling this ecocidal and homicidal system will be drastic by some measures as it means fundamental changes to the administering of the needs of people, the opening up of the possibility for those affected by the damages of capitalism and colonialism, the restoring of habitats, the re-purposing of the means of production and distribution, of education,” he explained.
“The longer that the system continues on its current trajectory, the harder it will be for human (and other) life to thrive, let alone survive, on this planet,” Bursts added. “And the sooner that we free ourselves from the bonds of an economy that holds us hostage eight or more hours a day so that we have a safe(ish) place to lay our heads, the more time we’ll have to enjoy the fruits of that freedom and undo centuries of damage.”
#13
The American Dream Is To Move Out
Lord Rimuru 3 years ago
Welcome to the US. Where the richest people do the least amount of work
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Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
I wanted to make a joke about pizza pi π because it's a math teacher, and it'd be funny, but this is a real teacher's life, and that's not funny at all.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
Reminds me of Walter White working at the car wash and having to wipe down his snotty student's car and decided selling meth was better. At least this person was nice about it but it really is ridiculous that anyone who has a full time job can't afford to survive on that. I'm not saying that if you work in food service you should be living some billionaire lifestyle. But if you work a full time job, 40+ hours a week, you shouldn't have to then work another job just to afford your rent. If you're doing it because you want to okay but you shouldn't have to do it just to survive.
Daniel Shine 2 years ago
That username kind of racist tbh. Imagine if it said stop voting for old black men? or old brown men?
#14
The Amount Of Companies That Do This
The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
I was once promised a job that would reward me for my hard work... 2 years later, still no raise and twice the workload for 40+ hours a week and expected to work OT. I became a temporary alcoholic and then quit.... best decision ever.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
*number of companies. Amount refers to mass nouns like butter, sugar, salt, water.
#15
Could Not Agree More
Valaun 3 years ago
Couple that with "We are looking for a superstar that is dedicated to the company's success and faces all challenges with a 'Can Do' mentality". What they really want is a doormat that will work hard, give up their personal lives and accept our crappy wage and benefits with a smile on their faces.
Alan Christensen 3 years ago
By " competitive" they mean the employers are competing with each other to see who can get away with paying the least.
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
Some US states have started to have to post a salary goal/range. But employers have started to post ranges in the $109k range to subvert that.
Duane Johnston 3 years ago
This I agree with. Why would you consider taking a job when you don't have any idea what it pays. That just foolish.
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
I must be over tired. I first read salary as slavery. I was like " why would slavery be competitive? " then I read it again and it made more sense.
“The drastic-ness of the necessary shifts is increased by the fact that the classes that benefit most from the current state of affairs will never give up their power without a fight,” Bursts pointed out. “But currently, we don’t call the class war that is our daily life drastic, despite people dying for being denied medical treatment, thrown out into the streets for a break in their income flow, being locked in cages often for undiagnosed mental health issues like addiction or because they just cannot afford a good attorney, being born on the wrong side of a fence and unable to escape dire circumstances.”
“The world under capitalism is dire already and is everyday defended by security, police, prisons and armies and any attempt to change it will necessarily cause violent reaction from those forces and their backers.”
#16
Completely Unrealistic
Duane Ringlein 3 years ago
I'm 70 years old, and don't think anyone my age should be making decisions for the generations that are young now (millenials and gen z), the world and life isn't like it was when I was younger, you have to be willing to understand and accept that the world changes. Minimum wage should be increased and tied to inflation, so it can maintain what it was originally designed for.
DeoManus Argentem 3 years ago
Pay congressmen the national median income. Not $175-200k + crazy awesome benefits and per diems!
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
It's truly about putting many small businesses out of business. Mass unemployment. Even countries that are as progressive as Denmark don't have a minimum wage.
yellowphantom 3 years ago
It's not as much age as it is wealth. Rich people, even those not born to it, quickly lose touch with the reality of what most people have to live on and how much they have to pay.
Lara Verne 3 years ago
My grandmother told me I can rent spacious apartment in a city for 7000 czk/month (around 280 usd).
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
I'm >70, and I don't think any of those young whippersnappers should be making decisions for me, either!
Stephanie 3 years ago
So then two different governments? One for those 50 and older? And one for those 49 and younger? Who should be making governmental decisions for you?
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Just Gonna Leave This Here
BipolarExpress 3 years ago
Walgreens just closed a bunch if stores in San Francisco area. Said it was due to theft. But their shoplifting rates are lower
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
"U.S. government"? Walgreens isn't the "U.S. government". It's a corporation stealing money from people in this instance, not the government stealing money from people.
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#18
How You Should Respond
Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago
My work knows not to call me because I'm not coming in no matter what. I think I've worked one extra shift in 20 years because they offered me a ton of money to do it. Normally I don't even answer my phone if work is calling. They stopped even trying years ago.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Businesses that claim to be short-staffed are usually just short-salaried.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Sad but true story here. In the early '80's I worked as a deputy manager in a smallish hotel (40 bedrooms) in the West of England that belonged to a large chain of hotels (now defunct), I had 1.5 days off a week, with a normal week being 60 + hours. I would regularly be expected to work if there was anyone absent from any dept, until one day I found a company rule in the staff handbook that stated ' if an employee has consumed alcohol within an hour of the start of a shift they cannot work in any capacity - paraphrased). I was waking up at 5am and having Coffee and Whisky just to get out of that c**p, then onto a friends Hotel for opening time at 11am for beer etc etc. I was severely alcohol dependent for many years afterwards .... To add insult to injury, when the bastards sold the company after the death of the founder, they stiffed me for 10 years of redundancy that I was entitled to. F**k you Trusthouse Forte !!
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
"Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine". I had that sign hanging over my desk for YEARS.
R Dennis 3 years ago
I could always get employees to come in when I was a quick-service manager. I worked hard for them and helped them cover time off as well. It got to the point other managers would call me when I was off to get coverage for their shifts. I eventually stopped because the other managers were using me as a proxy and not making it worthwhile for me or the covering employee...
And when it comes to anyone who believes that capitalism has benefited their life, Bursts notes that it’s important not to confuse capitalism with society and sociality. “If you feel challenged and excited by the work that you do, ask yourself if that sort of work couldn’t exist in a system with different property relations,” he told Bored Panda. “If you enjoy the technologies you use in your daily life, the medicines you rely on, the house you sleep in: why couldn’t they, or their equivalents, exist in a society where people are motivated by curiosity, by care and responsibility, and likely produced in a more sustainable and ecologically balanced manner rather than in sweatshops or leaving sacrifice zones of extraction?”
“Imagine that the wealth that accumulates into the hands of fewer and fewer people each year was not actually skimmed off human need, if we didn’t have to work b.s. jobs (as Graeber put it) and if the people who do the work and live in the neighborhoods actually had direct say, collectively, in how our world worked?”
#19
I Think It's Belong Here
Riley77 3 years ago
in many states within the USA, there are programs for free phones for the homeless and poverty level residents ..
Jilltdcatlady 3 years ago
Yes. My neighbor was able to get one. He was mentally ill and his grandmother took care of him until she died. He wasn't able to keep a job for more than a month. And having any kind of bank account was impossible.
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Christophe Beunens 3 years ago
Somebody in South Africa told me : That phone is the only way to get to a job. It is the most vital part in their existance. If a farmer needs help, he will call you. You do not pick up after 3 rings, he calls the next person.
CHRIS DOMRES 3 years ago
Must be a burner phone. Otherwise where would they send the monthly bill?
#20
Imagine
Dillon Brown 3 years ago
What's sad is it was never meant to be a children's game. It was designed by an economics professor to show how the rich and lucky slowly hoard wealth and strangle everyone else away from it. I've heard a lot of theories that the anti trust laws and anti monopoly laws created the wealth and prosperity you saw in the "boomer" generation. Every example where the government came in and broke up monopolies it lead to greater innovation and better pay for the little guys.
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There is no "trickle down." All money flows upward — particularly the bit that trickled down — until it reaches those who don't need to spend it.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
"Trickle-down" economics is the Republican "unicorns and rainbows."
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago (edited)
The original game Monopoly was based on was called "The Landlord's Game," and it showed how unbalanced the economy was. 1903, I think.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
Lol and right after you get your 200 dollars you land on community chest where you lose a beauty contest and owe 180 of it. Over and over again. So you never get to buy anything. And then you get sent to jail for no reason.
Alicia Montagu 3 years ago
There is the anti-monopoly, 1 player sarts with some houses and a lot of money, the others with little money. It is fun and really frustrating because it is reallife-likz
Milford Biggenson 3 years ago
One poor guy who was born with a learning disability, couldn’t work a job, just wanted to enough money to pay his rent, buy his daughter a present for her birthday and so yeah, he lost it, was so frustrated at his situation he got a gun & robbed a bank during the day. As he ran down the street with enough money to alleviate some of the stress in his terrible life, money that the bank wouldn’t even miss accidentally and was insured for loss anyway, Spider-Man saw him and beat the c**p out of him and webbed him 50 feet in the air. Left him with injuries that endured he would continue eking out a living, but now with a criminal record. So yeah, yay superheroes.
Samyan Elrod 3 years ago
If one person started with 1b, one with 400k, and one with 50 it would be realistic
#21
Can't We Just Troll Sue Them Into Oblivion?
AbsintheMinded 3 years ago
This happens more than you think. A farmer tried to sue Monsanto b/c their crops were growing in his field of organic crops. Monsanto turned around & sued him for “stealing” their patented gmo crops, & won! This happened in Canada decades ago.
Patty Corbett 3 years ago
I remember there was a case where some GMO seeds blew in the wind to a neighboring farm and they grew and Monsanto sued the farmer. (I’m not sure if that’s the same case or not.) I thought it was insane because it’s not like he put a fan on his neighbor’s farm to direct the seeds to his farm. Just insanity.
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We also asked Bursts if he could recommend some steps that the average person could take to stop promoting capitalism. “We, all of us, must work to dismantle capitalism by promoting mutual aid amongst ourselves to lift the burden of suffering under capitalism while simultaneously building our collective strength to throw off the bow of exploitation,” he shared.
“Sit and think of where to start, where you can apply the most leverage and what skills you have and how you can be most powerful. Talk to your family and friends, your neighbors, people who don’t look like you, your coworkers, and find your points of unity and where you want to start. Form a tenants union in your building or a collective of renters in the same neighborhood. Get to know your coworkers, what they struggle with, and form a union to build solidarity and strength against the managers and owners. Then, reach past that to find commonality with others to support their struggles. Start a reading group to discuss current events and think of ways to intercede.”
#22
Undercover Bum
Phobrek 3 years ago
The first ep of the Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) series 30 Days had him and his wife trying to move to a new place and survive on minimum wage. Even though they were expecting it to be rough - and weren't usually living large like a CEO - there were plenty of good moments of realization. But yeah, would love to see super-rich types attempt the same.
Stacey Rae 3 years ago
Definitely longer than 3 months but without a definite ending date. Gotta take away all their hope just like they have done to us.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I want to abandon them in an inner city where people need to walk 2 miles to get to mass transit just to get to a job, spend 2-3 hours a day on mass transit, then realize that the money they spent on mass transit means they can't afford supper.
Rougarou Cher 3 years ago (edited)
I would like to see politicians do the same. Edit to add: not the lowest paid in the company but the minimum wage in their areas.
BoredPandaSucks 3 years ago
okay but it needs to be in a way where they think they actually lost everything. they can't know they will get all their wealth back, even if it was a longer duration it wouldn't have the desired effect on them. besides, do you really think the only reason they pay people shite is because they are clueless about such things? No it's greed. they don't give a F!
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
I once heard that in Japan the pay of the highest paid CEO of a company is directly tied to that of the lowest paid workers in that same company. The CEO salary doesn't go up unless the workers' goes up by the same percentage. IDK if it's still true, but it sounds like a good system.
#23
So True That I Am Amazed
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Obviously America. So sad. The richest country on Earth should be better than this surely ?
Lord Rimuru 3 years ago
But the governement and healthcare and insurance is about profit, not about doing the right thing. Nobody with money cares
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Leon Falcor 3 years ago
Can get a free toothbrush SOO many places.The mattress thing is just stupid. So many people sleep on the ground/floor. Just complain about the cancer.
Sara Seanor 3 years ago
Tay Zonday who posted this is the man who did the viral song "chocolate rain" from early internet times. That song is full of social commentary about systematic oppression.
Patty Corbett 3 years ago
Hearing loss leads to Alzheimer’s. I can’t afford a hearing aid. Thankfully now they’re over the counter, so I’m saving up for one. Can’t pay for a hearing aid? A few years later, enjoy your Alzheimer’s.
#24
This F*****g Motivational Quote When I Walked In This Morning
Katy Cordeth 3 years ago (edited)
I know it's a bit Godwin's law, but... work-will-...337e92.jpg 
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
For those who don't know "Work makes one free" is what the sign says. It was posted on the entrance to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. It's probably one of the fastest invocation of Godwin's Law I've ever seen, but I do understand the impulse. Also, if you're not aware, Godwin's Law (not a real law) states that as an online conversation grows, regardless of topic, the probability of comparison to Nazi Germany or Adolf Hitler approaches 1. I appreciate that Katy calls herself out on this one. You got my upvote.
Load More Replies... Timbob 3 years ago
My boss said he noticed I wasn’t working overtime. I told him my wife didn’t like it. He said he didn’t hire my wife. I said I didn’t marry him!
Michael Largey 3 years ago
The reward for rolling the rock up the mountain is watching it roll down again.
Mark Howell 3 years ago
Sisyphus is the patron saint of ordinary workers ;o)
Load More Replies... Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Personally, my motivation to work for this company would be so I could go in every day and punch the c**t who came up with this c**p in the face every day.
I Just Live Here 3 years ago
This is why they invented Post-Its. I'd be writing, "Bite me," on one and sticking it right on that screen!
Nicole Weymann 3 years ago
Off topic, but I love when company spends hundreds of bucks on equipment (screens in particular) and abuse it for idiot purposes like that one in the pic. Ruins the monitors, too, to keep them running with the same image for hours at a time. The quote is the mouldy cherry on that turd shake
Tyranamar Seuss 3 years ago
My dad always said this. The reward for doing good work is more work.
“This process of building relationships, helping others and ourselves, can’t just be charity if it is to be effective,” Bursts added. “This also means that if your organizing is effective towards building actual power, it will bring conflict from business, from the police and from reactionaries (racists, sexists, homophobes) who want to defend and expand the worst elements of this system.”
“Eventually, if we are building capacity, we will be forced to defend ourselves, our neighbors, our gains, and this is natural. As many have said, the systems we live under won’t give up easily. But our survival is at stake and is worth fighting for.”
If you're interested in delving deeper into this topic, Bursts suggests checking out writings by Peter Gelderloos, Tom Wetzel, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, and Cindy Barukh Milstein. And you’d like to hear more wise words about dismantling capitalism from Bursts and The Final Straw Radio team, you can find their show right here!
#25
Most Companies Want Your Soul, Too
The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
I have often considered getting into shape and stripping... some of these people make $2k a NIGHT...
Tamra 3 years ago
Hmmm. 🤔. $2K per night you say? I guess I could do that, but I'd be afraid my content would get pushed into a less than desirable niche, like "comedy" or "horror" even. 😂
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
I have certain talents people would pay money for, but I never want to meet those people.
Jude Corrigan 3 years ago
We all do, what we can live with, to earn a living. For some, it's asking if you want fries with that while hoping the customer isn't going to be horrible if they notice your smile is fake. For others it's convincing a room full of people you are enjoying doing your strip show as they tip more that way. Or putting charges onto a customers account when they don't have enough funds for a direct debit and refusing to remove them as you know you will be fired if you do.
#26
Wow Look At How Diverse Your Lowest Paying Jobs Are!
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
My experience with companies that preach diversity just put woman of color in middle management and call it a success.
#27
Found On Twitter… It’s A Vibe
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Same! One of the produce guys at my old workplace would hand customers a whole-a*s banana for free. No one batted an eye. XD
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AbsintheMinded 3 years ago
Eating food that hasn’t been cleansed of pesticides/herbicides is probably not the best idea.
Donna Clanclan 3 years ago
:shudder: I don't have near the horror stories others do, but still retail was so so terrible.
If you’re feeling inspired to quit your job and find one you’re more passionate about, I encourage you to go and explore! Don’t let capitalism make you feel forced into one specific path or brainwash you into believing that suffering is normal. Keep upvoting the pictures that you find painfully relatable, and let us know in the comments how you’d like to challenge the system. Then, if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring memes about capitalism, you can find that right here!
#28
So Damn Accurate
Jeff Gabrisl 3 years ago
This exactly! Boomers are the rudest most entitled people there are, and the treat customer service/retail employees like they are doing us a favor by coming in! "Well then I'm never shopping here again" isn't a threat, we honestly hope to never see you again.
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
Will people please stop generalizing about different generations. Not all boomers are rude, not all young people are whiny and lazy. As a boomer, I actually remember being young and the same thing was said about my generation. When young people get to be boomer age you’re going to hear the same thing we are. That is also a “circle of life”.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Interesting. My mother is 80 and I’ve been going out with her quite a bit. What is really shocking is how horribly old people, especially petite women like my mother, are treated. Absolutely no accommodation to help them - even some restaurants won’t give you a physical menu unless you make a big fuss. The sighs and the eye rolling when you ask for help! My mother mostly puts up with it but I think they should do more freaking out and yelling because it is so horrible.
Tunk 3 years ago
Agree. I have been really saddened by how I have seen the elderly treated. And you are also right in regard to the eye rolls and complete apathy. I understand. I would not want to work in certain environments for little pay but if you are going to do it, do it well. Its attitude not age. I hate that a lot of elderly people are treated as an inconvenience. Its a statement of our societal values or lack of them.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 3 years ago
Unfortunately, stereotypes exist, and I dislike those who paint people with a broad brush. Why can't we stop with stereotypes?
Leon Falcor 3 years ago
Customer care is about emotional maturity. 3 years exp isn't much. About 7 years shy of the understood professional level.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Back when I was online dating I went out to dinner with this guy. Looked great on paper, total jerk IRL. He was so rude & condescending to our server I literally just stared at him in shock. Then I was like "Nope", just grabbed my purse and walked out. He actually texted me asking what MY problem was. I texted back that he was an absolute jackass, his behavior was appalling and asked if he liked kicking puppies, too. I made sure to put that "review" on the dating site where we met.
Marvin HoG 3 years ago
Oh yeah my dad will complain about how lazy and entitled and rude millennials are then outright insult my beliefs all in the same sentence.
Love the Whippets 3 years ago
When I called people as a COVID contact tracer the older people were generally more willing to talk on the phone and were polite but not always. They probably had more time but were sometimes rude and nasty.
Alan Christensen 3 years ago
Well, older people have spent more years being beaten down by the system. They dare not take it out on their oppressors, so they lash out at whomever looks like a safe target.
#29
This Belongs Here
Beck 3 years ago
My mom works at a bank and has an office. She would nit let anyone in her office a few months ago without a mask. The maskless went to corporate and complained. She was not allowed to keep the maskless from her office. A weeks after that the whole office got covid including her and corporate bitched at her for not enforcing masks. She just rolled her eyes and took vacation time. She retires next year thankfully.
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Reviewer UK01 3 years ago
We got docked our bonus and called out in front of the other teams because someone on our team was off sick. He was having surgery for a BRAIN TUMOR
Gossameringue 3 years ago
The whole "Perfect Attendance Award" is mad toxic. An award for not realizing that life is more than work or school? Burn out much?
Rider 3 years ago
Dude I got s**t yesterday when I told work I couldn't help outside because I was still recovering from a sinus infection. Boss's assistant said if I wasn't feeling well I should go home. I feel well enough for the desk job I was hired for and it's perfectly reasonable to not want to be in the f*****g rain when you aren't 100%. F**k you Adriana.
Jenny Penny 3 years ago
When I was in high school (all girls school, many years ago), my gym teacher told us that if we missed gym because of our monthly cycles, we’d never get into college and would have a hard time finding jobs. Why? Because apparently colleges and employers look for patterns in your absences and if you can’t handle menstrual cramps then no way could you handle education or employment. Ugh.
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
At our high school, they gave out certificates for perfect attendance at the annual Awards Night. I can't recall any of them ever showing up to claim their certificate.
EnderVexer 3 years ago
Even though if you come in sick you are going to get more people sick making things even worse.
#30
Thoughts?
Nona Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
My parents paid $10 k for their first house. I paid that much for my first car (used, btw)
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Ah, bygone days. My first car (also used) was $1,300 :) I was 16 and it was 1998. Paid for it with my own money I'd earned from my job. And I think my parents paid very little for their first home when they bought it in the 70s.
Load More Replies... El Dee 3 years ago (edited)
'The Good Old Days' is nonsense. Everyone seems to think there were halcyon days that were better than we have it now. We had legally enforced racism and sexism. Legally enforced homophobia. Lynchings too. Medicine meant that you died earlier and in more pain, higher infant mortality, illegal abortions (on their way back for some) extreme poverty and absolutely no recourse at all for anyone who wasn't rich against anything that happened to them ever. Celebs weren't 'cancelled' for their poor and/or illegal behaviour - it was just covered up and they went on their merry way - maybe while some cops lined their pockets. Absolutely no one would believe you if you, as a child, said you were abused and physical abuse was not only allowed but encouraged. But yeh, cheaper houses - whoop!
Stacey Rae 3 years ago
What motivation is there for the younger generation to work hard if they can never recieve any substantial rewards?
Valaun 3 years ago
Yeah, the problem isn't so much that they got lucky but more one of once they got theirs, they wouldn't stop taking. They didn't care about the future, they didn't care about their kids or the planet. What they cared about was making sure that, when faced with possibility of having to pay $10/ month more for electricity because of the threat that pollution control would up their electric bill, they went with themselves. When companies decided to get rid of pensions for 401ks, they were cool with that so long as they got their pensions. When healthcare started getting crazy expensive, they didn't want social medicine because they had their healthcare locked up and didn't want to pay a bit more in taxes. When their parents generation saved and passed on generational homes and big saving accounts, they chose selling and going on vacation rather than keep it in the family. Republicans figured out long ago they could do what they wanted, so long as they didn't take it from the Boomers.
Dan Holden 3 years ago
This is why I get so annoyed at all the boomer hate online. They just got lucky. They were born at the right time. They took the hand that they were dealt and ran with it. Now that current generations aren't as well off, we blame them, as if we wouldn't have done the same thing they did under the same circumstances. There are also a lot of boomers who are currently struggling, barely managing to get by on their pittance of a pension.
Love the Whippets 3 years ago
You have to remember that salaries were so much lower as were prices. No generation had a walk in the park. The 50's were a stifling era with a lot of people shut out of opportunities. The decline of earnings and the buying power of the middle class declining started with Reagan. Not sure why people have been kissing his picture.
A. Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
And it was different for their parents, and their parents, all down the line.
The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
My mom paid $83k for her first house, still her house. But she was also a single mom of 3 making $8/hr. So...
yellowphantom 3 years ago
That tiny condo we bought in the early 80's for $50,000 had a 15% mortgage interest rate. Total amount paid would be over $227,00, of which about $177,000 was interest. If you bought that same condo last year at 3% interest, for $150,000, which is what they were going for, you would also pay $227,000 total but only $77,000 would be interest. You pay the same thing as we did but end up $100,000 richer. Oh and my income, with a doctorate, was $18,000 a year so of course both of us had to work full time. These historic costs being cited are meaningless unless you also include factors like income and interest rates.
#31
I’d Love To Do This
Alan Christensen 3 years ago
The big plan for employers is to mess with the cost of living so that people become desperate enough to work any horrible job for horrible pay.
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
It's gotten to the point where, honestly, I actually appreciate the guy for at least telling me. So many times it's like you have to go through 3 interviews before you find out what your salary will be and sometimes it's like... we put you through this Fort Knox-level security and all these interviews for a job that pays 22k a year. Thanks for wasting my time.
Donna Clanclan 3 years ago
Just started college and needed a part time job. Got an interview for receptionist at a local company. A bit confused when they said the interview would be at the news paper building. Got near the end of his spiel about working there and realized it wasn't for a receptionist position but telemarketing. The news paper company was renting out a part of the building to him. He asked if I could see myself making that kinda of money. I paused too long as I weighed my desire to pay for college and what I was willing to do for it. Told him I could see it, but not as a telemarketer. He said I paused too long for effect and next time I needed to do it right. I got up, thanked him, and turned to leave. He was shocked and chased me to the door trying to get me to stay as he was sure he could talk me into the job.
#32
Title
SealOfDisapproval 3 years ago
I have declined promotions because they would have been detrimental to my life as a whole.
Jen Keefe 3 years ago
At my former company, my boss and his wife worked until almost 70, though they owned 2 homes outright and were very well off. She got sick right after so now they cannot travel and enjoy their plans. I watched a woman work with cancer until she died, had a meeting the day before she passed. Enjoy life now.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Saving for retirement was not originally designed to enjoy. It was to ensure that you had enough money to live on once you became unable to work. The alternative was homelessness, starvation or the workhouse. If you had enough to enjoy, that was great. So many people are now unable to save for retirement and their old age will not be enjoyable.
Duane Johnston 3 years ago
Until WW2 it was just work your whole life. Few years before I croak is better than it was 75 years ago
#33
Sums It Up Perfectly
#34
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
James016 3 years ago
Autistic people will tell it to you straight so careful what and how you ask.
Dan Padgett 3 years ago
My nephew is autistic and the most literal person in the world. My son who is also autistic is a little bit better with the home thruths
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Alexis Valenzuela 3 years ago
As someone with autism, I confirm this message 100% I will tell the truth to your face regardless if it hurts or not. We are pretty much very honest people.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I worked for a tableware company in Seattle. The owner was one of the most narcissistic, two faced, back stabbing, pill popping b*tches I've ever met. Luckily, as the bookkeeper I answered to her husband, who was the CFO. He was wonderful. She made a game of picking an employee and making their lives so unbearable they finally quit. Year five and it was my turn. Now, having a Masters in Art History does not mean you know how to read/understand a Profit & Loss statement, or a balance sheet for that matter. She'd come to me mid month and want "up to date" financials, which isn't possible. Sure, I can print the reports but they won't be in the least bit accurate. Finally had enough of her sh*t & resigned. At my exit interview (with the husband) I held NOTHING back. How she made me go through his AMEX statements with a fine tooth comb, give her copies of his cell phone statement (she was beyond insecure and always assumed he was cheating.) Not very professional, but felt great.
#35
Companies Be Like:
#36
Tips For Younger Folks In The Workplace
Jake Banana 3 years ago
I did this at my crappy office job in the '90s, and always got s**t for it, as a joke! Of course! Wokka wokka wokka! But I was so f*****g good at my job that they had to hire two people to replace me, then proceeded to go out of business within 18 months. Joke's on them!
Michael Largey 3 years ago
If your taking time off disrupts the company that much, then you're obviously way underpaid.
Syrah 3 years ago (edited)
Who the F**k believes you shouldn't take your holiday allowance, wanker.
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
5. ... Or apply for their job as you're clearly better than them at it.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Worked for a guy who assumed I was available 24/7. I went to the office on Mondays and worked the rest of the week from home. I didn't have set hours, would just do whatever, whenever, but I did make it very clear that I did not begin my day until 10:00am. He scheduled a conference call with a client for 9:30am and didn't bother telling me. Well, when he called I was "indisposed". He left me a really nasty voice message. I called him back about 1/2 hour later. He starts ripping into me. I let him rant and then asked, "Are you finished? Good. A) I was not aware you had scheduled this call because you NEVER BOTHERED TO TELL ME, B) I have made it perfectly clear that my workday does not begin before 10:00am and C) I didn't answer because I was in the restroom. If you would enjoy listening to me in the throes of painful & explosive diarrhea, I'll make sure to bring my phone with me in the future." Bear in mind that I'm self employed, so he was technically a client, not my boss.
TrashPandaSociety 3 years ago
At my old job they wanted to pay us minimal wage with no benefits and mandatory union dues to dress, bathe, toilet, groom and escort 25 elderly people for 8 hours a day and then got angry when we would call in sick with COVID or when someone was no call, no show for a shift. They lost 10 employees from rage quitting in three months.
#37
• ₊°✧︡ ˗ˏ ˋ ♡ ˎˊ ˗no
Hello_my_name_is_Genevieve 3 years ago
This! My company 'offers' its employees a poem for Christmas. A poem! How about a Christmas bonus or just, I don't know, inflation-adjusted salaries?
Michael Largey 3 years ago
The next time they ask you to work on Saturday, text them a sonnet.
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Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
That's the hipocrisy people notice but can't say out loud because they'll be called bigots and cancelled.
#38
Coffee
The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
Or clean your house... Like, who's the unskilled one now, you can't even vacuum.
Marvin HoG 3 years ago
Oh if I ever have the money I'm hiring someone to clean for me. I'm skilled enough at it, I just don't want to do it!
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Little Wonder 3 years ago
I was thinking the other night that there should be a reality show where people who look down on retail, fast food, hospitality workers have to do a shift of one of those jobs and find out just how skilled you actually do need to be, which is very.
Duane Johnston 3 years ago
Unfortunately employers have forgotten that you learn skills by doing. Nobody walks out of a classroom with skill. They walk out with education. The 2 are entirely different
Bruce Horton 3 years ago
Ya, I've kinda noticed the same trend among high school and university students, all seem to luv their Starbucks. I guess the capitalists have brain washed them.
#39
This Showed Up On My Newsfeed Today And I Couldn’t Agree More
CHRIS DOMRES 3 years ago
But now it takes weeks to get tradesmen to come to your house to fix anything. Electricians and plumbers and handymen now charge $150 per hour. So why aren't more young people getting into those lines of work? The world certainly needs them.
KBT 3 years ago
Uh, are you male? Trades is still an extremely toxic industry for women so it's a no brainer why women would rather suffer than go into that line of work.
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Dave Anderson 3 years ago
The company I worked for paid their plumbers a quarter of what they charged at the high end. We were expected to be at work early and work “until the job is done”. They decided what jobs we got and were happy to give us another one, with an hour drive, at six o’clock on a Friday. They gave us two holidays off and two days extra off that we could only use if we worked the day before and the day after (no long weekends). If we called in sick, had medical appoints, life situations, etc. they would say we were missing too much work and use it as an excuse to give us smaller raises. We drove their trucks and they bought us our tools (which they kept if you left) which was a nice thing. Most of the people were white males, drug addicts, drunks, divorced, with a criminal record. Everyone gossiped like it was high school and stabbed each other in the back. It was such a relief when I found another job.
#40
Bloomberg… Your Bias Is Showing
Sonja 3 years ago
I have found a better job, I quit. Here, that's it. Never try to leverage better conditions with another job offer. It the company isn't willing to pay what you wanted and you managed to find a petter paying position, just take it and go! No good will ever come from accepting a counteroffer. In the best case you'll have to go through all that hassle again the next time a raise is due, in the worst case they'll find a replacement for you and fire you as soon as that replacement is ready because they know you'll be able to get something better and will use that for leverage so they have to pay to keep you
Kiss Army 3 years ago
I did it... sort of. I just told them I was looking at other options because I did not feel like I was as valued as I should be, and they offered me $5 more an hour to reconsider. I stayed, I even though I am within 1.5 years of being retirement eligible, my retirement pay is calculated on the average of my highest 3 years of salary; so not only will I make more by staying on for 3 more years, but I will also make more for my retirement years, so it was very worth it to stay.
Load More Replies... Alan Christensen 3 years ago
Basic principle of capitalism: receive as much money as you can while delivering the least that you can get away with. Employers hate it when employees want to play the same game.
El Dee 3 years ago
Isn't what they're doing called Capitalism? ie If the market is paying more than the current customer is willing to pay then they (customer) either has to pay more or stop buying the product (employee) This is why unions are not socialist, they are the ultimate Capitalist statement - controversial, yes and food for thought.
#41
There Are More Of Us Than Them
BoredPandaSucks 3 years ago
if you go back far enough, "He fought for it. is probably he killed the indigenous inhabitants of the land with the approval and assistance of the government. otherwise more recently, he used the legal system to f**k someone out of it.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Id just like to take this moment to refer us all back to that experiment in which they put a bunch of girls together for a week and a bunch of boys together for a week. The two groups developed radically different social structures. This cartoon reminds me of the boys........forming gangs, fighting for resources, etc.
Panda Boi 3 years ago
He'll just pay some people with guns to protect the land from being stolen again.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
But what if the people speaking to Mr. Moneybags can get their own guns? What if this is the USA where just about anybody can buy a firearm?
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Really depends on how much you're marking up those antidepressants.
#44
Millennials Are Causing A "Baby Bust" - What The Actual Fuck?
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
We don't NEED to keep America's population at "replacement levels", holy c**p. Humans are overpopulated already.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
it's about the amount of tax money coming in to support things like social security, public education, etc. Admittedly if you defunded the military you'd have more money available.
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lazy panda 3 years ago
ik most ppl my age (im gen z) arent gonna have kids either bc we know everythings just gonna get worse.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
You want Millennials and Gen Z to have more babies? Raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Stop spending such obscene gobs of money on the military and spend more on education, infrastructure, etc. Take what measures you can to deal with climate change. Eliminate corporate welfare and the ridiculous tax cuts for the rich. Make higher education affordable, if not free. Make health care affordable. Provide a lot more affordable housing. But the Powers That Be won't do any of that because they are beholden to the fat-a**ed CEOs of mega-corporations.
Load More Replies... The Other Other White Meat 3 years ago
Not to mention the world population as a whole... we don't need 8 billion people on this goddamn planet, stop having kids for a couple years sheesh.
I Just Live Here 3 years ago
This isn't the first time it's happened. I was born in the mid 1970's to actual Boomers, and when I started working after college, there was a real concern about how my generation would be able to "support" the Baby Boomers as they retired (not enough tax money to find US Social Security.)
Leesa DeAndrea 3 years ago
There's millions on our south border who eager to cross over & fill the gaps.
Laura Gillette 3 years ago
In addition to making a living wage the new minimum wage, maybe if we stopped trying so hard to keep immigrants out, we wouldn't be in danger of the whole "replacement level" thing... just a thought.
#45
I’d Like To Thank My Job For Giving Me All Four Of These
Katy Cordeth 3 years ago (edited)
It's okay, thirty-year-olds. I promise by the time you get to be forty like me, all of these will be a thing of the past. You'll have plenty of money in your bank account, the bad relationship story will be funny to you rather than heartbreaking, you'll have no more anxiety, and as for your back, your spine will be as limber as a (google it) hero shrew's. Nah, I'm totally kidding. It's even more downhill from here. Sucks to be you! And me.
Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
Seriously, I’m 40 and I was reading your comment and I was like … what?! nope, nope, nope… I don’t have ANY of those… OH! Haha, you’re kidding. Yep. XD WHY IS LIFE
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ObsidianAce_ 3 years ago
I’d like to help my parents for helping me achieve the first one on this list before I turned 20. The rest was all me, baby.
boredatwork 3 years ago
Yes! I have finally hit a trifecta! Got em all! I would like to thank the academy and my high school self for helping me accomplish these goals
Duane Johnston 3 years ago
By 40 you'll have 1. 3 herniated disc's 2. A divorce. 3. Synicism 4. $10 in your account. The best part is they'll fire you for poor performance due to injury.
#46
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
#47
Gonna Leave This Here
Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago
No way you're there by age 80 in the USA. Give it another 20 years and *maybe* you can afford to have your first kid.
Sweet_Dee 3 years ago
This makes me happy my husband and I had kids when we were "young and dumb" and "didn't know better" - never worried about how we'd afford them, weren't married at the time, just ran in full steam ahead. Best stupid decision we ever made. 15 years and 2 awesome little people later and we wouldn't change a thing.
#48
Best Part Of The Work Day
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Beaches? You mean the cat litter boxes? Those are the only things with "sand" in my house... XD
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Marion Goriak 3 years ago
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time.
#49
I Like This Energy
Annabeth Chase 3 years ago
keep playing What's New Pussy Cat over and over again, then play another song once......and immediately go back to Whats New Pussy Cat
Luke Branwen 3 years ago
Don't forget to play "It's not unusual" once to make them feel a fake sense of relief... then hit them with "What's new pussycat" again!
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Desiree McKinnon 3 years ago
Toss in some Gangsta Rap for a little flavor
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer",,, and it's January 11th...over and over and over and over and ,,,,
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
It's 4:15am. I can't sleep. I listened to this. I don't want to have ears any more XD
Load More Replies... AbsintheMinded 3 years ago
Play “The bird is the word” with Peter Griffin’s voice. Or Roger’s “Trip tripity o’ tripping balls” on repeat, lol.
Zenozenobee 3 years ago
Careful with this song, remember the DJ that been beaten up for playing it 10 times during a set.
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#50
Why We Like This
Emma Kilcup 3 years ago
"We drive our cars every day, To and from work both ways, So we make just enough to pay, To drive our cars to work each day" Did anyone else think of this?
Kate Jones 3 years ago (edited)
Honestly I don't mind this. At this point in my life I've been in customer service for so long I'm kind of surprised I haven't actually killed anyone. My dream is a job not talking directly to customers. So working all day doing data entry or something would be ideal. That job just seems to not exist anymore or they expect a lot of experience to do it. I think the new american dream is to simply talk to the least amount of people we possibly can. The Office Work model of being bored at work doesn't really apply anymore.
#51
The Whole Thing Is Just One Big Scam At This Point We Need To Get Rid Of It
#52
Oh, Also, It's Only $12 Per Hour
#54
Yesyesnono
Alan Christensen 3 years ago
Well, see, the first mistake was adoring the job. "We don't need to pay Venusian Thot much because they love the job so much they'd probably do it for free." It's the people who hate their job, who are ready to quit, who complain to management, that get the raises.
#55
Asking The Real Questions
Katy Cordeth 3 years ago
This. This is what happens. What's past is prologue. Vive la révolution! guillotine...da7719.jpg 
Elizabeth Tayler 3 years ago
I've been wondering this myself. The wealthy want to eliminate the poor, but who's going to work for you & buy your c**p?
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
That's what they never think. Robots don't buy clothes, food, furniture or bobble-heads. When nobody has any money except for the CEOs, stores will close, restaurants will close, everything will close. The 1% are strangling the goose that lays their golden eggs.
Load More Replies... Sonja 3 years ago
Then the economy will crash because capitalism needs well paid workers to spend their money to keep going, the people on top just regularly forget that until the next recession teaches them anew and things get better for a while until they sit in their bubble again and forget that if they don't share their excess, that money will be worth absolutely nothing when the next crash comes
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
no they are talking about rich people not boomers
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#56
Worry Free From Sorry To Bother You Vibes
#57
I'm So Proud
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
As a baby boomer I am just wondering, how does a person pay rent and buy food if they just quit their toxic job?
Sara Seanor 3 years ago
Get a different job until you find one that makes you the least miserable. We are taught to stick out with what life dumps on us. Taught to wear blinders that have us missing out on opportunities because we "should just be grateful for what we have". The forced idea that when "life gives you lemons" you can't pass off those lemons to someone who likes lemonade while you take up some oranges and make yourself some orange juice. The fear that is instilled in us that pushes our sights down and away from other avenues because it would be ungrateful to grow out of just having a job and into having a job that excites us, teaches us or makes us happy. Coporations don't want the work force to know their actual value or how much they are relied upon. A missing cog in the machine means that the machine can't function properly. As workers we are worth more than a paycheck doled out with a grimace. If it is your livelihood that means it is a big part of your life.
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#58
I’m With This Guy
#59
A Moment Of Silence For Those Working In Retail
Jesse 3 years ago
Come to Germany, retail hours are 8:30 to 18:30 during the week and 8:30 to 13:00 on Saturdays. Sunday's free
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago (edited)
The problem in the US [among many] is that we've been indoctrinated into a belief that consuming products will fill the hole in our lives that lack of meaning has left and if we close stuff on Sundays,,, how will we consume???
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#60
This Is Too Funny!
#61
American Dream
Sonja 3 years ago
Al Bundy could afford a family and a house in a good neighbourhood, a car and a dog at the wage of a shoe salesman while today people can barely afford a room in a shared living situation while working a full time job. I'm not criticising that Al Bundy had a house, even though HE definitely didn't deserve it, I'm criticising that some people think that others working full time don't deserve being able to live off of that.
Jake Banana 3 years ago
When these shows began in the late '80s/early '90s, even then it was unrealistic for the average single breadwinner family to afford homes like that. You have to back to the '70s for that paradigm to exist.
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AndThenICommented 3 years ago
The Simpsons house was bought with money from Grandpa Simpson selling this own home…which he won off a crooked game show a la Quiz Show. But don’t let this distract from it being much harder to own now, and wages have definitely not kept up with inflation
Beck 3 years ago
When minimum wage was created it was meant to support a man with a wife and kids and a white picket fence. They were able to live comfortable in a nice house and still have enough for vacations. Now it is not sustainable. You cannot buy a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk after working one hour.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
This was NOT normal in the 1990s. It was normal-ish for white people before the Carter administration and the energy crisis in the late 1970s. But once the Regan administration came in, with the notion of trickle down economics, it became largely out of reach for any family with only one wage earner.
#62
You Don't Say
#63
Sounds Vaguely Familiar
Catman (He/Him) 3 years ago
No, too young. Wait 6 years and gain 10 more years of experince, then maybe he's ready.
Zephyr343 3 years ago
Don't forget he also has to have at least 2 Masters degrees
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#64
Let's Frickin Go
Tess 3 years ago
I'd be far more productive during a work day if I knew that three hours in, it was already half way over.
Load More Replies... Tess 3 years ago
People who are getting night time penalty rates of a living wage, plus tips, for being willing to work in the dark.
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#66
Amazon Is Inhumane
Jake Banana 3 years ago
This is why companies don't like to hire older workers. If some pimply 20-something supervisor told me (57m) I couldn't go to the bathroom without permission, I'd give him my "What the f**k are you saying? Dumbass..." look (perfected over many, many years of dealing with idiots) and go pee. They'd either fire me or fire him and make me supervisor. But when I was a 20-30 something, I would have put my head down, said "Yes sir" and pissed in a bottle. Y'all need unions.
Rachelle Knight 3 years ago
Seems like the logical step is to p**s ON the supervisor. It resolves the entire issue immediately.
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Snorky The Pig 3 years ago (edited)
I work at Nordstrom, or, as I call it, "Nordy High." The (micro) manager just told me that if he catches me on my phone again, even just to check a text, he will have to"send me home." 🤬 This is not school. This is not acceptable. This is not how I will spend my adult life. I am quitting without notice after today 😊 sorry not sorry.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
well stop buying from amazon so that it goes bust? Is it that difficult? there are surely alternatives.
Alexej Dvorak 3 years ago
In regards to the title of the article.. this is NOT a meme. This is just plainly where we're at.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago (edited)
Women need to change tampons. Everyone gets diarrhea. Lie to make these bathroom police comply to your needs.
#67
Boomers vs. Millennials
Anne Jones 3 years ago (edited)
This must be in America because I’m British and worked 50 years to receive £10,000 a year state pension. Yes I’m a boomer.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
My parents are boomers and I guess I'm technically one as well (I was born on the "cusp" so I'm also gen-x). I'm sooo tired of the boomer-bashing lately! No one my age and older that I know is rich, entitled, or nasty to workers. My parents both worked and I live below the poverty level. A friend of mine works two jobs in addition to running his own graphic design business just to make ends meet. When I was in my 20's and early 30's I worked retail and food service, so I know how hard it is. Plus, my parents raised my siblings and I to be polite to other people, and to appreciate what we have without obsessing over what we don't. It's not that difficult to do.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
And before climate change destroys everything, we can at least construct Knowledge Arks so our descendants can learn from our mistakes.
Jilltdcatlady 3 years ago
At one time my retirement plan was to commit a felony for life in prison. Free housing, meals, healthcare, medication.
#68
They’ll Make Clowns Of Us All
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
I got my first retail job at age 37 after working at my family's small business since I was 13. I did this EXACT THING with my department manager and my head manager. After 2 1/2 years, I was burned out, miserable, a nervous wreck before every shift... I was the longest-tenured employee in my department (most people quit after a month or two in my department) but I was paid less than even new hires. It was hard for me to "realize" that my managers DID NOT CARE about me and would just use me until I was completely drained of all life and "soul". I would not be given a raise, no matter how hard I worked, no matter how many solutions I came up with to make the department run better, no matter how many shifts I covered when others called out sick, no matter how many holidays I worked. It was a hard lesson for me.
Zephyr343 3 years ago
Also, be aware of doing any extra work for your employer. It can set a dangerous precedence that they will now "expect" that from you in the future. "Lakota offered to pick up office supplies once as a favor, now it is their job"
Load More Replies... Jilltdcatlady 3 years ago
This is what it means to work in an "at will" state. Give the boss a silly reason and you're fired.
#69
Came Into Work This Morning To Find This Taped To The Wall. Boss Went On Tirade Against Me And Co-Worker Yesterday For Taking To Each Other With No Customers In The Store
Phobrek 3 years ago
Start mocking and insulting the boss to his face on a regular basis. If he protests, offer "NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS, YOU #$%&. This isn't supposed to be fun."
Alexej Dvorak 3 years ago
I was gonna post "I Hope everyone quit that day", but I love your idea much much more!
Load More Replies... Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Once again, a 'manager' who needs taking outside for a little ' up close and personal' time. Or a punch in the gob.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
If he likes workplace silence, wait till he finds out about "quiet quitting".
#70
Please Note The Timestamps. Any Suggestions On How To Deal With This Outrageous Unfairness?
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
This is exactly how texts between my older sister and I go. XD She'll tell me something, then deny that she ever said it. I'll send her screenshots of her saying it. She still denies it. What's scary is that my sister runs the family business... I have zero doubts she's THIS kind of boss to the employees, too.
Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
Learn everything you can use elsewhere from this job; Become irreplaceable; find a better job; quit.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
"You're not going to argue? Good, I assume that means you're about to shut up and listen to reason."
#71
At A Certain Point It All Just Feels Like A Constant Distraction
#72
This Has Been Quite The Crushing Realization As I Transition To Post-Grad Life
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Life has always been this way for humans. I am pretty sure this is why strong humans came up with the idea of getting others to work for them.? If I can strong arm someone else into getting me food, building me shelter, etc. Then I can spend my time doing what I prefer.
#74
Mindset Still Ruined Even On Our Only Rest Day
#75
Master's Degree Required For A Minimum Wage Job
#76
Get That Double Meat
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
You know where Subway's top management can shove that *#&^%@ gift card!
#77
He Was Hoping For The Opposite Result
Michael Largey 3 years ago
But if you happen to already be doing your dream job (like I was), you'd pick #2 anyway. So that may distort the numbers a bit.
#78
I Left My Job Shortly After Receiving This Prize For My Good Work 😂😂😅
Jilltdcatlady 3 years ago
I'm surprised they didn't include"cannot be taken as a continous 10 minutes".
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
This call center behavior. Worked in customer service for years. They give this out as a prize because it’s a relief to get off the phones. You work 8-10 hours a day, sitting in a bad uncomfortable chair, have to constantly be available for the next call, you have to have 30 seconds or less between calls. Calls can’t be too long, wrapping up after a call more than 2 minutes gets you in trouble. You have 2 very very timed breaks and one very very timed 30 minute lunch break. Going to the bathroom outside those times is unacceptable unless it’s medically necessary. I’m diabetic and that was not considered medically necessary. I worked from 92 to 2018. All call centers and it destroyed my body. Now I’m on disability and in a wheelchair. If anyone works as a customer service associate in a call center…get out ADAP. Don’t end up like me disabled before you’re 50, and yes I did qualify for social security disability on my first attempt. Golden years my foot.
#79
This Was Posted On Another Sub But Definitely Belongs Here
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Or thrown from a great height onto the executives' parking lot.
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#81
Just Saw This In A Mcdonald’s…
CanadianDimes 3 years ago
It really hits the message home when the word 'pay' is in quotation marks...
Jake Banana 3 years ago
That's illegal. Talk about your salary at work. Then, when you're fired, sue their asses. Really.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 3 years ago
You can shout your pay from the rooftops. If saying that you can't is their policy then their policy is illegal.
#82
Circle Of Life
Nona Wolf 3 years ago
Me: joined the Army to get GI bill to pay for college. Risked my life and ruined my health. My cousin Andy: got a job in construction, makes twice my salary as a backhoe operator. Lesson: college is a waste for most people (me included)
Wintermute 3 years ago
I always tell young people the story of when I was standing in the garage of an old high school buddy with one of my college friends. We graduates were looking at his hot rod that he paid for by working as a mechanic with no degree. I said, "Look what we could have had if we hadn't gone to college."
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
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#85
Didn't Think It Will Be So Drastic
Detective Miller's Hat 3 years ago
My last real vacation was the 2 weeks I spent in the loony bin last year after a suicide attempt. But hey at least my boss reduced my hours from 9-5 to 10-4!
#86
It Do Be Like That Though
#87
It's Funny Because It's True
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
No sir. That is the time you march out the front door flipping birds and dancing
#88
Maybe Belongs Here, Maybe Doesn’t. But I Thought We Would Find This Funny
Snorky The Pig 3 years ago
#smalldickenergy on the manager's part...his name is Andrew so not surprised 🤮
#89
That Or The Famous, “So What Makes You Want To Work For Our Company?” Question
Nathanael aka the American one 3 years ago
He does kinda riff on products made for disabled people tho
Load More Replies... Colt Seavers 3 years ago
I once interviewed for a job but got denied because I didn't seem "excited" enough by the company. I laughed all the way to the door.
#90
Child Labour, Fantastic
Jake Banana 3 years ago
If I went to a decent restaurant and a 14-year-old was my waiter, I'd probably walk out. Actually, I'd do that anywhere I saw 14-year-olds working.
A random nerd <3 3 years ago (edited)
Honestly, when I was fourteen I could not wait to work, and I had experience as a server at school events! Just for context's sake I'm 16 years old so I am currently working.
Load More Replies... AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Ah yes. Let’s let 14 years work a closing shift then start school at 7:30 the next morning. I suppose we yell at them for not being adult enough when they miss school or are chronically late…wtf is wrong with these politicians (and voters)?
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Let's all try to guess this guy's political party. (And it is almost certainly a guy.)
#91
I Think I’m Gonna Puke
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I strongly doubt Nike had anything to do with this.
Load More Replies... cecilia kilian 3 years ago
Not a fan of the "just do it" corporation, but I am wondering if the swoosh was hijacked to give the sign more cred. Can anyone enlighten me?
Jilltdcatlady 3 years ago (edited)
Allow me to translate: Let us abuse your child until the are too cowed to speak up for themselves. (Didn't know if cowed was a common word or not, it means to 'submit to one's wishes thru intimidation)
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Yes, kids need some discipline - but on the other hand, they have the right to fight back against those who are being TOO tough on them.
#93
“It Is What It Is”
Michael Largey 3 years ago
It's absolutely wild that you don't realize that millions never even get a chance at what you describe.
Senjo Krane 3 years ago
We do know there's something deeply f****n g wrong with it but we have no choice now do we?
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
I’d probably be doing mostly the same thing in my free time as I do at my job anyways though. :/
#94
Company: We've Had A Record Breaking Year In Profits
Jake Banana 3 years ago
I worked for a small company and received a $2-3k bonus every year, depending on how well we did. We were purchased by a wannabe fortune 500 company and I get... stock options! Oddly, my local grocery store does not accept stock options that will definitely go up in the future!
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
The year my brother received a Xmas bonus of a coupon for a free can of store brand cranberry sauce. To be fair I have never received a xmas bonus.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Guess where I would be strongly tempted to cram those cans of expired pop--
#95
Saw This In Facebook And Majority Of Reactions Were Laughter, But I Don't See Anything Funny About This
#96
It Really Is
Nona Wolf 3 years ago
It wasn't always the norm. My dad worked 2 jobs his whole life... didn't get home till 10 most nights.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
"My parents worked 20 hours a day to provide us with food/a home" does not make it acceptable for anyone else to live like that. It's not acceptable simply because it's what the older generations did. Just because someone had it worse than someone else, doesn’t mean that that person's problems don’t matter. My dad did the same thing for my family, and both of my parents worked even longer hours once they bought their own business. It doesn't mean I should shut my mouth and put my nose to the grindstone when an employer tries to force the same "expectations" on me.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Yeah. In many places, people work 7 days a week, 10-14 hours a day. No sick pay. No vacations. No paid holidays. No social security. Most humans who don't work don't eat. The last 75 years of labor laws and unions and pleasant Western working conditions are a minor blip in the timeline.......and it can all disappear quickly given the right circumstances. If climate change continues, food and water will get so precious that people will beg to be given the opportunity to earn the means of survival.
#99
Sounds About Right
MissMePhoenix 3 years ago
That's what i keep telling everyone right now about the increase in prices, the government gotta make theirs, don't ya kno? It's sick, but they knew they were gonna get that money back from us one way or another
#100
At Work - Where Water Isn’t Free Yo
Jake Banana 3 years ago
I worked in a small office, and we did indeed pool our money to have a water cooler. But we never excluded those who couldn't pay (or course we all paid, as it was only $3/month and we all liked the water cooler).
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
Bulldink. Companies can afford to provide bottled water to their employees for FREE. I can't see Poland Spring's prices as they don't deliver to my area, but their associated company Arrowhead does. A 5-gallon bottle of Arrowhead water is $9.49. LESS THAN $10. If a company can't afford to spend $10 on a 5-gallon bottle of water, there are serious issues going on in that company.
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#102
A Competing Company Is Offering Us 20 Percent More To Work For Them. Management's Response:
Jake Banana 3 years ago
I'd put all of it into my bag and walk out. Thanks for nothing a******s!
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
I'd eat my bowl of Rice Krispies loudly as I accept the competitor's offer.
#103
Funny How The Us And Other Countries Aren't Making Enough Babies To Sustain The Current Population, Largely Because We Can't Afford It Due To Low Paying Jobs Whose Raises Aren't Beating Or Even Meeting Inflation... I'm Surprised Many Comments Are Agreeing With This?
#104
Hahahaha, Just Got These At Work. Kinda Funny, Kinda Weird. Also, I Work A Union Job At A Hospital
Sonja 3 years ago (edited)
The really sad thing is: if that worker was treated fairly and had a good income, they'd like that little gift. It would make them happy. It's just angering them because they know, while the statement is true, it's meaningless, because of course the company wants more dedicated workers, but it's a self made problem that they don't have them.
#105
Funny How Work Does That To You
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Nowadays, I pitch up at 6am, leave my brain at the door, plug myself in to audiobooks, do a brain dead job for 8 hours, pick my brain up on the way out of the door, go home, start living again, drink wine, eat well, and then I sit down to write. I hate my job, it bores me witless but it pays ok, the company is a decent one with good benefits and a miniscule chance of being made redundant as it has an order book overflowing; the thing that I find odd is that, having come into the engineering sector from a fast turnover industry in catering is that a load of the guys (they mostly are) are looking to stay in a really, really mundane job - some of them for the next 30 + years - with no ambition or hope of going up the ladder. Maybe it's me .
#106
My Local Hardware Store:
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Two answers here : Steve is an idiot, don't be like Steve. Or Steve is the owner and just rocks up for an hour a day ...
Jilltdcatlady 3 years ago
There is a third... The shop is understaffed and Steve hasn't had a day off in 49 consecutive days.
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Sonja 3 years ago (edited)
Capitalism is strange. Capitalism is based on consumerism. All the money the rich folks get, comes from the workers. The wages they give their workers will circulate through the economy and come back to them eventually. Paying generous wages would stabilise the economy and make the rich richer in the end, it would just take a tad bit longer. But still they would get rich and stay rich too. Despite this easy to see fact, the rich bozos on top insist of milking their workers until the economy crashes because the masses can't afford to consume anymore. Which happens with steady regularity and is called a recession. Then they start making things better to save themselves from going completely broke. All of a sudden a lot is possible they claimed it wasn't before. Economy stabilises when wages go up and everyone prospers for a while. Then all of it starts anew when the bozos feel safe and suck money out of circulation again.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Ah - yes this is true. Except we forget that the rich are just as disloyal to their own companies/portfolios. They want to milk the workers so THEY can move on after 3-5 years (for more money) and do it allllll over again. Funny how if a worker leverages themselves by moving companies then ‘nobody wants to work anymore’ or ‘why invest in employees when they’re not loyal’. Insanity - the whole system is insanity
Load More Replies... Senjo Krane 3 years ago
I'm amazed at this. I always thought the USA was the best country to live. Everyone wants the green card. But it looks like you're all suffering. The working class that is. Capitalism sucks the life out of The People. 😔
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
The United States is a great country to live in if you are looking for some very specific things. In my profession, I will make far more money living in the US than I will living in any other country. If I moved to London (as expensive as it is there), I will take at least a 50% pay cut. If you are young, and healthy, and don't have and don't want children, then the US is a great place to live. You will make a great salary, you will pay very low personal taxes, and so long as you don't incur any healthcare costs, you will be able to accumulate more wealth than you would in many other countries. If, on the other hand, you have job insecurity, or you have health issues, or you have children or just want to have children, then the US may not be the place for you. The cost of living in the United States is very high, when you add things like healthcare, education, childcare, access to mental wellbeing like paid time off. In these areas the United States is far behind Europe.
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COCO puff 3 years ago (edited)
As a person coming from a former communist country, I can say that capitalism is a good thing, and I am very worried that individuals are talking so much about the "good" socialism and the "good" communism. Being a worker in socialism and communism is much worst than the posts.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I have lived in both systems, and I can say, they both suck in different ways. Socialism itself isn't a system of government, and it isn't inherently good or bad. There are aspects that work, and some that don't. Capitalism can be used successfully to lift people out of poverty, if it is checked by strong organized labor. But unfettered capitalism, without organized labor, leads to exploitation of the masses. Socialism is similar. Socialist policies can be used to make life better for all. But, if you need to invest too much power in the bureaucracies that maintain those policies, you are creating a lot of incentives for corruption. In the end, there is a balance that needs to be maintained. Healthy economies and governments need to leverage the social mobility which can be created from capitalism, with strong organized labor unions, and socialist policies to support those who fall through the cracks.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
In the end, it's about human nature. Short-sighted idiots are common to the species. The "ism" is, if you read enough history, irrelevant. Monarchy or democracy? Capitalism or communism? End of the day, the gold-holders want to make sure nobody else gets gold, and expend gold and blood (of others) to ensure the fact. King or president, chairman or tsar, it's the same in the end. ANd *that* is what I find depressing, far more than the idea that everyone would be happy if we just became democratic socialists. (Personally, I think that's the best our world as it is will find, but that's an opinion. In 200 years, students of history might laugh their butts off at the idea everyone loved it.)
Sonja 3 years ago (edited)
Capitalism is strange. Capitalism is based on consumerism. All the money the rich folks get, comes from the workers. The wages they give their workers will circulate through the economy and come back to them eventually. Paying generous wages would stabilise the economy and make the rich richer in the end, it would just take a tad bit longer. But still they would get rich and stay rich too. Despite this easy to see fact, the rich bozos on top insist of milking their workers until the economy crashes because the masses can't afford to consume anymore. Which happens with steady regularity and is called a recession. Then they start making things better to save themselves from going completely broke. All of a sudden a lot is possible they claimed it wasn't before. Economy stabilises when wages go up and everyone prospers for a while. Then all of it starts anew when the bozos feel safe and suck money out of circulation again.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Ah - yes this is true. Except we forget that the rich are just as disloyal to their own companies/portfolios. They want to milk the workers so THEY can move on after 3-5 years (for more money) and do it allllll over again. Funny how if a worker leverages themselves by moving companies then ‘nobody wants to work anymore’ or ‘why invest in employees when they’re not loyal’. Insanity - the whole system is insanity
Load More Replies... Senjo Krane 3 years ago
I'm amazed at this. I always thought the USA was the best country to live. Everyone wants the green card. But it looks like you're all suffering. The working class that is. Capitalism sucks the life out of The People. 😔
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
The United States is a great country to live in if you are looking for some very specific things. In my profession, I will make far more money living in the US than I will living in any other country. If I moved to London (as expensive as it is there), I will take at least a 50% pay cut. If you are young, and healthy, and don't have and don't want children, then the US is a great place to live. You will make a great salary, you will pay very low personal taxes, and so long as you don't incur any healthcare costs, you will be able to accumulate more wealth than you would in many other countries. If, on the other hand, you have job insecurity, or you have health issues, or you have children or just want to have children, then the US may not be the place for you. The cost of living in the United States is very high, when you add things like healthcare, education, childcare, access to mental wellbeing like paid time off. In these areas the United States is far behind Europe.
Load More Replies... COCO puff 3 years ago (edited)
As a person coming from a former communist country, I can say that capitalism is a good thing, and I am very worried that individuals are talking so much about the "good" socialism and the "good" communism. Being a worker in socialism and communism is much worst than the posts.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I have lived in both systems, and I can say, they both suck in different ways. Socialism itself isn't a system of government, and it isn't inherently good or bad. There are aspects that work, and some that don't. Capitalism can be used successfully to lift people out of poverty, if it is checked by strong organized labor. But unfettered capitalism, without organized labor, leads to exploitation of the masses. Socialism is similar. Socialist policies can be used to make life better for all. But, if you need to invest too much power in the bureaucracies that maintain those policies, you are creating a lot of incentives for corruption. In the end, there is a balance that needs to be maintained. Healthy economies and governments need to leverage the social mobility which can be created from capitalism, with strong organized labor unions, and socialist policies to support those who fall through the cracks.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
In the end, it's about human nature. Short-sighted idiots are common to the species. The "ism" is, if you read enough history, irrelevant. Monarchy or democracy? Capitalism or communism? End of the day, the gold-holders want to make sure nobody else gets gold, and expend gold and blood (of others) to ensure the fact. King or president, chairman or tsar, it's the same in the end. ANd *that* is what I find depressing, far more than the idea that everyone would be happy if we just became democratic socialists. (Personally, I think that's the best our world as it is will find, but that's an opinion. In 200 years, students of history might laugh their butts off at the idea everyone loved it.)
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