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Bob Black, “The Abolition of Work”
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
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Freidrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
Human Rights Watch, “Prop 22 Strips Gig Workers of Minimum Wage”
Harry Frankfurt, “On Bullshit”
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Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness”
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Heads up, I think you've posted the video for all patrons

[@vitormelomedeiros]

@@paratirisis true !

[@bogdantrifoi1860]

Oh boy I cannot wait to listen to this one in the shower!

[@reoij]

I can't wait for this

[@diegosanchez894]

the "ha-vee-ehr" or the "jay-vier"?

[@cheesebiscuits3586]

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, Thats why I make soup, On company time.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

Microwave fish soup?

[@lightlysaltedcalmingvlogsa7286]

If only he made 10x you made it's more like 350x on average and if it's bezos around 2000x

[@phelanyoung6770]

But what about when your job is to make soup?

[@d4v0r_x]

microwaving fish soup in office workspace now classified as a terrorist act

[@Robstafarian]

@Filthy acts at a reasonable price Ableism lawsuit?! Oh, to live in a place where the disabled can afford legal redress!

[@shattyfatmus6803]

Boss: Get back to work. Bill: There's nothing to do. Boss: Then pretend you're working. Bill: Why don't you pretend I'm working? You get paid more than I do, you fantasize. Pretend I'm mopping, knock yourself out.

[@bozzez2911]

And that’s why bill will never get promoted

[@DragomirSangeorzan]

Bill Hicks was ahead of his time

[@nicolesong6199]

❤❤❤

[@Dachusblot]

Man, emotional labor is a real thing. You never think about how exhausting it is until you get a job where you have to constantly smile and say the same things cheerfully, over and over and over again for hours, with the same amount of friendliness as when you started. I worked at a restaurant back in college, and I remember once texting my boyfriend at the end of a shift and asking if he thought my voice was annoying, because after listening to myself cheerfully say "Hello, welcome to ____, what can I get for you today? 8D" for hours, I just wanted to punch myself in the face until I knocked myself unconscious. It didn't help that I had a very overbearing manager at that place who was constantly watching me and nitpicking everything I did. I quit that job after only four months because one day I drove to work, realized I couldn't bring myself to go inside, and just went home again. And the sad thing is, I felt like a wimp for just giving up like that, when some of my coworkers had been working at that place for years.

[@shadowboxing7029]

My last job was working in catering for airlines. The nature of it was schedules changed at the drop of a hat, everything was planned beforehand of course but there wasn't much wriggle room. Coupled with the high level of security and protocol involved, it was stressful to say the least. As you can imagine people weren't exactly at their best emotionally with that kind of pressure, as such we had a couple in particular who would literally yell/scream and demean you for the smallest things. These people were difficult to replace so most folk just put up with it cause management wouldn't do shit about it. They knew of course. I saw people leave after the first day because of them and I'd contemplated it myself in my first week. I dug my feet in though, endured it planning to be so on top of my shit that I could throw it back in their faces. Which is what I did (I did bring up their behaviour to management and when they saw how good I was, they started to take it more seriously and pulled them up). Yeah I persevered but I never felt right with it. Couldn't reconcile feeling tough vs feeling like a fucking moron. The only people who really benefited from all of that was the company. The pay was terrible and the environment was toxic all round. So don't feel bad about quitting, you put yourself first which is what I should have done but covid took care of that for me instead lol. My mentality has been far better since.

[@JoeNoshow27]

Capitalism teaches us that our value stems from our utility. Love teaches us that our value stems from our humanity. You're not a wimp. You're human.

[@rosvlinds]

I work in a kindergarten... it feels like that sometimes

[@themumblingdumpling2838]

First year of uni I worked in a children amusement place (think slides and ballpits) and the managers would scold us for not smiling. For me, at some point, it developed into a nearly constant state of muscle contraction. It was pretty eerie when I would, for example, look in the mirror while alone in a bathroom and see I still had a smile on- because that was the default, my body almost forgot how to relax my face, even with no one around. It was freaky.

[@anab0lic]

indeed, in my younger years i worked at a petrol station as a cashier and had to for hours pretend to be happy to be there and greet every customer with a smile. Far more exhausting and soul destroying than back breaking manual labour jobs i have been subjected to.

[@AgentPantheon]

Junior doctor here. Not in the UK, but in retrospect, I got so fed up of the "hero job" mentality. It was supposed to boost our morale, but in reality it was just a way to send us to the front with the illusion of support. As soon as the lockdowns got lifted here, the government and the people in general, just completely forgot about us. They gave us a tiny raise and a one-time bonus, but it was nowhere near enough. Since the beginning of the year, 6 junior doctors have killed themselves in my country. But it's OK, we're heroes, we can take it.

[@misslenorelee6322]

As an aussie nurse while they called us heros the NSW goverment froze my wage and gave themselves a 10% payrise. And the public didnt care! Sure they will come in and vaugley mutter some platitude about us being "worth more money" but then go home and do nothing to actually effect that change. Its really soured my ability to relate to people

[@sameerdodger]

This is an old comment but I wanted to chime in - I never did the "clap for carers" thing in the UK (where people stood on their porch clapping at some arbitrary time of day), my parents were all like "i thought you cared about the working class, in reality you can't even get up to clap". I'm a socialist that's been to a multiple of demos and strikes to show support, whenever anyone asks me my political beliefs i simply state: "working class, above all else". It was morbidly hilarious to me how people acted like they suddenly cared about anyone in the medical field. I honestly saw clapping for them as an insult. I knew it was shallow and empty handed, that as soon as the pandemic was over everybody would go back to doing whatever they used to without a care in the world, as if nothing ever happened. Low and behold that's exactly what happened.

[@nobbynoris]

So right. So true. I hear what you're saying. I never clapped along because I could see it for the patronising bullshit it was.

[@catty_5656]

My mum used to be a nurse and she hates the idea of healthcare workers being depicted as heroes and angels. It was so common during the pandemic. She says it paints doctors and nurses as "inhuman", therefore causing everyone to see them as capable of more than a human can reasonably handle. She was also traumatised by the system and now works to help people with chronic exhaustive conditions brought on by stress - many of which are nurses! It's interesting but very sad

[@mareiketimm5835]

As a student who's never had a job: I'm terrified

[@D9992.]

+1

[@someonesomeone25]

Avoid work. Its not worth it. Stay in education until youre basically forced out, then coast.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

It's both far worse and not as bad as you imagine. The main things to remember are your employers are not doing you a favor by employing you, you are doing them a favor by doing their work for them. And if you really hate your job, find another and keep doing that until you find one you can live with if not actually enjoy. But never make the mistake of putting up with shit solely out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the company, they are profiting more out of your labor then you are receiving in compensation.

[@Miraihi]

Looking for a job after the university (About 5 years ago) gave me a crippling depression. I only got better after I began doing freelancing outside the field of my education, using the skill I've learned in the spare time during university. Job search now is a major phobia for me. The most horrible thing is - I knew that this would happen.

[@Leftistattheparty]

Try to find a cooperative to work at and or unionize the work you find. It's the only way we can fight this.

[@EllidaWangel]

"Don't google it", the infallible foundation of all capitalism

[@JustAlex2000]

@Not You i need to double check, but this has to be some sort of satire/sarcasm? Literally everything about this comment is wrong and it's actually hilarious.

[@timk6181]

@@JustAlex2000 It's so weird how right wing shills have managed to construct a worldview where all the problems caused by capitalism are actually caused by secret commies, and even weirder that people buy this utter pig swill. What's the problem? Billionaire secretly commie corporations with too much control! How can we stop them? Lower taxes and deregulation! That will show 'em!

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

@Not You You’re not necessarily a statist if you think that taking down the government helps corporations *who might become, or already are somewhat, a form of government comparable to the US’s official one* You might think of yourself as an anarcho-communist, for one thing, because you dob’t like capitalism at all...

[@sierra3052]

You could have just said idiot and spared us all

[@ivandrago3621]

@Not You is strange how these people think google is somehow not biased. LITERALLY every person who works there is liberal. They have admitted to LITERALLY blocking Conservatives.

[@elliel.5915]

"Young people should be doing *ssssSSSTEM* " Me, a young person getting a math degree, knowing full well I'll never find a goddamn job in my country: *sobbing*

[@MmmMulholland]

A maths degree is so damn useful. Specialise when you’re coming to your masters. Don’t worry :)

[@marcuse9011]

I am not sure what country you are in, but at my university in Sweden is the master's students in math getting more jobs from the bank world than the economy students. Math master students are in high demand and well paid today in the west if they know the fundamentals of programming, which normaly is no problem if you get a master in math

[@Hecatonicosachoron]

I did good degrees in STEM, still not employed in my field

[@marcuse9011]

@@Hecatonicosachoron Sorry to hear that. All STEM fields are not the same. There are fields like biology and some part chemistry were it harder to get a job compared to engineering or medicine, but this also depends on region and country. The whole idea that people get a job because of STEM was always flawed. What is not flawed is the likelihood for a better-paid job and a more secured future compare to most of the humanities-degree from a historical perspective.

[@elinekonstansekjsnes8691]

Mood, although as a non-binary maths student, I do have a lucrative side hussle of creating genders, so I've got that going for me

[@mediaproductionfilms3665]

If I think about it now, Abigail might be one of the best actors I've ever seen. She played an actor asuming various roles within the Show so convincingly, that most of us weren't even aware "He" was just another role.

[@MusicalRiolu]

trans people who take a while to come out are just inherently good actors honestly

[@ElysiumsJourney]

@@MusicalRiolu That we are! People thought I was lying when I told the truth, and when telling the truth, they thought I was lying 😂. I was fantastic at Bullshit (card game)

[@garybrindle6715]

@@MusicalRiolu hope so as its my path now....

[@dseray9494]

@@ElysiumsJourney weirdly same

[@MalevolentDivinity]

My favorite part of Bullshit Jobs was thus: "To present a parable version: imagine you are a feudal lord again. You acquire a gardener. After twenty years of faithful service, the gardener develops a serious drinking problem. You keep finding him curled up in flowerbeds, while dandelions sprout everywhere and the sedge begins to die. But the gardener is well connected, and getting rid of him would offend people you don’t feel it would be wise to offend. So you acquire a new servant, ostensibly to polish the doorknobs or perform some other meaningless task. In fact, you make sure the person you get as doorknob polisher is actually an experienced gardener. So far, so good. The problem is, in a corporate environment, you can’t just summon a new servant, make up an impressive-sounding title for him (“High Seneschal of the Entryways”), and tell him his real job is to take over when the gardener is drunk. You have to come up with an elaborate fake description of what a doorknob polisher would, in fact, do; coach your new gardener in how to pretend he’s the best doorknob polisher in the kingdom; and then use the description of his duties as the basis of periodic box-ticking performance reviews. And if the gardener sobers up and doesn’t want some young punk messing with his business-now you have a full-time doorknob polisher on your hands." Like, one can just imagine it.

[@truther249]

This is one of the funniest spot on things I've read, this is one of the best comments I've see.

[@Neptunia98]

NHS employee: “What did you put in the microwave?” Olly: “Soup for my family.”

[@emilygray2025]

underrated comment

[@dwc1964]

I only saw this after I typed an inferior "soup for my family" post, now I must go delete...

[@khalira1]

there's a brazilian rap song (by Racionais MCs) that goes smth like: "I was told I should be two times bettert. then I thought: how can I be two times better if I'm at least ten times behind due to slavery, history, prejudice, traumas, psychosis for everything thats happened? two times better HOW?"

[@nsalegit9482]

What's the name of the song?

[@ianezekiel]

@@nsalegit9482 A Vida É Um Desafio (life is a challenge) - Racionais MC

[@nsalegit9482]

@@ianezekiel thanks!

[@TheHelveticanbarbie]

I also hate how passionate you're expected to be when writing a CV/interviewing. Like, I'll put on a show, but we both know I want this job because I've got bills to pay and not that my life's calling was to flip burgers or stack shelves, I am obviously not enthralled by that notion.😩

[@robincrowflies]

100% YES.

[@robincrowflies]

Why do you want to work here?

[@robincrowflies]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

[@robincrowflies]

Tell us about a time you failed, and why.

[@laundromatjones4337]

I’m a teacher. Working with the kids, getting to know them, guiding them towards their goals - that feels worthwhile. This online credit-farming shit, where I’m clicking boxes and putting numbers in spreadsheets, with no real way to get a holistic sense of a students’ true competency or their goals for mastery in my subject... yeah, that part is bullshit.

[@landonfisher3453]

Fellow teacher checking in. With you 100%. At least where I’m at, the “bullshit” part of teaching has only gotten more farcical and bullshittier during the pandemic.

[@noahdavidson1343]

I considered being a teacher. It felt like the bullshit would overwhelm the good parts :(

[@anomienormie8126]

As a student, I find it more helpful because professors don't give a shit about individuals or "holistic sense". There's no difference between a recorded lecture and a live one except with online I don't have to deal with social anxiety and I can replay whatever I missed due to the wandering nature of my mind. Wonder what it's like to have a teacher like you.

[@oliviarose7108]

I'm a junior doctor in the NHS and...yeah... most of us working during the first wave were sick of the clapping thing almost as soon as it started lol. Felt like social conditioning to make the public feel like it's okay that so many of us died from COVID. Same with the "hero" title. I'm not a hero, none of us are, we're just doing our jobs in a horrible time. It'll never be okay that literally all of us have lost multiple colleagues. My whole hospital formed a guard of honour for a 50 year old colleague's funeral procession as it drove past. Don't think I'll ever get over that day. Her death was preventable, calling us superheroes doesn't change that or being her back.

[@hamnonox]

I'm so sorry. Sorry that this is the world we have to offer you.

[@LasPhoenix777]

That's refreshing to here. That clapping was garbage. One thing though, as someone who was sick in hospital with covid, ya'll are heroes! And kind, compassionate and risk yourself to help me. I saw it. I'm grateful.

[@spoiltmilk6511]

I hate that in our current society a "hero" is a martyr. essential workers are heroes in the sense that they kept our society running in the midst of a crisis, not because their lives or time are expendable. you shouldn't have had to go through this shit, as you said all of this situation was avoidable, and none of the deaths that resulted from it are justified. I'm so sorry you are in this position, and I hope and pray that you and everyone in your team are good

[@anonymouse7773]

I was once talking to a doctor (in the US) who was in a very specialized field, and he told me that generally fields like his worked shorter more flexible hours and earned a bunch more than the docs at the ICU and ER who worked very long shifts and were on call basically all the time. Funny they're usually the ones that earn less than other docs and also earn less respect (along with primary physicians and psychiatrists), but they literally work THE MOST. And I know docs from all different areas are helping out in COVID, but if we're real, those docs at the general hospitals (and of course the other staff) are really getting the brunt of it.

[@cakeisamadeupdrug6134]

When the press were running "let teachers be heroes" during the first lockdown, I heard the message loud and clear: "it's time for you to die".

[@harunsuaidi7349]

Where I live, there's a saying, "Teachers are unsung heroes." Perhaps there was a time when it was true, when my country is pulling herself from the bootstrap after being colonized for centuries. But now, as a teacher myself, I've started to see it as a way to normalize underpaying teachers. It's the society's way of saying, "You are meant to be poor. You are heroes who place the need of others before yourselves." Sorry, I need raises, not praises, thank you.

[@tracybeeeee]

Yup... I was promoted from a mere TA to tutorial coordinator and instructional designer. A job that is supposed to "guarantee" a lecturing position. Until I saw how the universities in my country get around "hiring" new lecturers by employing those of us who have higher positions as "contract" lecturers: we are paid for the hours we stand in the classroom. I made more money as a TA. Even with my salaried position, the TAs I manage make three times per hour than I do (they are contracted, too, though. So they have very uncertain wages). I simply work double the hours they do and have "benefits" that eat at 1/4 of my salary. I'm living with my parents at 26 again because our government has refused us raises for 2021 (until negotiations by the unions begin... In March 2021). It's hopeless...

[@alunakarsa]

Coming from the same country, I believe that our system has failed teachers when they have been the backbone of the country for centuries. Unsung heroes my arse. They deserve better payroll.

[@alunakarsa]

@@tracybeeeee I'm sorry to hear this. I hope it gets better eventually.

[@argosgiovanni5988]

@@tracybeeeee what country do you live

[@amberlee4536]

I live in America and it's like this here too lmao idk where you guys are but I'm suspecting this is more universal than any of us knew

[@ahhhhh2334]

Just about to finish my degree, can't even land an unpaid internship relating to my field despite having good grades and a decent portfolio. Never had a "real" job in the past. The amount of anxiety and depression it causes me is overwhelming. tbh im not even sure why I'm writing this, but if you're out there struggling with work - just know you're not alone.

[@DisasterAster]

+

[@alejandrat.1023]

What's your degree in?

[@ahhhhh2334]

@@alejandrat.1023 Design - both graphics (mostly web based) and object (making furniture and shit).

[@TinyPirate]

@@ahhhhh2334 an absolutely random idea: look for a Startup Weekend near you and try and take part in the next event. You'll get to use your skills and meet people and have good stories to tell. Good luck.

[@ahhhhh2334]

@@TinyPiratethanks! I'll keep an eye out but for obvious reasons there aren't a lot of in-person events happening at the moment

[@matthewdastoli991]

“Philosophy Tube will be back in early 2021 with a new look.” Abigail was dropping hints for a while and my stupid ass didn’t see it coming at all. Nevertheless, congrats Abigail! Couldn’t be happier for you!

[@ferfiti]

Also the fact that the male form is a ghost in chains. Genious

[@TeboeCubes]

@@ferfiti Woah. That is genius

[@grosbeak6130]

Being transgender is so trendy it's boring.

[@sleepy_turt]

This video radicalized me all over again

[@stephaniel2850]

Seriously, this is up there with my favorite of Olly's videos to date, and I feel like it's probably the best video I've seen to send to folks as an intro to Marxist/labour theory

[@satan9487]

literally same I was such a capitalist before

[@TheWavePixie]

My God, the emotional labour bit really struck a chord with me. About 6 years ago my first job was working the register at McDonalds and I remember that our floor managers nearly daily told us to smile. All the register workers were young and female. We all even had to watch an introduction video on customer service where the ‘smile’ thing was emphasized like 3 times. God, I hated that job.

[@ichbin296]

Are you from the US? As a German, I was so surprised when I went to the US and the staff in restaurants were all so helpful and smiling all the time - it's just not a thing here, people don't smile at work. Probably even much less in Eastern Europe. As a customer it's super nice but I can imagine that it must be exhausting.

[@TheWavePixie]

@@ichbin296 Actually I am from the Netherlands :)

[@chilanya]

@@ichbin296 " As a customer it's super nice " yeah no.. as a customer you know when it's fake. as a customer i appreciate a sincere smile but i can live with no-smilie-but-doing-their-job-well.

[@MsLaosian]

Your video resonates with me immensely. This is the approach that I have taken to live my life again instead of slaving and wasting away my body and soul for a “heroes work”. It really feels wonderful watching this vid for it appears to come in full circle. Keep up with your marvelous content. ❤

[@lesterparedes8358]

This channel has quickly become one of my absolute favorites on KZbin. Thank you for all of your hard work to attempt to expand my mind.

[@alexdavis665]

Damn, Olly's really getting mileage out of his vampire props.

[@gota7738]

Nah, he just went and got himself bit and is now trying to find ways of living in plain sight without the prosthetics.

[@urbanagoge7598]

I work washing dishes in an American-themed chain restaurant (I console myself that I follow in the footsteps of George Orwell and Bruce Lee). I WISH you did the voice-overs for the many, many corporate videos I have to watch in any given year.

[@lazerpipe]

I watched this video for the first time, AFTER watching Abigail's recent coming out video, and the line "There's quite a lot of pretending that goes into making this show," as a trans woman myself, really gives me the feels. Thank you Abigail for helping us all to think and feel more about the world and people around us, and thank you for sharing yourself with us all 😂💖

[@PhilipPetrunak]

"When I play fallout New Vegas I kill Mr. House every god damn time." Well that was a oddly well timed reference for a game over a decade old.

[@TinyPirate]

H Bomberguy just released a video on F:NV

[@roseclouds5838]

that’s definitely some harrison osmosis

[@KuLaydMahn]

Yes...very suspicious.

[@mustbeaweful2504]

"Click Here To Invent Genders" Good one.

[@beebalmbadil]

a link wink, if you will

[@PogieJoe]

RIP to Abigail’s computer for rendering all that ghost footage.

[@coolcattheunicorn]

record on green screen and reduce opacity, it takes like zero computing power

[@PogieJoe]

@@coolcattheunicorn I've done similar stuff on Mac and it takes hours to export in 4K. Maybe I just have the settings over-compensating.

[@obiwanobiwan13]

Abby deserves a BAFTA wrapped in an Oscar wrapped in a Palme d'Or for... *waves hands at all of the year-long THIS before coming out like THAT...*

[@SimBen3]

Literally watching this on the clock, drinking a beer. Friday afternoon, half the office has already left for the holidays. Still being paid.

[@Gothicfruitbasket]

Can’t wait to put this on the tv in the breakroom at my TærgēT during my break

[@sadime7902]

Your comment about, 'I just love data entry' reminded me of my recent meeting with my Psychology Professor. They commented how they honestly love data analysis, to start with on a Monday. Tired though they may have been (mug-full of coffee) they seemed genuine. People are WEEEEEIRRD!

[@MartinMaat]

Data analysis is about exploring and finding new treasures, thinking up ways to approach the data, looking for unexpected patterns. Quite different from mindless typing.

[@rowancrimes3828]

I just deferred my second year of university due to various health issues and the end of this video makes me feel a lot better about that. I kept beating myself up because I couldn’t work but now I can finally relax and recover without guilt

[@tituskeksimusmaximus4956]

I would say that the "bullshit jobs" concept extends to education as well. At my highschool, most people don't care about most of the lessons they have to attend. So they just sit there and wait for the lessons to end, pretending like they are listening. And the teachers have to pretend like they are teaching a whole class instead of like 5 people at most. Then you study a bit the night before the test so that you can pass and forget everything afterwards. And if during the lessons you want to do something actually productive or just want to rest then you will get into trouble. And you can't just quit high school, since no one will ever hire you, despite the fact that most of what you do there is "bullshit".

[@suckmyartauds]

Yeah it is so painful to watch teachers have to pretend the curriculum they have to teach isn't utter bullshit. I worked super hard in school because of college admissions even though I hated it, but my boyfriend at the time once spoke up in front of the whole class and said "why are we even doing this stupid assignment?". And my teacher didn't even try to justify, and talked around what he said.

[@gottfriedschickelgruber2478]

Definitely agree, I’d say this is the main reasons you see the Countries like Sweden do so well academically, is because their teaching curriculum is a less tight and it allows most of every student to focus on what they like and what interests them

[@ThisIsATireFire]

I'm sure someone will get mad at me for telling you this, but if you're in the states, there's this handy thing called a General Education Diploma (GED). They have study guides. It's the short cut out of high school and into community college and the working world. High school is not really necessary. Look into your local laws and options.

[@ThisIsATireFire]

And community college is just to get your Associates Degree. Then you can take that to a 4 year University and possibly be halfway done with your Bachelors Degree.

[@luizaaikawa]

yeah then we get flatearthers and antivaxxers but students still feel SO COOL when they ask "why are we doing this bullshit assignment". RIP paulo freire

[@coyotewalkingtall8723]

You are one of my new KZbin heroes, or heroines as the case may be. The end of this video reminds me of one of my own personal observations. I would rather be underpaid for a job I love than overpaid for a job I hate. I hope the pay:love ratio for what you're doing now permits you to keep enlightening us.

[@godofpencils01]

When I was in college/university I had what you might call 'socialist sympathies' but largely assumed I would become more right wing as I aged and worked. I hadn't done much reading but had the impression that socialism was one of those things over-educated navel-gazers loved and people who worked 'real jobs' knew was utopian fantasy. The thing that made me a proud socialist was not reading or educating myself, much as they helped. It is all the time I spent working in those real jobs in the 21st century.

[@Miraihi]

Can't say better. I'd stay a moderate social democrat if not for my struggle to find employment. That notion about socialism in college campuses has no substance, because it's the real life of the working class what's really radicalizing.

[@franklinshepardinc]

I laughed at illegally long working hours because I work at a restaurant in the US and while I have it better than most, to get my job I had to sign a piece of paper that says ill work 12-14 hour shifts with no breaks and while they didn't expressly state you wouldn't be hired if you didn't sign, the 2 people who didn't sign didn't make it past orientation. Same goes for anyone who doesn't sign the arbitration clause, which states no matter the extent of wrong the company does, bodily harm or otherwise, you waive your right to sue for damages and have to go through "3rd party arbitration" which is paid for by the company, which inherently means it can't be 3rd party. All of this is standard practice in the restaurant industry; I've worked for 4 different ones

[@franklinshepardinc]

I'm also one of the only white workers and I'm most certainly always treated better than my Hispanic counterparts

[@franklinshepardinc]

They sometimes work 16 hour shifts and have to shrug off workplace injury even more than I do

[@mikesimpson3207]

"There's a lot of pretending that goes into making this show." SICK FORESHADOWING

[@69degreesnorth]

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me "a white taxi driver?!", I wouldn't have to work as a taxi driver.

[@Tweedle90]

So were all just waiting for literally dracula to tell us about his past menial jobs?

[@graces1220]

yep

[@xmlthegreat]

No. It was the ghost of jobs past. Dracula is just a middle manager at a hedge fund.

[@fortunomancy]

“Don’t you feel like there’s something wrong with work?” He asks me as I listen to this video while finishing up my workday

[@NawidN]

I'd like to use that question as a conversation starter sometime. Ideally at work.

[@doejersey]

Ayy I know that voice. Is that you Thought Slime? Blink twice if you’re stuck in the eyeball zone. O wait.

[@discomilf]

CAME HERE TO ASK IF THAT'S WHO I HEARD

[@rick7408]

Borger King?

[@wiesejay]

Just finished watching the most recent TS video, then this one and I’m like *squeeeeeee*

[@vxicepickxv]

Matt Slime, Boy Detective

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

@@rick7408 Mhnmnn, BORGER king

[@unleashedontheglobe]

"Philosophy Tube will return in early 2021 with a new look" You weren't kidding 😁 Godspeed Abi, love you lots! 🧡

[@keyrtan]

I can barely stand most jobs because I'm anti-materialist, I live out of a backpack by choice because I just don't care about "stuff". Naturally this makes me rather terrible at sales.

[@simonalaniz1192]

Wait is it me or is abi as a guy transparent? As in the man who isn’t there? Omg she thought it all out how did we not notice

[@thescousecleaner]

Omg. This is genius.

[@morganrawlinson4619]

That's a good reading, but the transparency + the chains + the video being released around Christmastime all lead me to think it's probably just a Jacob Marley's ghost thing (from A Christmas Carol)

[@naikigutierrez4279]

@@morganrawlinson4619 I choose to believe that it is both of those things.

[@AstraIVagabond]

@@morganrawlinson4619 That's the explicit metaphor(? allegory? symbol?) - she identifies it at 1:24. But now we have an additional layer of reading that, intentional or not*, adds to the richness of the connection. *I wouldn't put it past Abi, but I've also read how accidental depth discovered by readers amazed at its brilliance can be one of a writer's greatest gifts. :P

[@cadene5498]

“Bloody Brussels bureaucrats telling us how bendy the bananas have to be!”

[@dwc1964]

"Straight, Hard and Green" *"Like the Hulk's dick"*

[@ScubaSctimpy]

"no one would work supermarket jobs if they weren't forced to though!!" yes, that's the bloody point.

[@Raccoonbutch]

"when i played fallout new vegas i killed Mr house every time "when i played fallout new vegas" the signs were all there, this is the true coming out video.

[@bigkarl6367]

I don’t get what you’re trying to say

[@feelthepony]

i squealed like a 12 years old girl when i heard thought slime.

[@celeri6497]

same! i'd know that sarcastic voice anywhere

[@samiha1865]

Haha I was scrolling through the comments to check if anyone else picked up on it!

[@nejdalej]

Me too!

[@ideasinthegord3915]

Same here! It's like "I heard you like slime in your philosophy" which is so enjoyable for me. Thought Slime has an amazing talent for voice overs and I recognize him anywhere.

[@dwc1964]

@@samiha1865 this is what I'm doing right now!

[@RJH755]

Damn you wern't kidding when you said you'd return with a "new look", congrats on coming out Abigail!

[@beawilderment]

how did she do this voice I don't understand it's such a subtle difference but she made it look effortless

[@natvrgal]

i mean being an actress and doing voice training you learn to control your voice well

[@arielfelts9111]

"there's quite a lot of pretending that goes into making this show" that means so much more after today. I'm so happy for you Abby, and so glad you don't have to pretend anymore. ❤️

[@PCLHH]

"When I play New Vegas I kill Mr. House everytime!" loved that referance ;) edit: a friend of mine worked her tail off in a liquor store. One weekend free, every 5 weeks, if at all. Got paid less than minimun. She ended up using drugs to cope with the tiredness and stole from the cash register. She said she didn't even feel bad steeling, because she was so under paid and over worked. She almost went to prison, but ended up in a rehab for a short while. (I don't have dodgy friends, so this was a real eye-opener for middle-class me.)

[@0warlocknsoulgem0]

So happy thought slime got to make an appearance here

[@Savelion]

Not even kidding when she said "....play video games and rest" I legit burst into tears. I'm so tired. I hate being chronically ill and having to work full time. I feel really valid now, thanks Abby

[@Lolavs]

"When I play Fallout New Vegas, I kill Mr. House every time!" Based and Yes Man pilled.

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

4chain living in your head rent free I see

[@leohertzler8870]

my grandma when my mom was getting her philosophy degree: "what're you gonna do, open a philosophy shop?" thought that was appropriate for this video.

[@felinecontrolled]

My spouse have a double major in philosophy and anthropology. They work as an operational manager in a warehouse.

[@lance5691]

Her answer should have been: "YES"

[@AbhipshaSahuCoPrezIOFA]

Okay but a philosophy shop would be so funny lol "Hello I would like to buy one existentialism please"

[@Gibs-legacy]

cancelling olly for the fish soup incident

[@anse7288]

FISHES OF ALL THE WORLD UNITE!!!

[@mallardofmodernia8092]

Yea fish soup deserves exile at the least

[@Ryan-Pot]

heh i’m an enby who’s currently studying computer science, i’ll do my best to come up with an algorithm that helps us automate the process of inventing genders 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@PurposelessRabbitholes]

13:03 is the bit that made me sub. First video of yours I’ve seen, love it

[@TheBeethooven]

... may you elaborate on how that bit made you sub? :3

[@cordeliaistheone]

@@TheBeethooven I think it was the green banana bit lmao

[@TheBeethooven]

@@cordeliaistheone Hehe, it sure was ;D

[@d_camara]

I never processed there was other people in the room, now I'm amazed by how they hold their laugh in the rest of the videos, i don't think i ever heard anyone laugh, but it does constate that this joke was the best as it was the only one that made those people laugh

[@IsimplyWill]

You're an absolute hero for time stamping this🤣🤣🤣

[@eflarsen]

i want a "should have done STEM instead of inventing all those extra genders" shirt

[@jdprettynails]

It needs to be in the pride flag colours or glitter though otherwise you will just look like a smug conservative.

[@eflarsen]

@@jdprettynails oh of course. aggressively in the more pride pride flag colors, absolutely soaking with glitter, on a hot pink shirt.

[@jdprettynails]

@@eflarsen I'll buy 5!!

[@sarahsmith840]

I want one in trans* flag colors. I'll wear it to my engineering classes.

[@yandoryn]

I used my math degree to make a generalized gender expression. Don't worry, I accounted for n=0 and the trivial case.

[@Jekyllstein_Gray]

"I saw it on the news." To that I'd say: did the news give you statistics, or did they only show you a string of individual sensationalized reports? And if they did give you statistics, what statistics did they give you? Who gathered them? What methodologies did they use and could they be flawed in any way? Etc.

[@angel4everable]

Best titled job in the US government: Assistant Secretary to the Undersecretary for Assistance, United States Agency for International Development

[@isoldadoesstuff]

oh well, my Brazilian self-esteem was about none anyway

[@aramislima902]

De fato :,)

[@KabochaOu]

Olly's about to get a rush of patrons because we followed the link he leaked, then felt guilty lol. Love you

[@carolyntalbot947]

Clever boy. He knows his audience well.

[@addisonkennedy7111]

Waiting for Abby to play a relative or genderswapped version of the vampire economist

[@williamleoppky661]

I feel for the “7’ talk guy who thinks he’s one of the gang but has no idea how terrifying is” but most don’t... you do an incredible job of describing how you see people while expressing your own personal feelings.

[@francinegee9997]

"Philosophy Tube will return in 2021 *with a new look* " You were not kidding! Brava, Abigail!!

[@origamiandcats6873]

Origami. If nobody is watching you can do origami with the endless supply of paper.

[@magischepflanzen758]

I downloaded a lot of your videos as mp3's, so I can listen to them during my pretty shitty minimum wage job. Thx for making work better for me!

[@MariOfTheMountains]

This really hits differently with hindsight...congrats, Abby!

[@Laribhaven]

Philosophy Tube is in it's Dracula/ Dorian Grey Stage I see...

[@crazykenna]

@@Allison_Hart I think he'd need to have a portrait done for that ...

[@JohannaElixirdanza]

I'm shocked: now everything makes sense... maybe he knew old Karl Marx and Darwin back then... and this december he is going to rest in his coffin (or contemplate de picture of himself) while he is getting younger...

[@dylanchouinard6141]

@@Allison_Hart amen to that!

[@allisonfarrell7968]

crazykenna shhh... I hear he keeps it in the attic

[@teuast]

"And in the words of Charles Dickens, this video was sponsored by Skillshare"

[@mangowaters2370]

That had me laughing so hard I hit my head on the wall

[@hotfishdev]

“Sometimes I do data entry on the weekends” *Magic: The Gathering intensifies*

[@tsuwundere]

"There's a lot of pretending that goes into making this show" I get it now

[@jgr_lilli_]

Dun dun duuun

[@13gudadod]

@@jgr_lilli_ what

[@scouttyra]

@Tazerfish *she

[@kuroame16]

@Tazerfish a trans man is a he. Abigail uses she/her pronouns. so *she* came out.

[@notaninstrument7707]

The little smile she did feels like it must have been so future viewers looking back would go ohhhhhhhhh I get it now

[@Solid--Snake]

rewatching her recent videos feels like watching a movie for the second time after you know the plot twist and getting the clues. there's a lot of abigail here in this performance that i couldn't realize before.

[@MrNeosantana]

Yeah, the speech here is much more Abby as opposed to older videos

[@fenixmeaney6170]

I had seen only one video before the coming out one The gender video, of course And when she said "I'm a cis male" I thought "give it 5 years" That's how good of an actress she is She conveyed that information PERFECTLY

[@usermcskull4713]

I don't know why but when I watch her pre transition videos, I don't see a man talking. I feel like I'm watching a woman, it's amazing

[@fenixmeaney6170]

@@usermcskull4713 the singular part she is bad at is playing a cis man

[@usermcskull4713]

@@fenixmeaney6170 As a trans woman, I too have difficulty playing as a cis man

[@Huntracony]

Me: "You're actually gonna give a capitalist perspective? Olly: Vampire teeth. Me: "Accurate."

[@GQ2593]

Kinda lame tho, usually he's more creative

[@DubbleM900]

@@GQ2593 The capitalist vampire was established back in the video games industry video. Entirely apt still.

[@wangledteb5671]

@@DubbleM900 I was just gonna say I love how every time he dresses as a capitalist he's a literal vampire lol cuz honestly true

[@greatmightypanda]

It's also a subtle Marxism reference since one of the metaphors used for capital by Marx is the vampire

[@postmorton2493]

Also, the idea of needing to invite the vampire into your house equates to inviting the capitalists into your country.

[@castinamartillo]

When she said "I will return in 2021 with a new look" she meant it

[@13gudadod]

Facts

[@ChonosTack]

That's why she's half vanishing in this video.

[@SpeedOfTheEarth]

Funny how I only now watched it first, in this exact context - nice★

[@user-ou6bm6ur8v]

@@ChonosTack the ghost of abigail past

[@cadence6676]

This comment I came back to find this comment

[@cherrycardoza405]

Who is this dashing vampire and why is she threatening my country with war?

[@RyuKyu.77]

How the hell was she a handsome man AND A STUNNING LADY RN, THIS IS NOT FAIR!

[@raphaelmorgan2307]

"there's quite a lot of pretending that goes into this show" means more to us now that we know all the pretending she had to do lol

[@bobthabuilda1525]

For sure! I know this may sound weird since I don't actually know her personally, but I'm so proud of her.

[@hella_cool1312]

“Philosophy Tube will return in early 2021... with a new look” 👀

[@hornylink]

right!??! Glad she's around though, love this channel

[@demetrisloukas8586]

666'th like hell yeah

[@polarys79]

I'm going through old videos noticing these little things! The hints were everywhere!

[@guavagecko]

yeah I got a STEM degree and work the most bullshit job of all: corporate data science. it's basically capitalism distilled into its purest form: abstractify customer behavior into numbers and try to squeeze out as much profit out of them as possible. i feel like death and the only thing that keeps me going are the small hours here and there working on my passion projects.

[@SpecialBlanket]

Data scientist here-- for christ's sake, why? God knows we make enough money to have the savings to look for a meaningful data science job. I require that of myself and so should you.

[@guavagecko]

@@SpecialBlanketyou're right, I was young and I didn't know much about the field beyond the job I was in. I work in medical sciences now and much happier

[@TransSappho]

“Let teachers be heroes” is so fucking threatening and dystopian

[@Rozilla]

I'm a teaching assistant and my almost all of my immediate family works in education, so when I read that headline all I could think was "You first dickhead. You go into classrooms full of kids who don't follow basic hygiene, let alone social distancing."

[@katherinemorelle7115]

It’s certainly the most disturbing thing I’ve read this week. That’s just... I have no words for how pernicious and evil it is. Well, except for the two I just used, I guess, but they don’t quite cover the horror of it.

[@CriticalHitRoll]

pushing teachers into "martyrdom".... its very much disturbing. they dont deserve to have their lives at threat just for the perceived glory of heroism.

[@odysseas_kratsas]

+

[@DeoMachina]

The newspapers have only gotten worse and more aggressive since then, teachers didn't want to be "heroes" so now the columnists are simply telling them to die.

[@hungrymoose7627]

The stuff about "hero jobs" really struck a chord with me. I'm a long haul trucker and during the pandemic I really was treated like a hero. I'd be making casual chit-chat with clerks and servers and they would legitimately thank me for what I do. People really understood that the things they need come by truck, there were banners saying "thank you truckers" strung up on bridges all over North America. But then in 2021 when the supply chain started crumbling, now we're public enemy number one. Now theres a shortage of truckers, now theres not enough people getting into the industry, now we should be buckling down and running harder, despite the fact that all of that goodwill, all of those thank yous are gone. Businesses are no longer offering us places to park, theres no more free meals for truckers, hell, a lot of truck stops have permanently shut down their restaurants (Looking at you TA/Petro and Husky). It was nice while it lasted, but reality came back and now I just gotta settle back into 70+ hour weeks, bad diet, bad sleep, bad social life. All so that I can drive 45,000lbs of paper rolls 1500 miles so they can be turned into newspapers that no one will read.

[@janinewetzler5037]

We still appreciate the toilet paper deliveries, thank you!!

[@Silver77cyn]

😨

[@morisan42]

The thing is with the word "hero" is it implies an element of self sacrifice, and then people come to expect that sacrifice when really the most important jobs should be those that are paid the most!

[@meanghoul]

I hope now, in 2023, you're getting the recognition you deserve again. I've worked in food service since I was 14, and I've never once taken the truck drivers and the guys who unpack crate upon crate of food that they will never get to eat for granted. You're totally a hero.

[@LiLComeInClutch]

"That's the American dream baby you just need to have a better attitude! You lazy young people just don't know nothin' about elbow grease and integrity!"

[@Tom_Nicholas]

I read Bullsh!t Jobs recently and was reminded of an office job I had in my early 20s. It was 80% bullsh!t which was pretty (actually very) depressing but it was made even more maddening by the fact that other people who worked there felt they were massively changing the world.

[@pragon1173]

Fancy seeing you here

[@koalasquare2145]

@@pragon1173 it's really not that surprising, lol

[@aznneozanet]

This might be inappropriate but I have to ask how old you are, because I definitely thought you were still in your early 20s...

[@raiorai2]

In your early 20s? So like... Yesterday?

[@daved2352]

The most bullshit parts of my job are generating paperwork for a person who's job is entirely bullshit because they deal with the dumb paperwork we generate that serves no purpose.

[@christopherhutchinson6545]

Not mine but it feels appropriate, "Is a free market truly free if the only alternative to selling your labor at that market, is death?" I post, while at my folding card table desk, at my job.

[@captainhaddock6435]

That hits hard.

[@nuklearboysymbiote]

That's how you realise how much you are being shackled. Even after realising it you see that this system is so widespread that it has stripped people of the ability to sustain themselves, or to band together and sustain each other free from money and government.

[@christopherhutchinson6545]

@Mark Donald the alternative to death is omnipotence? Can I choose the middle ground of financially surviving a late stage cancer diagnosis? (I.e. not begging for my life on GoFundMe/using some of those pooled resources we call a government to help those in need)

[@ThrottleKitty]

@Mark Donald A hyperbolic strawman ad hominem that litterally replaces the entire top, bottom, and center of the political party you are attempting to engage with with unrelated nonsense. This is the most hilarious failure to attempt political engagement I've ever seen. Are we to be converted away from our beliefs by your delusional reimagining of them? Or are you just reflexively trying to shove away an idea you can't spare the mental energy to actually engage with on an intellectual level?

[@aidenb1304]

Us: What if we had just enough to not starve to death on the streets, so we could have a bit more control over what we did with our lives? @Mark Donald: YOU WANT TO BE A GOD???

[@belagrolaub8746]

I am a comic artist, but I need to work a retail job. Before the pandemic, I was ok with, I felt like I kinda made my peace with having to do this job until I could make a living as an artist. But after spending 3 months in lockdown, I basically got to experience what my life would be like with universal basic income. It was perfect. I was heaven. I could spend 8 hours working on my art every day. Now I am back at my day job, which, yeah, brings more money, but I started hating every second of it *again*.

[@MedlifeCrisis]

TIL I learnt Abi and I did the same job as teenagers. I just never left the NHS. And let me tell you, the number of BS jobs in this "heroic" organisation would make your eyes water. Thanks for highlighting the public/media role of the NHS during the pandemic.

[@GriffinWulf]

hi rohin fancy seeing you here

[@whatelseison8970]

OMG it's him! The heroic shit-posting.. uh.. cartographer. 🖤💙

[@msb4838]

Me too. Except for the City of NY not the NHS.

[@oscardighton8580]

The NHS reminds me of central services from Brazil

[@tomcho8221]

Well I didn't expect to see you here.

[@Michaelalovespandas]

emotional labor is also most common in stereotypically female jobs.

[@apoorvajain]

Emotional regulation to convenience others is just a part of living life a woman tbh. fucking sucks

[@Kiki-cs8xv]

The worst part is that it's often expected in a role where it's not required, just because the employee is female. Female employees are frequently told to be friendly and "nice" when male employees aren't, and all because it makes others uncomfortable when females DON'T do that emotional labor.

[@Michaelalovespandas]

@@apoorvajain and @Kiki those are both good points

[@DianaAmericaRivero]

And sometimes in stereotypically male jobs performed by women. As an attorney, I've had to manage - and am expected to manage - my clients' emotions when, I'm almost certain that NONE of my male colleagues have had to do the same.

[@badsoup8857]

That could be a result of men's toxic masculinity causing them to be uncomfortable when women are assertive. Also, the straight white man being seen as the default causes anyone who deviates to feel like they should be glad to be there, because they're somehow inherently strange, or extra (to a lesser degree, that mentality is inherent to all workers, who are told to feel grateful to the capitalist for graciously giving them a job) Women and minorities tend to feel an obligation to tone police themselves in nearly all situations (to avoid feeling bad/being chastised/negative consequences for "being a stereotype, making [insert mimority] look bad") , resulting in that muted mode of behaviour being expected of them, and lowering the standards for "being a stereotype" to just being a normal fucking human being. Also, blah blah blah, capitalism, alienation, intersectionality.

[@coldbrewserotonin1872]

When she said "when they should be doing STEM"... I study engineering and people here love that. I get praised, I get invited to events to inspire kids to get into tech, and I am appreciated and well paid in the company where I do apprenticeships. Even though I know nothing about anything yet, really. Friends of mine who study stuff like social work and nursing already have to face so much more bullshit than I ever will, probably. But I feel like there is a lot of bullshittery among engineers, too. Some seem a bit detatched from reality. Because you are praised by everyone for doing "something useful" and get paid a lot, and because bigger tech companies can usually afford good HR and training and stuff, it's easy to feel like you're already a genius and don't really need to do anything to keep your status and salary. Yeah, math is hard and stuff, but I feel like a dumb baby when whining about the problems I face professionally and the problems others face, like traumatizing situations, interact with people, deal with real, actual, acute and long-term problems that real people have. I think it's great that people who love tech have such amazing opportunities, but the hype seems a bit fabricated. And probably profit-oriented.

[@kagitsune]

Right here with you. It's... Weird how little engineering that engineers actually do. It's a lot of paper pushing and digging for poorly documented changes and waiting for someone to stop postposting the meeting you need for your project. 🙃

[@phoebepalmer5327]

As a young amateur computer programmer considering it as a career, I really felt this. Adults get all excited about how much money I could make and how trendy and respectable it is. They don't really consider: 1) Computer programmers still do lots of non-programming things - especially as you go up the inevitable hierarchy, there's a lot of management - and they're the high earners I get told about. 2) Programmers get bored sometimes. There's lots of debugging and documentation and also plenty of meetings. 3) The amount of optimism around tech seems ridiculous to me. Not to be a killjoy, but nobody is changing the world by developing a skydiving app aimed at new mothers, or whatever niche is trending. I'm really excited about the programming concepts I learn and the projects I create, I genuinely like working with code (mostly) and I dream of making fun games or apps that might actually be of use to somebody, but the reality of working in tech is not all sunshine and rainbows. Meanwhile, I regularly hear people who don't really want to do tech and have real interest in humanities get steered into it regardless because 'you can't make any money doing that', or even 'it's a waste of potential'. You can't make much money nursing, teaching or stacking shelves, but I've always thought those jobs were much more productive than investment banking, for example. This video echoed a lot of things I've been thinking for a long time.

[@luketfer]

You know what the strangest thing I found is. Retail jobs are literally the LEAST respected jobs. Now people think cleaners are the ones who get all the shit BUT, at least here in the UK, people generally seem to realize it's a job that needs doing. When I was a cleaner I'd often have people actually complimenting me on how clean everything was or that I was doing a 'bang up job' and that they appreciated it. Working retail however...yeah...you get treated like utter shit because the whole "the customer is always right" has bled into society AND corporate mentality. Doesn't matter if the customer is actively going against the rules laid out by the company like 'no refunds without a receipt' and you're pointing out that's the reason you're not giving one...but low and behold your supervisor/manager/someone higher up the food chain comes a long and is like "Just give them the refund..." Bitch please if I had just done that in the first place you'd have dragged me into the office and chewed me out for doing refunds willy nilly, the company wrote the fucking rules in the handbook down, why is it every time the customer is even a little difficult, you fold like a wet piece of tissue paper because your worried one little pissant of a customer might somehow effect you multi-million pounds worth of sales. All it succeeds in doing is making ME looks like the asshole and YOU look like the hero.

[@cadencenavigator958]

I feel like that's on purpose. That it's a form of propaganda, making the actual workers look belligerent while the management gets to be the long-suffering "yeah, sorry, here you go." Also related is the fact that they'd drag you into their office- away from the eyes of customers- before yelling at you.

[@luketfer]

@@cadencenavigator958 Oh it is most definitely on purpose to make them seem like the 'good guys who have the customer's back'. The problem is that from that point on that customer KNOWS they can bully management into giving them a refund and they'll be back to do it again and again. An yeah any yelling at staff is always done out of the customers eyes so they can maintain the image of being 'the good guys' in the customers eyes. There was one incident where I did as I was told and did the refund then someone above them came in and shouted at ME for doing it...despite having been forced to by someone higher up. I had no 'evidence' that they'd told me to do it. From that point on I actually logged off the tills if someone like that wanted a refund (if it was just a regular refund with an obvious and understandable cause then I'm not going to argue it or if it was for something like less than £5) and made the supervisors/managers log in themselves to do it...which didn't make me popular since it made them super reluctant to give refunds because it would be on their head, not mine and thus suddenly the whole 'hero act' started to dry up.

[@ripztubig4457]

@@cadencenavigator958 and gives the perceived notion that retail workers don't deserve to be paid much because of this.

[@luketfer]

@@ripztubig4457 Yeah the impression that "all retail staff are stupid and stubborn because they're never right"...god I wish I could get a time machine, go back in time and strangle whoever invented the phrase "the customer is always right".

[@ripztubig4457]

@@luketfer same. I hate it. But I will say, the customers that are nice and respectful of me, I'll bend over backwards for. I'll do extra for them. But the ones who are rude and disrespectful to me are the ones I will do only the very basic option of making it right.

[@BlueGangsta1958]

"A female customer sexually assaulted me and he told her off on my behalf, that was cool of him" is so low a bar for being cool I wanna cry.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Right? For starters, she should have been reported for assult of she laid even a finger on him or for harassment. Then kicked out and permanently banned. It's the employers job to protect their employees!

[@nooneinparticular9837]

Ja mei, da Pumukl is a mit dabei xD

[@crackbandicoot2254]

He sets the bar that low because he doesn't seem to stand up for himself, ever. So when he sees someone stand up for someone else, he sees a level of virtue 2 places higher than he's ever been able to demonstrate on his own.

[@M-CH_]

@@crackbandicoot2254 Wash it first.

[@BlueGangsta1958]

@@nooneinparticular9837 Hurra, hurra, der Kobold mit dem roten Haar, hurra, hurra, der Pumuckl ist da

[@Pepperannechan]

I'm currently homeless and live out of my car. I barely make enough at my full time job to put what shitty food I can into it. And this video helped me realize what the empty sadness I feel every day is, I long for control over my own life. Living out of my car isn't as bad as I thought but I do wish I had the basics just to do something more with myself. To have more meaning. To read more. To write more even if I never want to sell a book or anything. Just for me. I wonder at times what the point of even trying is when I'm no one and mean less then dirt ( unless I go to prison then I have a price on my head lol ). But I'm trying to see life as meaning whatever I give it meaning to mean. I just want to be free, ironically...in the land of the free....

[@EB240]

keep fighting the good fight, if you can, move! change your perspective, even better move country. poverty is expensive and the land of the free is, well, not so free.

[@disappointedmess209]

@@EB240 lmao "move country" did you not read the comment or are you that privileged that you dont realize that isnt much of an option

[@kagitsune]

I hope that you were eventually able to wrest some control over your life, friend. ❤ You deserve to live a comfortable, decent life. You working full time and being stuck homeless isn't your fault. It's the fault of your employer that refuses to pay you a living wage, because they can get away with it.

[@DEANMURPHY]

How are you doing?

[@TalkingVidya]

"Every time I play New Vegas, I kill Mr. House" MY GIRL

[@slydogamigo2303]

All houses are bastards

[@Proudhand]

No Gods, No Masters

[@TribuneAquila]

I cant help doing it with a golf club saying A man chooses, a slave obeys!

[@connorwalters9223]

I also throw General Oliver off the dam. Because fuck the NCR and also it's hilarious

[@rxcort]

A left tube channel in Spanish? Count me in compañer@

[@SnoFitzroy]

I thought of doctors and firefighters firstwhen you said "hero jobs" - police didn't even cross my mind ROFLMAO

[@BlindErephon]

The difference is that by and large people dont question the authority (and its basis) of police as much as they do doctors, and firefighters dont really have any. "Hero job" is probably not meant to equate in this as being the same as being an actual hero.

[@AmandaDavis6130]

I thought of garbage workers before police.

[@kwcl176]

@@BlindErephon Another way to look at it is that it isnt necessarily the society that enforces the idea of a hero for these "hero jobs". The police department can just make everyone working there believe they are the heroes, claiming that they are protecting "the people" and punishing "evil".

[@chrisowens4550]

Graeber calls these jobs just plain "shit jobs." Very necessary to the functioning of society, but low pay and low status.

[@claudiuscluver3787]

„When they call you a hero, it means they think you are expendable.“ Dave Anthony on the Dollop (Podcast), citing someone

[@janeyannachicken9053]

And then you have people who say that Unconditional Basic Income will make people just sit at home and twiddle their thumbs. Humans crave meaningful occupation, and not having to do meaningless shit because you need the money but instead be able to do something that has meaning to you... That'd be paradise.

[@katrinam6795]

To be fair I would probably read famfiction, hang out with my boyfriend, learn how to carpent and help my mother grow potatoes. Sounds good

[@doctorwholover1012]

God, if we had UBI, how many more tradesmen (of all genders) would we have? How many artisans? How many people dedicated to historical restoration and upkeep, how many people keeping traditional ways alive like celebrations and cultural practises etc? How many people would garden and refurbish their spaces, both personal and public? How many people would show up for things like jury duty, volunteering for events etc, political activism like marches? How many people would be more caring parents and partners, how many teens would be able to stay in school bc they don't need to babysit their siblings or work an extra job to help out? How many people could escape abusive relationships, adults and teens alike? How much better would the world be if we weren't all scrambling to survive at all times?

[@janeyannachicken9053]

@@doctorwholover1012 Exactly!

[@eugenielegrand8590]

I'd probably still do my current job with UBI. But at least I'd spend less of it worrying about if my contract is going to be renewed, or more accurately, what I'll do next when it isn't and trying to get funding to be able to do my job. Academia is err interesting.

[@terry9238]

Just don’t get tricked into approving the kind of “UBI” that would mostly replace existing social services, rather than stacking with them. Which would leave those with low or no income even worse off than they are now.

[@emilym5706]

“How long can you sit here pretending to do something before you give up? And it’s the pretending that’s exhausting. Which is kind of a weird thing for me to say, ‘cause now, pretending is my job. There’s quite a lot of pretending that goes into making this show. Plus, like I said, I’m also an actor, and that is literally just playing pretend.” - Abi Thorn, 4:56

[@ohno7852]

how did I not n o t i c e

[@simonalaniz1192]

Omg there was so much foreshadowing

[@anfisachern8570]

FORESHADOWING

[@AstraIVagabond]

And on the other side (Identity, 28:26): "Have you ever had a crappy job that just really wears you down? And sometimes it's alright, but it just starts to get to you? And that upset leaks into other areas of your life. You're tired all the time, but you also can't sleep, and you're anxious and irritable..."

[@OhhCrapGuy]

@@simonalaniz1192 I've been working my way through the back catalog, and there's SO VERY MUCH foreshadowing

[@nonpareil7951]

“Sometimes I do data entry on the weekends!” Me, a teacher, copying tables of grades from one website to another every weekend because the district didn’t pay for the version that copies automatically: 🙃

[@therealhyrumforpresident]

And it's very likely your school didn't pay for that because schools are incredibly underfunded. God, so many systems are broken

[@WeiYinChan]

Can you diy one with a web scraper and a browser automation extension (e.g. UI vision)? If they are on a website you may be able to do that using free chrome extensions.

[@margo3c541]

@@WeiYinChan not all teachers have the time or tech knowledge to do that bro 😞

[@sissymarie2912]

@@therealhyrumforpresident yeah, our system doesn't care about reinforcing critical infrastructure unless it's profitable. Social need is apparently not important.

[@twincitiestara]

Suggestion: Assign a clever comp-sci student to write a script that does it for you. I'd say offer extra credit, but you'll want this done by the kid who is probably getting an A in comp-sci anyway. But maybe you can offer something like free lab time. I know when I was a teenager I or several of my friends would leap at a chance like that.

[@josemaria8177]

I got really excited seeing this in my subbox. Then I noticed that the premiere is tomorrow. My disappointment is imeasurable and my day is ruined (but tomorrow is going to be a good day) EDIT- Today wasn't a particulary good day, but this video is amazing and it improved my day enormously

[@oktheneggscape5759]

I jokingly threw my phone when I realized i still had to wait

[@EagleDarkX]

2 and a half hours more buddy, don't miss it!

[@starpasta]

Omg, I did the same thing, and I was going to watch it with a friend and everything! But the wait was so worth it.

[@aandwdabest]

I m glad to hear that you are happy.

[@FelineFurKin]

I didn’t notice the date at first either, I was so hyped to watch it, damn.

[@TalkingVidya]

Man, this the bit about the insurance hits really close to home. My last bullshit job before doing KZbin as a full timer was as a Phone operator for a Car Rental service. They forced us to sell customers usless accesories in their cars that didn't help them at all, and would actually punish us, in our paychecks, if we didn't sell enough of the usless extra stuff that really, no costumer wanted. It was horrible and a bullshit job that didn't cotribute anything to anyone.

[@braddennis3092]

I feel your pain on this. My last job was as a debt collector for a credit card company, over the phone. We had several "relief" options to offer, but the one they pushed the hardest for was this plan that was supposedly going to keep you from accruing interest for 6 months, but all it really was was "pay us a few hundred dollars a month for six months to make literally no positive difference on your balance whatsoever." I had a mental breakdown and haven't been able to stomach doing bullshit jobs, harmful or otherwise, since.

[@fredericmari8871]

Sorry but what you and Dennis wasn’t bs jobs. They made money for someone. They just happen to be unethical, maybe illegal (if someone bothered to sue) and unpleasant to normally constituted people...

[@dosbilliam]

That reminds me of a time I worked in a Wal-Mart electronics department; there was an elderly couple that came in looking for a couple of contract phones, and they wanted as few frills as possible. The worst part (which isn't really that bad, tbh) is that there wasn't a way to not have data on the phones they were getting, so as they didn't want that, I put them on the lowest option which, iirc, only added $5 to their monthly bill. While the assistant manager for the department group we were in wasn't the greatest, even thinking back I know his only concern would have been whether I sold them the actual phones or not (which were also the cheapest, since we only had one type of flip phone and that's what they wanted) which, due to trying to sell them what THEY wanted instead of what made Wal-Mart the most money, ended being two sold phones, two relatively happy customers, and a good amount of sitting down on the job for me. :D

[@marlboroprime657]

VIDYAAAA TE AMAMOS

[@TalkingVidya]

@@dosbilliam What would you guess, giving the customers what they want insted of forcing overpriced bullshit works! Like, they forced to offer the most expensive vehicles first, and then complained when we sold the cheap ones. Hate it there

[@edgar-sama642]

Man, as a Mexican, the hotel bit hit a bit to hard...

[@yllejord]

As a Greek, same here.

[@danofthehour4822]

Imagine what it was like as a Panamanian :v

[@nob2243]

The "inner bit" part about guests spending their money entirely in hotel/resort's premises, and not (or barely) venturing outside, hit even harder :/

[@victorianeechan]

*heavy latin-american sweating*

[@Steleaf]

tranquilo compa :c no eres el unico