who describes herself as the “anti-work girlboss” 💪
“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
Yeah the bourgeoisie aren’t going to write articles on how shit they are. It’d be against the point
everybody blasting off about inflation but the only thing I see inflating is capitalist greed?
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.
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
makes up new term for old thing
“Is this new?”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
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
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.
These mfs come up with a corporate buzzword every other day.
What, a worker just pretending to be busy?! What will the duplicitous generation Z think of next?
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.
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I thought this was always a thing
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
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.
Link because I’m not a
What was that article posted a couple days ago about the wework in China that has fake tasks? Lol
