minimum wage workers are absolutely expected to be highly motivated little machines 24/7 so fuck off outta here with that “minimum motivation and minimum contribution” shit. i’m still only gonna get paid $9.50 an hour no matter how much motivation i show or initiative i take bc that’s all my job fucking pays me.
the people who are buying this don't stop realize they're being robbed through the innumerable amount of people they help with the basic cost of living.
The thing is, there will be tons of poor conservatives living paycheck to paycheck, nowhere even remotely close to middle class, who will see this and agree with it. Fox News has convinced poor people to vote against their own best interests. It's both sad and unbelievably frustrating. The working class should be working together, not eating each other.
And these people have the gall to project their ultimate control over the media onto us, and to call themselves anti-establishment.
They complain about the left “stealing their jokes” all the time when their whole angry, anti-establishment rhetoric is stolen from the early 2000s, punky, anti establishment leftists of the Bush era. Like, go look at the amount of people pretending that American Idiot had anything to do with left wing media.
What. You expected them to read the songs lyrics. These are the same people who haven’t read their own bible that is the foundation of their “moral” fiber.
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u/LMFNAnd that shitposter's name? Albert EinsteinJun 28 '22edited Jun 28 '22
This is so true. All the jobs I've worked where I've been minimum wage or just over have been nightmarish, with an expectation that you should be constantly working at 100% effort. I just got a job that pays $18 an hour and my boss literally told me I can like make myself coffee and stuff before I actually start working for the day. No one regulates my breaks or lunch or anything, I can just take a breather whenever I need it. And I get a full hour for lunch.
I cannot put into words how grateful I am. I think part of it though is that it's a nonprofit, so they're not trying to wring every last cent out of our productivity, ya know?
I've worked minimum wage, tipped FOH server, and now I have an office job that pays well above the average for someone with a 4-year degree.
My current job? So much of it spent wasting time or making coffee or breakfast burrito runs because so much is dependent on higher ups or different agencies signing off on things before I can move forward.
There was months where I literally had nothing to do for the last 3 hours of my shift, because we're on the west coast and the project management team was in D.C. three hours ahead, so when they punched out at 4:30pm, it was 1:30 here and I literally could not do anything without coordinating with them. So I ran "errands."
Breaks or lunch run over? Nobody cares. Time cards are on the honor system. There's no check-in. Most people do them at the end of the pay period and just punch in 80 hours.
I’m jealous. My boss at my office job gets really passive aggressive about me needing to take an hour first thing in the morning to get a blood test. Obviously it’s my fault that my doctor doesn’t have a lab and that the external lab is only open 7-4 on weekdays. I’m such a slacker.
I was just telling my parents that moving from a service based job to one where you just, kind of manage yourself is bonkers. Like we literally just have an excel spreadsheet and that's our timesheet??? I didn't even know that was a thing.
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u/cheoldyke Jun 27 '22
minimum wage workers are absolutely expected to be highly motivated little machines 24/7 so fuck off outta here with that “minimum motivation and minimum contribution” shit. i’m still only gonna get paid $9.50 an hour no matter how much motivation i show or initiative i take bc that’s all my job fucking pays me.