who describes herself as the “anti-work girlboss” 💪
Link because I’m not a
meanwhile there’s a lot of work that needs doing that is not being done. maybe people wouldn’t be so “anti-work” if their work meaningfully contributed to society and afforded them a decent standard of living
Who are these journalists who feel like they can make these sorts of scrutinizing judgments on people?
There’s only like a handful of professions(nurse, doctor, civil engineers and construction workers, sanitation and transportation workers, etc) who are vital and probably closer to 100% nonbusy work.
News flash you hack: people have been ‘task masking’ since the beginning of time especially in a capitalist society wherein increasing profits must be manufactured out of thin air, and your job is most likely complete bullshit
Working a trade fucking rules and you get to build something and see it in front of you and hone your skills and knowledge personally outside of capital W Work. I wouldn’t trade it for any other job.
Yeah this is pretty on the nose. A lot of jobs even if they aren’t outright bullshit also are downtime heavy and you may just be needed around in case you’re needed suddenly within a few minutes but you’re expected to be productive 100% of the time even when your core function isn’t really necessary.
I worked at a chain pizza restaurant and we had a computer screen above us that tracked the stores profitability. If we weren’t on track to reach $10k for the day my manager would start sending people home to make up for it.
So a total of ~15 employees could rake in a profit of $10k in the first place but everyone was making $7.25 an hour.
Not much to add except corroborating that experience at a chain pizza place lol. We regularly were told to send our third person home because labor was “too high” one hour before the lunch rush.
Except I was a shift manager so I made $7.50 though
These mfs come up with a corporate buzzword every other day.
I’m old as fuck so consider me a trendsetter. Now you’ll have to excuse me, I have to “review some documents”*.
.* listen to Oingo Boingo demos from 79-81 on the company’s dime.
I worked the bullshittiest of bullshit office jobs in the past where I had about 90 minutes of work a day, but “optics” were very important there so I had to appear busy and engaged all day. That was a decade ago.
makes up new term for old thing
“Is this new?”taskmaskingmaxxing
“Looking busy” has always been a thing that everyone does
Task masking this quiet quitting that. Yet no articles on wage theft being stolen from Gen Z
everybody blasting off about inflation but the only thing I see inflating is capitalist greed?
Yeah the bourgeoisie aren’t going to write articles on how shit they are. It’d be against the point
What, a worker just pretending to be busy?! What will the duplicitous generation Z think of next?
I thought this was always a thing
I remember a guy 20 years ago that really only had stuff to do for a few hours in the morning and then would walk around with a clipboard for the rest of the day as he wandered the store bullshitting with other employees, was a real inspiration.
It’s like half the punchlines in the Dilbert comic, so I have no idea why they pretend this is new. I think it was also used as a joke in Seinfeld.
It is but Gen-Z is making videos about it on TikTok and not ashamed of it so a smarmy article must be written. In fact, I would bet this author does this frequently.
Lol like any of us were ashamed of it before TikTok
I swear to God it’s like they have never interacted with a peer in the workplace. Ever.
I mean… A lot of people don’t really from what I’ve seen.
This article is evidence of them looking busy.
I wonder what employers would complain about if all their workers were perfect productivity robots?
Either that we don’t work enough hours or that we take breaks to eat/drink/piss/shit
What was that article posted a couple days ago about the wework in China that has fake tasks? Lol
