18 pictures... No one wants to work anymore

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/18-pictures-that-perfectly-answer-the-question-why-doesn-t-anybody-want-to-work-anymore/ar-AA1aptso?ocid=hpmsn&pc=U483&cvid=ffa967f0bb2045b0ac3925adb9fa02c3&ei=59



I think my favorite (sarcasm) is the one where your regular life is already considered "time off." You're a slave owned by the company, you know. Your entire life is not your own... it belongs to the employer and damn it you already have 16 hours "off" every day!

Some of the others are crazy too. Seriously... a "reverse internship"??????

[niyad]

1. That one has been around for at least 60 years. I remember seeing it in my

early teens. It is as offensive now as it was back then.

[MissMillie]

4. which one? (the whole article or one of the examples)

Just want to understand you.

[niyad]

6. The one about time off, listing all the days and hours already "off".

[MissMillie]

8. Can you even begin to imagine?

the assumption is that 24/7... your time belongs to them... and when you're sleeping 8 hrs. a night... that's "time off"

"You slept last night... that counts as 'time off!'"

[niyad]

13. The whole set of images, and the mindset they reveal, made me ill.

Whenever I hear, "nobody wants to work", I respond with, "nobody wants to work for shit wages, in a shitty job, and to be treated like a slave."

[Jedi Guy]

29. The "So You Want the Day Off?" one is clearly a joke. N/T

[niyad]

33. Really? Are you paying attention to the horror stories, such as . . oh, twitter?

[Jedi Guy]

35. Yes, really. It's very clearly a joke and not a serious workplace notice.

The "Readiness Group Fort Sill" at bottom right and the A with the 5 beneath it the top (US 5th Army) are the first clue, that this is on a military base. My dad is ex-military, so I'm familiar with military humor. Someone with no familiarity with the military might not catch those, of course.

The cartoon "boss" slamming his fist on the table is the second clue.

The tone and language in the message is the biggest clue, since it's very clearly intended to be humorous.

Lighten up. I'm very familiar with shitty workplaces and bosses, but not everything is a vicious attack on the proletariat.

[niyad]

36. Actually, the first time I saw it was on a military base when I was growing up,

some sixty-plus years ago. The fact that it was, perhaps, meant to be humourous THEN, does not change the fact that it rather accurately reflects the mindset of certain types of employers NOW. egoloon muskrat coming instantly to mind.

[Jedi Guy]

39. I've had some really shitty jobs and worked for some really shitty bosses in my time.

I still instantly recognized this as a joke. My current job is pretty stressful, and my partners in crime and I cope with the stress via humor, frequently black humor. It's one of those "if we don't laugh we'll cry" situations. Maybe that's why I started laughing as soon as I read it, because it sounds like something we'd say to each other.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. GREAT article! Thanks, MissMillie.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Never been a better time to find and land a job than right now

Employers who treat their workers like this are not going to find people.

And Amazon has become a standard setter. While I won't argue Amazon is a good place to work, they obviously don't treat their labor great, they've replaced McDonald's as the place you can leave to go make more money with less responsibility. Amazon pays $19 an hour and up with benefits and bonuses in my area, they hire anyone. So at the very worst, someone can read one of these messages from management and quit and go to Amazon and start working within days.

The successful companies in my area have to offer wages that compete with Amazon to keep good people, that's a good thing. It used to be that people would say, "Why should I bust my ass on the line for $9 an hour when I can walk down the street and work at McDonald's for $10 an hour?" Now McD's has been replaced by Amazon.

Know restaurant owners who've flat out started paying what Amazon does just to keep fully staffed, they had to.

[blm]

5. Geez

[Scrivener7]

7. I had a colleague with a brain tumor and another whose husband was dying from lung cancer

at an obscenely young age, despite the fact he never smoked.

I donated sick days to both of them.

Where I work, you had to donate TWO days for them to receive ONE day.

Cheap-ass fuckers.

[OMGWTF]

15. I once worked for a cheap rich mofo who

gave us one week of vacation after a year of working and one hour for an employee Xmas party that was a potluck. Yeah, no.

[yardwork]

31. Potluck work events really annoy me.

[nuxvomica]

27. I once donated time off to a co-worker whose son was dying from a brain tumor

A lot of people donated and, sadly, my time wasn't needed as the co-worker was able to use bereavement time sooner than expected. That was in the 90s. Today, we have unlimited PTO and the company is far more productive than it ever was.

[phylny]

9. I worked at a public school many years ago

It was common for us to donate days to employees/coworkers who had either illness or a sick family member. Fun times. I did it because I’m not a jerk.

[Shipwack]

16. It's not about "not being a jerk"

It's about enabling bad company practices. Maybe if instead of giving up a day off, everybody called in for the day to protest greedy corporate practices, this wouldn't be an issue. Instead, we're asked to be enablers.

There's a reason why Europeans have more vacation days, more paid sick time, and better benefits.

Not to mention what someone said upthread, about how employees sacrificed two sick days for their co-worker to get one sick day. WTF!!??? How the hell do they justify that?

[keep_left]

21. How do they justify taking two sick days from you for one donated sick day? Easy...

...they want to fuck you over (and anyone else like you) in order to undermine any possible worker solidarity. That's just pure mean-spirited abusive "small business tyrant" shit. I've never seen a work policy like this on the job myself, but anyone who has such a policy is just asking for it.

[Diamond_Dog]

17. Yes my hubby did that too when he was still teaching

Must be a common practice for schools around the country. Any way they can stick it to the school teachers, they will.

[BlackSkimmer]

30. I did that too.

I remember those days.

[Aristus]

10. Jesus. No wonder these assholes live in terror of a labor deficit.

The idea that an employee will respond to these nutbag regulations with "Take this job and shove it!" must keep them up at nights (you know, on their time off...)

[MissMillie]

12. So, my question is....

how do we make this stuff part of EVERY election cycle?

[ruet]

11. Heh, I Was Going to Post That This Looks Like It Was Ripped From The Pages of...

r/antiwork and r/mildlyinfuriating and it was. Those two Subreddits are like comfort food with friends at a port in the storm.

[OMGWTF]

14. So fking happy to be retired!

[txwhitedove]

22. Agree, me too. At 72 I've become a Disney princess feeding and talking to my

squirrels, Biggee, his Mrs and neighbors, birds, hummingbirds, one pigeon. They are all out this morning twittering after the rain. Lol 🐦

[calimary]

44. I hear ya!

[Old Crank]

18. Worked for a government entity

That had a policy where you could donate sick days. You didn't get paid for not taking them when you left or retired. The point being they wanted you to use those days and not come to work if you were a plague rat.
When I left I donated about 5 weeks of sick time into the pool for others. Used mostly by cancer people.

[malthaussen]

19. #16 advises women to "hold back their periods."

Gracious, girls, you mean you aren't already doing that?

-- Mal

[treestar]

46. yeah, what kind of ignorance is that?

Had to be a male, who was never taught about it?

[kairos12]

20. From "Animal Farm," we should all learn from

Boxer.

Work till you drop. Then, off to the glue factory.

NO THANKS.

[onethatcares]

23. I think that I'm too old

to even put up with filling out applications these days.

[Chainfire]

24. Early in my career, I was working for a real skinflint.

I was working in a position for 30% under what every other employer in town was paying for the same work. I finally sat down with the boss and told him I needed a raise, or I would have to find a new job. He was very understanding and said I would see something extra on my paycheck on Friday. On Friday, I got my check, did a little calculating and determined that the had given me a 5 cent per hour raise. I dug two dollar bills out of my billfold, went back inside and laid them on his desk, telling him that he must need it more than I did and that I quit. I was told by another employee that the boss said, "He will be back." It has been 50 years, I wonder if he is still waiting?

[wryter2000]

25. "Reverse financed internship"

Good Lord!

[Shipwack]

32. I've actually heard of those before...

Especially with finance and investment firms. It's a trick they use to ensure that only the "right kind of people" even apply. People that can count on rich parents to support them while they learn the ways of the business world.

[niyad]

37. I just recently learned of the practice of "working interviews", which I found as

abhorent as the practice of "unpaid training", which I encountered many years ago. I had just been hired by a company, and the manager informed me that thebtwo-week training period was unpaid. I reminded him that slavery had been outlawed, and that I would not work for such an unethical company, and left. The internet did not exist in those days, but I saw to it that the information was spread widely.

[Celerity]

42. it is fake news

https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/whats-viral/new-york-based-company-makes-interns-pay-under-reverse-internship-position-read-details.html

[wryter2000]

50. Thanks

Unpaid internships are still a problem because they're not available to people who have to earn money to live. This is especially true in places like Manhattan. Even low paid internships have kept lower income people out of publishing, which results in mostly white editors.

[TeamProg]

26. Hilarious.. But Sad. nt

[flying_wahini]

28. Somehow I think the Employers aren't going to change unless they have to.

We need a NATIONAL STRIKE. 3 days minimum and watch the pay raises happen. Why aren’t Americans doing this? All we have to do is stick together.

[Solly Mack]

34. Damn

[liberal N proud]

38. When you coworker refuses to share vital information

But you get humiliated in front of a group for it, I sure don’t want to work anymore.

[IronLionZion]

40. Nobody wants to work anymore can switch to they're stealing our jobs

real quick. It's happening as we see more layoffs and downsizing. I've been stealing jobs my whole life. I'll steal jobs from DUers if I have to.

[Mr.Bill]

41. Since '71 I worked for a number of

printing companies that were family owned with about a dozen employees. With the exception of one shop who had a profit sharing program, I never worked for any shop where the owner admitted to making any profit. I had one owner in the 90s who would rant every day how he was losing money. I finally told him one day why don't we all turn out the lights, lock the doors and go home so he can stop losing all this money. That shut him up.

[ShazzieB]

43. Some of these are jokes, as has been pointed out.

No.16 I can believe, as I know for a fact that there are cis men who think women can hold their periods in the way people can control their urine (and therefore women shouldn't have to make extra trips to the bathroom when menstruating).

I will never underestimate how uninformed people born with XY chromosomes can be about these matters. Google "mansplaining periods" and you'll see what I mean.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

51. Had that happen to me

I was having menorraghia--excessive flow. It was so bad that I was passing out from the blood loss, and even started getting chest pains because I had so little blood left in me. My doctor started a treatment plan, but, at best it would take a while to work and b) it might not work at all to fix the problem without a hysterectomy. I didn't want to deal with a surgery, if I could avoid it. So we set up the paperwork to insure that I would be able to take off work on the worst days while pursuing the more conservative treatment. And I needed them. Oh, how I needed them.

When the supervisor said, "I don't get how a period can cause so much trouble. I think you're making all this up."

I told my gynecologist about the harassment when I was at my next visit, and she said, "Want me to talk to that wanker?" I thought it best to ask the union first if that would be a good idea. Union rep says, "Oh please, please have her call him, and let me be there to hear it." So the GYN rings the sexist pig a couple of days later to "explain" things to him, with the union rep and me there to listen to the exchange on speakerphone. The best part was how the GYN tore into that idiot supervisor for having zero medical certification, so maybe he needed to refrain from questioning her professional diagnoses and treatments that he knew F F'n all about (her words, not mine). When he got that certification, then he could confer with her about how to do her job, but not before that. So piss off, and leave my patient alone.

Never got a peep of protest about calling in after that.

[Pacifist Patriot]

45. Some of those are mindblowing. #14 is an old joke. I remember...

seeing that one on a bulletin board at an army base I worked at in 1987 and faxed around when I worked at AAA in 1993.

[Emile]

47. When my employer asked why I was retiring, I said

my days of being a wage slave have come to an end.

[malaise]

48. Unbelievable

They want slavery

[Javaman]

49. the business model for capitalism is completely wrong and outdated...

one of the basic concepts of opening a business is figuring out a way to pay your employees the least as to cut overhead.

if one can not pay a living wage as part of your business model, you should not be in business.

this is the basic failure.

more over, you should not expand your business if you try to continue to not pay a living wage.

the days of "part time jobs" for high school teens is long over.

family's and single parents rely on these jobs for supporting a family.

I consider the era we live in the "disgraceful era".