It’s because anon can’t spell than
Or she’s paid for her skills/experience/contacts, and
heanon doesn’t have any of those.edit: She probably makes lots of money for her employer in those 1 or 2 conversations per day
Doesn’t make it not absurd.
Eh, I’m not pro-management or anything. Maybe anon should be angry at their higher-ups instead of being annoyed at the success of their wife
Doesn’t seem to me like op is annoyed at wifes success. Op os annoyed that bullshit jobs make tons of money and the actual hard work only earns you a broken body, depression, and poverty.
You dont think laborers deserve ample time off and good pay?
Please explain your position.You dont think laborers deserve ample time off and good pay?
Yes, I’m an actual monster. /s.
No! I was speculating about the anon’s situation, as are you. Maybe they have a job at a factory, risking life and limb every day. Maybe they just dislike their boring office position. Maybe they dig ditches and their back will give out before retirement. We don’t know. I did imply that they were unfairly compensated here:
Maybe anon should be angry at their higher-ups
And yes, I did read “My wife has a make-believe job and it’s kinda annoying” as them being annoyed specifically at their wife rather than their own work situation. This is because they were disparaging their wife’s job with “make-believe”, which seemed dismissive to me. It doesn’t seem like a stretch to go from “dismissive of their wife’s job” to “dismissive of their wife”. But I could see how you could interpret it the other way.
This may not be the case here, but I have noticed that there is a specific subset of embittered marxists (?) who believe that work is strictly either back-breaking and life-ruining, or “not real work”.
The way it was explained to me once is that you’re either selling your body or your brain, and selling your brain pretty much automatically makes you “small bourgeois” (because you’re like the modern equivalent of a 19th century artisan) which is a social class supposedly directly opposed to the proletariat.
I think it’s a fundamental mistake to try to fit a modern social class/role that didn’t exist in Marx’s time through a 19th century lens and that trying to make a hierarchy of working classes is wrong, but it’s an interesting perspective nonetheless that at least explains some of the discourse we see in threads like this.
It’s about the value of your work. Some people work their bodies and generate hundreds of dollars worth of value in a day. Some people work their minds and/or charisma and generate hundreds of thousands in value. Mastering a high value skill is a good way to move up in the world.
Of course all laborors deserve time off and pay based accurately on the value they generate. But if their value is based on their hours worked then their schedule will never be as lax as OPs wife.
Considering a ton of jobs rely on having absolutely shit pay in order for them to be profitable there needs to be a better way to calculate value. There are also a bunch of jobs where it isn’t exactly possible to calculate the value generated. I keep a department running smoothly, work on communications between departments, and do a bunch of manual labor that is needed, but I’m only valued at the manual labor…
No one should be working full time and still be unable to be independent.
Why would it make it absurd? Those few conversations possibly bring the company incredible value. Just because someone works hard doesn’t mean their job has incredible value, since effort isn’t proportional to value.
Why is it absurd to be paid based on the value you generate?
We don’t know who those customers are. If she’s meeting with Google and Microsoft, or Walmart and Safeway, then “one or two customers” is huge.
Also, we are seeing an easy day for her. Many people are hired for when the shit hits the fan. If there’s a huge recall that jeopardizes all the business with Walmart and Safeway, or some similar issue that affects Google and Microsoft, you better believe she’s doing more than 2 hours of work. That’s probably what she’s waiting for.
That’s a lot of assumptions. I think it’s equally probable that in this insane reality we live in, she doesn’t actually do shit and is basically paid so that her salary won’t get cut from her department’s annual budget.
Remember:
If you saw someone living a decent life while “working” a bullshit job, no you didn’t!
Yes you did, now go and demand a better working environment for the sake of “competitive pay”
Yeah no. If I’m starving working 50 hours/week I’m gonna be pretty fuckin pissed seeing someone do fuck all for more.
I’m not saying I’m gonna take it out on them but if they ever complain about work I’ll eviscerate them.
Instead of getting mad af someone else’s begter paying job, maybe work to improve your own?
And this isn’t always possible. In fact it commonly isn’t. I do agree the people who don’t do anything and complain is stupid but many jobs don’t have any opportunity for more and you become stuck.
Then find something else, expand your skill.
If everyone did that, those jobs would have to change or nobody would do them.
Live your life for yourself, not for others.
So… teachers should all just quit and become finance bros or programmers. Because fuck the youth amiright?
Correct. If they all quit, the system has to change.
Or, perhaps it would be the system working exactly as intended. Depends on how you look at it.
The market for teachers has been fucked for a WHILE in most places and it still hasn’t changed enough, in the US
Teachers that do it solely for the pay, yeah, totally, plus it would generate much needed pressure to improve things.
There is a teacher shortage right now. The supposed pressure to improve things comes from where again? Who is going to be on a megaphone, chanting about poorly educated youth? Who gives a shit about illiterate, poor, people, except the manipulative assholes who get rich taking advantage of them?
Personally I believe the state wants poorly educated citizens They spend lots of money on stupid shit. They take pride in working several low paying jobs, poor Healthcare, poor infrastructure. Basically, poor, uneducated people are perfect slaves. Why do you think it was illegal to teach slaves to read?
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, eh?
Ok boomer
This is a bad take.
It’s kind of a crab bucket mentality. Virtually anyone any of us have ever seen, who had “jobs” of some sort, were working class, and not mill/billionaire class. We all have more in common with each other than with the one percent, and if someone I know has figured out a way to claw a little bit back, then more power to them so long as they’re not hurting someone. Oh, boo fucking hoo, they figured out a way to scam a livable wage out of a Fortune 500 company! I say, good for them! We should all be so lucky.
Instead of getting mad at a fellow worker for having a job that doesn’t exploit them, why don’t you get mad at the people who actually exploit you?
I just want to see more misery in this broken world😔
She’s possibly a manager of some kind, I have seen plenty of managers that have days that are kinda like this, though less extreme
Ahh yes, the air stirrers.
We call them “flow through heaters” because they take the same info anyone already has and restructure it and put it in a ppt or something.
That sounds awesome! Are they still hiring?
Grab an application for me too
You guys need to read Bullshit Jobs. Some percentage of jobs just don’t need to exist.
That percentage being fuckin most of them.
Fantastic book BTW.
But people need them to have a decent quality of life unfortunately
So then why do other people have to break their backs or starve?
It’s not a zero sum game mate.
Ask the bosses that. Would you rather we all suffer? Or would you rather we make it so the people breaking their backs no longer need to?
Trying to drag down the people who are slightly comfortable seems counter productive.
When your slightly comfortable isn’t contributing and is ok with my back pain, I start wondering why your comfort matters more than mine.
Where did I say your comfort doesn’t matter? You’re the one making this a zero sum discussion.
I’m also not okay with your back pain. That fucking sucks and anyone that’s getting disabled by their job should be given the time and money to recover. But we’d need stronger unions to enforce that.
The ironic part is that the only changes are her lack of commute times and where she clocks in. Oh, and that he now knows the insides details of what she does. He should be grateful that she’s earning a paycheck and quit whining (assuming it’s even a true story). Most people can’t even afford an apartment without 2 incomes.
Dude I find guy who get weird about their partner making more money than them sorta odd. Fucking please, by all means honey go make significantly more money than me.
It’s a toxic masculinity trait. His value is tied to how much money he makes in his mind, and because men are supposed to be more valuable to society according to the patriarchy he is therefore a failure.
But those marriages are more likely to fail (https://www.chicagobooth.edu/media-relations-and-communications/press-releases/when-women-earn-more-than-their-husbands )
Well it’s plausible that men overall are uncomfortable enough about their partners making more money that they’re willing to tank their marriages.
literally
then me
This is how I know the OP isn’t out of high school.
Regrettably I know many professionals whose grasp of written English is worse than OP’s.
Can’t tell you the insane amount of resumes I’ve come across that I just want to send back with corrections lmao
You’d be shocked to learn that more than half of Americans have at best a 6th grade reading ability, so their writing won’t even make it to a high school level.
Oh, it will. Bigly.
I don’t see the problem. She makes more, then him. Is she available?
I also choose this guy’s wife!
His make believe wife’s make believe job
This was my job until this week. Got onto a new team with a great manager. Now I actually have to work, but I’ll get to enjoy what I do again.
Yeah I bet it’s really annoying for your wife to contribute to
heryour shared income with her hustling skills gtfo. This is either fake or they’re both professional workers doing so well the man-child has to whine about how much moneyshethey make.I am an elementary school teacher. I took a personal day and I was hanging with my friend. She works virtually for an NGO. She replied to a few emails, updated some data in a spreadsheet, she called a few people. That was all she did. I made some snide remarks about it and she was like ‘oh I’m sure your job is so much harder.’
The sheer audacity. I do all that shit she does, in 20 minutes before class starts, while I am slamming coffee and doughnuts. Then I do exhausting work all day.
If every worker wants other’s to have it as bad as them we’d all be slaves, blame the employers and economic conditions rather than the worker who has it better than you. Really if your job is stressful and more work you should want better conditions for yourself, not worse conditions for someone else. She has knowledge that professional employers think is worth paying for, that’s not something you should blame her for.
IMO I think for teachers and nurses, they should be way better compensated, and even treated as a special class.
While I agree, and I am a part of my teachers union, I also don’t see any evidence that teachers will suddenly become respected and well paid. Like, Suddenly we all realized that we should feel grateful that we can read. Nope.
My NGO, WFH friend thinks she is working hard. The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.
Their goal is to help save fisheries and wild fish stock. In reality she doesn’t even know what salmon looks like unless it’s on a bagel.
You think these billionaires are just a billion times more hard working? They are just manipulative, insular, myopic, and selfish. Those are the key ingredients to success in our system. Surprise surprise, they are the opposite characteristics that a good teacher requires.
The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.
That’s not her fault though so resenting people for who have these roles is indirectly resenting your own ability to achieve what they have. Billionaire employers are a different story because they’re billionaires by virtue of those they employ. Overall the wealth gap between employers vs people like you and your friend who have to work everyday, regardless of what that entails, is wider than it’s ever been. The problem isn’t really that someone has a cushy job it’s that those billionaires who do nothing are taxed lower than they’ve ever been and have your money, you’re educating their future employees and they’re not paying you/us a fair wage for that service they benefit from.
Ooh look at mister fancy-pants over here who can have coffee and donuts at work.
Before work. I don’t have time to eat during work. Not to mention pee.
Fellow teacher here. Wow thats crazy and you totally got it right.
Meanwhile I doubt her clients argue with her about stuff.
Hey teacher! Actually I wanna ask you a question. I’m trying to find teacher spaces to replace reddit. Any luck with teaching stuff here?
I haven’t seen anything yet. I still actually browse /r/teachers because of that same issue. Hopefully something gains traction, though!
Wow, being envious of his wife’s job makes him a man-child and incapable of understanding how marital income works.
You read that much into a fucking greentext 😂😂
I’d do it again too
You go girl
I’m detecting angry vagina vibes.
Lol, lemme just vagina-splain how money works when you’re married.
Ah yes, Federal employment. Can confirm this is the case for almost all of us.
Any IT positions I can pretend to work at?
can you download adobe reader
Sorry all I know is Google Ultron
Jeez that sounds like work forget I asked.
I can even do that with a chocolaty command
I love chocolatey because i had to deploy with FOG for so long.
You’re overqualified, sorry. What’s next powershell scripts?
Well, yes. But I’ll have chatgpt make them.
Pretend work sucks more than real work
Ok. I’m going to ask for a raise.
I’ll take your stapler
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Good luck!
Only if you can’t fake the pretend work. If I can tab out and play counterstrike while on the clock, then it’s cool. But if a micromanager is watching the pretend work to ensure it gets done, then nah fuck that.
Not when you’re playing videos games all day.
Yeah it does. Unless your boss is completely cool with you doing so and you don’t have to look over your back.
In that case, rock on!
Work from home, get work done in two hours, just have to be present to answer emails timely while gaming.
I did like WFH, log into the meeting with camera and mic off and then just eat cereal or play games while listening to the meeting
Literally my current job. I’d estimate I only actually work about 30 hours per week on average, and generally spend the rest of the time relaxing. It’s a sweet gig, but I just wish the work I do spend my time doing was more fullfilling
“Work slow, look busy”
Why do you work eight hours or more, we’d both have jobs if you only worked four
This is half the reason social services suck so much.
The other half is funding. But even with all the funding in the world, if the staff is a bunch of lazy asses, the service will suck.
The vast majority of social services are handled by state employees, not federal. Those state employees are often underpaid and overworked, and often only stay in their position because they understand the need too.
The problem with federal employees is that they’re often underpaid compared to similar jobs in the private sector. Most of them only choose to remain federal employees because it offers a lot better work life balance compared to the private sector.
Sounds like a good job.
She could be a sex worker
I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages. Does data entry in the field of sex work qualify as being a sex worker or are you merely a sex industry ghost writer?
Does data entry in the field of movie production make you a movie producer?
If you make it into the credits it does.
I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages.
I think most public figures with large social media accounts do. It’s not really possible for a single person to answer messages for someone with millions or even thousands of followers, but the appearance of personal connection is important to build your brand. All of it boils down to the commoditization of the fear of loneliness.
It’s very unhealthy.
I wouldn’t call it “data entry”. They do provide the actual sexual service to the customer - even if they are lying about who they are. I mean, it’s not like the actual model isn’t lying…
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But then we need to define sex to answer the question, your definition may or may not include only fans models and the people who respond to messages depending what was class as sex
definitely a sex worker
Just because she’s a woman?
Plenty of jobs are like this. It’s half the reason corporations are able to go on massive firing sprees every other year: because the second they bother to look they find people like’s OP’s wife
I bet she also complains that she works too much
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Guys see this one comment and immediately think, “Hell yeah”
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