Your Job Achieves Nothing... (probably) - How Money Works

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In the last century service jobs have gone from representing less than a quarter of all jobs to now representing nearly 80% of workers.
Now when we think of service jobs we think of people serving us coffee, finding a pair of pants from out the back, or carrying bags to our hotel room.
Sure they might be an unnecessary luxury for the people using these services but it’s still pretty easy to see that they do produce value, be it in the form of a nice cup of coffee, a flash new outfit, or promptly delivered luggage (without the need for a physio appointment the next day)
But you see the thing is the service sector is far more broad than the name implies it encompasses everybody from call center salespeople to CEO’s.
In fact it is quiet difficult these days to find a job outside of the service sector specifically because those roles require special certifications, remember that for later because it is important.
But the growth of the self-serving service sector, and the subsequent rise in bull jobs that came with it seems a bit odd.
Surely the efficient free market would weed out these individuals that are contributing nothing, punishing the companies that bear their salary expenses while rewarding the more efficient organizations that do without them… right?
#Careers #MyJobSucks #HowMoneyWorks

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[@DrPondsPizza]

Only if the title of the guy who wrote it is "bullsh*t newsletter writer"

[@lemonboiyoutube]

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[@goofyfoot2001]

We can't sell each other pizzas forever

[@dinrash7613]

Maybe this is how future AI powered economy looks like. Most time doing nothing and educate yourself. But if something wrong happen and AI need correction will be able fast identify problem and fix it

[@slinkid9410]

Im a builder. As much as people might look down at me, my job improves the lives of anyone I work for.

[@HealingEraWithTricia]

Of course your work is important ❤️🙂

[@bobjason7540]

Construction is one of the few honest livings left

[@lucwillemssens5062]

I would never look down on a construction worker. I do find really annoying construction work near my House because of the tremendous noise machines do and my fondness for sleeping in.

[@chome4]

Here in the UK, in the financial districts, many pubs have notices on the doors/windows saying 'No entry to people in soiled clothing', meaning construction workers.

[@maxezaz7694]

Who cares if anybody looks down on you. You are how YOU see yourself.

[@zacmiles5342]

I deliver pizza to people. I put a smile on their face when I bring their food. As an ex-junkie , that's good enough for me.

[@stef422]

Good job man!

[@Serthys]

Nice man! Good to hear that you overcame your demons and at the same time find joy in what you are doing!

[@sirwizzard4649]

Overcoming addiction can be tough, I'm glad you pulled through!

[@naqshchaudhry2299]

youre doing amazing, i love pizza

[@LonelyCinderella123]

It's kinda funny though because many of your customers are addicted to junk food.

[@rannyorton]

The average person has never been so poor. Millions of families are struggling financially as living expenses hit the highest levels in more than four decades. Over 60% of our country lives paycheck to paycheck and about 40% earns poverty wages. Even after working all their lives, more than a quarter of older people have no savings and many believe they will never be able to retire in dignity, while around 55% of elderly people try to survive on an income of less than 25,000 a year.

[@belljoe]

Biden is worst thing that happened to us

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[@Ironsja11]

I was a high tech machinist for 22 years, then for a change went to work in an office. The amount of people that do nothing was and is staggering to me. You can't un see things like that. Now whenever I see a city I picture the buildings full of people doing nothing. I went back to being a machinist and I love it.

[@iamoctonate]

I think part of it is the inefficiency of the structure. I recent changed jobs from working in a boat yard to an office city job, and I find myself twiddling my thumbs a lot of the time because all of my supervisors are waiting on each other to finish tasks which aren't getting done because they have meetings with each other about the action items that need to get done in order to complete the tasks that they will pass onto each other which will then get passed down to me before I send them back up the chain. You get the idea. Coming from a job where I wouldn't stop moving around and have an endless list of things that NEEDED to get done, I hate it. I hate the feeling of being unproductive. I worry what will happen if there are layoffs. There is no job security because there isn't a constant and secure pattern of work. Like there are weeks where there aren't enough hours in the day, but then I'll have weeks where I'll ping one of the 8 different supervisors I report to and they have nothing and I'm just like -_- The only good thing about it is that on days I work from home I spend the time I would otherwise spend twiddling my thumbs, working on my own business. But at the end of the day, I want to be productive and actually feel like I am offering value and I'm not sure that the current office job structure is conducive to that.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Ridiculous modules lead to jobs without profits

[@greglane501]

Wait, why would you do that? Wouldn't that be a party cut?

[@Diggler569]

Usually the person who claims that others who are doing nothing are the one who don't usually do shit.

[@the_expidition427]

@@Diggler569 Am able to confirm office workers sit and spin in a chair while watching youtube. See Twitter cutting 80% of its staff whether it went smoothly or not isn't the point what the point is, is that it worked

[@Basta11]

Ironically, the higher up I go, the less I do.

[@Hoffmanpack]

The more I got fired the higher my wages got and the jobs got easier. 3times 😆

[@mrdoot0730]

the higher you go, the more money you have to get people to do your shit

[@invijr]

@@mrdoot0730 not entirely true, usually It's because lower position roles needs to work more to prove or fill their worth, while higher roles already have their advantage or worth to their organisation

[@unknowninfinium4353]

@@Hoffmanpack How?

[@TL-rh1lf]

@@invijr Say that too all the low positions that work their ass off and never move up.

[@moneymanjoe9639]

Best work title I ever had "Inventory and Transportation Coordiantor" I drove a forklift in a warehouse.

[@alexandroparra5144]

business Jargon

[@21Arrozito]

Should've gone with "Death-Machine Wrangler"

[@warrickterry4742]

Underwater ceramic technician, dishwasher

[@malainfluencia126]

Project Coordinator... Call people to schedulle unwanted appointments.

[@caroladaechi8838]

@@warrickterry4742 😂 😂 😂

[@supersizecoke]

Covid was an eyeopener. When people i knew or were familiar with started working from home i saw their true workload. Some had 1-2h of work and some were just on "standby" waitng for calls. Pretty much everyone were playing videogames all day, playing with their kids, renovating their houses, started new hobbies and did house chores. All while being paid full. This was a real punch in the face as I and many others actually have to be on site for 9h each day 5 days a week.

[@Opa_Joke]

Bruh im an electrician and work at construction sites

[@richsamuel2922]

And some people got other jobs and worked two jobs concurrently.

[@C63Bez]

@@richsamuel2922I’m curious do you have more info?

[@anemicsilence]

👍👍👍

[@blank_line]

Both my parents are doctors, and I myself am in med uni, so covid really showed who was actually working. While everyone was working on glowing up or picking up a new hobby, our family's life continued as it was before the pandemic started. But we were so stressed all the time And those people sitting at home were getting paid so much more as well. Idk anymore. Is it even worth working that hard?

[@adityamishra8497]

I worked at a tech startup. They got funding and after 2 year they increased their staff to around 170 people, most of them were in sales, marketing and Quality assurance. I worked there as an engineer. Most of the people there I saw just chit chatting, roaming around, planning weekend trips etc. Then the company had funding issue and the reduced the staff to around 30 people. with only 30 people everything was working as It was with 170+ staff.

[@JinMeowsoon]

A lot of scaling startups fall into this trap: they hire a bunch of people without a clear plan and run up of tasks to give them. A least in your case they hired a lot of salespeople, they really help growing the business (at least they’re supposed to). The worse is when they scale 10x the Product team but after a year the product is satisfying enough there’s only minor corrections to do. So the PMs are more or less asked to come up with busy work to occupy the team…

[@reboundrides8132]

Netflix had a similar issue and when they reduced their staff by over 50% they actually got more productive. They found out that by keeping the best employees and laying off the undesirable ones they actually got better work out of their employees. Now that is a big part of their business model, they would rather have one person who knows what they are doing, rather than 10 mediocre workers.

[@DunnsDayDash]

@adityamishra8497 You Indians really need to look up what an engineer actually is. There is a difference between a IT professional, Software Developer, and Engineer. I apologize if my comment sounds racist, but the fact of the matter is, Indians are literally the only people that call software development “engineering”. Actual engineers require a state license. If you don’t have one, you’re definitely not an engineer.

[@Super_Stan]

Technically its a great start

[@garybulwinkle82]

This is the way Washington DC works!! When Democrats get in they hire more people to sit around and get paid big bucks; oh and of course vote Democrat!! This is why our Government is so bloated!!!!

[@crenfick7750]

I'm a therapist. So much of my meaningful work is mitigating the mental turmoil caused by this system of meaningless work.

[@_sudipidus_]

Looks like it's working on your favor 😜

[@joao3547]

Also a therapist, and the fact that most people would stop NEEDING therapy if not for these shitty slave jobs is making me reconsider my profession. It's not worth it.

[@ant9347]

@@joao3547 that's not exactly true tho, many mental health problems arise from abuse or things that person can't control (clinical depressions for example ) Therapists are needed

[@lamingtongirl123]

I was hoping a therapist would be here and comment lol

[@jeroenverschaeve3090]

@@ant9347 Or, you know, being a human. The ability to self-reflect has serious drawbacks, and psychologists can help with those ^^

[@AdhocHoopla]

The bureaucracy must expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

[@HowMoneyWorks]

This is a hilariously honest but depressing way to put it

[@_Circus_Clapped_]

more like bureaucracy needs to be cut down, plus the fact that government funds these failing companies is enough reflection on what they are too. free market actually does work, problem is the government chooses all the losers instead of the winners in certain industries actual solutions are produced by producers/manufacturers and shut down by government lobbies threatened by it

[@andreaslind6338]

@@_Circus_Clapped_ it's almost like the failing companies use the government as a goon to beat up on the good companies, thus necessitating the good companies to hire lobbyists, box tickets and corporate lawyers to defend themselves, thus becoming bloated themselves.

[@meatybtz]

@@_Circus_Clapped_ If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. American Socialistic-NotReallyCapitalist Society. The USA has never actually been a "free market". All of the "robber barons" except, I think one, all got their big break via that wonderful subsidized GOVERNMENT CHEESE (rail, oil, canal building, WAR Materials). Most businesses today simply cannot compete in an actual free market. Especially the "dinosaurs", also known as Big Tech. The smaller more agile companies could out innovate and produce product that sells itself. The large multinational sells product no one wants or needs or product that is so inferior it needs "influencers" and government regulation to prevent a smaller more agile company from making a better product and knocking them completely out of the market. Think "Flip", "KZbin", "Go Pro", and many, many others that got bought up and just turned into a money milking machine as the product degrades and degrades but there is no competition so, no problem.

[@spuriouseffect]

One in six employed people work for the Government. Let that sink in. Ruling class?

[@user-bs1zg9nk3g]

It's wild how ineffective our society is. Something that always surprised me. Theoretically we should be able to massively improve our lifes and future just by fixing obvious flaws, but after closer study you always find our society does not function as a rational structure, it's more akin to a rat king. There are always stupid reasons why it's impossible to fix stupid problems

[@HeavyMetalNerd]

True...🤔

[@varmastiko2908]

The reason is you're looking at things from the wrong perspective. Society is not supposed to be effective. It's supposed to maintain the balance of power. A key element of power is management of money and wealth. It's necessary for the maintenance of balance for jobs to be needed for survival of the worker. The job doesn't have to be productive. It just has to be a requirement of survival.

[@zachariahhowell4342]

​@@varmastiko2908this is the most revolutionary / out there reply, but it's somewhat true, especially for the well paying bullshit jobs like various levels of management. Those jobs are also a "reward" for either staff who have indeed worked hard or simply for folks with the right connections and education.

[@donsolos]

Yes it's called greed and corruption. The things humanity could accomplish with just a pinch more cohesiveness

[@misspatvandriverlady7555]

@@varmastiko2908Somebody watched “Rules for Rulers”… 😏

[@Nikx012]

I'm a doctor. Just last night I've saved 3 lives. This vid made me appreciate my existence

[@reboundrides8132]

The guy above you delivers pizza and used to use drugs and has 4.2 thousand likes lol

[@Nikx012]

Unfortunately for you. I dont care about likes from people that i dont care about. Just my actual salary 😂 is important ​@@reboundrides8132

[@joshy2joshy]

It's always good to do things that agree and reaffirm your sense of self.

[@Nikx012]

@@reboundrides8132 unlike you. I dont care about likes and what people actually think of me on the Internet. What's more important is my bank balance at the end of the month😅

[@Cuetzpallincihuatl]

❤!

[@fonkyfesh]

I went on a date once with this corporate career woman who spent 15 minutes explaining her job. I still have no idea what she did.

[@jeffallen8026]

Useless Corp. job for sure and hope she was a one and done date for you 😉

[@gabrielminville]

What about the bedroom?

[@kantraxoikol6914]

because you weren't listening obviously

[@juleslefumiste9204]

I spent 15 minutes reading your comment and still have no idea what you wanted to say

[@pedroantoniodacruzferreira1487]

@@juleslefumiste9204 I laughed hard about your comment...probably more than I should have! 😂😂😂😂

[@yod4166]

a lot of people complain about robots stealing people’s jobs but imo if a job is so repetitive and robotic that a robot can do it, that was never a suitable job for a human.

[@Zimboprenuer]

True

[@night7185]

what job is human? if machines can do everything better, drive better, think faster and smarter, faster reaction time, never gets tired, etc

[@jadenpark7943]

ok.... before robots are fully invented and put out in the market, who will do those jobs?

[@yod4166]

@@night7185 to an extent. the jobs that feel fulfilling don’t require you to be the fastest or strongest

[@andrasfogarasi5014]

@@night7185 Human jobs are of 2 categories: 1. Jobs requiring significant dexterity. You can't expect a robot to be able to build all bridges. You could make a robot build one specific bridge very well, but unless you want to build the same bridge over and over again, that robot is a waste of resources. Every bridge except maybe small footbridges is unique. Therefore, until we can 3D print millions of tons of steel and concrete, their construction cannot be automated. 2. Jobs requiring problem solving. Science, art, programming, repair, medicine, engineering, management (the useful kind), etc. Computers might be able to help in all of these fields, but until artificial general intelligence, they cannot replace humans.

[@Rubyeverly-Jessica]

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[@gingerkilkus]

Making money is not the same as keeping it there is a reason why investments aren't well taught in schools, the examples you gave are well stationed, the market crisis gave me my first millions, people shy away from hard times, I embrace them.. well at least my advisor does lol.

[@DarendBroksh]

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[@TomD226]

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[@NAUTXIX]

“Looking busy” is why people prefer home-working.

[@NegatingSilence]

Which is also why management wants everyone back in the office--it makes it obvious when you aren't contributing something.

[@iWaBaFET]

Looking busy is an easy task to perform with a little practice ots not hard

[@thomasquinn8500]

Spot on

[@whoome1638]

@@NegatingSilence if the job gets done then you have contributed. I hated that shit at my last job. People wanted power and spoke to us with no respect. Most of us quit and got calls back within 4 months. Nope

[@Nierez]

Oh yeah the never ending sweeping the store front to look busy.

[@Emma-ex8gx]

I worked at a huge corporate company and I was low down on the ladder and actually doing the work. There were honestly about 8 levels of management above me and I have no idea what any of them actually did apart from have infinite zoom meetings to talk about the work that me and 3 others were doing

[@themeanmachine84]

The issue here was lack of proper communication and - unfortunately - this is quite common in big companies. The issue is not that you had "8 levels of management" but that you did not have information about what each of those levels does. And trust me, they usually do quilte a lot. But I know from my own experience that I will probably not be able to explain it to you because it's hard to believe until you are in that position. Once you are at this management level, then you'll see really fast how perspective changes. Trust me on that.

[@tintunbirha]

🤣🤣🤣🤣. This was so hilarious because as an engineer I remember similar situation when we had breakdowns. All the managers from project manager to General managers would come and watch 2or 3 of us work to rectify the problem especially in off working hours. They would stay late in the night till the problem was rectified. All their wives ( mine included)would discuss how hard working they are and without whom the plant would collapse the next day.🤣🤣🤣

[@googane7755]

@@tintunbirha I also work as an engineer too and I think it's very common in many technical fields where the entire 8 layers of management has zero clue what's going on and just waits until the problem gets fixed by like 4 people. It's a fucking joke.

[@spliter88]

@@themeanmachine84 Can't tell if this is a comment from a middle manager desperately trying to validate his job without actually doing so or you're just parodying a middle manager doing that.

[@themeanmachine84]

@@spliter88 well, I would be very happy to tell and show you what exactly my job is, what my responsibilities are (and how my work is being measured), how my every day looks like and then let you do it for a week by yourself and I'd be really happy to see how it goes :) Because unlike people like yourself, I actually know what I am suppose to do, what is expected from me and my job and how to make it done. And here I see a lot of bad cases of either people who are bad at their jobs or people who actually don't even understand what their job is about. And those are the ones that using this video try to validate their thinking that it was the job that was useless, not them. Well sorry to break it to you but I will call your BS anyday.

[@duitk]

I am an electrical engineer, I design the power and lighting systems for new construction and retrofits. Anything from apartment buildings to hospitals. It's quite all right, well paid and I can see the fruits of my labor go up from the ground, one of my projects, a pair of high rise apartment buildings is almost finished a block away from where I live. I am lucky to have a job that gives me life satisfaction.

[@waltzwalter]

A Financial Planner told me Saving at least 15% of your income in a 401(k) can help ensure that you have enough money to retire comfortably. How can one take advantage of compound interest and potentially grow your retirement savings/net-worth to about $3M over time?

[@KingDavid-jj7tk]

Just try to diversify your portfolio to other market sectors, that way your investment is balanced and you don’t get to make so much losses.

[@primeramujer2138]

I stopped listening and taking financial advise from these KZbinrs, because at the end of the day, I end up with a bunch of confusing stocks without knowing when to take profit, In reality, all I needed was professional advice.

[@primeramujer2138]

As a matter of fact I always preferred to handle my own investing, but after my portfolio took a major hit in 2020, I really had to rethink my plans for the future, so I reached out to an F.A 'Kaitlin Rose Sternberg' who really helped me balance up my losses.

[@roseroland1998]

Thanks guys.

[@businesscat2895]

You don't. By the time you can withdraw from a 401k you'll basically be a walking corpse or already have one foot in the grave. Just open a self-directed brokerage and buy modest dividend yielding stocks or ETFs that you're never going to sell and may pass down to your kids or whomever. NEVER withdraw anything but cash dividends received from the account. NEVER sell anything except risk defined options like covered calls. Eventually buy up enough dividend yielding stocks to get the equivalent of a monthly salary worth of dividends.... and at that point just stop working and live off the dividends. You don't pay any taxes on unrealized long term capital gains (unless you sell the stock) and dividends don't pay ss nor medicare taxes (normally) and are taxed nominally at best; unlike a 401k you can take out money whenever you feel like it. Long term the 401k only benefits the firm managing it while charging a bunch of fees and you'll mostly likely be dead before you get to enjoy that retirement.

[@carsheaven]

I was promoted to be a manager and was berated for not delegating all my work to the employees under me. So that’s exactly what I did, and now do literally nothing. I keep getting raises so I must be doing my job 👍🏻

[@erniebuchinski3614]

Yeah, I'm nearing retirement (in Northern Europe - it's the same here) and at every place I've ever worked, the most shameless milkers in the organisation are always the managers. It's funny how that works, huh? Enjoy your milk run and your raises! ;-)

[@warthog473]

Livin' the dream.

[@doraemonpawnz]

I thought I would be the same after I got promoted, just lazily enjoying my day while delegating all my tasks to my subordinates. And then I was tasked to manage 3 different divisions to deliver 2 projects on top of supervising my own department for another project, and be the fall guy when shit went haywire. Middle management level can be heaven or hell depending on your workplace

[@Yoctopory]

And towards the end of your life you'll be looking back, asking yourself: Was it worth it?

[@carsheaven]

@@Yoctopory ~ This is one small blip on the timeline of my life. I’m not the type to work an unfulfilling job for long.

[@mynamejeb8743]

i was working in a Real Estate Company where the Sales team consists of: 1. Sales Associate 2. Sales Team Leader 3. Sales Manager 4. Exec Sales Manager they all do the same job.

[@pineapplehead789]

No duh they all are trying to make money off selling propertiea

[@superheaton]

I think it is easier to see things with a third person view. Like for a customer/client, it really doesn't matter just if they get someone competent enough to get their property sold or find them the property they were looking for.

[@kleinmoretti5385]

@ladawg81 Severe 8th grade syndrome. wt f

[@namelessmonster4857]

Not really the responsibilities are kinda different! Well as long as jobs paying me good I'll do it

[@zakaria_chana]

And let me guess, don't get paid the same.

[@randyquaid3381]

I've been working as an electrician for a couple months and I love it. Seeing your progress, helping people, and working with your hands are all things I really enjoy. There are tons of people that know a lot about construction, and they will build a whole home themselves but call someone to do the electrical because no one wants to mess with it unless they know what they're doing

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Sounds good. But how is the pay? People with these BS jobs often get paid a lot more than people who actually do the work. I hear that trades are good if you work for yourself, which means you're doing all the paperwork too.

[@MWorsa]

The novelty wears off 😂 Signed, Licensed Electrician

[@randyquaid3381]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 not great I'm non-union working for a small shop making $16/hr but that will get better. They're paying for me to take my classes to get my license

[@vanrex7682]

I once was working in a mall and literally had to “go sort the shoe boxes “ every time I was done with my “logistic work“, which was already bs itself (unpacking stuff and putting it into new boxes 😂). I’d have to go into the shoe aisle and start sorting the boxes according to the sizes. And here comes the funny part, once I was finished the customers would have already mixed up everything again and the fun to sort them all would start again… and again… I once had to do that sht for 2 hours…. Like 2 hours basically squatting in a stupid shopping mall aisle doing nothing but moving shoe boxes around… Thank goodness it was just a part time job while I was studying in college, but still… that was fked up.

[@hybbfr727]

At least you got paid

[@TagGeorge]

That actually sounds useful to me. Maybe aggravating and never ending and without respect from the customers and management alike but useful. Otherwise the customers would get fed up with the mess and leave without a purchase.

[@phyvo]

@@TagGeorge Yeah I worked in a children's library in high school and as annoying as it was to constantly pick up all the books kids pulled off the shelves it never felt pointless because if no one cleaned up then nobody could find anything.

[@naveennandigum8630]

During covid in 2020 I volunteered at place unpacking medical supplies from boxes counting them, and putting them into new boxes and labeling the new boxes. I went a few times and then said to myself this is bullshit and stopped.

[@donsolos]

I'm not gonna lie you sound pathetic

[@AgentSmith911]

There's a story from China where a local politician demanded more jobs, so the construction engineers fired the excavator driver and hired twenty people to use shovels instead. Then the next year the local politician demanded even more jobs, so they hired two hundred new workers and gave them spoons instead of shovels.

[@imperialgaurd7378]

Let me guess. Its inevitable.

[@JavoCover]

@@imperialgaurd7378 Only when I read your comment I realized it has Smith's picture as profile. 😆

[@David-lr2vi]

@@imperialgaurd7378 Mister Anderson.

[@tylerlaquinta2996]

Fuck i really hope that's just a metaphor

[@tz9707]

Nah man, it should be more like destroying the roads or buildings constructed years ago and build a new one with more people. More jobs into the market and more money into the pockets of local politicians. “Win win” situation

[@meredithwhite5790]

The obsession with having people work their entire shift discourages efficiency. If you complete a task faster than others and run out of things to do, others will hold it against you and think you are lazy/ slacking off if they see you on social media or doing a non-work task. And they sure as hell won't reward you for your efficiency by letting you leave early.

[@Ben-iz9ud]

My job gives bonuses for more work complete than expected. But it's all factored into a group and everyone gets the same bonus. Unless they missed x amount during the qtr. Usually works out to about 4k a year in bonuses.

[@tomlxyz]

The problem is that rewarding being fast creates an incentive to be as fast as possible on the measurable parts and ignore the hard to measure parts. Like maybe you're doing a lot of faster to complete work instead of making anything substantial or ignore long time effects that aren't accounted for. Plus there's things like burn outs from trying to get ever faster

[@UmbraWeiss]

There are days when i do nothing for 6hours exactly because of this reason.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

@@Ben-iz9ud Well really it's a quota that's disguised as an unsetitive yeah all right so they might give you a bonus for it, but a lot of places they want to divide that bonus amongst what eight people or more so at the end of the day you're completing $200 worth of work but you're lucky if you see 20 to $25 of that!

[@Ben-iz9ud]

@@American-Motors-Corporation it's not really a "quota" as there's no way that they can accurately guarantee what work people did is what they say they did. It's an incentive to work harder or to be better at bullshiting your paperwork.

[@mfn1311]

I heard that hotels having a door man actually made people more likely to choose that hotel, and just them being there made the hotel more money than they were worth.

[@toddpick8007]

keep trash out too.

[@Nattherat64]

I have a friend and his Dad wasn't properly inducted on his first day at this wearhouse job he got out of school. So he wandered around for a year with a clipboard looking annoyed and busy and no one asked who he was and what he was doing. The man got paid for an entire year doing nothing but walking around.

[@arguy_4420]

Nice

[@hustlegrind2642]

King

[@exeggcutertimur6091]

lmao that's ficken hilarious!

[@meyerjac]

So he was a manager. That's what managers do.

[@joecurran2811]

What about after the year did he leave?

[@panic_doc23]

I'm a doctor. So much of my work is filling out forms, going to meetings, taking courses, etc to satisfy people who have BS jobs so that they feel they are worthy of their pay.

[@nomadbiker4040]

BS jobs are over people's health, not docs anymore

[@yuejiang8483]

You take the courses and fill out all the forms, then it takes them three more months to actually credential you and YOU have to prod them once a week to ask for updates.

[@yajamanvamsikrishna509]

Being a doc in india. It's just great.

[@cokedupcat]

What do you think about LVN and RN? I don't know for sure but it seems like an LVN can be a RN with a little job experience?

[@OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro]

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[@rizkhan3368]

When I was working as an Engineer my job was mocked When I worked in IT my job was still considered not so fancy , as it did not churn posh doctor lawyer incomes. I work as a teacher and mentor now, still not rewarding as much, and still looked down upon. To hell with what people think.

[@Maison_Marion]

How strange, here in EU when you are in IT you earn serious money, because it's seen as difficult and very essential since everything is digital. There also a huge shortage of programmers. Engineers also, they earn good money. If you tell people here you're in IT or Engineering it's seen as impressive.

[@duitk]

What country? In the US engineers are well respected. Your kid should be a lawyer, doctor or engineer to be considered successful is a constant thing here.

[@rizkhan3368]

@@duitk I work in the third world mate, no comparison, at all. All my brothers abroad, myself a British Citizen, there was no one left to take care of my parents here. Whilst havent been back to England in 14 years, things must have changed , here teaching does not require qualifications , since i was an Engineer , teach Maths , Physics and Computer Science, in England the govt will not probably bother giving me a job, but here they British Council was pretty fast to hire me as a CS Examiner as they did not trust inexperienced qualified ones, Pearson hired me as an official Examiner for a whole region during Corona.... In the third world corruption reigns , hence I ditched those skills for teaching, mind you I was trained by Pearson Excel as well , incidentally my trainer flew from England, He was a Mechanical Engineer himself , and ditched the field when 51, as outsourcing and imports started to reign. I agree with you in developed countries these jobs are looked at differently. I went solo in Dubai 10 years ago, circumstances play a vital role as well and choices too. Hope that answers your thought.

[@paddyoak1]

People worship teachers here in the USA

[@Zoranurai13]

Tbh as a salesperson, while being the definition of a middle man, I genuinely believe that many people i speak to have no idea what they are doing to improve their business and my job is literally to make them aware. Once they facepalm that they haven thought about it “that way” it actually brings value

[@l3ngmashup314]

But the bs part is exactly what you mentioned, if something can be taught in a relatively short time, then it's bs that somebody has to do it for you. Now it'd be wrong to say it for every education based profession, you can't become a doctor everytime you get sick and face-palm because you didn't know how to do brain surgery 👀

[@aaronstestlab]

I inadvertently discovered this phenomenon at my first job out of college. I pretty quickly realized that if we cut out the nonsense meetings that could be covered in an email and/or other corporate "go team!" events, my job could be accomplished in about 10 hours a week. But only showing up for 2 hours a day would look pretty bad so, you fill your day with a combination of garbage tasks to make yourself appear productive. Somehow, the person who turns a 10-hour-a-week task into a 50-hour-per-week one is the "hard worker", while the person who does it quickly will look like they're slacking off.

[@SisterSanMiguel]

I work part time doing massage and make more money than many people that got their undergrad even grad students I feel like my time is spent well

[@Pulkit__7]

@@SisterSanMiguel Oh yeah, massage is really expensive. Last I went, I spent $120/hour. But don't you have to be licensed for it?

[@victoralfaro3089]

@@SisterSanMiguel did you get a license? what state do you work in? i’m trying to figure a job out to move back to the usa.

[@WaveRider1989]

@@SisterSanMiguel how much you make bro? Seriously this idea you'll make more then college degree is small minded. Yes it's probably true you make more immediately, A 5 years down the line 10 years down the line college graduates will continue to increase their salaries triple in 5 years.

[@shuki1]

People have discovered this during covid, that if you take out the 'wasted time' during the day of in person meetings, chit chat in the hall or at extended lunches, then work is less enjoyable and more anti-social, hence the great resignation which is the search for a better job for thinking the grass is greener somewhere else (doing the nonsense job as well).

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

My friend works an office job only during the summer, where he could theoretically do the work of 8 hours in 4 hours or even less. He is not allowed to do anything else at the office and supposed to work at the exact pace so that he isn't done before 8 hours, even if that means working extremely slowly and just looking busy. It really is absurd.

[@unbeatablesniper16]

That's better than my previous jobs where I was given the work of 3 people and threatened with reporting if I didn't keep up with the unfair demand. Meanwhile other people did barely anything. If I mentioned to a manager "Hey why doesn't he have to do this?" the manager would tell me to "Stop being lazy" and "Stop complaining. This is your job!"

[@xrunner55]

@Thomas B My salaried job is like that. Boss needs to see a butt in the seat.

[@lizardman1303]

Oh that’s so sad he doesn’t have to work hard

[@khiem500]

No company ever expect their employee to be 100% efficient unless you’re Amazon warehouse. It’s so that people don’t overwork and burn out like Amazon warehouse.

[@gscurd75]

The post office is like that. If you work too fast, then others get upset because you make them look bad and they don't get as many overtime hours during rush seasons.

[@LesWright]

40 yr finishing carpenter…still have all my fingers… didn’t like every day … but had an idea of quality in my head… People excited that you solved their immediate problem…would they look at my work and be happy 3 months later. Worked for me.

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[@randomman2588]

When I was able to work from home I found that I could get a whole day's worth of progress done within 2-3 hours. Why? Because I wasn't busy attending pointless meetings or having to cater to incompetent co-workers. I was able to spend my time cleaning the house, going for a jog or a walk, sleeping and eating well, and more. The company didn't lose a dime, but I gained a healthy lifestyle.

[@bullymaguire9156]

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living?

[@itstayayg193]

How much are you getting paid?

[@grouchy88]

the playtime of animal crossing skyrocketed for a friend of mine during the covid home office hight due to all the bs online meetings she 'had' to attend. 2-3 hours every other days wasted for nothing. but well, at least she was entertained and payed for sitting around

[@formidablity]

Absolutely the same for me! Working from allowed me to finish my work in usually half the time or less, to the same quality, and I was much happier and healthier for it. One of the main reasons why I’m not allowed to work from home? Because they need to keep us at the office to justify the cost of renting it.

[@GreatGranger]

At least in the office you could get away from the system in WFH people are constantly calling on Teams it's hell

[@erebus728]

I have a best friend with a bull shit job. He makes 250k a year and every time someone asks him what exactly he does he really can't explain it beyond "We have meetings and I answer emails about meetings." I'm like. What? He works for Amazon.

[@younglion0451]

I would take that job

[@tanveesharma2636]

Where do I apply?!

[@paritoshgavali]

does he still have the job or is he fired ?

[@erebus728]

@@paritoshgavali Has had it for a few years now. He actually hopes he gets downsized at some point because he hates it.

[@yksogrenci6376]

What if He used to be software developer then get promote for becoming some kind of manager?

[@open_ckt]

Once a wise man said that there are only three types of people contributing some actual value to the society: Engineers, Farmers and Mothers.

[@MrDublem]

Change that to "Chartered Engineers" so programmers don't get the wrong idea...

[@open_ckt]

@@MrDublem lmao

[@open_ckt]

@@happynose96 these days you're an engineer if you change a light bulb by yourself

[@floramenzis]

And mothers aren't payed for it

[@KernelHughes]

Nurses, doctors, cleaners, waste management, child care workers, firefighters (yes, even lawyers and police officers) contribute necessary work. All the rest is bullshit.

[@Hifuutorian]

Loving the idea that the only thing that needs to be done is 'embrace the idea that it's okay not to work 40 hours a week' when working more than that is a *necessity* for many people because of lack of pay.

[@UnknownSquid]

A different but perhaps related thing that always drives me nuts, is the "look busy" mentality. I had this very simple low end factory job once. Feed materials into machine, close machine, wait 3 minutes, open machine to extract product. Just that on repeat for 12 hours, zero nuance or variation. Sounds bad enough as is, but the part that made it truly unbearable, was the needless asshole taskmaster I had supervising me. He insisted that all workers be standing and "looking busy" at all times. Even though my job was effectively 75% just watching a microwave count down, if he caught me daring to lean or sit on anything whilst I waited for it, he'd bark from across the room to get up. He didn't care if I loaded and unloaded the machine at a third of the pace, so long as it looked like I was moving. A short way into the job, I started taking in sudoku puzzles or other similar things, and would put them on a clip board. Would just stand there with a pen scribbling at them, or even doing doodles, writing short stories in a coded alphabet, etc. He never paid any mind to that despite how my job description had no such duties to note down anything on a clipboard. I didn't stay long at that job, but most of it was spent trying to find methods to pass the time in three minute bursts that would allow me to pretend I was doing something. That, and also precisely studying and memorising the supervisors patrol habits. (Weird thing is, I've done other factory jobs where the supervisors were both practically minded and vital to the operation. But this particular guy at this particular factory was just atrocious. His only purpose in the building seemed to be to sabotage it.)

[@ssjwes]

Yeah those kind of guys kill the work environment and ultimately the production which they are tasked with increasing. I work in a machine shop with CNCs and we have the opposite problem. More people sitting around than standing at their machines. I stand all day because it's better for me and I don't want to get sleepy. I also like staying busy because the day goes by quicker. Even if the "busy" is meaningless to my overall production. I like making the place look clean.

[@wormfood868]

My guess is that he was well aware that you had an unnecessary job (from your description, it's the definition of something that should be automated) and lived in fear of his manager realizing that his unnecessary job was managing unnecessary employees. You needed to look busy to justify your job, which justified his job.

[@BABATMAN95]

Honestly this is one of the funniest things I've ever read

[@Jadty]

Spoiler alert: Their job is also bullshit and this behavior was him “looking busy”.

[@endorsedbryce]

Thankfully never had to deal with this. Worked in a call center, on peak hours it could be back to back calls for 5-10 hours. but when calls where light (holiday's weekends late night or whatever.) Literally none cared that 15-30 employees had obviously moved their office chairs into the middle of the room to sit in the bullshit circle and turn back to their desk once every 30 miniatures to take a call. Nice vibe honestly. Any other job I've worked, I've been so absurdly actually busy that I've never need even think about pretending to be busy.

[@mainpage725]

I'm a wastewater operator, I quite literally deal with shit on a daily basis and I love it...I have job security for the rest of my life.

[@ratulxy]

How does one operate waste water?

[@test-xn3lm]

Yes everyone got to poo 💩 it’s the law 😂😂😂

[@jonw1235]

What if people of the future stop pooping?

[@ratulxy]

@@jonw1235 poop gets reabsorbed by the body, interesting.

[@NextStop2030]

Oh how I do not miss delivering polymer to the round houses.

[@absO2O1]

I can relate to this. Lately I have been figuring out what productivity really means, and read that people in the labor sector tend to be happier and satisfied with there days than the person in an office job. I am a sales man, and I find my work field an absolute bullshit, I am literally what you stated as the ''middle man''. I always find myself simply giving people short term solutions, ensuring they understand that we are somewhat ''professional enough'' to do their work. Once I hit a dead end, I say that I will have my technical person get in touch with you and leave the scene. It is true what you say, it helps people feel like they are important, like they have been heard, paid attention to, and I KNOW this, which is why I am good at my job :). I then decided to take up a productive hobby, one that I involves the stimulation of ''labor'' by creating goals and achieving them, daily. I some times fail, and sometimes succeed and that fulfills my need to be productive. It has been helping me out a lot and gives me much to learn and develop on.

[@jeffreykubinski3701]

I’m a welder and I couldn’t imagine having a job which produces nothing

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Apparently, the 40-hours work week was designed for husbands that would be cared for by a stay-at-home mom or wife. Nowadays, a much bigger part of people live alone or work a full time job despite being engaged, which costs everyone their free time and spirit as they are busy getting their housework sorted next to their 40-hour work week.

[@Yilmaister]

40h work week is BS, should be cut down to 30 universally

[@naninuna7440]

and then boomers complain about takeout and laundry smh.

[@lucysmith4242]

Ahh yes the days of working 9am to 11 pm 7 days awake only to have to come home and fall asleep in between laundry cycles and eat microwaved and fast food

[@dontcomment6012]

@@naninuna7440 baby boomers are around 50 and 60 years age of age

[@Flamdring]

@@dontcomment6012 Baby boomers are aged 60 and up. They are the post-World War II generation that was born after huge loss of life and devastation. Their lives were spoiled by their parents who wanted them to live in relative wealth and prosperity. This is why Baby Boomers are so disconnected from the reality.

[@BoatLoadsofDope]

That's why i love being a worker, And being a smith. After you're done, there is a product in front of you, that personal satisfaction of seeing something you built, and know it's gonna be in use for 20+ years is a nice feeling.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

Yeah but how about knowing that for all of your effort your receiving less than 5% of the on the market value for that product? Or are you really that much of a job worshiping moron?

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

@@BoatLoadsofDope well I'll be sure to alert the press!!

[@danielsteger8456]

@@American-Motors-Corporation you have a problem with working or what?

[@khash-erdeneotgonbat3757]

Wth is wrong with this dulango guy lmao, why is he so mad?

[@theinceptor3672]

@@American-Motors-Corporation Dude gotta be mad just cuz someone enjoys his job.

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

I remember reading this prediction in Brave New World

[@murraymadness4674]

I would also add to the list, at least in software/tech businesses, that many many people work on projects that never get finished or used, the management wanted them, but then management changed and the new management wanted something different.

[@AC-qo8oq]

Yes!! I’m in tech and have worked months on a projected only to never be used.

[@Brenda-ny1gw]

@@AC-qo8oq Have you been fired because of it?

[@DavidG2P]

I laughed hard watching this video until I realised I'm a patent attorney

[@PaanoKayaIto]

I feel your pain - in-house IP counsel..

[@lucysmith4242]

I feel your pain - Local 711 crack head

[@oama2009]

I have a bullshit invention that will create some bullshit (numbers) money in this total bullshit. Seriously, can you be of any service to me ?

[@davidsilverfield835]

Lololol

[@NishantSharma-tr6xl]

what is that ?

[@josejaimeceja3979]

This reminds me of the Tv show 'The office' when Andy, the manager leaves for 3 months just so he can sell his family's boat and meanwhile the Office achieves record sales and Performance :)

[@bhaskarjyotimazumdar1443]

They proved him as useless.

[@FidelCastro128]

Bad managers, bloody hell.

[@partypete2542]

Don't forget the part where corporate then sends him a bonus check for doing so well that quarter and the workers have to give it to him even though like you said he wasn't even there.

[@josejaimeceja3979]

@@partypete2542 lmao, forgot about that part. Thanks for the reminder man!

[@danielhoven570]

I am a test engineer for Honeywell Space Sensors. I work on Fiber Optic Gyroscopes. I envy the technicians who build stuff, but honestly the knowledge space is rewarding in different ways. Being able to understand an solve real problems that you can see and test is something I would miss in a management / 'project engineering' role.

[@anonops1980]

I’ve been a janitor/groundskeeper/handyman for twenty years now, working for the same energy company at several different plants. Most are natural-gas fired, but two nuclear. I’m working on one of these nuclear plants now. I never gave much of a shit about my job, until one day twenty years ago I crossed with a big-shot executive and he told me: “cleaning/maintenance are one of the most important jobs in this company. When the workplace looks clean and tidy, it sets an example for everyone else that their work should be clean and tidy as well. You’re the first line of defense against unproductivity”. Changed my whole outlook on my job, to be honest. Now, 20-odd years later, I manage a team of 20 men and I’m still very proud of my job. Whatever else, at the end of the day, people will work in a clean and beautiful place because of me and my guys and galls. And yeah, we’re paid pretty well, too.

[@ClownWorld11]

🙏

[@Jonathan-qz1sw]

I've worked in healthcare for 16 years, and in that short time I saw the amount of administrative staff become larger than actual care staff at the small hospital I used to work at...and that was five years ago.

[@HowMoneyWorks]

I worked in healthcare investment banking for a while. Administrative costs are super high. Often times that's a hospital executive though, and there's a lot of administrative nonsense as well.

[@dogoftheg]

I worked a small town hospital that has more administration staff than RNs. Guess who’s more useful and underpaid? Guess who is useless and paid too much?

[@dirus3142]

@@HowMoneyWorks I guess the question is, what exactly are these different administration jobs doing? There has to be some administration to make the system work, with a little redundancy when people get sick, or there is an emergency.

[@dangitjacques5133]

Bedside RN here. The hospital I work at had a lot of administrative staff for the size of the hospital. 2020 comes along and quite a few administrators got furlough and the ones still around now have to manage more than one unit. And no more unit educators.

[@timothyotten8744]

@@HowMoneyWorks any idea what caused this? It's a relatively new phenomena in the US and the same scenario has played out in higher Ed.

[@AgrestisAnima]

I worked in a bakery. A lot of people look down on us, but they don't realize that you can have easy jobs "like this" and still live a decent life. Like yeah, I COULD study and get like a masters in engineering or something, but I don't want to. Some people hear what my job is and think this defines my entire life. Work is work. And if I can go home after six hours a day and chill I'm happy.

[@bennyceca]

Only pretentious people look down at bakers etc, the rest of us appreciate it. Lots of jobs are under appreciated, especially if it means you get stuck in. New generation seem more interested in being "influencers" than anything else.

[@Footballfan-rj1gf]

If your job makes you proud, then do it. Don't give a shit to others opinion

[@frankchen4229]

can u hit me up with some sourdough?

[@shuki1]

Because there is an illusion that you are 'serving them' when in most cases, they are also just some working joe serving someone else thinking the same thing at the office. That matters much less if you actually like what you are doing and do it well so don't care what others 'above' think.

[@jackyjack9660]

@@shuki1yeah why does it matter if jobs are serving or not.. If you are happy nothing matters... Proving others is waste of time...

[@jgbk349]

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[@Percutien]

My time working as a server at this Chinese restaurant really sets some differences when compared to more westernized restaurants. The manager was working alongside us and pointing out our mistakes(not very friendly but fine by me), substituted for people who have emergencies, did paper works, and etc. Basically instead of working a single job, he just goes wherever that needs him, this is the type of managers I think really should receive more pay/praise.

[@AirplaneBandit]

A manager who teaches and fills in for responsibilities as they come is invaluable. I'd rather work for a gruff boss who isn't afraid to walk the walk to help their team than a boss who gives the warm and fuzzies without contributing anything productive to our workload or workspace.

[@Tt-dr2ld]

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[@chickenpuncher1674]

Theyre called a "working chief" apparently, also foreign people can be very direct, its great in a lot of ways.

[@ethantang6282]

I think most small restaurants operate this way

[@1370802]

Nowadays almost every restaurant is like that because of the labor shortage. If the managers don’t do that, there’s nobody else to do it.

[@CMDRScotty]

It kind of shows why companies are so interested in AI, machine learning, and Robotic Process Automation for the office jobs of today.

[@invijr]

@The Mutt with no Butt something like universal basic income might solve this. The Rich wont stay rich if the number of consumers rapidly decrease anyway. Besides If I were rich, I would want everyone's daily needs taken care of, It removes the guilt of being rich and spending money while still keeping the prestige of wealth. It also incentives people that actually want to progreas to be more innovative and grow instead of just working to pay the bills.

[@qjtvaddict]

Can’t wait for HR to be replaced by the bots

[@Camelotsmoon]

AI would be intelligent enough to make the process efficient, unlike us. We have our reasons for not picking the most efficient path.. the bad part is how we lie to ourselves that we are, when we aren't.

[@wiczus6102]

Except they are not, because AI existed for many years now and no one implemented to replace office jobs. I never saw a software company offering machine learning solutions for other big companies.

[@user-unos111]

So... computers were a mistake?

[@arianevidding]

I'm a social worker in child protection and the only thing making me hold on is to know my work has impact

[@americandissident9062]

It doesn’t. I’ve worked in that field and it does as much harm as it does good.

[@Nazgul1606]

What do you mean?

[@MMAMike22]

You accelerate the destruction of families. You create a divide in the kids head and set him up for victim mindset. You help take fathers away from their children.

[@effingcool1780]

As an architect i love seeing people working and living inside my drawings. I choose this profession or building sector because i can literally see, touch and feel what they do. My mother is an economist, she was always busy but i couldn't understand or see her end result.

[@TheMarshMatrix]

Lmao I legit park cars for people, and the lot I park them in is literally less than 50 feet away from where I pick the car up for them. Extremely pointless.

[@tropinnka]

It’s useful for the people who don’t have the time or it’s not worth their time to find parking themselves

[@mariahsabar3969]

If people need a service or product, it is not pointless

[@Jolene8]

So you don't like the paycheck?

[@ChantaBrite]

You probably save other cars from getting scratched or dinged from people that may rush when parking themselves. You also save people time.

[@knmplans]

Depends on where you are if it’s pointless. My mother has trouble parking in crowded lots. Anxiety kicks in, convinced she’ll damage someone’s car, and by the end it’s easier to leave than stay and try and park. Once someone saw her freaking out so badly they had her get out and they parked her car for her. I never use valet, but when I’m pregnant? If it saved me extra walking it was worth it. My spouse is young and healthy but after he broke his ankle even after the cast came off he couldn’t walk for too long without pain. We actually had handicapped tags for a couple years but it can be hard to get a spot, again that’s where valet helps. You might think you’re not providing a service, but to the person who needs you, your job is anything but pointless.

[@madhouseinthesky]

I was spoiled, my first job was at a small tech start up. There wasn’t room for bs jobs because everyone had one title, but actually did a bit of everything. Then I moved to a large corporation and the amount of people who couldn’t even explain what they did when I asked on my first day was staggering.

[@Vitorruy1]

same experience, I worked hard earning minimum wage at the startup than I did in the big corp.

[@nocensorship8092]

@@RandySeverino I worked in a call center for two years. eventually they decided to shut us down but didn't tell us it was going to happen. they instead decided to burn us all out as much as possible. our calls were automatically logged and monitored, i had 98,2% or thereabout in ON call time. Every second on the job i was working and every day when I had a closing shift i had to work roughly half an hour overtime to close the que of customers. Other call centers in the same company did have like 60% on call time, they simply rerouted all calls to us with a priority. They wanted to squeeze out every bit of life before firing all of us. They continued to operate like that as long as possible. I think as soon as people started quitting from stress they realized they had finally burned us out and they closed it down. I left on my own 2 months before because I was starting to get permanent damage to my vocal chords.

[@andreaferrato5526]

This video has been sitting for too long in my watch list - I really liked the concise, yet accurate summary of this topic. It clearly voices what I only dared to think so far on it. 😂

[@EvanMoore-zm7lf]

The problem today is most people always think that, you only need a good job to get rich... These millionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't know exists

[@_Michel477]

Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. Building wealth involves developing good habits, such as regularly setting aside money for sound investment...

[@AndreasBergman-yj4em]

Money invested is far better than money saved, when you invest it gives you an opportunity to increase your financial worth

[@Clara46630]

It's remarkable how long term advantage people like us have gotten trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent

[@ScottGonzalez-yl6ze]

The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world , this is still a time to invest in Stocks, Forex and Digital currencies

[@AudIversen]

I keep seeing how lots of people testify about how they make money from stocks, Forex and crypto currencies (BTC) and i wonder why i keep losing.. Can anyone help me out or at least advise me on what to do 🙏.

[@Toasty3D]

This is the business equivalent of steampunk fans that put a ton of unnecessary gears on everything. They don't do anything, they just look good.

[@TheGios100]

Or Cyberpunk fans who put neon on everything

[@suzukirider9030]

@@TheGios100 It ain't cyber if it ain't got neon all over it lmao

[@blakearius]

I was reading through a Syd Mead book recently. He worked on blade runner and aliens. His designs had a lot of complexity but as a former automobile designer, he thought about the internal structure and everything was given a purpose.

[@Hebdomad7]

Bro. We NEED those extra gears in out mechanism, do you want to suffer the wraith of Big Gear? Do you want to see a pay rise? Well, mate, you've gotta get more gear sales, and we won't get more sales if we sell LESS gears....

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

@@suzukirider9030 I'm more of a carpet-punk. Wall to wall to ceiling to floor carpeting 😁

[@jamesn2415]

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker

[@bolt7]

What about doing it inefficiently.

[@cocoodb7697]

my automatic chicken cooker in minecraft says differently 🤷‍♂️

[@northgen1062]

@@cocoodb7697 well your cooker is effective and not useless. What would be useless is to learn how much time a piece of chicken takes to cook and optimising the position of chicken in your inventory to take the least amount of time to put the chicken in the furnace. If you were doing this you would be better off to make that automatic cooker.

[@brandonhenley3597]

@@bolt7 doing a useless thing inefficiently might result in doing useful things.

[@MMAMike22]

Macro not micro

[@joepiekl]

It's unsurprising that there's a big gap between workers and management when it comes to working from home. It turns out that when your entire job revolves around checking that other people are doing their job rather than contributing anything yourself, working from home doesn't really work for you.

[@arnaulfeike1474]

Thanks. Good video. I'm never 100% sure I can make money. Never place 100% of your savings in just one type or type of investment

[@gyorgyikestefania5801]

Always aim for a week. Set your maximum cups lost per week. it's still perfectly logical, it's quite passive and rewarding

[@regulaueli6216]

Every investor's dream is to find a strategy that guarantees, if not 100% success, at least 99.99%.

[@thomasspaletti4279]

It's like that. The crypto space is a very sensitive area. It took me two months to understand the benefit of functioning correctly, the adaptation saved me. Thanks to the expert, John Joseph

[@heidekathrine4433]

What sets John Joseph apart from other account managers is his ability to comply. His managerial skills are second to none. With profitable weekly signals, one can only be grateful.

[@user-dl8gu3kq3k]

Who is this man everyone is talking about? Is there any way to contact him?

[@DavidBrocekArt]

Saddest thing is that most of us "normal" people, just don't have a choice to be philosophical about our jobs. Meaningful or not, we just have to make money to feed our families. So it is not only the evil corporations, but it is also us, people taking these jobs. Because we just have to.

[@trunksgainz5742]

I feel the same. Perfectly worded.

[@jesussandoval9843]

Where I’m from a 9-5 is a blessing and even more if you get paid $70,000+. I always see influencers leaving them like it’s soo bad, imagine not having food on the table Karen/Emily. People don’t understand the struggle we have to go through as blue collar workers or similar just to be alive.

[@megsley]

yes I'm a little tired of the attitude "your job is pointless and evil" like thanks that's great but I have bills to pay. but I guess instead of actually making things better it's easier for youtubers to wag their fingers thru slickly edited videos 🤷‍♀️

[@martmart.]

we're perfect for a cyberpunk-corporatocracy future

[@MrSupernova111]

@@jesussandoval9843 . In cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston with anything less than $100,00 you're not going to live in the city because you won't be able to afford. Median apartment rent prices range between $3,500 and $4,000 per month!

[@skinnypete3104]

I’m a professional nanny to the elite. Over 20 years now. I get paid really well because many adults can’t stand kids and will pay whatever it takes to not have to raise them. I however love raising kids - especially with someone else’s money lol

[@ladybird491]

What elite? The fact that you call them elite goes to show you still in the matrix and don't got self worth.

[@danielmino1690]

sounds perfect honestly

[@sblijheid]

Thank God you exist. I can't stand those undersized humans either.

[@me3said2aweyah68]

How do you get in to this

[@christophervidrine3472]

I don't understand why these people have children and don't want to raise them. I look forward to being a father and raising a family.

[@ShowBusiness-gf6qn]

This is why being rich and having a lot of money should not be the goal. The goal should be to strive for purpose and meaning

[@JD-ph6kp]

I knew a guy who worked with servers. He found a way to automate his job by creating a script that does everything for him. His employer found out and wanted him to give them the script so they could fire him. He never gave them the script and just left the job lol

[@_Cypher__]

That guy is a gigachad lmao

[@pantherman8719]

Smart man.

[@tristan2338]

I had a sub employer that wanted me to give her one of my scripts i told her to no and she been passive aggressive since

[@nxxiv436]

Copy paste comment

[@aaronbradburn3281]

@@tristan2338 u should charge them money for the script , people have whole careers based on this

[@michaelcolello2735]

Fact: soviet propaganda posters looked way better than anything on LinkedIn.

[@christianl.e.l17]

Fact: LinkedIn has more food in their posts than URSS during the entire time.

[@Cakalank]

All of those bullshit self exaggeration on every linkedin posts though.

[@michaelcolello2735]

@@Cakalank "It's been an amazing journey ... "

[@loganwilliams5422]

@@christianl.e.l17 fact: the average Soviet citizen had the same or more calories on average as the average American diet source the world bank and cia

[@christianl.e.l17]

@@loganwilliams5422 Nice, you know a lot... now to gulag!

[@The_Interference]

I used to work as a cart clerk... I literally accomplished nothing every day. all I did for my job was walk around the parking lot and grab carts (I didn't even grab them by hand having a machine that I steered around the parking lot like a train.) all I acomplished was allowing people to be more lazy when they went shopping, and all I got paid for it was $13 an hour, $13 per hour in which every hour I had to keep a look out to avoid getting run over, $13 an hour to get yelled at by angry customers who want me and the cart train that I am in charge of out of their way. Yes a greater amount of the time people did thank me for doing my job, but my job had me literally walking around in circles, and the only reason why it wasn't automated by bots is because people are less expensive to replace, I worked that job for almost 2 years, with other employees switching to other jobs within a week of working as a cart clerk.

[@Braegonftw]

I think having a practical job could also provide a sense of pride in knowing your doing something essential for society, at least for me personally. I'm a manager at a grocery store, we need food lol

[@AKATenn]

I work at subway, so I can at least say i keep peoples tummies full.

[@Inconsecuente]

Thank you for your service

[@mohandasjung]

Its a noble cause

[@Pau_Pau9]

Much more meaningful output (full customers) than what most do.

[@ChemistTea]

Full of garbage. Subway sucks

[@AKATenn]

@@ChemistTea if you saw what we serve you wouldn't say it's garbage, sometimes, depending on the season, because crops don't turn out great, and nobody can control the weather, our vegitables aren't picture perfect, but it's all real food, same stuff you'd buy from the grocery store... even the tuna.

[@prschuster]

This makes me feel prouder to have washed dishes in a restaurant, to have done building maintenance & worked on assembly lines or having tutored community college students in biology. These were all basic jobs that were actually productive, even though they were not very high status.

[@jhutfre4855]

exactly

[@sirianrune198]

Dish washing and assembly lines can be automated.

[@prschuster]

@@sirianrune198 Yes, good point

[@thanosthemadtitan5518]

@@sirianrune198 True. They're only really productive for now.

[@thanosthemadtitan5518]

Tutoring college students in biology is actually pretty impressive though.

[@twostepz4982]

I’m a massage therapist for 13 years (10 years at that same spa) helping many lives by improving their well being.

[@americandissident9062]

Prostitutes help too.

[@creative-name5279]

I watched this because I wanted to know which of my jobs was economic fluff. I used to be a temp worker in a manufacturing setting, and there were many days where I was standing around doing nothing and wondering why they hired me to just pretend to be busy. Even though I was bottom of the pay scale, my job still felt useless.

[@dogsarecute607]

I'm an EMT. I almost quit my job due to the physical and mental stress, but I realize that I belong in the back of an ambulance. I love helping people and always do my absolute best by every patient.

[@ninototo1]

Thank you for your service! I was taken to the hospital by EMTs one time when I had an accident resulting in brain trauma and I'm still thankful.

[@philbertplummer1572]

God bless you and strengthen you physically mentally and emotionally daily

[@marzuqahmed218]

Good luck as a EMT

[@staceylloyd9505]

♥️ Thank you!

[@cheshireduke5677]

You are a queen. EMTs will never be disregarded for their work, you save literal lives.

[@Omega_Prime7]

A wise person told me "Many people have something to do in life while a few people actually have a purpose in life."

[@alexbarcovsky4319]

I wonder if UBI would allow more people to find their purpose.

[@jimbomacgee3499]

@@alexbarcovsky4319 I feel like it would only work if you already have the drive for self-improvement . If you're someone that's already deep in purposelessness, perhaps additional money would most likely just further fuel your emptiness. Kind of like giving a homeless drug addict money, they are probably just gonna buy more drugs with it instead of actually seek therapy or help. The drive for purpose in life is actually, surprisingly, free.

[@alexbarcovsky4319]

@@jimbomacgee3499 I think everyone has a drive for purpose, but we slowly lose it as we get older, when we are forced and almost convinced to do things we despise. I wouldnt say it would necesarily restore purpose to the very bottom of society, but it would allow the rest to find it.

[@aoeu256]

@@alexbarcovsky4319 Reducing the work hours to 30 might help...

[@TC.._]

Your videos are always compelling. I'm always taking notes (mentally). I will try to make a great channel myself one day.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

I worked in some bullshit positions for decades and now run my own business. It took a while, but I’ve disconnected from the idea that I must work 8 hours to be productive. At 11, I had a life changing coaching call with a client, where I could see the direct result of my work. Then, I recorded a short video teaching where I ask people to tell me how this impacted them. Now, I’m chilling on the couch, watching on-point videos about bullshit jobs, while simultaneously not doing one myself. Cheers!

[@chrisrhudy2000]

I fix machines and electrical problems so my job is not bullshit. but i am drowning in bs from management all the time so this video is legit.

[@PolishBehemoth]

Nobody really asked about what you do on your job so the fact you feel a need to justify it looks like bullshit.

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

@@PolishBehemoth KZbin comment toxic person, it's not much but it's honest work! Also: someone has to do it. You are the real hero! After all: Without trolls, how would we know that this is a KZbin comment section? Or to go even deeper: Is it really the KZbin comment section if no one insults you? Food for thought!

[@suzukirider9030]

@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece 100% to this. I've worked in teams from about 4 to over 100 people. The small teams were the ones where I've felt like I was actually doing something anyone cared about. Larger corps paid more but I felt like if I suddenly disappeared noone would notice or give a damn.

[@suzukirider9030]

@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece Also I've heard that 13 is the critical number of employees at which the "affirmative action" kicks in and the CEO/HR gotta start hiring people just to fill the diversity quotas.

[@triger1]

It is because machines are made to fail, so they can sell more parts.

[@andreamoreland9769]

I am a teacher. The work I do is real, but ironically I earn less than those doing the kind of jobs described here. Sadder still, I am preparing kids to do these kind of jobs!

[@andreamoreland9769]

@David Wanklyn Are you a teacher? I get what you are saying that's why I have been doing this for 20 years, but a little more financial reward and respect for the profession would not go amiss either.

[@dhawkins78412]

I’m not a teacher, I’ve known people who were teachers and that thought has crossed my mind. You teach people who’ll make way more than a teachers salary. Ironic. Not a lot of respect for a long time now.

[@esthermas4703]

@David Wanklyn if you read D.Graeber bullshit jobs you will find also a reflection on this. For some reason, to the people that ACTUALLY DO meaningful jobs we tell them, naaah well, at least you get to do something nice, that compensates salary. Instead, this marketing whatever bullshit nobody cares about gets twice the salary. Not to talk about finance world.

[@cd0u50c9]

The best thing you can do is direct children to think for themselves and create something of use to everyone, but the trick is to be subtle so the system doesn't penalise you for doing it!

[@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443]

Teachers are the worst, you honestly don't deserve to be paid at all

[@matero4life2019]

I push wheelchairs for seniors and disabled people at the airport and do baggage for delta. I love it

[@annaburns2865]

I haven’t seen a bellhop delivering luggage to a room in ages. Most people have to carry their luggage up themselves. We are now having to do most things ourselves. From carrying luggage to pumping our own gas, to self checkouts. As I’m just in my 30s, I don’t even usually think about it. But our parents and grandparents had it a lot easier in ways that we can’t even imagine. Let that sink in.

[@Canleaf08]

I have seen those bellhops in Hiltons but they are rare.

[@QoraxAudio]

As an engineer, it's fairly easy to see the actual result of your work. One of the main appeals to become an engineer.

[@ziggystardog]

Except when your project get cancelled for some reason, bullshit or otherwise. There’s also plenty of design work to make bullshit products nobody needs, solve problems that don’t need to be solved, or duct tape to fix things that were poorly designed. Don’t kid yourself. I submit a physical or virtual manifestation of most of these bullshit categories exists, and can multiply the inefficiencies of bullshitters for more effective waste of time and resources.

[@caonabocruzG]

Plastic injection mold design (and mechanical design in general) sure is satisfying. What grinds my gears is to see a "project manager" that has zero idea of what's going on and is making 3 times more than you just for going to meetings all day.

[@QoraxAudio]

@@caonabocruzG Yep the most useless people are either on government benefits or claim excessive salaries. No in between.

[@knurlgnar24]

I see SAFe hasn't gotten to you yet. Your work will then be graded on appearances and not results with the only motivation being looking busy while yielding as little output as possible so that your mistakes cannot be criticized.

[@iFireender]

even still, now that I can work from home, I work like what, 1-2 hours a day, and I still get a lot of compliments about how good of a job I am doing.

[@yettiman8941]

My dad told me when I was young “ son you will work under someone not because they are smarter than you but because they can’t do the job, as good as you.” I just recently realized what that meant when I worked at amazon. Lol

[@javierjaime9386]

You work for the guy with the lazy eye

[@surelock3221]

Plot twist: Yetti Man is a manager at Amazon

[@sachinbharti9634]

Can you tell me about your qualifications 🙏😅

[@AllCentaur]

I was lucky then.. my manager was a guy with a decade or so of experience, the others.. not si

[@cjamesfort]

Well if you've been there for at least a year and you haven't been auto-fired yet you must be manager material, right? Actually I think one of my managers had said he was fired two or three times

[@drewvey5621]

I read the book bullshot jobs while working as a venue rep for an event space being used as a temporary office for condo sales when COVID was happening. We had two venue reps there, for nine hours a day, five days a week we took turns sleeping in the kitchen while one of us had to sit by the front door. The only reason we were there is because two venue reps were required in the contract for renting the space. This made sense for parties, not so much for an office with four people working there. They couldn't even see clients in person at the time. It was gloriously stupid.

[@rinzen9976]

I'm an office cheerleader. I simply validate people and show interest in their work. Now I'm worshipped like a demi-god. I produce nothing of direct tangible value. I'm just likeable. I make people smile, feel heard, feel motivated.

[@libextremist]

My project manager was a task master. Most of the time he did nothing but making our work a lot more complicated and redundant.

[@Angry-Lynx]

Interestingly I just left company where dev team was "self-managed" and it was my the worst professional experience. Manager would actually help a lot in that company. But mostly just because team was managed by art director which isnt good fit for PM

[@wesleyrm]

Studying engineering, I see a lot of bullshit. I am practical. Makes me rage to reminisce about it lol. It's like people strive to be inefficient. And the assholes who make things worse are proud of themselves. They expect respect too. Universities are shameful institutions. But this goes on into the workforce too... I wish the free market could weed out the bullshitting ones due to their inefficiency lol

[@RolandoP]

There needs to be a balance and flexibility.

[@christiancanty2036]

A good product manager is a massive boost to a team of developers. A bad one is worse than having no manager at all

[@libextremist]

@@christiancanty2036 True. My direct supervisor is the one I consider to be the real manager. He actually know what he was doing.

[@geoffa87]

This is why I drive a truck for a living. I know what I'm doing every day, there's a reason I'm doing it, and no extraneous bullshit like TPS reports that nobody reads

[@07wrxtr1]

“...for now on use the blue timesheet....” “oh oh we’re gonna have to Go-Ahead and ask you to come in on Saturday, yeah. We lost some people and sorta need to play catchup...”

[@kiradotee]

Until it gets automated.

[@QwertyCaesar]

@@kiradotee Truck driving might get somewhat automated in regions where there isn't high civilian traffic but in those regions *cough* United States *cough* automated trucking isn't going to be as effective as just hiring humans because there would be too many car accidents with a machine

[@PremiumFuelOnly]

You mean like those driver hours and safety logs?

[@geoffa87]

@@PremiumFuelOnly those logs are there for our safety. Look at the number of accidents before and after the implementation of e-logs

[@erickottke9673]

If you're in a company that has been around a long time, people can tell you what jobs were laid off in the last recession/panic. Chances are those jobs are back now that there is money. If you're in one of those jobs, make it a goal to get to a different job, either within or without.

[@kedarjani2346]

I remember graduating in Netherlands and searching for jobs. Over half of the jobs posting had title which I had never heard of and even the relevant jobs description was so obscure that you would not be able to make head or tail of wtf a person is supposed to do.

[@BootyCrusader]

I’m a mail delivery person, so I think I’m doing pretty okay. I’m the one person some people see on a daily basis. I can keep an eye on local elderly to see if they’re doing well. Give a lonely person someone to talk to for a bit. Just. You know. Feels good.

[@jgdooley2003]

In Ireland there is a growing awareness of the need for Post Offices, especially in rural areas, to provide a social service for people who would otherwise be totally isolated in their daily lives. There is now talk of subsidising rural post offices and stopping them being closed by the commercial organisation that the Irish Postal Service has become. There was a time when the postman was permanently assigned to a given locality and he got to know most people on his route. These days are long gone. The government now finds it has to employ people to look out for the welfare of older residents and just make regular contact with them to check that all is OK. This was something the postman, the coalman and the milkman did for free in the days of delivery services done routinely by the same worker.

[@BootyCrusader]

@@jgdooley2003 Yeah. I still have a permanent route, with an extra route on low load days. While I don't go out of my way to talk or get to know everyone on ym route, I can tell you a little bit about at least 90% of the people or houses I deliver mail to, and have seen many of them at least a few times. There are also some elderly people who I take extra care with checking on, like one old lady who has a hard time walking. I'm happy to feel like I'm contributing somewhat.

[@michaelohalloran2800]

Letter Carrier.

[@BootyCrusader]

@@michaelohalloran2800 sure, that works, although it’s also magazines and packages.

[@birdo623]

Name checks out👍🙌

[@WooHooCelery]

The day the thought of “why does my job exist?” came into my head was the same day I realised I needed to do literally anything else. My job primarily consisted of cleaning up my boss’ and my manager’s errors so the entire position could’ve been eliminated if they figured out how to do their jobs correctly. My 40 hours per week added zero value and left my brain mushy after a while as there were several days where I only had enough work to fill up an hour.

[@Noperare]

TBF "correcting the boss mistakes" is kind of an important job because you complement something they lack. Kind how "writer editor" is a fully reconized profession despite being mostly "just fixing boss mistakes"

[@wesleyrm]

This is not really a bullshit job. Bullshit jobs take away value, you were generating it. Since everyone does mistakes, having someone to correct them is useful and saves time. Generally the person doing something wrong takes some time to realize and verify it. Ever tried coding? So it is useful to have someone correcting. EDIT: When I say someone, I mean anyone, qualification is a non-issue for correcting most of the time. For coding correcting requires expertise.

[@sotch2271]

@@wesleyrm a little error can be corrected by anyone else that just take the time to read, its a bullshit job

[@sammyjr6989]

Better yet you could hold their position and they get eliminated.

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

Gawd I would love this job. I would work on my hobbies in free time

[@giovangciccareli1829]

Ya know whats bullshit, the "Gig Economy," "Contracting". You interview 3 times for a "job" that lasts anywhere from 1-3 months AND THEN you get the immense pleasure of doing it all over again. No 401, No PTO, No Holiday Pay, No sick pay, No health care. A steady boring job that actually has these benefits and means nothing sign me up!! Today you have a better chance of seeing a unicorn than these jobs.

[@CarlosGonzalez-tu9ev]

About 10 years ago I was asked to give a hand in an old division on of the company. Turns out I had never heard of that office. The office actually did not do anything specific that other parts of the company did. A few years latter it was disvanded and almost no one misses it.

[@CarrieV9]

This is just what I needed today. A moment of unvarnished honesty amidst the nonstop gaslighting.

[@King_Imani]

Keep seeking 🙂

[@supersucks]

@@King_Imani based reply

[@DSQueenie]

I feel like people don’t know what gaslighting means.

[@beansssss3847]

@@DSQueenie do you not understand yourself? Work is a scam and saying its not is lying to yourself and being cruel to anyone you care about.

[@Dageka]

@@beansssss3847 Work is not a scam. At least if it's meaningful work. No idea what he specifically meant with gaslighting, probably because people will see you as lazy when you work hard and fast and want to leave work earlier after it's done. You're seen as a hard worker when you work a lot of hours, even when you're just sitting in an office and browsing a random website basically doing nothing.