Something Terrible Is Happening To The 9-5 Job

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A 2-3% raise annually when inflation increases 3.5% annually? That's literally a slap in the face, LMFAO.

What pisses me off is that your friend in IT was unfairly let go. He was doing his job. He met his quota. The company got what they were paying him for.

Working a 9-5 job, living frugally, and still living paycheck to paycheck is the stupidest system I’ve ever heard so far in my life.

Starting a Side Hustle and it eventually turning into a "main hustle" has been the biggest game changer in my life

Gig work only is a viable option in a good economy. There’s a ton of down sides that weren’t mentioned in this video for a balanced perspective. No benefits or health insurance, no pension or retirement assistance, taxes are all on you, and even a slight recession can totally throw off your ability to provide and pay the bills with no stress. Not to mention how saturated it’s become in the last few years. Gig work is great for secondary income. Don’t go into it thinking it is the best decision to make a living. Learn a trade and join a union. You will won’t have to worry about a recession or living in retirement, or any unplanned medical situations for you or your family.

Possibly one of the worst things about a 9-5 job...being unable to land one

The ultimate problem at its core : You have a bunch of people doing something they hate doing with no possibility of moving up if their brains aren't in it and the only thing keeping them there is comfort / survival. Like, why wouldn't someone try to escape that as much as they can get away with?

4:03 your friend didn't do "fake work". He did the actual work faster and more efficiently. His employer is just mad that he didn't offer to do more work for the same pay.

Busywork/makework/fake work drives me up the wall. Give me meaningless shit to do just to "keep me busy" if I finish early? Ok, I'll just slow down on my actual work so it takes a full eight hours to do then. You shouldn't be punished for being efficient and good at your job.

We had a code word at my last job: “broccoli”, which meant the manager was rounding the corner and we all had to look busy. I am so glad I work from home now, so now I can do laundry and start dinner instead of looking busy when someone shouts out the name of a vegetable.

I don’t know anyone who works 9-5. It’s always 8-5 and a bottle or two of antidepressants.

It’s almost like corporations shipping our jobs overseas, and importing cheap foreign labor was a bad idea. 🤔

The problem is corporate capitalism, which is a corruption of true capitalism. Why do I say that corporate capitalism not true capitalism? For one, corporations are not risking their own money. The corporate capitalist system allows them to privatize the profits but socialize the risk. The system also stifles competition (a key component of true capitalism) by favoring corporations over small business and by favoring larger corporations over smaller ones. If unchecked, this leads to so much consolidation in the market that monopolies form. And as these monopolies form, the customers and employees of those companies have fewer and fewer options. This leads to price inflation along with stagnant wages. If a labor shortage begins to develop as it was in 2021-2022 and laborers start gaining bargaining power, then they use shareholder money to pay off politicians to throw open the southern border and flood the country with cheap labor. You see, in the same way that socialism leads to communism, corporate capitalism leads to an oligarchy. This is where we are currently at as a nation.

I retired from a union grocery company. I worked full time for 35 years. I got my pension and loving it. It wasn't the glamorous job, but it kept me employed during all the business cycles. It was a recession proof job.

It’s 8-5, not 9-5…

If people did their research, most in the U.S. don't work from 9:00AM-5:00PM. The 9-5 hasn't been the norm since the 2000s!

9 to 5 in the UK is virtually gone, jobs are advertised and 'you are expected to be flexible,' ie give your life just for the company. I am currently looking for a p/t job, yet I have about as much enthusiasm to do this as put a gun in my mouth.

G dang I feel the fake work problem. At my last job we had queues with jobs we were supposed to fill the day with. We could pick up work along the way but that was hit or miss. Most of the time in our slow season all of us were stretching out about 3-4 hours worth of work across 8 hours. When they coudlnt come up with something to keep us busy we were sent to help other departments that didn't really need it. There was so much time I wanted to go home and work in my garden, work out, or at least go for a walk and I couldn't because I had to be there even though there was nothing I could do.

and alot of the "fake-work" or "make-work" workers are still employed in 6figure IT jobs whilst much of the top talent, key leaders and contributors alike are unemployed and getting rejected left and right by interviewers who are more along those lines of the fake/make-work workers