https://twitter.com/doughenwood/status/1538871573309947904?s=21&t=UoaELKy_sI3FQ_YDERbs2A
https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544
My favorite
https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527771092639744
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Fucking āwork familyā
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I would snap take any opportunity I had a 75% chance to be happy about a year later. Right now I donāt have anything on offer >5%. Golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
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Itās actually very natural for your brain to screw this up, people tend to form family-like bonds with people that they spend a lot of time with. This is a disaster in the workplace, of course because itās a hook that psychopaths in the workplace use to manipulate people.
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The closeness is totally an illusion, too. Outside of my first job as a teenager, Iāve kept in touch with exactly zero people I worked with after they or I left, even the ones I genuinely liked and had things in common with and lived close enough to spend time with if I wanted to.
Basically as soon as Iām faced with the prospect of maybe calling them to do something, I realize that without work to talk about, weād hit an impasse after like a minute of pleasantries and have nothing to say.
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I still socialize with some of my friends from my very first job out of university (20 years ago) but that involves meeting up for drinks maybe 2 or 3 times per year. Itās not like weāre still super close.
Yeah my very first job was different because we were all young and single and went out after work constantly and became real friends, it was almost like an extension of school or something.
Once you get into jobs with a wider age range and a significant number of people settled down, forget it. Iāve learned that most people (myself included) are basically like Stanley from The OfficeāI will only like you to the extent that you donāt actively make my job harder to do, or cut in front of me in line on free pretzel day. Otherwise leave me alone.
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Yeah it was very much this. In my first job I worked late probably 2-3 times every week and there was always other people around, it was actually quite a bit of fun because we were all in our 20s and weād work late, eat dinner together, and half the time at 9 or 10 go the bar and have a couple of beers.
Iāve definitely noticed this in offices.
It was particularly weird when my then girlfriend, now wife was being recruited to consulting firms out of her MBA program. The vibe the office was very much going for was āYou guys will all be each othersā best friends and only support systemā meanwhile everybody was likeā¦ Uhh Iām 32, married, and have been living here for 8 years. Iāve already got friends and donāt really want to spend my non-work time with the people Iām already forced to spend 70 hours a week being around.
R/antiwork is a good read while āworkingā
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Jfc at having a term for āleaving your job on time and not working until the wee hours/on the weekend.ā
How about calling it āDoing the job youāre paid for and not giving away a bunch of your labor for free.ā
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I was up for giving it a real go.ā She continued to take phone calls at weekends, on holiday, at 10.30pm at night, turning up early and leaving late to keep up with colleagues.
No thanks
That article is right about the meaninglessness of modern work. So many people do weirdly abstract tasks that are several degrees of separation away from impacting the actual life of a real person. During the 20+ years Iāve been in the workforce many companies have tried increasingly hard to sell the Purpose of the companyās work. I think that might have been a mistake because actually creating a sense of purpose for employees via these initiative was pretty rare. Much more commonly it just created a sense of corporate bullshit (āI know that you know that I know that you know that the Grand Purpose of this company is to channel money to shareholdersā) or to make people think a lot more about seeking purpose in life and realizing they arenāt going to find it in filling out TPS reports in a cubicle.
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Straight out of uni I worked briefly for capital one and they were always talking about the companies ethos of like fairness, equality and service or something. Weād have all employee āmeetingsā (lectures) about the companies values and all that nonsense. This was back when there was a bit more room for bullshit in the profit extraction sphere but even back then I was like Iām not sure how scamming poor people with 29.9% Apr credit cards to end up paying 3x retail for a TV they donāt need embodies the spirit of fairness but you do you I guess.
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I donāt even mind meetings like this. Those are basic concepts that actually mean something to someone. You probably do want your co workers to be following these basic ethical guidelines. āDonāt lie and at try to do a good jobā is good stuff.
What Iām talking about is the shooting rainbows out your ass PURPOSE stuff. Look at this nonsense:
āTo take care of the people, spaces and places that are important to you.ā
āWeāre dedicated to inspiring, protecting and restoring your dream.ā
āOur purpose revolves around our mission to enrich and nourish lives: We strive to create a better world by considering the companyās environmental, economic, social and ethical dimensions.ā
These are just pulled out the āAā section of the alphabetically ordered list. This stuff does not āinspireā employees. It tells them that senior management lives an alternate reality where bullshit is king.
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One of the reasons I like working in applied science/technology. When you work at a plant (or do the research to develop the process) itās easy to see a direct impact.
I have a business major son that is struggling a bit in his first year out of school with the exact concept of āwhat do I really do?ā
Reading through this thread, itās amazing how well Office Space has aged.
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