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who describes herself as the β€œanti-work girlboss” πŸ’ͺ

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[–] ephemeral@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

meanwhile there's a lot of work that needs doing that is not being done. maybe people wouldn't be so "anti-work" if their work meaningfully contributed to society and afforded them a decent standard of living

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 25 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Who are these journalists who feel like they can make these sorts of scrutinizing judgments on people?

There’s only like a handful of professions(nurse, doctor, civil engineers and construction workers, sanitation and transportation workers, etc) who are vital and probably closer to 100% nonbusy work.

News flash you hack: people have been β€˜task masking’ since the beginning of time especially in a capitalist society wherein increasing profits must be manufactured out of thin air, and your job is most likely complete bullshit

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago

Working a trade fucking rules and you get to build something and see it in front of you and hone your skills and knowledge personally outside of capital W Work. I wouldn't trade it for any other job.

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah this is pretty on the nose. A lot of jobs even if they aren't outright bullshit also are downtime heavy and you may just be needed around in case you're needed suddenly within a few minutes but you're expected to be productive 100% of the time even when your core function isn't really necessary.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I worked at a chain pizza restaurant and we had a computer screen above us that tracked the stores profitability. If we weren't on track to reach $10k for the day my manager would start sending people home to make up for it.

So a total of ~15 employees could rake in a profit of $10k in the first place but everyone was making $7.25 an hour.

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 15 hours ago

Not much to add except corroborating that experience at a chain pizza place lol. We regularly were told to send our third person home because labor was "too high" one hour before the lunch rush.

Except I was a shift manager so I made $7.50 though

[–] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 31 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I'm old as fuck so consider me a trendsetter. Now you'll have to excuse me, I have to "review some documents"*.

.* listen to Oingo Boingo demos from 79-81 on the company's dime.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 6 points 15 hours ago

Link because I'm not a LIB

[–] D61@hexbear.net 29 points 21 hours ago

makes up new term for old thing

is-this "Is this new?"

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

These mfs come up with a corporate buzzword every other day.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Looking busy" has always been a thing that everyone does

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Task masking this quiet quitting that. Yet no articles on wage theft being stolen from Gen Z

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

everybody blasting off about inflation but the only thing I see inflating is capitalist greed?

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Yeah the bourgeoisie aren't going to write articles on how shit they are. It'd be against the point

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 15 points 19 hours ago

I worked the bullshittiest of bullshit office jobs in the past where I had about 90 minutes of work a day, but "optics" were very important there so I had to appear busy and engaged all day. That was a decade ago.

[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago

What, a worker just pretending to be busy?! What will the duplicitous generation Z think of next?

[–] decaptcha@hexbear.net 12 points 20 hours ago

taskmaskingmaxxing

[–] socialistonion@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I thought this was always a thing

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 21 points 21 hours ago

It's like half the punchlines in the Dilbert comic, so I have no idea why they pretend this is new. I think it was also used as a joke in Seinfeld.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I remember a guy 20 years ago that really only had stuff to do for a few hours in the morning and then would walk around with a clipboard for the rest of the day as he wandered the store bullshitting with other employees, was a real inspiration.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It is but Gen-Z is making videos about it on TikTok and not ashamed of it so a smarmy article must be written. In fact, I would bet this author does this frequently.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol like any of us were ashamed of it before TikTok

I swear to God it's like they have never interacted with a peer in the workplace. Ever.

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 8 points 19 hours ago

I mean.... A lot of people don't really from what I've seen.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

This article is evidence of them looking busy.

[–] socialistonion@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what employers would complain about if all their workers were perfect productivity robots?

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Either that we don't work enough hours or that we take breaks to eat/drink/piss/shit

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

What was that article posted a couple days ago about the wework in China that has fake tasks? Lol