• slazer2au
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    2111 year ago

    Being an unpaid mod of a community owned by a private company that makes money selling advertising to you based based on data they collect from you.

  • @Astroturfed
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    In America, every job. People make it their identity. It’s the first thing they ask or tell people they meet most of the time. They make themselves what they do.

    • @[email protected]
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      I get both PoVs. For some, it’s just a clock in clock out type thing they do just to survive and maybe pay for their other passions. For others, they spent a majority of their lives training, learning, licensing, and practicing a skillset to perform their work. It’s fairly often a large part of one’s identity and it’s not a negative thing. Though it may be a negative thing to assume someone is only their job.

      But I can hardly blame someone for seeing themselves first as a scientist, artist, lawyer, or whatever.

      • @RedditRefugee69
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        A healthy and balanced understanding of different people?? Isn’t this the internet!!!

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      Idk…I like my job and I’m proud I worked my way to get there. I get to see some really awesome things and I love my coworkers. Whenever I see my family, I like to tell them about interesting cases I’ve recently had.

      If you work a boring shithole job then I get not wanting to talk about it. But sometimes people do interesting things that they want to talk about! :)

      • @kava
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        hell, I don’t even like what I do all that much but I like talking about it, lol. It’s interesting even though it’s not my “dream” job.

        the older I get, the more I realize there’s depth to anything. whether you’re a hair dresser, an engineer, or a physical therapist. you can read and learn and get deeper and deeper into the study of that thing. anything is interesting if you’re curious about it.

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          I think there’s something to that statement. Hell, my old job was essentially just a form of data entry, but I managed to find things interesting with it and actually rather enjoyed it. Pay was shit tho so I went back to school to get to where I was now. But I for the most part agree with you. You can find interest in many things if you try hard enough. Not the case with some, for sure, but it’s definitely more than some people realize.

          And being interested about a topic makes for a good jumping off point when getting to know someone.

          • @kava
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            Not the case with some, for sure, but it’s definitely more than some people realize

            I’d even say it’s virtually everything. I can’t think of anything personally. let me give some examples

            Fast food worker? You start as a burger flipper or cashier and become interested in the management of the fast food place. You take on more responsibility just because you find it interesting - the logistics of making sure the basic ingredients are prepared and how many fries to have ready at specific times of the day, measuring how fast the average person makes a burger and seeing if you can optimize it, how to greet and talk to customers, how to resolve conflicts, how often do you need to clean, what is the best way of cleaning, etc.

            This can even be a career. There are regional managers and consultants for these fast food chains that go around to audit and optimize different chains. See how we start with something basic that 99% of people treat as a dead end job but you can go deeper?

            The same skills that help you manage a fast food place will inevitably transfer over to other management. You could be useful at a warehouse, factory, hospital, etc.

            Let’s say you dig holes for an underground construction company. You stick around long enough and they’ll have you pull some coaxial or fiber through the pipe you’re digging a hole for. After a while, you become good at it and that’s your main job because it requires more skill than just digging holes. You start to understand how neighborhoods are wired, with the vaults spread every 150ft and how the hubs feed all of the houses in a neighborhood or businesses in a commercial area. you get assigned to a big project that requires splicing.

            all of a sudden you’re a fiber optic specialist and you have the skills to maintain large networks. you could be a repairman or an auditor or even a project coordinator for large projects

            I’ll give you an example that happened to me. When I was 19 and just got out of high school, I got a job at a warehouse. It was a cosmetic company that produced all sorts of different shampoos and conditioners and make ups and female hygiene cleansers, eyelash growth serums… all sorts of stuff.

            I started off as general labor for the shipping department. I would sit around and wait for a big order to come in from a distributor and then go around the warehouse getting boxes and putting them on pallets. I would then wrap up the pallets and load them into a truck with a pallet jack.

            Well, each pallet needed to have some paperwork done and then each overall order needed to have some paperwork done. this included the total weight of the pallet, the total units of product (different boxes have different qty of items. one box may have 24 shampoos but a box of eyelash serum may have 60), and then all of this needed to be put on an invoice and packing slip that gets taped to the pallet.

            when I got there, I was trained that we would write this down onto a piece of paper with pen and then tape it onto the pallet. there were frequent errors (if the weight was wrong, we would get charged extra by the shipping companies or if we’re shipping internationally it could get stuck in customs if you didn’t have the correct paperwork). I was good with computers and knew how to use Excel. I was interested in how I could make the process more efficient (less work for me). I suggested a spreadsheet to my boss that had a table saved into a hidden sheet that had all the weights for each different box, as well as the total # of items per box. he said sure, why not. I weighed every single box and then also weighed an average of the pallets we had.

            I created a spreadsheet template that would essentially fill everything in automatically, while also looking clean and professional - i put the company’s logo in there. This would also pump out a packing slip and invoice automatically filled in from the data inputted.

            my boss was elated. his department was more accurate and looked more professional, meanwhile we were doing less work. basically every day i walked around that warehouse i paid attention and looked to see what we could be doing better. how could we optimize?

            very quickly they pulled me off of labor and I started working in the office. when I left that job, 4 years later, I was the manager of the inventory department - responsible for over $100 million worth of raw materials. i had 8 people under me. i was 23, didn’t know wtf i was doing, but really i was just curious and interested in making things move more smoothly

            Do you see what I mean? Anything is interesting if you’re a curious enough person. There’s stuff to learn everywhere. There are processes to optimize, there are intricacies and subtleties to everything.

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        LoL no. It’s definitely an Anglo thing. I had a Spanish friend that I’ve played music with for years and I didn’t know what he did until last night. I wish we weren’t so focused on thinking that our way of life must be so perfect. Work sucks, sitting in traffic sucks, yet we spend almost all of our waking life doing just that.

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            Yes our interests are outside of work. I also don’t ask where he vacations, what kind of bed he sleeps on, or where he fills up his car with gas, though I’m sure he spends some of his life doing those as well. His job is not his personality and neither is mine.

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              Yeah,… With people who aren’t coworkers we still fall into, “looking forward to the long weekend”, “crazy dude was at work today”, and work-related stuff like that.

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          Yeah but thats a southern europe thing you people lack any sort pride loyalty or work ethics thats why the civilised parts of europe has too bail you out all the time

      • @[email protected]
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        I think every country has people with a personality-vacuum that they’ve filled with a job. But in my anecdotal, personal experience, Americans tend to do it far more often (they also work WAY more).

      • @Astroturfed
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        51 year ago

        It’s less the core identity of people in the rest of the world.

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      You really think Americans start conversations in bars by saying, "hi, I’m a mechanic. What do you do?’ This Internet idea of what Americans do is ridiculous. Anyone who spends time (paid or unpaid) doing something they’re passionate about will talk about it.

      • @Astroturfed
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        Yup that’s totally what I think, I’m definitely European. No way an American thinks that of America.

        Going strait to meeting someone in a bar says something troubling about your life.

        • @RubberElectrons
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          We’re either friendly coworkers who invite other coworkers, or it’s like a meetup group of people who like something and want to do it together.

          If we meet at a bar with coworkers, we can network with each other and thus later on not need to trifle with management when we need help with something. “Oh yeah, Jane built this device, lemme ask her what the polarity is supposed to be”.

          Meetups with randos, we just vibe. Sometimes it’s at a bar, other times at a restaurant. We just vibe, figure out what other people’s passions and and get to know them.

    • @[email protected]
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      Oh god 100%.

      This isn’t a matter of life or death, Nicole. This is a Disney Store in a mid-tier mall.

    • regalia
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      it’s actually a blue collar job where they do quite a bit of physical labor, at least the good ones. I have more respect for that then a lot of white collar jobs.

      • Blake [he/him]
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        You probably shouldn’t decide how much to respect someone for what job they do. Unless they do like a really sketchy or immoral “job”, like a hitman or a scammer or something.

        • @barrage4u
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          Disagree, I think that the way someone decides to spend their time says a lot about them. Sometimes you just need to work for money, I get that, but often times people just do whatever they fell into because they’re too lazy to chase their dreams or do something actually beneficial for society

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                111 year ago

                Yes, gaslighting idiocy tends to touch a nerve when people are trying to have a good faith discussion 🤷

                • @barrage4u
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                  I think I’m being pretty reasonable. If anything, I stated my opinion and I’m being attacked for it. I’m not trying to play victim, but all the feedback I’ve gotten from this comment is hostile

          • @[email protected]
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            Because they need money to survive, and their parents can’t help them financially sp they cant get a degree in whatever field, even though every position in the field requires it?

            • @barrage4u
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              I mention that sometimes this is the case and there’s nothing wrong with that. But you don’t necessarily need a degree to do meaningful work or to chase your dreams, just effort.

    • @[email protected]
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      Assistant General Managers are even more serious so the sales people pick on them all the time.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        Don’t you mean assistants TO the general manager? 😉

  • @Okokimup
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    No one has said police yet?

      • @Okokimup
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        I was thinking more that the general population takes them too seriously.

          • @Okokimup
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            And yet people thank them for their “service” and put “thin blue line” flags in their yards. That is the kind of “too seriously” I am referring to.

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              That’s just cause those people buy into the delusion the cops have.

              But I agree with your overall point

    • @[email protected]
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      Honestly in my line of work I seriously considered Police, but when I noticed it’s essentially a cult I noped out of there

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        the problem with police is that

        • the people who should work as a police officer don’t want to be a police officer

        • the people that shouldn’t work as a police want to be a police officer

        I don’t think police is inherently a bad thing. It just happens to be because people who want power over others should not have power over others.

        similar story with politicians. I’d prefer an honest politician. but the process of picking them selects for those who are dishonest.

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          Exactly, couldn’t have worded it better. Obviously not all of them all of the time, but it is what it is

  • @[email protected]
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    CEOs and high ranking business people, what they get to do is not work or work significantly less than a working class people therefore I have no respect for most of em

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      The higher up you go the less work you do and the more stress you take on. You’re essentially trading your peace of mind for more money.

      When you work a simple manual labor job you clock in and clock out and then go home and live your life. Work stays at the office.

      When you’re an executive or a business owner you’re working 100% of the time. Something happens, you need to respond. Sometimes you need to make hard decisions where you’re fucked either way but you need to minimize damage.

      You need to find solutions to problems and that keeps you up at night. Don’t have enough money for payroll next week? How you gonna do it? Not pay vendors this week? Take out another line of credit at ridiculous rates? Skip a payment on your rent? Equipment financing?

      You have to do something- you stop paying your employees and the company falls apart very quickly. Could start a chain reaction of good people leaving, making the situation worse. The buck pretty much stops with you, you can’t pass off the problem to someone else.

      It’s not easy to be in charge. Lot of blame rests on your shoulders if things go wrong.

      Of course that doesn’t mean they deserve 10,000x the salary of a regular job. I think CEO pay should be capped to some multiple of regular employee pay. Whatever that scalar value should be 2, 5, or 10 I think is debatable. But it should be capped.

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        Moving from being a Product Owner, working on my own projects, to being a Product Manager who works with Product Owners on their projects/hands over projects to them, it is far more stressful. I end up being on the hook for everything, with an expectation that I know everything about a dozen projects, despite being far less actively involved in the underlying work of any of them.

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        Am an executive… agree with you on all fronts

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        You don’t simply clock in clock out. You walk into a space where everything you do is monitored and critiqued. You are constantly pressured to take on more work, other people’s work, you name it, all while you get paid the same… There’s a lot more flexibility and autonomy as you move up. The stress higher up is peanuts compared to the stress of the working class.

        • @kava
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          I’ve been at the bottom doing manual labor all the way to the top and everything in between. When I was in manual labor at 19, I thought that it was stressful. Truly. I thought I was swamped with work and was always running around with my head off like a chicken.

          But now that I’m older I realize the job was dead simple. I know that because I have more experience with both life and work. If I were put in that same position today, it would feel like a vacation.

          Imagine a waitress. Their job can be stressful, sure. But imagine they really fuck up and fall and break a few wine bottles. What’s the potential damages? $100? $200? Let’s say $1,000.

          A CEO of even a small company can fuck up and lose millions. The problems are on a whole different scale. You will see as you move up. People think it’s easy to be the boss because they only see from the outside. There’s a price you pay in sanity.

    • @sunbrrnslapper
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      Small business owner here. Just to add to the other responses about the stress and responsibility as you move up that others mentioned here… I cover every one of my employees when they take vacation or sick leave. So I am often doing my job, plus another person’s. It’s not uncommon for me to work 12 hour days without breaks.

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      Brb gonna go try to hack the NSA so I have something else to be stressed about

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    I’ll cop some shit for this one, but coffee baristas.

    you put some grounds in a machine, twiddle some nobs and pour milk in a wave pattern

    edit: judging by the amount of downvotes ive either pissed off all the Bachelor of Arts grads working as baristas or all the coffee snobs who still think making coffee is some sort of art that can only be done by the most highly trained baristas. Yes, I also love coffee. No, making it is not some sort of complicated thing which is the point of this post (and topic of this thread), and no, I am not disparaging anyone working as a barista (unless they are an Arts grad, sorry) because a job is a job and all jobs deserve respect

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      It isn’t making the coffee that’s hard, it’s being on your feet for 8 solid hours while getting assaulted by a Karen every 30 minutes and playing the memory game of 3 pumps vanilla no foam cinnamon powder vinti super choco-latte. The coffee is just a minor part of the job.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      Tell me you’ve never worked in hospitality without telling me you’ve never worked in hospitality.

      • @S_204
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        I spent years in restaurants and retail stores working thru my teens and twenties.

        The management in those places is usually a joke. Over serious, under educated people taking themselves far too seriously. They work hard because they’re inefficient most of the time, not because the jobs are actually difficult too. At least that’s the experience I had along with my friends before we got wise and gtfo of that environment.

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        • @Globulart
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          Oh you should have said it bothered you, I’ll chat to the other posters and we’ll stop it.

          Sorry sniper :( x

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            • @Globulart
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              You didn’t make it clear to the rest of us that it annoyed you! We’ll make sure we all tailor our behaviour so you don’t have to deal with the inconvenience of seeing a joke which you’ve deemed unacceptable.

              Please accept our sincere apologies, we shall all strive to please you more in future :) x

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                • @Globulart
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                  Would you like me to adjust who I am to better suit your preference too?

                  I didn’t know the mighty sniper thought I was a weirdo :(

    • @Yo_Honcho
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      Best coffee is anywhere but the US.

      From Asia to Africa, all the shops I’ve visited had good espressos and coffee.

      Customer service is also a joke here.

      • @ShittyRedditWasBetter
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        I always wonder what little hell you people live in. There are fan fucking tastic local roasters across the East Coast. It’s crazy easy to get day old roasted beans from just about anywhere on the planet here.

        It’s like the people who make fun of the food and have no clue.

        Hope so you not have access to good coffee? Where are you located that you can’t get anything good?

        • @Badass_panda
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          The definition of what “good coffee” is vary from place to place. The northeast has absolutely phenomenal American style coffee (focus on drip coffee and long pours), a lot of Europeans are after a really good espresso for €1.5.

  • @EliteCaster
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    Meter maids (people who see if people didn’t pay to park)

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      Agreed but I think in a lot of cities they’re gauged on performance by numbers of tickets issued, gotta hate the game for this one not the player who usually don’t want that job and just need the money

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    Park ranger. There are two kinds: chill and friendly, or the kind that make you show all your documents, prove your park stickers are valid, make you repark your car, and then scold you for being too loud even though the next nearest campsite is several hundred feet away and nobody has complained and you arent even being loud…

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        Nope, no music or media. Just sitting around the campfire telling stories and laughing. Sorry, but 9pm is not late, especially when quiet hour isn’t even until 10 at that particular site.

        I don’t care that you like to get up at 5:30am for your morning run, I’ll be totally quiet when the actual park rules say I have to be.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          Hmm, doesn’t sound overly specific for an assessment of an entire profession at all. DEFINITELY not based on a single day’s experience 🤔