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[ SECRET POST #2796 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2796 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Cinema Snob]

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[Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen]

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04. http://i.imgur.com/fzPY0oW.png
[underage implied? Snape/Hermione pregnancy stuff]

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06. http://i.imgur.com/YBON0Wq.png
[The Last Dragon Chronicles; linked for graphic descriptions of gore]

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07. [repeat]

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[Gerard Way]

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10. http://i.imgur.com/gtAZr7w.jpg
[warning/linked for rape? maybe? I'm not sure, but y'know, it's GoT...]

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11. [WARNING for rape]

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And this is why when it comes to work you should always be phoning it in. Don't treat your job as being something you care about, for your employer will assuredly not ever care about you. Your co-workers are not your friends, buddies, or even acquaintances, and pleasing them or making their life easier is not your concern.

Agreed.

In fact your employer is, in nearly all cases, your enemy.

What in gods name jobs do you people have where this philosophy is anything but toxic? Either your toxic, they are, or both.

You don't understand, Noodles. The employer is by nature the enemy of the worker, as the employer is the organ which exploits his labor and undercuts him. By the logic of the fundamental class relationships of capitalist society, all relationships between employers and employees are fundamentally inimical. It's really very simple.

Pretty much. Simply put the company is legally obligated to get as much work from you for as little cost to the shareholders as possible. The more you give, the more they will try to get. It is a legal obligation, at least in Anglo-American modelled economies. By contrast, in order to prevent wages and conditions being turned into a race to the bottom, the worker has to try and get as much pay for as little of their labor as possible. It is the other side of the capatilistic equation, that an individual's labor has worth too. It is a resource, and pretty much the only resource most people have, to be offered for as high a price as the individual can get. A balanced economy sees them both existing more or less in equilibrium. The trouble comes when underhand tactics, like emotional blackmail or hiring one person who is willing to work for very little or even free as a social outlet, are used to get more out of an individual than they are strictly speaking obligated to give. Then that new level becomes the new benchmark the company scores against and wages and conditions fall.

An employee should be paid enough that the company can get a small profit on their purchase of labor, too much and the company goes bust. However a company should pay enough so that an individual can do more than just work for the company in return. Too little, and well, basically the employee goes bust in return. Too many companies have gotten used to the idea of employees as a disposable resource and 100% staff churn being normal and acceptable though.

Wow, this was my comment that I deleted but apparently you were still able to comment on it!

Anyway, you're right and I know you're right; I do have this stupid idea in my head that if I help other people, they will help me in return and it actually ended up that way! But only after I got angry (which isn't a thing that happens often).

...No shit they won't be your friends, when you have that sort of attitude! Damn, I feel sorry for the people you work with.

You can be polite and sociable, but the point is that you shouldn't assume that they're your friends - the only thing you can rely on them to be is your coworkers.

My work is my work, it pays for my private life which is nicely compartmentalized and separate from my work. The latter contains people whom I choose to spend time around, the former contains people I have to interact with in order to get money. I am not required to take an interest in those people or their lives beyond the civil interactions which we need to have to fulfil our respective duties. I have no interest in blurring the line between the two.

"I am not required to take an interest in those people or their lives"

That's true, you're not certainly required to be a decent human being. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't strive to be one.

Your workplace is not the center of your world. Leave the happy-clappy love-in for home, civility to get through the day is all that is required. If you want your social life to revolve around your employer, who will happily outsource your job to a bunch of pygmies on the Amazon if they agree to work for free raisins and give up chairs, then that is up to you. My employers fund my life, and it will go on when the company has gone bust, been bought out by the same former CEOs on a tax scheme, gone bust after getting a lucrative government contract, bought out again, and finally had its assets sold to fund a hedge fund's coke habit. Then I, and all the former workforce, will find a new employer who will still not give a damn. The difference between me, and the rest of the workforce is that I won't be weeping and wailing at how I'll never see my old former coworkers and how I have to start a whole new social network from scratch again. My social network and personal enjoyment is independent of all that.

Once again: your employer is not your friend, your coworkers are only next to you through random chance.

Last I checked, being a decent human being meant being polite and getting the job done. That's all I require from anybody providing a service to me, I'd feel like a completely ungrateful energy suck expecting genuine interest and excess consideration from people getting minimum wage for dealing with dozens of random strangers who can treat them any kind of way. If they choose to give that extra energy, awesome, I appreciate it. But I don't regard it as a minimum expectation of decency.

oh my god what is wrong with you

Pretty sure we've got some Grade-A trolling going on here, is what.

i don't think so, unfortunately. skippydelicious seems to be serious, judging by her replies above.

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IDK, my coworkers are my only friends that I see on any sort of regular basis. I think you have to really hate your job to have this attitude.

you don't deserve to have a job

as long as they fulfill the stated functions of the job adequately, yes they do

considering they said they "phone it in" and "doesn't care", i think it's safe to say that NO THEY DON'T.

as long as they do the job, their level of enthusiasm doesn't matter.

do you not know what "phone it in" means? it means that they don't do the job properly

Re: Recent cementing of boundaries or sticking up for yourself?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-30 00:57 (UTC) - Expand

Being qualified for a job and deserving said job are not the same thing.

Well what the fuck kind of moralizing, Protestant Work Ethic-ass bullshit do you have in mind that makes someone "deserve" a job, then?

I don't understand what religion has to do with this. I'm not the person you're replying to, but it bothers me just as much--that someone can be all callous and think she's cool because she doesn't care about her job and just phones it in, when there are tons of unemployed people out there who would work their fingers to the bone if only given the chance. So no, I don't think she fucking deserves her job.