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CLIP from Episode 596 - Take this job…and Love It! (1/24/22)
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[@subversivelysurreal3645]

I🇮🇸 In Iceland, they decided, ‘-hey, let’s create a four day, thirty-two hour work week, but of course just pay everyone the same. Three day weekends make us ALL happier.’ people seem to get as much work done, and, once again , that *happier* word keeps popping up, so let’s just *do it* (psychologists who volunteered for torture programs aren’t a part of their culture, though.)

[@hoboroadie4623]

Damn straight. It's Hollywood Accounting. 💸

[@benoitbvg2888]

Wtf??? I'm French and I have to slave away a whole 35h per week???? BRB i gotta go drop kick my boss though his front window

[@charlottemarceau8062]

Didn't they also jail their bankers after 2008? And they have Bjork and active volcanoes. What a country 👍

[@5508Vanderdekken]

What you don't understand is that if they can do a weeks worth of work in 4 days, they obviously can do more than that in 5!

[@julymagnus493]

Iceland is also one of the countries that actually punished people after the great recession so they're kinda popping rn

[@bb-zr2tv]

Since no one is working anymore it would be the perfect time to bring back the lofi vibe streams

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

Strickly for chillin.

[@RoyalFusilier]

The article they read about how 'quitting is contagious' and comparing it to illness is literally what they said about runaway slaves before abolition.

[@jojoadeyemi8239]

Yep. It was called drapetomania.

[@JustAManFromThePast]

@@jojoadeyemi8239 The proposed solution to which was literally more beatings and harder work.

[@kevincrady2831]

@@JustAManFromThePast Floggings will continue until morale improves!

[@solas6342]

Quick update, servers and bartenders at the Texas Roadhouse near me are being forced to wear shirts that unironically say "take this job and love it" on the back, in case anyone was wondering how America is doing.

[@MrJohndoakes]

Johnny Paycheck is rolling in his grave....

[@VincentTroia]

oh god

[@jasonbeary5771]

Grocery store employees at the major regional, Giant Eagle, had corporate T-shirts with slogans and words printed on the back; stuff like (I can't recall exactly) 'responsibility" 'customer service" and such. More than once I mentioned if Giant Eagle would print "Good Wages" or "Health Care". Of course not. The slogans were all for the employees, nothing for the employer.

[@technologic21]

That's really fucked up.

[@parakathepyro]

I work at a movie theater thats had 19 people come in with covid in the last 30 days, we get an email every time the theater gets notified. Sure don't feel like going into work

[@mollymillions6586]

going out on a limb and saying that some people are quitting because they dont want to die of a preventable disease, also the work is meaningless and degrading and doesnt pay well

[@TheDavid2222]

This is so spot on.

[@DanPosting]

Tom Sosnoff said something like "working at home turns people into box checkers, I can give them a list of things to do and they will do them." This, in his opinion is bad because his company "needs to continually innovate." Translation, when your stuck at work all day, you sometimes do more than your job description. You get finished with your work and are bored, but are still at the worksite. So it coerces your brain into coming up with stuff to do at work. This is why working at home is looked at suspiciously by many employers. Whether they articulate it well or not, they intuitively know they are squeezing more work out of people in the office than they are at home, even if they are doing the same check list.

[@workingclassreptiles]

I can't wait for the omicron variant of the "quitagion". I heard that's a very contagious variant.

[@hoboroadie4623]

I quit in '78 when the I.R.S sent me the small half of my Tax Refund. I don't have any truck with Criminals. 🖕

[@danielvalleduarte]

Walking off a shitty job is fun, but leading the walkout makes you rock hard.

[@zlanj3693]

been applying to new jobs for a few months now, like 30+ a month and every interview I take the job description and pay changes right at the very end of the process. OR they have "urgently hiring no experience required" and then send you an auto rejection email the next day. I've also been "hooked up" with jobs through past connections with the "trust me bro they'd hire you you're perfect", nothing. Then I hear all these employers complaining no one wants to fucking work and we're all lazy and addicted to being on unemployment.

[@bigbrother787]

Apparently it may have something to do with companies receiving PPP loans. Something like they need to claim a certain number of employees? I don't know for sure and I'm not going to research it. Surprised they didn't mention the ridiculous corruption of the PPP loans when discussing business owners.

[@richardnipples7574]

Same experience, its demoralizing

[@shady8045]

A spectre is pervading the US, the spectre of hating your job.

[@sphealingit222]

I didn't quit cause a sickness made me do it, I quit cause the location burned through 3 managers, 1 of which tried to kill themselves, and 3 sales associates in the span of a year.

[@Baseballnfj]

Same. This is not a healthy society.

[@braidena1633]

Shoulda had Ben Platt come sing Waving Through a Window, that's the real problem

[@tph2010]

Matt was right about interest rates

[@johnstewart7025]

After 40 years of no real wage growth, it is understandable that generations of employers don't realize that they actually have to offer a REAL raise to find workers in a competitive, low unemployment market.

[@foehammer5047]

Qeird. You create a society where people can't buy a house, can't save to retire early, face an ever increasing retirement age, have bosses that expect unpaid overtime, are generally less wealthy but more productive than their parents and facing a cost of living crisis even when working and SOMEHOW people get the idea that work is pointless.

[@williamevans1708]

Interest rate crack and forced recession: Matt has a perfect batting record

[@Wildfan-sg3fh]

The way he described the set of the daily wire when they were having the premiere of Run, Hide, Fight damn near killed me.

[@tph2010]

Yup

[@jaredmcdaris7370]

They say “pied piper” because they think employees are children.

[@bigben42]

The Reddit antiwork drama today was hilarious

[@Dos_Caffeine]

1.6 million followers was offensive to FOX, it's a shame they couldn't get someone competent for the interveiw.

[@yoboy6319]

That guy was probably the worst person to do that

[@xaza8uhitra4]

@@yoboy6319 i mean to be fair he did represent reddit pretty well

[@vanillam1tch312]

Cherry on top: that antiwork mod has admitted to sexually assaulting women while they sleep. Bonus!!

[@blitcut9712]

It's amazing. The interviewer wasn't even harsh. Probably because they couldn't have done more damage to the image of antiwork than the mod if they tried.

[@Misterz3r0]

Let's do everything and anything but pay workers more and letting them unionize.

[@Bobsaget121]

2 years later and minimum wage is still $7.25

[@Holden.Tudiks]

While looking for a job I keep hearing "everyone is hiring! You have a degree!" Meanwhile cheesecake factory requires an associates degree and is paying $12/hr to wash dishes

[@neilmuir3503]

i have engineering degree and companys want to offer me a job as like a tech. very nice of them

[@neilmuir3503]

@@ineedapharmists yeah thats the point.

[@ineedapharmists]

@@neilmuir3503 well I hope you design things that are easy to repair and replace. Auto repair tech here.

[@JosephusAurelius]

Hot take: what if the ‘08 crisis never ended and we’re actually experiencing a long empire decline since then. A decline that could last decades more? Despite the multiple attempts of goodwill leaders like MLKjr, Bernie, Jesse Jackson, etc it has been cut off by the psychopathic hand of big corporate. Ironically however, destroying goodness will ultimately harms themselves in the long term

[@neilmuir3503]

the fact the fed has been pumping trillions into the stock market kinda scares me. its like thats the only thing holding this together

[@JosephusAurelius]

@@neilmuir3503 wait, are you chet hanks, son of tom hanks?

[@neilmuir3503]

@@JosephusAurelius why yes, rare to be recognized

[@JosephusAurelius]

@@neilmuir3503 well if it really is you, i hope you have a great day sir.

[@bethmoore7722]

I’ve worked a lot of different jobs, and it never fails that we worker bees were working like hell to accomplish the mission of the establishment, with management as the troll under the bridge of productivity. Psychological manipulation and intimidation are the basic management skill set.

[@jman7826]

We truly live under a tyranny of “case of the mondays” kitten calendar dullards :(

[@quester09]

i.e. civil servants

[@technologic21]

Law of diminishing returns, it's just not fucking worth it. Pay the bare minimum = expect the bare minimum. Employers are in no position to get their panties in a twist when an employee exhibits a lack of enthusiasm. Want people to be entertainers? Pay them like one. Workers are providing a company a service, and that service carries a price tag. If they're not willing to pay up, they may as well shut up. That's why people are done. We're not here to make THEM profit, at our own risk, with no insurance, benefits or a cut. If they want the job done, they can do it themselves. Tipping? Keep your chump change. It's not a customer's job to pay a worker AND foot the bill. That's an insult to the customer. It's the employer's responsibility to pay up. Fuck 'em. The French have the right idea.

[@JWPanimation]

Oh how the gray lady has fallen. Judith Miller led the charge and now Emma is there to stamp out any life left on the battlefield.

[@5508Vanderdekken]

I am becoming increasingly sure that the nyt has always been this shitty. Read what they had to say in 1859 about slavery and what they said about MLK

[@JWPanimation]

@@5508Vanderdekken I'm an old man and everyone today conflates progressiveness with CRT. When I was younger labor actually had a voice at the Times, albeit a weak one. I understand the front changes for each generation. Maybe yours will have fare better.

[@peterlyngso3357]

Congratulations Chris. You made it to 100k!

[@SickBuckNaStY]

Nope nothing is wrong, everything is just fine and dandy!

[@foxforce7078]

"He's worried his retention is too strong."

[@5508Vanderdekken]

Seems like Will's prediction from episode ~520 about shanghaiing and pressing fry cooks into service on the HMS Mikkie D's is in our future

[@JustAManFromThePast]

One of the biggest laughs I ever got was Matt saying they were going to use corvee labor and chain them to the fryalator.

[@davidhill2020]

Google "no one wants to work anymore history"

[@marcantoinelab12321]

Guaranteed, 100 % guaranteed that the upcoming headlines will be about 'the greed of workers' They won't be able to dance around the cause of insufficient wages or bad conditions. So they'll frame workers. Which will be even more hilarious

[@redlightmax]

24:06 "Maybe that's what they should do: hire a few key influencers to start being like, ''Work is dope!' They start doing TikToks about how much fun they have, like, filling out expense reports." [insert Amazon's 2021 TikTok ad, in which Terry Crews shows how much fun he has being an Amazon warehouse worker, here]

[@iannordin5250]

I when I was working for this crappy mom and pop the owner would literally tell us to make videos to post on insta about how much fun we were having while working and how much we loved making the customer's food and he got pissed when we didn't advertise his business on our own accounts for free lol.

[@quester09]

yes to work; no to toxic bullshit. best time since the 30s for widespread worker sassiness.

[@JohnQBrown]

My ad for this was a job recruitment company for hiring managers lmao

[@trimytrim]

fuck i would kill for a week paid vacation. I get 16 hours pto a year no sick days.

[@neilmuir3503]

we are so cucked in this country

[@ineedapharmists]

You get vacation?

[@chriszablocki2460]

Death doesn't just go out in public looking like that. He's paying someone to deliver food to his door.

[@FundFreedom]

I've never had a job with paid time off. Sabotage

[@camc4242]

Felix not a halo fan confirmed: the humans lost to the forerunners because of the spread of the flood they didn’t lose to the precursors

[@GrimReader]

Fake gamer girl confirmed for awhile no adult would play that much fortnite

[@seanomatopoeia]

Ah yes, the famous musical... Angels in America.

[@SomethingImpromptu]

Another year later & the minimum wage is STILL $7.25. You’d think they’d raise it a dollar or something just to prove they aren’t demons… But it seems like they’re operating on the same principle that neoliberalism has upheld around social programs/services that could use tax money to improve normal people’s lives in massive ways, even very cheaply, or for a net return on investment… Essentially just a total stonewall: because if even 1 highly successful program passes, then that would disprove their whole myth that social democracy can’t work, government spending can’t help anyone (except apparently the rich of the ruling class, who lobby for literal trillions when it’s being spent on corporate welfare that just gives out cash to them- and without the strings attached to a $1,000 welfare check for someone in abject poverty, btw; they don’t have to prove they’re continuously working towards anything good the way poor people are required to turn in proof of job applications just to receive a menial pittance of unemployment support; CEOs & Wall Street bankers sure as f*ck aren’t forced to submit to drug tests to receive their massive bailouts after they destroy the economy, or multi-hundred-billion-dollar subsidies, or iron-clad trade protections- because they aren’t the ones treated like a hostile population under borderline military occupation by a foreign power… The working class are). Yes, if they raised the minimum wage a dollar, not only would that ease people’s suffering… Anything that would give them more room to breathe also means more opportunity to engage politically, to organize unions in the workplace, etc., which is their biggest fear, as well as more leverage with which to reject unfair terms of employment… In other words, it would shift economic power ever so slightly less overwhelmingly in favor of capital & empower the people to resist this state of total domination under them & plutocratic political rule. All of this also obviously means the opposite of the squeeze they want to put workers under in order to prevent exactly those positive outcomes which might undermine private profits of billionaires in the interest of EVERYONE ELSE. But at the end of the day, the reason they are so resistant to even letting a TINY wage raise slide, or allowing just one social democratic reform that could massively improve our collective health, longevity, stability, reduce crime & violence, etc., is based on the same principle that motivated them to not allow even a single authentic, worker-led left-wing social revolution to occur without the military or CIA intervening & bombing/assassinating/arming fascists to do a coup or wage a terroristic war against them/etc…. Because their theory is that of a mob boss. You don’t let a tiny offense or defection from your gang/“family” or dissident political ambition against your domination slide- you break every bone in their body to make an example so everyone else is in a state of too much terror to try. You can’t let Nicaragua, or Grenada, or Guatemala attempt land reform, or try to provide social services to their people, or to become independent & free from colonial domination, even if you don’t need their limited resources or relatively tiny plots of land. Because if they get free- worse, if they show that an alternative is POSSIBLE (after you’ve spent the last half century insisting that socialism is evil & all socialism = Stalinist totalitarianism, & economic prosperity is impossible without capitalism)- then they could set an example that could motivate other victims of imperialism/colonialism to also resist & attempt their own social revolutions modeled after the successful ones, & before you know it, you could have a bunch of free, democratic, classless paradises stretching across the Caribbean & Latin America- and god knows we can’t have that. So instead, you use your overwhelming military power to absolutely brutalize these much smaller & poorer nations, you sabotage every good thing they try to do, you force them to take on authoritarian positions to keep your terrorism/bombing/assassination campaigns & coup attempts at bay, & eventually you either strangle them economically, end them politically by killing the participants, or just invade militarily & install a dictator friendly to imperial rule. This is what Chomsky & others call the “mafia principle in foreign affairs.” It’s not much different, the way they look at economic policy at home: Likewise, you can’t let a single little social democratic program slide. You have to defund & ruin everything. EVEN DURING THE PEAK OF THE COVID CRISIS, when the suffering that could’ve been alleviated was at its most extreme in living memory, you don’t allow universal COVID treatment coverage so people don’t go bankrupt with $10,000 debts after a trip to the hospital. You don’t allow universal coverage of COVID testing so people stay tested & are able to avoid spreading the virus (even though selling all those tests would still be profitable to the corporations, even if the state picked up the tab). You don’t freeze rents or provide enough of a UBI/universal basic dividend (way better than UBI) to allow people to stay home safely long enough to let the virus cease to circulate… Because if you did anything real, anything beyond like 2 of the tiniest, means tested checks that barely covered a month’s rent, as if that’s enough to support anyone through a 4 or 5 month period of inability to work… If you provided these basic programs that any civilized, social democratic government would provide as a bare minimum, then when they DO work, & DO drastically improve hundreds of millions of people’s lives, & DON’T cause any big problems, people might ask the inevitable question “Oh, then why don’t we have these kinds of protections all the times why should poverty even exist in a wealthy country if these programs can address it? Why did neoliberals in BOTH parties spend the last half century insisting this could only ever be a bad thing & refusing to even put these most basic policies on the Democratic platform?” This would be a truth that would penetrate through the facade of lies that is the neoliberal ideology & its myth of how “there is no alternative” to austerity & privatization, & “government isn’t the solution. Government is the problem,” & all the other Reaganite/Thatcherite platitudes, completely undermining the legitimacy of their entire, incredibly flimsy political project, which from day 1 has actually just been about siphoning as much wealth as possible FROM poor & working people, into the pockets of the Elon Musk/Jeffrey Bezos/Carlos Slim/etc. of the world. The plutocracy, the billionaires who own most of the shares in most of the big corporations & thereby dominate & plunder our entire economy in much the same way they plunder foreign countries who our empire invades/installs puppets in. The puppets in the Dem/Rep parties are not much different, except that they at least bank on masquerading as having democratic legitimacy & not literally just being dictators in posed by military rule. But in a privately financed electoral system where those same billionaires choose who will be on our ballots by financing the ones who will serve them at our expense, how much difference is there really?

[@loln00bsify]

19:20 Our prescient boi

[@fede2]

I love what they say about psychologists. It goes to show how pointless science can be when it doesn't examine its assumptions.

[@danielvalleduarte]

I joined the Church of SciTies bc I was curious about how crazy it was, which it was...FYI its not worth it. They. Never. Stop. Calling.

[@MrJohndoakes]

COB (David "anonSparrow says I beat my staff" Miscavige) wants all the money. ALL the money.

[@rawbebaba]

I want a job making bootleg NFTs where the token is really just a worm that empties people's wallets when the move delete or transfer the token.

[@baronvonbeandip]

Then do that?

[@thrownstair]

NFTs are picrews for Elon Musk simps

[@subtleusername5475]

that's already a thing that's been done plenty of times.

[@rawbebaba]

@@cloudycolacorp if we could link this up with the Iraqi dinar scam it'd be great

[@rawbebaba]

@@cloudycolacorp omg listen, all the crypto dinars will really be NFTs that signify crypto gold.

[@52flyingbicycles]

I don’t know how American companies can be so dumb. My company is from India and they pay me $35 per hour (salaried) plus ok benefits work from home right out of college and gave me 2 months of training. They are like, flooded with recruits - American recruits. No weird zoom calls with celebrities required. Also, I had two interviews for my position. The second one was actually them giving me the job and telling me how to fill out all the forms

[@GrimReader]

What’s the job

[@jackbartzen9133]

this episode makes me ashamed to be a psych student

[@braidena1633]

Well, I'd be ashamed to be a psych student just from being a psych student but thats just me

[@baronvonbeandip]

@@braidena1633 Psych is 50-50. If it's biological, behavioral, and cognitive, it's worth pursuing. Otherwise, it's "how is everyone -ist" anymore

[@willywonka7812]

They just wanna bang on these drums all day

[@finished6267]

So underrated. These friggin millennials don't get the jimmy Buffett references. Hold on, where's mah red pool noodle.

[@mrplinkett4429]

what's a scamp gotta do

[@mj.l]

@@finished6267 noted jeff epstein pal jim buffett

[@quester09]

We are the Island Boyyys

[@steviemac2000]

The quitagion is the new drapetomania

[@GrimReader]

The best part about this is because it’s the New York Tikes their example couldn’t be service or retail workers it has to be a digital marketer. A real job not one the lumpens do

[@Seawiz21]

AOC's Xenu-Deal

[@soulife8383]

7min in and it sounds like work from home can stop more than 1 spread

[@tonywords6713]

I think people who say that are secretly jealous and won't admit it. Like of course we'd all rather be out there pursuing our dreams, idk how it's an insult that the people played the game back for once against the monied class.

[@felipew6716]

I don’t think that there’s anything particularly ridiculous about the idea that peer influence can cause waves of resignation. I think that the guys are being a bit too dismissive of psychology here even if the journalist who wrote the article has made some obvious contextual omissions.

[@captainfantastic7643]

it wouldn't be an issue if people were receiving the rewards their work generate. It's a symptom not causal.

[@RIP_Greedo]

The idea is perfectly sound. I think the element that draws their ire (or at least mine) is the idea that this quitting contagion is some sort of malevolent force that must be eradicated lest it spread any further. As if there’s nothing the management could do to assuage workers’ dissatisfaction, or that there aren’t good reasons to resign at all. Why entertain the notion of better pay or work conditions when you can dehumanize workers to the level of being germ cells?

[@ceaseless246]

i see you finally reached 100k subscribers chris, well that was a terrible cut at the end and i will be unsubscribing so i hope you weren’t looking forward to that button too much

[@ElPINGAS9000]

heh heh heh, rock on bro ther...... SAMPLER FI 12 ASSAULT DIV MARINES UNESCO 78

[@xaza8uhitra4]

24:20 they already do make those influencers do commercials - have you seen how insufferable grub hub commercials are ?

[@marcantoinelab12321]

What's the Volkur/volker summoning circle thing ? What's that about ?

[@5508Vanderdekken]

They're joking that the Federal Reserve will summon Paul Volcker, former chair of the Federal Reserve Board, to raise interest rates to obscene levels again, like he did to counter the stagflation of the late 70s. This also essentially had the effect of raising the cost of living for workers who were stuck trying to get and stay in whatever job they could find

[@marcantoinelab12321]

@@5508Vanderdekken thank you so much. I can finally be In on the joke 😭

[@MC-pt8kv]

RIP antiwork

[@jman7826]

Idk man part of me is like good riddance, I’d much rather have people calling themselves socialists than calling themselves “anti work”

[@poohshiesty8930]

The mods were a bunch of sectarian anarshits and apparently the head mod was accused being a sex pest. Good riddance.

[@thenoblepoptart]

Work is virtuous, it sustains humans and human civilization.

[@baronvonbeandip]

@@thenoblepoptart Yeah, but people aren't interested in being virtuous. Moral relativism and nihilism are the only mode of operation anymore.

[@thenoblepoptart]

@@baronvonbeandip sometimes people can’t help but do the right thing, they are forced to adhere to their conscience and act morally upright.

[@gerg5555]

We are talking about these corporations very lives on the line, and all these idiots can think about is money?? Get some perspective Chapo!

[@coyote4936]

it is anarchism

[@sandpaper4483]

Trust me capitalist will figure out the give you slightly more free time and maximize profits for themselves equation...

[@cote-de-boeuf]

Nah they won't. If they were capable of recognizing that, they'd also recognize that scheduling workers for the graveyard shift one day and the morning shift the next day also reduces productivity.

[@neilmuir3503]

@@cote-de-boeuf always thought they did that to make it harder for you to get another job

[@braidena1633]

Not to defend DEH but he's 28. He could conceivably be 20ish in the play, but the haircut and.. oddly waxy make up make him look quite a bit older. I like the songs in it, plot's alright, but watching the movie is just surreal..

[@generalsavage4103]

What the f***

[@braidena1633]

​@@generalsavage4103 i would watch this breakdown of it kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqLYiIiJj6iKa8k Ben Platt's wax-like portrayal of a high schooler doesn't sell the youthful ignorance of the protag he plays in the play, so it just makes his clearly awful moral decisions appear quite unsettling. It also handles mental health issues extremely clumsily. I recommend watching it, not because it's good, but because it wants to be taken seriously--but manages to screw up so much, so efficiently

[@generalsavage4103]

@@braidena1633 I don't belong to your vampire Rave called and I've been eating fork Foles of garlic for the past hour or two so whatever bro

[@generalsavage4103]

@@braidena1633 but the garlic is more than just the way it to fend off the fleas that are going to try to bite me and because I just fed my dogs bunch of poison

[@generalsavage4103]

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[@jamilaumarahmed8273]

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[@thoughtfulsteve6211]

Yep, psychology is nonsense

[@zellepay3795]

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[@Freaksnake]

lol don't listen to this hysterical garbage.

[@JulianFortune]

Why not?

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

You’re Chinese

[@wayback1010]

thanks man, i snapped out of it and reapplied to my landscaping job

[@colincassidy1817]

Yeah you’re right, the working poor is a good thing to have in our society actually… If you’re not some slumlord, jetski dealership owner, or some other type if petty tyrant, then you’re comment is even sillier. I imagine you working at a shipyard, and being all hardworking and thanking the boss while he bends you over the barrel. “Oh yes master, please don’t pay me a living wage, I’m just a lowly peasant!”