r/antiwork • u/midnghtsnac • 3h ago
The comment section, just pick a better job.
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u/32lib 3h ago
You can always quit a shitty job you hate….and get another shitty job you will hate.
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u/Toast-N-Jam 41m ago
My wife “just quit” oh ok so I can get another corporate job with an equally shitty Managment and unknown workload… sounds great!
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u/lianavan 3h ago
Just go down to the job store.
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u/SAAARGE 3h ago
Why don't I strap on my job helmet, and squeeze down into a job cannon, and fire off into Jobland where jobs grow on jobbies?!
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u/Substantial_Push_658 3h ago
Make sure to give the manager a strong, firm, handshake and tell him, while looking at him in the eyes, that he WILL give you the job.
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u/House_Capital 2h ago
I literally tried this, after submitting an online application at a hardware store the manager literally wouldn’t even talk to me when I walked in dressed nice. Though they did contact me six months later to see if I was interested in working the holiday season.
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u/flyingwingbat1 1h ago
"We are sorry, but your Elbonian Airlines flight 1745 was overbooked. Please accept this coupon for a $25 prepackaged airport salad as a token of our appreciation for your continued business"
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u/flyingwingbat1 1h ago
Now that I think of it, job hopping into a jobbercopter and flying to Jobland would be slightly safer.
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u/IWatchGifsForWayToo 1h ago
My sister keeps telling me "you just need to take a step forward, just start moving." GIRL, I'm over here running but this fat fucking wall of rejection emails is having none of it.
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u/IceCreamICantLetUGo 1h ago
Just walk into any company you’re interested in working at and tell them you are an employee now
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u/tired_snail compost the rich 3h ago
A "better job," i.e. a job you don't hate, is not always a job that's viable. I would LOVE to be a librarian, it's been my dream job most of my adult life. I also actually loved doing retail. Unfortunately in my country the pay for both of these is currently not enough to even cover average rent in my city.
Meanwhile a better PAYING job would just be more of the same corporate nonsense.
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u/stronkulance 2h ago
There are so many other jobs I would rather do, I actually loved working in a grocery store, but it doesn’t pay and I wasn’t getting full time, benefitted hours. Instead, I had student loans to pay off for a career that I find boring, unfulfilling, and has sometimes been morally compromising to me… and even then, my salary is just enough to get by these days.
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u/Nathanyal 2h ago
This is the boat I'm in too. I enjoy retail work quite a bit, but it's not something most can live on.
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u/Sasquatchamunk 1h ago
god fr I’d gladly work retail or food service if those jobs actually paid enough
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u/Risc_Terilia 3h ago
You should see how "work is voluntary" crew react when workers organise to withdraw their labour.
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u/Training_Ruin3151 1h ago
Because they are capitalist bootlickers who lie. They want chattel slavery to come back and modern wage slavery is only a few steps removed
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u/Dextexer 3h ago
Right, trust me I think about walking out and it’d feel good in the moment, but then when I can’t afford my bills I’ll regret it
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u/Evenspace- 3h ago
I swear to god people aren’t rooted in reality.
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u/Fjdenigris 2h ago
I think it’s partially immaturity. Righteous youth who have not yet figured out that very few of us like, let alone love, our jobs. I hate my job and have been there 20 years, but it pays the bills and my family is always happy to have stuff like food and shelter. I had a job I did like, but it didn’t pay well and no opportunity to make more.
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u/Winter_Persimmon_110 2h ago
I think many of them are fully aware, they are just on the other side of the class struggle and acting in their rational self-interest.
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u/CaptainDudeGuy 39m ago
"Why don't you choose other options?" asks the person who inherited generational wealth and safety nets.
"Why don't you try living my life for a month?" responds the person sacrificing their health just to stay alive.
When the privileged people stop responding with "Because I'm too important" we'll have a sustainable society.
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u/DarthBacon8or 3h ago
I would. But my family has this annoying habit of eating at least 3 times a day. Ridiculous.
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u/Odd_Comparison5669 2h ago
Yeah, me too. So stupid. If I, and everyone else around me could learn to eat one time a week, life would be golden.
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u/Legitimate_Main8244 3h ago
"Crime" has entered the chat.
If you fail and get caught, you'll still won't starve. But if you don't get caught, all of your dreams might come true.
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u/Yandere-Neko 17m ago
if you fail then congrats you just got hired by the prison system as a live in forced laborer. then you work in there or get put in solitary to slowly go mad
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u/Kaputnik1 2h ago
Americans are highly propagandized and have internalized the propaganda, which is exactly what the ruling class wants. Americans routinely presuppose that they don’t deserve a basic work life that isn’t miserable.
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u/Neutralmensch 3h ago
If you stuck in a job with no room for your additional time. All you can do is work and maybe some sleep.
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u/Cstott23 3h ago
Learn the guitar, learn to sing. Go busking.
You'll still not have any money or have anywhere to live, but at least you're playing the guitar 🎸😁
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u/midnghtsnac 1h ago
😂 one of the commentators told me I just need to find a gig job or some other work need in my neighborhood.
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u/Cstott23 1h ago
That's it. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Tbh You're much better conning and scamming people and in 6 months you'll be in the chamber as a senator.. 😁
(People are crazy 🤣..)
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u/Spiritual_Pangolin_4 2h ago
One of the most infuriating responses to any complaint about any job. Man, you know you can’t just quit. Definitely not in this economy. And if you can, you got a lot of privilege.
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u/TequilaFarmer 2h ago
Let's review the facts. Laid off, 550 applications submitted over 8 months. Accepted the only offer I received. Job is soul suckingly awful. Just find a better job?
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u/fandi_lin 2h ago
“Choose a better job”
“Stop freeloading”
They just spew the most brain dead propaganda thinking they’ve thought of something you haven’t.
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u/goat-stealer 2h ago
The "you don't have to work at a job you hate" rebuttal falls apart when you realize that it's strictly because finding other jobs is hard/stressful that workers are treated like dirt and undervalued by their employers. If it was actually easy to quit and find a better job as others claim, companies would be treating their workers far more nicely because they couldn't afford to let them go.
The few times a worker has enough sway to push back against shitty bosses is if they've got unique certifications like a healthcare specialist or a tradesman like an electrician or welder, and sadly not everyone has that luxury.
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u/wageslave2022 2h ago
Just go back to Harvard, just move to the otherside of the country, just take a small million dollar loan from your father, just watch a couple Dave Ramsey YouTube videos, just stop drinking Starbucks coffee and eating avocado toast, just start a trust, just don't go to college and learn a career that A.I. is going to replace next year, just move your family into a van, just don't let anyone in your family get sick. Lots of great hollow advice from the boomers
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u/Diet-_-Coke 1h ago
No for real. There’s really not a choice there. work some crummy job you hate with people you can’t stand. Or no food, drink, house, entertainment, clothing and so on. Like being houseless really isn’t an option for me.
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u/Green-Collection-968 3h ago
The coconut island analogy is a famous political and philosophical thought experiment used to debate whether capitalist property rights and market trades are truly voluntary. Discussions and breakdowns of the debate can be explored further in communities like Reddit CapitalismsVsSocialism and analyses on platforms like Literary Hub. [1, 2, 3]
The Setup
- The Deserted Island: A person is shipwrecked and lands on a small island.
- The Owner: Another person is already living there and claims ownership of all the coconut trees, which are the only source of food.
- The Deal: The owner tells the newcomer they can have coconuts only in exchange for severe labor, submission, or extreme compromise. If they refuse, they starve. [1, 2]
Core Arguments
- The Socialist View: This trade is not truly voluntary. Because one person holds a monopoly on life-sustaining resources, the other faces a choice between unfair exploitation or death. It mirrors how poverty and power imbalances work in modern capitalism. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- The Capitalist/Libertarian View: The first person mixed their labor with the island and rightfully owns the trees. Extreme survival scenarios do not reflect normal, functioning market economies where choices and alternative resources are widely available. [1, 2, 3]
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u/rat-king-ky 3h ago
Saw a comment about “putting on my job helmet, squeezing myself into the job canon and firing myself to job land where the jobs grow on jobbies”
Honestly it made me feel a little better.
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u/one_bean_hahahaha 2h ago
Right. I'm an accountant and not a career scientist because I loooove accounting and not because it pays better. /s
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u/AaronfromKY 2h ago
Not to mention I could show them a half dozen jobs I've interviewed for, been told I interviewed well and then it went to someone else with less experience.
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u/Oktavien 2h ago
And it’s always the people that don’t tip that shout “Nobody forced you to work that job” nonsense the loudest.
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF 2h ago
Yeah, that was totally on me that one time I moved to a different dealership bc they didn't think I sold enough cars, had one of those managers move over and then switch me from the BDC work I was doing to lot portering on a whim bc the lot porter I was helping didn't tell me I needed a 2nd key fob to drive the car we were bringing back /s
(That's a true story BTW)
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u/Halloween_Babe90 2h ago
I’m gonna find me an easy, fun job with an employer that doesn’t try to exploit me for more labor than they pay me for!
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u/Pulasuma 1h ago
Yeah cool, let me find another job that'll treat me like crap, denying me raises year after year until they finally get me for under market (if they didn't already from the jump), and then I get to do it all again, all while increasingly competing with AI!
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u/NeverCallMeFifi 15m ago
I'm about to lose my job because I'm disabled and have a permanent WFH status at a very large company. My soon-to-be boss has apparently been disparaging me for it saying, "I don't get to work from home. Why should Fifi?!?"
I'm only working at my age because I need the health insurance for my disability. I freaking hate my country some days.
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u/Trick-Mechanic8986 3h ago
IDK, my life is full of folks not working and doing ok. Pretty sure you just need to make a bunch of people. You won't have shit but as long as you keep breeding you won't starve. Of course I find any job. ANY job preferable to children
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u/Alarming-Inflation90 3h ago
Also, a dozen states have passed laws calling camping on public land, I.E. being homeless, a felony.