At my last job, I would clock-watch like a kid in school and bolt out of there when it got to be 5. No fucking way was I staying there any longer than I had to.
Literally every order at my last job bottlenecked through me. That meant that I got shit every time I dared to take time off because it meant one of the salespeople had to do my job and they didn’t even know how to do it well because our processes kept changing and only I was keeping up. I was paid dick despite that too. So glad to be away from that fucking job.
I never thought about this before, but if I worked somewhere and they gave me an ‘employee of the month’ award, it would piss me off because it would make me feel like I was being a kissass somehow.
This is how boring it was to be a monk in the middle ages. You draw stuff like this in the margins when you aren’t painstakingly copying a Roman treatise on Aristotle’s Poetics.
It’s sort of true, but not in the way they mean it. Most people don’t want to work or they would never retire. But we’re also mostly willing to work. Even work really difficult and/or dangerous jobs.
The term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth. In the early 1950s, Hungarian photographer Robert Capa first used Generation X as the title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately following World War II. The term first appeared in print in a December 1952 issue of...
I'm so good at time management that I hardly work at all (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
life hacks (lemmy.world)
I'm never lonely cuz i got these little guys with me :) (lemm.ee)
There's a backstory to this Costco sign. And I'd like to know what happened. (lemmy.world)
Let the triggering begin (lemmy.today)
Venus by Tuesday (lemmy.world)
Gottem (sh.itjust.works)
Meow (lemmy.world)
Employers (lemmy.zip)
Just Bill-t different (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Society beware (startrek.website)
Get to work, crackheads (lemmy.today)
EDIT: since apparently a bunch of people woke up with the wrong foot this morning or forgot to check the group they’re in:...
The history of the term Generation X is complicated and confusing. Boomers were the original Generation X. (en.wikipedia.org)
The term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth. In the early 1950s, Hungarian photographer Robert Capa first used Generation X as the title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately following World War II. The term first appeared in print in a December 1952 issue of...
Quick quick quick (lemmy.world)
That explains the shiny nose (lemmy.world)
Reminder to count three Mississippis.
Bowl cut gang, rise up. (lemmy.world)
Mom really had to make that $4.75/hour stretch.