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      Or she’s paid for her skills/experience/contacts, and he anon doesn’t have any of those.

      edit: She probably makes lots of money for her employer in those 1 or 2 conversations per day

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        We don’t know who those customers are. If she’s meeting with Google and Microsoft, or Walmart and Safeway, then “one or two customers” is huge.

        Also, we are seeing an easy day for her. Many people are hired for when the shit hits the fan. If there’s a huge recall that jeopardizes all the business with Walmart and Safeway, or some similar issue that affects Google and Microsoft, you better believe she’s doing more than 2 hours of work. That’s probably what she’s waiting for.

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        That’s a lot of assumptions. I think it’s equally probable that in this insane reality we live in, she doesn’t actually do shit and is basically paid so that her salary won’t get cut from her department’s annual budget.

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    Remember:

    If you saw someone living a decent life while “working” a bullshit job, no you didn’t!

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      Yes you did, now go and demand a better working environment for the sake of “competitive pay”

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      Yeah no. If I’m starving working 50 hours/week I’m gonna be pretty fuckin pissed seeing someone do fuck all for more.

      I’m not saying I’m gonna take it out on them but if they ever complain about work I’ll eviscerate them.

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          And this isn’t always possible. In fact it commonly isn’t. I do agree the people who don’t do anything and complain is stupid but many jobs don’t have any opportunity for more and you become stuck.

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            Then find something else, expand your skill.

            If everyone did that, those jobs would have to change or nobody would do them.

            Live your life for yourself, not for others.

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              So… teachers should all just quit and become finance bros or programmers. Because fuck the youth amiright?

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                  Or, perhaps it would be the system working exactly as intended. Depends on how you look at it.

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                  The market for teachers has been fucked for a WHILE in most places and it still hasn’t changed enough, in the US

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                  There is a teacher shortage right now. The supposed pressure to improve things comes from where again? Who is going to be on a megaphone, chanting about poorly educated youth? Who gives a shit about illiterate, poor, people, except the manipulative assholes who get rich taking advantage of them?

                  Personally I believe the state wants poorly educated citizens They spend lots of money on stupid shit. They take pride in working several low paying jobs, poor Healthcare, poor infrastructure. Basically, poor, uneducated people are perfect slaves. Why do you think it was illegal to teach slaves to read?

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              Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, eh?

              Ok boomer

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          It’s kind of a crab bucket mentality. Virtually anyone any of us have ever seen, who had “jobs” of some sort, were working class, and not mill/billionaire class. We all have more in common with each other than with the one percent, and if someone I know has figured out a way to claw a little bit back, then more power to them so long as they’re not hurting someone. Oh, boo fucking hoo, they figured out a way to scam a livable wage out of a Fortune 500 company! I say, good for them! We should all be so lucky.

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        Instead of getting mad at a fellow worker for having a job that doesn’t exploit them, why don’t you get mad at the people who actually exploit you?

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    She’s possibly a manager of some kind, I have seen plenty of managers that have days that are kinda like this, though less extreme

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          Ask the bosses that. Would you rather we all suffer? Or would you rather we make it so the people breaking their backs no longer need to?

          Trying to drag down the people who are slightly comfortable seems counter productive.

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              Where did I say your comfort doesn’t matter? You’re the one making this a zero sum discussion.

              I’m also not okay with your back pain. That fucking sucks and anyone that’s getting disabled by their job should be given the time and money to recover. But we’d need stronger unions to enforce that.

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    The ironic part is that the only changes are her lack of commute times and where she clocks in. Oh, and that he now knows the insides details of what she does. He should be grateful that she’s earning a paycheck and quit whining (assuming it’s even a true story). Most people can’t even afford an apartment without 2 incomes.

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    Yeah I bet it’s really annoying for your wife to contribute to her your shared income with her hustling skills gtfo. This is either fake or they’re both professional workers doing so well the man-child has to whine about how much money she they make.

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      I am an elementary school teacher. I took a personal day and I was hanging with my friend. She works virtually for an NGO. She replied to a few emails, updated some data in a spreadsheet, she called a few people. That was all she did. I made some snide remarks about it and she was like ‘oh I’m sure your job is so much harder.’

      The sheer audacity. I do all that shit she does, in 20 minutes before class starts, while I am slamming coffee and doughnuts. Then I do exhausting work all day.

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        If every worker wants other’s to have it as bad as them we’d all be slaves, blame the employers and economic conditions rather than the worker who has it better than you. Really if your job is stressful and more work you should want better conditions for yourself, not worse conditions for someone else. She has knowledge that professional employers think is worth paying for, that’s not something you should blame her for.

        IMO I think for teachers and nurses, they should be way better compensated, and even treated as a special class.

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          While I agree, and I am a part of my teachers union, I also don’t see any evidence that teachers will suddenly become respected and well paid. Like, Suddenly we all realized that we should feel grateful that we can read. Nope.

          My NGO, WFH friend thinks she is working hard. The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.

          Their goal is to help save fisheries and wild fish stock. In reality she doesn’t even know what salmon looks like unless it’s on a bagel.

          You think these billionaires are just a billion times more hard working? They are just manipulative, insular, myopic, and selfish. Those are the key ingredients to success in our system. Surprise surprise, they are the opposite characteristics that a good teacher requires.

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            The reality is, in our current system, the harder one works the less one is going to make. For her she has a stable position in the NGO.

            That’s not her fault though so resenting people for who have these roles is indirectly resenting your own ability to achieve what they have. Billionaire employers are a different story because they’re billionaires by virtue of those they employ. Overall the wealth gap between employers vs people like you and your friend who have to work everyday, regardless of what that entails, is wider than it’s ever been. The problem isn’t really that someone has a cushy job it’s that those billionaires who do nothing are taxed lower than they’ve ever been and have your money, you’re educating their future employees and they’re not paying you/us a fair wage for that service they benefit from.

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        Fellow teacher here. Wow thats crazy and you totally got it right.

        Meanwhile I doubt her clients argue with her about stuff.

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          Hey teacher! Actually I wanna ask you a question. I’m trying to find teacher spaces to replace reddit. Any luck with teaching stuff here?

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            I haven’t seen anything yet. I still actually browse /r/teachers because of that same issue. Hopefully something gains traction, though!

    • I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages. Does data entry in the field of sex work qualify as being a sex worker or are you merely a sex industry ghost writer?

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        I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages.

        I think most public figures with large social media accounts do. It’s not really possible for a single person to answer messages for someone with millions or even thousands of followers, but the appearance of personal connection is important to build your brand. All of it boils down to the commoditization of the fear of loneliness.

        It’s very unhealthy.

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        I wouldn’t call it “data entry”. They do provide the actual sexual service to the customer - even if they are lying about who they are. I mean, it’s not like the actual model isn’t lying…

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      Just because she’s a woman?

      Plenty of jobs are like this. It’s half the reason corporations are able to go on massive firing sprees every other year: because the second they bother to look they find people like’s OP’s wife

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    This was my job until this week. Got onto a new team with a great manager. Now I actually have to work, but I’ll get to enjoy what I do again.