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Thank you.
People who post shit like this seem to think the streets are littered with such a rich variety of job offers that we can pick out the best ones like we’re shopping for avocados, completely oblivious to the fact that the vast, vast majority of us need a job right fucking now to survive, and are going to happily snag the first offer we get no matter what evil fuck it’s for.
Remember post COVID how people were quiet quitting and CEO's were talking about how workers had too much power?
I remember.
That's why they're so desperate to make AI happen
I think that was before mass firings because the CEOs think that the ai will save us or at least overworked employees will that have to save the company. Trying to apply for a tech job right is terrible.
If your argument is that this is good advice, mine is that it’s only good advice for someone who has the luxury of putting it into practice.
Let me make sure my family has a home and won’t starve, and then I’ll happily join you on your quest to improve corporate culture.
No, my argument is that there is a class war and we're losing it.
Attention, single moms working at McDonald’s: In case you were unaware, there is currently a class war going on, and according to this guy I was talking to on Lemmy, we’re losing, and it’s your fault because you chose feeding your kid over being a smart ass in the job interview.
Edit: for those of you making yourselves mad over my little splash of reality here, kindly do the following once your breathing normalizes:
Re-familiarize yourself with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Examine your own life and circumstances and ask yourself if you’re truly the revolutionary you’re pretending to be right now.
This post was never about class war. It’s bad interview advice and that’s it. Settle down.
You're itching for a fight, when nobody started a fight with you. I am not saying whether this is good or bad advice. I am saying that the fact that this looks like bad advice is because we are losing the class war. I am saying that I remember a time when the balance of power was different, when we temporarily had the upper hand in the class struggle due to the COVID weirdness. During that time, people were actually doing things like quiet quitting, and strong-arming employers, and that in that environment advice like the one in the meme did not come off as bad advice.
I'm describing a dynamic, not blaming workers. If I had anything to say to the «single moms wokring at McDonalds» (you did an instrumentalization there, like the «kids in Africa») that would be «hey, how can I help you folks unionize?».
Thank you for articulating your point. That’s all I needed to hear.
If you wanted them to explain their point more, why was the only thing in that comment a aggressively rhetorical appeal to no one based on your presumptions? Instead of articulating yourself that their point was unclear, you launched directly into an attack. Does the dissonance of that not...register with you?
You didn't even apologize for the unwarranted and unflattering mischaracterization of their message. You just acted like they were the one holding out from a civil conversation: "That's all I needed to hear."
Did you deliver a similarly sanctimonious lecture to the people who told me to shut the fuck up and called me names? No? Then you can fuck all the way off.
Feel free to copy my response in a reply to them. And that doesn't change the contents of your own response, isolated in the exchange between you and the thread OP.
However, I'm not reading every comment, so I'll take my own advice and apologize if I caught you in your least charitable moment.
Why do you think so?
It is about class warfare. Of course it is. You being bad at capitalism by having kids and buying a house without a stable job sure sounds like a you problem. Maybe you should settle down and put some more job applications in?
I've been there, too. I ignored warning signs because I was desperate, and then wished I hadn't later. Saying that you will accept any job that comes your way is a good route to getting fucked over.
You might think that you need the money, but it really isn't worth it when you lose your job a week later and your temp agency won't answer your calls anymore. There are some crazy, toxic workplaces out there.
You're right. Better to lick the boot. Don't even think about saying anything that might even be slightly uncomfortable, just accept what they let you have and be happy, right? Fuckin scab
You’re talking mostly to Americans here- what else do you expect?
I'm an American. I'm kicking fascist ass every single day. And every pansy crying about how "it's too hard" has no idea how hard things are really gonna get if they keep taking it lying down.
Unless you're an American, and unless you're fighting too, shut the fuck up. No one needs to hear from you.
If you were kicking fascist ass every day we’d know your name.
If licking boots is the only thing keeping someone alive, maybe don't berate them for licking boots. It must be really nice living rent free in your mom's house but many of us have to choose between having jobs or being homeless
Nice projection, loser. I paid off my mortgage on the house i didn't inherit and now I support my wife, a child, and two dogs on a business I built.
You're a little cry baby piss ant boot licker, and nobody asked or cares what you think.
Sure thing bud lmao. You definitely got enough income to buy an entire house while acting like a petulant unemployable teenager
Incorrect.
If licking boots is the only thing keeping someone alive, they have ZERO excuses not to fight back.
Jesus Christ. Listen to yourself. "The only thing keeping someone alive" means the alternative is death. Do not fucking tell people that they have no excuse not to fight back when fighting back kills them.
We're talking about employers being dirtbags here. This cause is not worth dying on the streets because you can't hold down a job. You serve your species better by tolerating these minor transgressions so you can more meaningfully fight against the larger ones. Any individual donating $5 to charity is helping mankind infinitely more than you will if you intentionally bomb every job interview to the point where you have to survive on said charity.
Every day, more posts from Americans revealing that they never believed the bullshit “values” their country’s been dining out on for 200 years.
Every day, more posts from lemmings revealing that they're utterly politically illiterate. I'm some kind of hypocrite because I'm not willing to literally end my own life in the name of moderately better employment practices?
The “elite” don’t have any more power than what you give them. At the very least, shut the fuck up if the only thing you can think to say is negative, defeatist garbage.