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OT: American Politics

LeafGm said:
Almost always a statement made by business owners offering up crappy working conditions and/or paying out less than a living wage.

Either that or something said by workaholics that are utterly incapable of understanding others wanting a work/life balance or not wanting to make their job the #1 priority & focus of their lives.
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My favourite was the guy from 1999....everyone just wants to sit in front of a computer screen and make a lot of money instead of doing labour.

Well...fuck...yeah.

The overall message is that the ownership class always thinks the working class is lazy whenever they want to earn a comfortable living for making the owner richer.
 
LeafGm said:
Almost always a statement made by business owners offering up crappy working conditions and/or paying out less than a living wage.

Either that or something said by workaholics that are utterly incapable of understanding others wanting a work/life balance or not wanting to make their job the #1 priority & focus of their lives.
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I've always witnessed an intense, almost impressive, laziness in lawyers and other people out there. Of all the lawyers I've ever dealt with there might be maybe...three to five people I'd hire for something if I needed a lawyer? The rest, all trash in one form or another. In dealing with executives at companies and their assistants or other personnel, very similar. There's a handful of hustlers and type A workers in every batch of 100, and the rest want to just loaf, or don't really take any pride in the results of their work, don't care about their name or reputation, care only about money and not the effort to position oneself to make money. So, I've always seen this shit and lamented over it (especially when I had to supervise numbskulls at my old firm).

But this new trend of anti-work sentiment is different. It's not just a refusal to pay a living wage, it's some sort of unwillingness or ambivalence towards having work and getting paid. I see it with repair guys most severely and most frequently - some of these guys work for themselves, but they will flake on jobs, give you a quote and then disappear, be done at 5 pm and not willing to do a "late" call. I marvel at the carefree attitude and wonder what they're doing to get by, given all the rising costs, and wish someone would share the secret.
 
They've found job that is less "hassle", or they've found a customer willing to pay in cash is my guess, and they only work enough to provide the lifestyle they are looking for.
 
BG said:
They've found job that is less "hassle", or they've found a customer willing to pay in cash is my guess, and they only work enough to provide the lifestyle they are looking for.
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That’s all I’m willing to work. And I refuse to work for any other business owner. Enough people have earned plenty in my sweat. I have more than enough clients. Anyone who wants after hours service and is unwilling to pay double? They can find someone else.
 
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