Why People Bother Getting A Job

[MrKrabs]

Standard moan-fest...

People want jobs and don't want to work them...

People sit there and wonder why they get their hours cut or flat-out fired when any of the following...
A) Constantly Call-out
B) Constantly Demand Certain Days Off
C) Be A Living Decoration

But I have to thank them... I appreciate yet another 70-hour week and learning new names for new hires... I think I should just give people numbers and not learn names"

Crabbeh Crab Will Go Faceplant Into Pillow Now...

[Dichotomy]

Glad I work from home now.  Ya I take an hour or two break during the day to relax my mind.  I was also up at 4 am working on a project and just wrapped up for the day because I got a flash of inspiration when I went to Wally world for trash bags and beer and couldn't let it go until I got it on paper and the calculations run on it.   

[guncrasher]

I work at a steel mill.  30 bucks an hour.  I can do all the jobs in the department but our planner decided that the best way for me to help the company was to pick up trash in one of the yards.

so I found me a nice place and took an 8 hour nap.  I am not lazy, but if the planner wants me to earn my money by doing nothing then I'll do nothing.


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[Meatwad]

Get one of those take a number things and for each new hire, pin the number on them. Easy peasy 

[MrKrabs]

Get one of those take a number things and for each new hire, pin the number on them. Easy peasy 

I'll just write it on their foreheads with a magic marker...

[mbailey]

Glad I work from home now.  Ya I take an hour or two break during the day to relax my mind.  I was also up at 4 am working on a project and just wrapped up for the day because I got a flash of inspiration when I went to Wally world for trash bags and beer and couldn't let it go until I got it on paper and the calculations run on it.

I work from home as well...my buddies bust my nuts saying how cushy it is.....I have to remind them that when they leave their job for the day they're done......me, I'm always at the office

[eagl]

I work because its the best way to get what I want, in return.

It doesn't hurt that my job is totally awesome.
It also didn't hurt that I decided what I wanted to do at age 10, so I actually focused my childhood and early adult efforts into getting what I wanted, instead of into drugs and getting young women pregnant.  Its not the only way to do this "life" thing, but a little focus and self control early in my life has paid off for me in a huge way.  8 years of effort (high school and college) has led to 21 years of an awesome job and a nice paycheck with some benefits.

Of course, its easier to be miserable and blame everyone else for every little impulse that isn't immediately satisfied, but I'll leave that to the 99%.

[branch37]

It is kind of shocking how lazy the majority of the current generation is though.  I have seen at least 2 new hires in the last 2 years get fired because they simply did not want to work.  The last one would go in the bathroom and stay there for at least 15 minutes at least 10 times a day.  I counted.  If I'm going to screw off for an entire afternoon, I can think of alot better ways to do it than to sit in a 4 X 5 cinder block bathroom with no A/C when it's 100+ degrees outside. 

[Rich46yo]

Well in America and probably Europe you really dont need to work. I know people who have never worked a day in their lives who live in a better house then me. Have a better car, certainly less stress. First there's welfare, then some SSI for the back pain. Theres law suite scams of various types. "Scams" of various types. Stuff like selling pirated CDs and DVDs, or, being the neighborhood "boot man".

Someone gets their car booted call the boot man before the tow truck gets there. He prys the boot off, gets paid, and then sells the metal boot for cash. Theres a million little scams like this. No SSN #, no taxes, all cash. With the sucker taxpayer paying all your housing, education, medical bills to boot.

Taxpayers like me...like you...are suckers. There is a better way. Hell even a bi-year donut beating from the Po-Po settlement is better then working full time. And they just hand it over, anything to avoid their own bad press and lawyer bills.

We even pay the bills for people who blow us up. Ask the family of those Boston marathon jerk-offs.

[Dichotomy]

I work from home as well...my buddies bust my nuts saying how cushy it is.....I have to remind them that when they leave their job for the day they're done......me, I'm always at the office

Yep.

Julie was busting my testicles today when I was taking a break from staring at a spreadsheet and designing light poles under the 2013 AASHTO code.  My parents think 'well he works from home so we can call him any time'.  Love them all but they don't get the whole 'hey I have an idea' moment when your subconscious kicks in and you really can't be interrupted.  I 'work' from the moment I get up until I shut stuff down for the night and that's usually 4 am till 10 pm.  I may not appear to be doing anything but my mind is always engaged in 'how can I make this better?'

Had a WTF moment today in fact that will make the proposal developers jobs pretty much cut and paste instead of having to think. 

I've been working on that since since 3 pm. 

Now it's time to mommy up to the pillow. 

[mechanic]

I've pretty much always worked labouring, always loved it. But that's about to change. Just accepted a job on a skydiving dropzone in the south of Spain. Dream job, or at least, the doorway to my dream job. Starting that in about 2-3 weeks. Pretty happy and excited for the new chapter.

[zack1234]

People are rubbish

[cpxxx]

For most people work is a way of earning money. Not a lifestyle choice. When I started working as a naïve eighteen year old. I was naïve enough to think working hard and doing your best was the way forward. I soon learned the truth. One day in my first job after working flat out and missing breaks etc. I sat down for a moment only for the boss to appear and bawl me out for doing nothing. The total p**** didn't notice or care how hard I worked. I was a number to him. Too much BS and lousy pay.

My last 'job' was pretty much the same. The owner is a business psychopath. He doesn't understand why people who work for him don't share his dream. Maybe if he shared some of the profit we might. So I worked the hours, gave up holidays, missed family events and put up with his rants as he developed the business while working for the kind of money that no one could survive on. All in the hope that when everything came good. I would be appropriately rewarded. I was to be sorely disappointed. It was to be same for others who worked for him. The trail of bodies left in his wake is amazing and he never understood why everyone fought with him and left. One guy grabbed him by the throat and threatened to kill him.

So I stepped away eventually but now work for him on my own terms in my own time.

Lucky are those for whom life and work are the same thing. But most work to make a living no more no less.

My main job/life now is to look after my kids as a stay at home Dad. So far the lowest paid job I've ever had with the longest hours. But still the best I've ever had. I honestly don't think I could ever go back to a 'real' job. I've had too many idiot bosses in my resume.

[Shamus]

'well he works from home so we can call him any time', that is the mentality of most clock punchers and wage slaves.

Best move I ever made was closing the fancy suite in the high rent district, firing the employees and working from home, been pretty much like retirement for 28 years.

[guncrasher]

I was working 9 and 10 days straight during swing shift by myself.  that's when we get the most work.  on weekends I also had to do the leader's position in addition to my regular work.  it's hard to work outside at a steel mill when it's over 100 degrees.  I didnt complain, I just did the work as best and fast as I could.  I ended up getting so dehydrated I ended up having to go to the doctor on my day off.  next day i missed work.  I was wrote up for being the 3rd time I missed work in 6 months.

I told my boss, to take me off doing the extra work and I was gonna go back to my regular work.  Now my regular job gets completed in about 15 or 20 minutes a day and I get to stay inside.

I like to work, but I am not gonna risk my job over it.


semp