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How to stop hating work? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For background on this topic without getting too specific, I'm an engineer and I typically work in an office. I'm younger and haven't been in the work force for long but working in office spaces is driving me insane.

Now I understand that work isn't supposed to be super fun, but I'd like to at least be able to tolerate it. So far I've spent a couple years in offices and it's been miserable. I enjoy what I do as far as engineering. I like the topics, I like the productive parts of what I do. But I cannot stand office spaces. They're uncomfortable and depressing environments for me.

I feel like spending time working from home would be ideal, but I'd like to hear people's thoughts and if anyone else has had this experience. Is it something you just get used to?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"They subsidize lower prices by paying employees less," he says. "If you aren't tipping, you are taking advantage of that labor."

The prices aren't lower, though. They charge just as much as the rest of the western world, yet pay their workers less, and expect customers to pay even more to make up the cost the employer is evading.

The only person taking advantage is the employer. The customer is being screwed, the worker is being screwed, all to pad the employer's pocket. And yet the system pits the customer and the employee against one another.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this got posted on the wrong place. Look at OP 's post. It's about how offices depress them, not tipping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're right, my bad, posted in the wrong window.