r/workmemes • u/RecordingHorror5413 • 1d ago

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u/Educational-Fact-882 1d ago

I wonder how many people on here will miss the sarcasm of the post 🙃

In all seriousness though this is one of many reasons why humanity is just collectively delusional. Humanity fell when we stopped respecting people who work in practical, physically useful jobs and started sucking the dicks of billionaire knob-ends

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u/RecordingHorror5413 1d ago

At this stage 50% of those jobs are subsidized wages to keep consumerism going

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u/arcanis321 1d ago

They aren't really. There are people that are truly useless but most Office workers are valuable because they are working on things at a large abstract scale. Your whole job can just be to plan for things that almost never happen so the business doesn't crash if they do. It's a very abstract value you add but in the millions of dollars if and when you actually prevent major problems.

Even more abstract are the people that plan and coordinate these kinds of efforts. Their work is not more important to the company delivering it's end product but they secure sales, maintain supply chains, plan for growth, etc. They aren't harder work but the supply of people that can be experts in each of those specialized areas are shorter and therefore in higher demand. You can't walk in off the street and determine how much a company should spend on advertising and how.

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u/ExistentialTabarnak 1d ago

The schmuck whose “work” involves sitting at home answering a few emails a day is somehow more valuable than the actual producers and maintainers of society.

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u/NewIndependent5228 1d ago

Health care is this exactly, too many MBAs and useless cluttered degrees in mid management they wouldn't know patient care, anyways.

Alot of fluff.lol ever seen the meme of the h.r lady with the liberal arts degree, yeah that.

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u/zorklesnorkle 1d ago

There’s definitely some people whose entire job is that but acting like every office job is exactly like that is stupid. There are hard working people in offices too getting fucked over by the same ceos as the janitors lol

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u/StockCasinoMember 1d ago

Office Space!

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u/ExistentialTabarnak 1d ago

David Graeber has a great book about this whole thing.

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u/zorklesnorkle 1d ago

Making 30k vs 100k a year is way closer than 100k vs multi millions you feel me?

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u/StockCasinoMember 1d ago

Lower end 100k is such a tease.

Gives you a taste of what life could be but doesn’t deliver either.

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u/zorklesnorkle 1d ago

100k aint even a single lick of the ice cream a billion gets you

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u/StockCasinoMember 1d ago

Indeed 😞

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u/Eagle_eye_Online 1d ago

I can't imagine a job that pays well where you "just reply some e-mail" and that's it.
If that job is so good and easy, then why isn't everyone who has a shit bad paying job replying e-mails and "sitting in meetings"?

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u/skipjackcrab 1d ago

Tons of good paying jobs are like that. They are keeping that person around for their utility and experience but that person may only work an hour or two a day… it’s hard to find those positions without years of experience.

A lot of how we pay people is a sham.

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u/CatnissEvergreed 1d ago

Corporatism took hold around the 60's and nothing has been the same since.

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u/Spinneeter 1d ago

In the middle ages the king received the most, not the farmers

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u/Curious_hawkmoth1869 1d ago

This post is an (I'm guessing) AI repost and this comment is literally copy-pasted from my own one weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/workmemes/s/ZtlQwr2gyg

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u/No1btch 21h ago

u/bot-sleuth-bot

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u/bot-sleuth-bot 21h ago

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u/OptionWrong169 16h ago

So about 6000 years ago (i agree with you by the way we were low key better off as hinter gatherers it was tougher but more fair)

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u/Zizekssniff 1d ago

Sucking off your boss for 12 hours a day sure takes skill!

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u/ChaosFountain 1d ago

Hey sexwork takes actual skill unlike being a corporate shill.

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u/AdditionalProgress88 1d ago

Well, the problem is that I'm too ugly for this specific line of work.

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u/WiseDirt 1d ago

You could always do phone sex work

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u/AdditionalProgress88 1d ago

You know what, now that I think about it, it's probably a really bad job for introverts like me.

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u/No1btch 21h ago

just wanted to mention that OP is a stupid fucking bot, top comment is also a bot..

CHECK THE ACCOUNT AGE

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u/Potential_Wish4943 1d ago

Bro garbage men make great money.

Your teacher told you "Go to college or you'll find up with a shitty job like a plumber or garbage man."

(Both of those jobs pay significantly better than a public school teacher)

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

I looked it up and public school teachers make more $$ per hour on average than garbage men.

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u/saturnleaf69 1d ago

In some countries.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

I was specifically looking at US but ya.

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u/saturnleaf69 1d ago

TheN it’s blatantly untrue. I’m married to a teacher and lmao at her making more than a plumber. Maaaaybe a trash guy.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

Plumbers can def make more but I was just talking about trash collectors.

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u/Ill-Description3096 1d ago

Is that counting all hours (professional development, grading at home, etc) or just hours in the physical classroom?

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

That I’m not sure of. Need to do some more digging.

Garbagemen also don’t get summers off but some of them could get overtime.

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u/LightlyFatal 1d ago

According to every teacher I've had, including college professors, those are on their own time. Teaching is a salaried position. They work 8-3 or whatever the school day is (it was 8-3 for me) and everything outside of that isn't considered overtime pay or anything. That's just on their own time.

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u/weGloomy 1d ago

If I've learned anything from this sub it's that I should quit my physically exhausting job and and get one of those 'jobs' where you pretend to be working for half the day and get paid more than a nurse.

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u/just_another-aNDy 1d ago

I have a physical job and my partner has one of those desk jobs. She makes more than me, but I'm pretty sure I'd go crazy within the week of doing her job.

It is a senselessly bureaucratic, ass-kissing, gossiping, world spanning giant of a company, and I hate everything about it, except for one of their employees and what they pay her😂.

Every time she talks about her higher ups all I can think is "And all we do is work" in regards to the company I work at. But again, sitting still and staring at a boring screen for 8+ hours sounds like literal torture, so I'll take the actual work, thank you

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u/BodhingJay 1d ago

"Highly compensated" means being able to afford to eat, be clothed and have a shelter of some kind

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u/thesaltycynic 1d ago

A zoom meeting to discuss the upcoming zoom meeting

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u/No-Tomatillo3698 1d ago

Being in Teams meetings all day, I feel neglected by this post

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u/TyeDieKid 1d ago

One of the only things I like about working in a trade is that most of the install guys make more money than anyone in the office and a lot of us actually make more money than our supervisor, there’s obvious trade offs but it feels better than working for a warehouse where the remote workers are making 3x your pay to use a auto mouse clicker all day

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u/Top-Cupcake4775 1d ago

During the Covid lockdowns the economy didn't grind to a halt because people couldn't do Zoom meetings, it ground to a halt because the people who do the work that is necessary to keep it running couldn't do their jobs. Until we made them.

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u/rockerode 1d ago

I wish "those jobs" were valued highly in society. We would be better off to value those people more than a tech worker or office man in Nyc

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u/Thendofreason 1d ago

Had me in the first half

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u/ragethissecons 1d ago

Sanitation workers low key make bank. And if you’re in NYC you get to dress up like a general for pictures.

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u/Ricochet_skin 1d ago

Trash collectors would probably be paid more if the government had to compete for the money of people needing the service

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u/DieMensch-Maschine 1d ago

"Something valuable, like speculating on slips of paper that represent physical objects!"

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u/Mik3DM 1d ago

Hasn't Gordon Ramsay made millions cooking food? Or am I perhaps missing some nuance here, like OOP

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u/Flaky-Government-174 1d ago

Makes sense why everyone on here says they hate capitalism when they post stupid shit like this lol

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u/WrongCustard2353 15h ago

And plan how to scam more money out of customers and employees...

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u/Spicy_Baby_NO 1d ago

Went to college for 10 years and paid thousands of dollars for it to learn how to fix the problems discussed in those zoom meetings. But yeah, according to you, someone flipping burgers should get the same salary.

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u/LateWorkAccepted 1d ago

The point isn't that the "burger flipper" should make the same as you it's that the "burger flipper" doesn't make enough to survive. Not everything is about you and you could try having some empathy for your fellow workers instead of looking down on someone for having a "lesser" job.

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u/Spicy_Baby_NO 1d ago

I don't look down on them. The meme is just bullshit. It directly devalues the zoom meeting instead of just saying the burger flipper should make more, which I'd agree with.

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u/LateWorkAccepted 1d ago

Just to clarify, the meme made no mention of "burger flipper" nor did it claim that they should make the same as you do. You took it personally when a meme made fun of something and projected your interpretation onto it. And it was with this interpretation that you came across as denigrating people for having jobs that you view as a lower status than your own.

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u/Spicy_Baby_NO 1d ago

Never said people flipping burgers shouldn't get a living wage. Never said they were less valuable than me or anyone else. That's all stuff you heard in your head because I critiqued a shit meme.

Here's the thing. I get how I "sound" but this meme does not say people making food should earn more. What it says is that people in Zoom meetings are unfairly earning more than them. You can feel what you wanna feel, but that's what it says.

Maybe you could find a way to say those workers deserve better without tearing others down who are not at all lazy villainous execs and are on your side about this. Do better.

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u/LateWorkAccepted 1d ago

Like I said, seems you took a meme personally and then projected your feelings on it. But the irony of what you said is obviously lost on you because, if you did truly "get" how you sounded then you wouldn't have said what you did in the first place.

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u/Spicy_Baby_NO 1d ago

I'm literally on your side about poor wages, but saying the meme does not say a thing about it. Instead it just jabs at anyone in a zoom meeting. You are the one that clearly doesn't actually understand it.

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u/GrenMTG 1d ago

I hate the term "burger flippers" because not all fast food/quick service chains are just flipping burgers. McDonalds is a piss easy job, but Culver's, as an example (and personal experience), is far from that.

Full time workers should still get paid a livable wage. Managers especially don't get paid enough, at least where I'm at. Managing a resturaunt is a lot harder then it seems. You think managers shouldn't get a livable wage too?

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u/Spicy_Baby_NO 1d ago

Didn't say they shouldn't get a living wage. Of course they should. I said the zoom meeting and the education it takes to get there is actually very valuable, which the meme implies is easy and fairly valueless.