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who describes herself as the “anti-work girlboss” 💪

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[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

makes up new term for old thing

is-this "Is this new?"

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 ‘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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I thought this was always a thing

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

This article is evidence of them looking busy.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

taskmaskingmaxxing

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Link because I'm not a LIB

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