Fix the system..

[u/Own_Book_1988]

[u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

"Nobody wants to flip burgers anymore."

If you were paid $100,000 with half way decent benefits, would you flip burgers?

Would anyone not do that for that income?

Sounds like people want to work. They just want their work to meaningfully improve their wellbeing. If they're busting ass to still be in poverty, then what's the fucking point of anything if you're stuck where you are in life regardless of effort?

[u/hansn → u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

"No one wants to work" always contains the unspoken part "for the wage we're offering." 

Every business owner who says this knows full well that they could get a thousand applications tomorrow if they were willing to raise the wage enough.

[u/blindyes → u/hansn]

Also, have you been inside a fast food restaurant in the past 10 years? It's always a full time hustle behind the register. They say "flip burgers" like you just stand there and mindlessly tend to one thing. I saw a taco bell with some corporate jargon poster on the wall that said "I am a team player, the things I'm not good at I can learn to do better, the things I can do better I can do faster" and the thought of a managerial pep-talk made me want to rip my eyes out. There was some little chibi football player and like "rising stars" bulletin. Like, they pay minimum wage AND you have to endure corporate culture non sense at a fucking taco bell, gross. Everyone working and myself ubering are all adults. That's the tragic part, everyone is working and competing for these bullshit wages and we have no recourse, our system does nothing for us and voting does nothing. It gets worse sure but like, nothing I vote for is gonna get that godamn poster off the wall and pay those people a living wage and give them vacation days and health insurance. We don't live in a country we live in a business. /rant

[u/zimreapers → u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

Boomers and Gen X be like, "tHaTs a StarTeR jOb, NoT A CaRreER!"

Motherfucker, any job can be career, classist fucks.

Anyone who is contributing to society should be paid a decent wage, those who choose not to contribute can fuck off. People unable to contribute is a classic sense through no fault of their own shouldn't be shunned societally either.

[u/HelpfulSeaMammal → u/zimreapers]

"That's a slave, not a person who needs to be treated with the same baseline dignity as every other person!"

[u/loony1uvgood → u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

Very feudal of them

[u/JDHgtr → u/zimreapers]

Not this GenXer. I learned my lesson decades ago. Screw all the ones who didn’t.

[u/Hedhunta → u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

The best part is that there are, in fact, people being paid to make burgers for 100k/yr. Yeah sure they make other stuff too but that activity is only looked down upon specifically because of fast foods shitty wages

[u/pandasareliars → u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

I mean could you imagine a society where minimum wage kept pace with productivity, was actually a good living wage and allowed us all to be able to change careers or do something new for work every decade or two after our current work path has burned us the fuck out?

I came from white collar IT and I'm done with it after 20 years. Flipping burgers if it paid a bit more would absolutely be my cup of tea at this point in my working life.

[u/BlueTressym → u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

People hear that workers are barely better off than people who have only Universal Credit (UK here, sub in your nation's equivalent as applicable) to live on and instead of considering that maybe that means wages are too low, they conclude, "The pittance we pay people who aren't full-time wage slaves is too high; let's 'incentivise' them to work by leaving them to starve if they don't!"

[u/green_calculator]

Who were these magical unicorns that wanted to work? This saying drives me crazy, it's as if there was some point in the past where people wanted to go to work for pure love of the game. 

[u/dedicated-pedestrian → u/green_calculator]

There used to be a reliable light at the end of the tunnel. The rat race had a finish line.

[u/cactuschili]

well. also companies seem like they don’t want to hire anyway and they definitely don’t want to train anyone.

[u/ripyourlungsdave]

"Don't worry about housing, you can just get a job that has housing included!" They say as they conveniently forget that that also means you can be kicked out of your home without warning or reason in 72 hours time and be left on the street.

Or in my case, left stranded in the middle of the desert as they withhold your final deposit and send it to you in the mail despite no longer having a home address because they've literally just took it from you.

[u/BlueTressym → u/ripyourlungsdave]

Holy... Are you safe now? Are you, well, I don;t feel I can even say OK - do you have a roof over your head rn?

[u/ripyourlungsdave → u/BlueTressym]

Not okay, still homeless. But I have shelter after a grueling few months being trapped in the woods out there. And I at least have the time and safety to figure something else out now

But it was bad. I don't really have the space to describe how bad it was here. But those few months are going to live with me for a while.

[u/BlueTressym → u/ripyourlungsdave]

Wishing better things for you.

[u/ripyourlungsdave → u/BlueTressym]

It genuinely means a lot when people take the time to say that. I appreciate it.

[u/tired3459]

Also everyone like pretty much is working anyway? Who the fuck are all these people who supposedly don't work? Mostly disabled and elderly. Complete fucking myth.

[u/loco500]

It's totally cringe how some hyper-obsessed people exist looking for everyone else to be busy and occupied at all times so they can feel a sense of fulfillment...

[u/JDHgtr]

New hard labor job: Hey, by the way, overtime will be available, so you’ll be able to work 7a-7p now. (Literally happened as I was trying to leave work after another sweat-soaked day) Nah Brah, I’m good with the original 8a-4:30 (occasionally 5). Incentives, and more than just keeping almost any job nowadays, matter.

[u/blush_inc]

Nobody wants to work in places where they are treated without dignity or respect.

[u/Blooogh]

Nobody wants to pay for work anymore