How do people manage to work a shitty minimum wage job for decades? At my first job during high school I worked at some grocery store. There were at least 2 employees at my level who had been working there for 40 years, and there were many 30+ year olds. I get that not everyone can go to some sort of schooling, but even then you can apply to higher level jobs and use your experience as leverage. I cannot imagine being 40 years old working a high school job just to see every other week some new 16 year old employee who makes the exact same as you
>>61823600>work a shitty minimum wage job for decadesyou have to accept that is the most some people are capable of. Not to critcize or make fun of, but some people just are not that smart. At least they are working and contributing to society and paying their bills, so I respect them for that.
>>61823600learned helplessness, getting a better job than minimum wage requires training and risk, and its subconciously a way of asserting yourself as better than your current place. If your parents worked minimum wage their whole lives, there is this sense that you are meant for that too and cant really rise above it.
>>61823600they don't want you to stay if you can't get promoted because you're taking a job from a weaboo who will obey better. The problem is when companies are disorganized shitholes, running everything on Google Sheets linked together and Quickbooks. They could get rid of the oldfags but they won't have close done on time so it stays. The troon thing quit but the DEI program still going strong nobody got time for that
>>61823767Nonsense word salad
>>61823600they have no alternative. its either that or they literally and unironically starve to death.
>>61823803Searching for a new job doesn't require you to quit your current one
>>61823600my local mcdonalds has people working there who look like they are in their 60s and 70s, and it isnt a job they just picked up in retirement because they've been there for the past 10-15 years. this is reality
some people just stay in their lane and want to earn a paycheck, any paycheck personally I don’t understand it, at the very least you should try to learn a trade in life, they can become very lucrative after a few years experience but I supposed some people are too stupid even for a low level trade I notice black people seem to love security jobs, they just spend their whole lives working security, to them it’s a do nothing job that pays half decent I guessbut working at a warehouse or a supermarket for 20 years yeah I can’t comprehend it, couldn’t be me
>>61823600It's basically what you said. Some people aren't smart enough to get a degree and move up the ladder, so they settle for what they can get.
>>61823854everyone is smart enough, any monkey could do these jobs. what holds people back is feeling like they arent smart enough or like "people like them" dont do things like that.
>>61823810>get 10 days PTO every 365 days>use up 1 of them on an interview with a 1% chance of being hired
HR roasties and boomers fiercely gatekeep any job that's actually decent.
>>61823882You think everyone at McDonald's works 12 hour shifts every day?
>>61823890when i worked shitty labor jobs it was basically like that. but now i wfh and interviews are done on video calls when I'm "at work".
>>61823901Ok maybe you were Jacob's greatest goyslave working 80 hours a week but that has literally nothing to do with the jobs I'm talking about. Grocery and fast food employees are either working 40 hour weeks or part-time
>>61823600As someone whose career is grocery, it’s not a minimum wage job these days. I make $70k a year, granted it’s not MBA money or anything but for the cost of living where I am it’s comfortable. Why would I debtmaxx for some degree so I can get a skinnyfat job pushing emails from one inbox to another and attending weekly meetings where someone whose title is 9 words long counts how many times I say “cross-functional synergy”?
>>61823865Not everyone can do skilled work, and that's ok. Honestly a lot of these min wage workers look like they have a mental handicap that holds them back.
>>61823865I think realistically it's a mix. Someone with well above average intelligence from an absolute dog shit background could easily get trapped in one for a long time whereas someone with below average intelligence from a wealthy background will be guided and probably be able to get some basic office job or a wealthy partner.When I worked in care which is like the least competitive job there is in UK I'd say only a third were clearly just limited by intelligence and nothing could be done. At the supermarket it was less than a fifth. I've got a top tier job now (doctor) and there's no one who is genuinely below average but there are certainly people who very clearly would not be here without their parents and imo are dumber/less competent than the top couple people at the care home/supermarket.
>>61823600My first real job was a "picker" in Iceland. You have a small forklift kind of vehicle and an ear peace that tells you what to pickup. You drive around the warehouse, collecting the items into a neat stack on the pallet, then drop it at the drop point and start another order. Night shift, you could listed to music or podcast on your earphones and just grind away. It's hard work because the tsrgets were very high but it was mostly off hands, do your thing and go home. A lot of people there worked there for years. Why ? Cuz they had no skills besides being a laborer like this and the money was not terrible. Especially when you have a nagging wife and you'd rather do 50% extra paid overtime. Then drink 10 beers and go to bed to repeat it the next day... I dunno. I'm glad I'm out of that world but it's not the worst. Retail seems like a nightmare in comparison. Retarded and entitled people you have to server. Grim
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>>61823852worked in a supermarket at the age of 38 for 5 years after crack/meth/homelessness. so many smoking hot 16-25 year olds, i masturbated nonstop for 5 years. i was even going on their facebook pages and downloading their pix and masturbating to those too, it was great.
>>61823852>tradeNo.
Tbh im a so called professional and the stress can be bad sometimes. Expectations are rising.Retail looks peaceful, i have savings that should grow, i just gotta cover living expenses.Is it really that bad? It seems like something where you can just tune out and let your mind wander while getting light exercise
>>61824107In the kid’s world, dorks, nerds and geeks are losers. In the adult world, doctors, engineers and accountants are the losers.
>>61823803At my last retail job I was making $12 an hour, that's not even enough to pay rent. Literally none of my coworkers could afford to live on their own. It was pathetic really, and sad that so many people value themselves so lowly to take these wages.
>>61825320What else do they do?
>>61824403Dude you’re my hero and shit
>>61823600accounting is the same. once i worked w/ a fucking music major.
>>61823600All work is slavery. Even the 90th percentile income jobs.
when I was an alcoholic I worked at a subway and an entire year went by without a single thing changing in my life whatsoever in what felt like a month sober
>>61826463bro pressed the skip button
>>61823600They enjoy talking about sportsball, the weather and the activities they are some day planning to do, with their coworkers. Working at a store also exposes you to a lot of different people so your world doesn't feel so small.Fact is that all jobs become stale to someone who is smart enough, you have to keep moving around to keep things fresh and that's not really comfortable.
