What was so bad about his job? He only had to do 15 minutes of actual work
>>221102096I think it was the micromanagement from 9 different bosses.
>>221102096His pay was shit, he literally wasn't making any more than if he worked construction
>>221102096Imagine having only fifteen minutes of actual work to take up your time and keep you occupied, meanwhile you need to sit there for seven to eight hours a day, five days a week and pretend like you're somehow busy because you've got half a dozen supervisors looking over your shoulder who are all chomping at the bit to come up and go>hey anon, bit quiet today is it?in a really passive-aggressive tone to imply you're slacking off if they see even the slightest hint that you're not hard at work.
>>221102131Same wages as construction but for 15 minutes of work. What's wrong with that?
>>221102096Nothing gives you a thrill quite like working a hard man's job.
>>221102096I think it was a movie and not CCTV footage of real life
>>221102096people weren't meant to sit in a fucking cubicle 40 hours/wk with fluorescent lighting and appease a bunch of smug faggots who are responsible for your performance review
>>221102195You are sitting at your desk right now but you aren't getting paid for it
>>221102195My father, God bless his soul, had some very sage advice for me when I was a youngling. He said, "son... if ever you don't like how your government's running things, you can either-">keep your head down and keep your mouth shut,>work the system and change it from within, or>change it from a rooftop.What I'm saying is this. He WANTED to be in that cubicle, working 40 hours per week, being managed by half-a-dozen other people. He wanted it because he's weak and WANTS to be governed hard.
>>221102195You weren't "meant" to do literally anything you do. All the stuff that makes your life nice, stable, and comfy is stuff we weren't doing for most of human existence.
>>221102096It's fucking boring. You think he got to play System Shock 2 or Doom? No, he had to sit there zoning out, staring at a wall. That shit will drive you mad
meanwhile, working construction your body is fucked before you even reach 40.
>>221102096I worked in a office for a couple years and the boreout from this shit will literally drive you insane and everyday you sit there counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until you are finally free to clock out.you know you are wasting your precious lifetime there doing nothing of actual value and I realized quick that its more like a daycare for adults.a lot of the work is pointless and has only been invented to keep you busy but you arent really all that busy anyway and whatever "work" you do is the most mind numbing most braincell culling shit imaginable.the only upside was that I had a sexy coworker and she had a really nice ass I could oogle. but thats about it.eventually I quit and became a NEET on welfare lol.
it's a mental exhaustion, not a physical one. unless you're simple, you think, and your brain is a bad place to be in, collating itself. it needs to be distracted, stimulated somehow away from being aware it is your spine and brain that make yourselfPeter wasn't challenged enough.
>>221102096his boss was the problem
>boomersOMG THE WAR I know it ended 100 years ago BUT DA WARRRR>gen X>I CAN'T HANDLE MY COMFORTABLE OFFICE JOB I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAANE>millennialsIs my life just a fucking game to these people?>gen ZHOLY SHIT EMPTY ROOMS I HAVE TO STAY IN I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAANE
>>221102486This. It's truly an agonizing experience. I work a stressful job with life and death consequences, and I'd rather deal with those knots in my stomach than the mind numbing torture of pretending to look busy while having zero mental stimulation. It would be different if you at least had your own private office or worked from home. Then you could watch videos, shit post, read, or play games to occupy your time.
>>221102096Pretending to be busy all day, on work that feels meaningless, whilst being micromanaged by multiple incompetent managers you do not respect, is soul crushing stuff.
>>221102290Your daddy was a bottom, simple as
>>221102151that is why the ending is so awful. it's like Good Will Hunting in reverse
>>221102660The ending originally illustrated how all jobs kinda suck because he had a micromanaging on the work site supervisor come over and ask them to work faster.They changed it because I guess the studio (or possibly test audiences) didn't like the implication that wage slaves were fucked regardless of what they were doing.
there are alternatives to labor, factory work, or sitting in an office surrounded by idiots.there are jobs where you work from home and make as much as you need or want, and make your own hours as long as the job gets done.there are jobs where you work at an office but it is shiftwork and there is only one person on duty at a time, and you don't have to deal with customers or anyone else except to say hello at shift change. I've been doing a job just like that for fifteen years and making enough to buy a house.
>>221102096You need to work a soulless office job with micromanagement to get it. I saw Office Space when I was a teenager and decided it looked awesome so I wanted a job just like it, and then realized about a year into the job just how crushing it actually is. I ended up stuck there for 4 more years until the company folded.
>>221102708You coulda been buying enough brick to make a house?
>>221102159Zest check?
>AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CAN AFFORD A 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT ON MY OWN, I LIVE IN A 95% WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND I ONLY HAVE TO WORK 15 MINUTES A DAY>IM GOING INSANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>221102774kek, yeah Gen X were like that
>>221102731If it was shitty why didn't you go work in retail or something?>I ended up stuck there for 4 yearsYou mean you kept it for 4 years because it was still better than your alternatives at the time.
>>221102805>You mean you kept it for 4 years because it was still better than your alternatives at the time.Pretty much. I also had good bros that I worked with which is what kept us all from losing our shit in that hellhole. There just wasn't anything else out there at the time, all of us were trying to get out and were applying to other places, but just couldn't get anything.
>>221102731>You need to work a soulless office job with micromanagement to get it.oh yeah? well now you have the exact same thing except more nagging women, jeets, chinks, living prices skyrocketed, AI taking your job, jobs more competitive than ever for lowest pay ever
>>221102851Correct. I was working this recently, not in the 90s, which is probably why it sucked so much worse than in the movie.
having a job where you have nothing to do but look busy fucking sucks. it might be different now with phones, audiobooks, podcasts etc but 15 years ago working any job like that was fucking mind numbing. i did IT briefly at a company that didn't really need me and it was like that for four months, i even got along great with my boss, there was largely just nothing to do. i ended up going and doing small construction for five years instead. i do know wfh changed the game for some with these useless jobs. i have two friends that have typically 30-60 minutes of work in a 8hr work day and spent the rest of it playing vidya or watching shows and movies.as others have said, it's just daycare for adults.
I worked in a shitty factory years ago and employees would be treated like garbage. Imagine turning up for your shift maybe riding a bus for an hour to be told there's no work and being sent home without pay because that's the contract. They were the lucky ones. I was offered a 'better' contract that guaranteed my shifts and pay, but there would still be times when there would be no work, and the supervisors would have to find you something to do because they had the owners to worry about. So maybe they would make you mop the floor in the whole place, whether it needed cleaning or not. So you spend two hours mopping the floor in the entire factory, and when you were done and reported back to your supervisor, they would tell you to do it again because they couldn't think of anything else. So you go back to get the mop and bucket to mop a factory floor that was squeaky clean because you had literally just mopped it. The boredom of doing mentally unstimulating tasks for hours on end is bad enough, but then on top with the knowledge of what you're doing is totally pointless anyway, but you have to agree to it because you're taking orders from scumbags and retards. That's the kind of shit they use to torture prisoners of war. One guard tells you to dig a hole, then when you're finished another guard comes along and says why is all that fucking dirt there, put it back. So you refill the hole. Then the other guard comes back and asks where's my fucking hole, and so on. You end up physically and mentally exhausted and the longer it goes on you will beg for death.
>>221102881It also depends on the job. A lot don't allow certain things in the office and obviously you'll get chewed out for doing non-work shit even if there's no work to do. I worked at an office that handled extremely sensitive documents so you weren't allowed phones, paper, books or anything that could possible be used to take notes of information. Literally nothing allowed with you at your desk except the work computer that had completely locked down access, so you couldn't even look at Wikipedia on it either.Some people would go absolutely insane since on a lot of days you might have an hours worth of work or sometimes absolutely none, so you just have to stare into space for 9 hours.
>>221102902I had a similar job and it was 12 hour days...paid well but I just couldn't do it.
i like my job and my boss, it's you fucks who come in and patronize the place, keeping me employed, that i hate.
>wagecucked 5 years in a factory>slept 5 hours a night>destroyed mind brain and soul>get laid off>go back to college at 32>gf dumps me for it>finish calc II and linear algebra with A in both>realize an associates degree is a joke>all the jobs around here pay barely 20 an hour>can't even afford rent with that>saved $80k, still can't afford even a small house>realize I'll never have kids>start banging Asian girl>lose all desire to go back to workIm 32 and have a job interview at another dogshit factory next week and I probably won't even go. Or I will, just to get out of the house, then unless they give me 28 bucks an hour to start I'll tell them to pound sand. I don't give a fucking shit anymore. I really don't know what to do in life. I NEED to start making 100k a year by the end of the year or my life is no longer viable and I might as well LDAR for good.
>>221102159This is something a retarded black would do because they are too stupid to invent the wheel, even though trees exist.
>>221102131Software developer salaries being high has always been a lie made up by FAANG companies and universities to attract more normies into the career. There are a small number of programmers at large tech companies making insane money but the vast majority of the 4.4 million computer programmers in the US make a middle class income with little chance of growing beyond that. Developers hit their career plateau after just a few years of experience. You have to be very careful when reading reports on salaries as they're usually based on a few hundred, cherry picked paychecks.
>>221102774He had to work with a pajeet. I'd want to quit immediately.
>>221102965you're gonna have a roommate, and i don't want this type as a roommate. you gotta have a "look how much better it is split in half"unless yo'ure into weird stuff so you can't live with someone
>>221102096That's probably exactly what he's thinking himself in 2026 working in retail. You had it made and you didn't even know it, now cleanup in produce, one of the homeless addicts who shoots up in the bathrooms shit near the cabbage again.
>>221102941Same here, it was awful. My cousin saved me in the end and got me in at his company at a stationary wholesaler. It was still a shit job, but going back to 8 hours was a huge relief, and there was stuff to do with customers and salesmen visiting constantly. Some jobs are worse then death.
>>221102159Dude, he's going to be so fucked in his 50s, like my Uncle Bob worked construction and he just carried around normal loads of drywall and now his body is fucking wrecked and he pops pills.
>>221102096no weekends until he took them back.
Having to pretend to work for 9 hours is ultimately more soulcrushing than having to work for 9 hoursAnyone whose done both knows it's not even a real comparison
>>221102131Construction would require hours of exhausting labour, often in harsh weather. I don’t care how many bosses are micromanaging me, or how often I have to hear “somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!”If it’s the same pay, I want the job indoors, where I can preserve my joints, and I’m not stuck working with idiots and criminals who can’t do better.
>>221102654Please, name the fourth choice.
>"human beings weren't meant to sit in tiny cubicles and stare at computer screens all day."He literally explains it in the movie. If you don't get it, try getting a boring office job surrounded by dumb normies and see how long you last. I couldn't last longer than a year at the two office jobs I've had.
>>221102967>sees a white doing retarded shit on video>starts rambling about blacksDamn you faggots really are insecure.
>>221102159Manual labour is for slaves.
>>221102195What are we meant to do? Farm? Hunt and gather?
>>221102983the median software developer making $90-120k at raytheon or insurance company type jobs in Columbus or Phoenix or Huntsville is making more than enough for a good life, benefits, a couple days a week remote, and isn't slaving for 60 hours a week like a FAANG
I work a job where I barely interact with my boss and just go to different warehouses doing inventory of shit. Get paid 100k/yr but I find it so monotonous that I want to quit however the job market is so ass and shit is too expensive that I'm pretty much stuck here
>>221104293Gotta love a 'quit work and die' economy.
>>221102965if you're not dumb and have a lot of factory experience look into schooling for tool & die. if you can seriously hack it you'll make like $40/hr in a few years if you're at a good company.
>>221104090Awww wittle anon doesn't want to hurt his delicate joints
>>221104293>I work a job where I barely interact with my boss and just go to different warehouses doing inventory of shitDon't people constantly company abaut Bosses trying to be hip an cool? Why would you complain abaut not knowing a guy who doesn' give a toss abaut you?
>>221102643>incompetent managers you do not respect, is soul crushing stuff.Why would you respect or really care abaut them? They certainly don't. You are there for the dosh.
before the hypnotherapy he was stressed about his job, which was manually editing software so old that no one thought it would still be used decades later, so it could still be used after the year 2000. only being able to do about 15 minutes a day of actual work on it, when y2k was literally months away, due to the incompetence of his bosses, who clearly didn't understand how serious the issue was, stressed him out. he was also about to be fired for the incompetence of his bosses. his job was also about to no longer exist, as tons of software firms overhired to try to rush y2k fixes. people they promised full careers, but had no intention of actually giving them full careers. etc. etc.
I saw this movie as a teen and I didn't see any issues with that aspect, and then I started working blue collar jobs. I would have given this faggot an atomic wedgie If he ever had the nerve to bitch about his easy, cushy desk job. Cherry on top is that he ends up loving working construction at the end. NOBODY LIKES WORKING CONSTRUCTION. No longer working blue collar but I can only aspire to get a job that you only have to do 15 minutes of work. I think people who bitch about it must not have a very rich inner world in their brain. I could entertain myself for hours just running through random thought experiments or daydreaming.
This was solved by remote work.
>>221102149>meanwhile you need to sit there for seven to eight hours a day, five days a week and pretend like you're somehow busyez>Have an ide open to always look busy>Study & learn something coding related vaguely related to your job >Go on coffee dates with Stacey's around the officeI'm built to work in an office because it's easy and not crushing like a factory or something.
>>221102983But everyone on 4chan says they make EXACTLY $150k/year and WFH. Every time. They wouldn't be lying? Would they???
>>221102096I have a job like his. A desk job with 15 min/day of actual work. What makes it unbearable though is that I have to forcibly interact with the other office normies for the remainder 7h45m of the day about NPC shit.
>>221102096Constant monitoring and harassment from overseers.Nothing to do at work + minimal supervision = heaven (you can just read books or watch TV or write)Nothing to do at work + constant supervision = hell (have to constantly look busy while doing nothing)
>>221105599This is accurate.>The coworker who is absolutely a rat fuck
