I don't know if this is a good place to share this. Let me know if it's not! cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62109295

We have all heard it - A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than the master of one. But does this world really condone it? We are conditioned to take up a career at 15 and run with it for the rest of our lives. Till the day we die of arthritis or dementia, it becomes our sole identity in society, on which we are judged and valued. Our other hobbies and passions, projects and visions are rendered a distraction, a nuisance, a roadblock in our career.

From the first moment we express a mild interest, the moment a little kid looks in awe at the stars, the society has made up its mind, the parents have dreamed up a career in astronomy. But is that really how human beings are supposed to learn, excel and explore the world? Are human beings worth no more than a cog in the machine? Can professionalism be only achieved with an inhumane mindless dedication? Can we truly prosper when our curiosity and passion have been transformed into a lifelong prison of career?

#An Alternative Way#

The despair that follows after this realisation that the world is not made for you, is heartbreaking. And I was at this exact place a couple of years ago, when I realised that if the world was not made for me, I must rebuild it better. And so was borne The Brotherhood. In this project we aim to

1. Take back Education - Break the monopoly that the traditional academic institutions have on providing education with a structured open-source curated knowledge graph of all human knowledge.
2. Take back Certification - Implement a decentralised peer-to-peer assessment and verification of skills where only your peers and employers rate your skills based on actual work.
3. Provide Jobs Transparently - Use the assessments and skills to provide jobs to skilled individuals in a transparent way, where you can see the exact process and algorithm used to route work.
4. Federative Economic Structure - The economy is hence restructured to small, fluid federations where ownership is strictly based on contribution, and is entitled to split and merge whenever.

#Goal#

The final goal of this is to free the learner and worker from the rigid structures of society and usher in a glorious age of freedom and exploration where you can

• Leave your jobs for a couple of years to pursue a personal mission without thinking of how to get paid.
• Work sustainably in your dream projects, your passion projects all your life and get paid fairly.
• Go back to your career after a hiatus and receive no discrimination for leaving the industry, as long as you have retained your skills.
• Destroy the traditional dilemma of higher education or work, by combining the two into one unified pipeline where you learn and work at the same time. NO Career Deadends.

If you would like to get more information on the project, we would advise you to check the official website and the detailed documents. If you want to get in touch, leave a comment, post an opinion, query your doubts in this community space. Never Stop Dreaming🔥

I work in my company's internal PR division and one of our tasks is to prepare the daily newsletter that is sent to all of our employees. The slightest mistake this month is becoming reason for public, vocal complaints made by our chief, citing risks to our division's reputation. It's like working in a nuclear power plant's control room and having a potential chernobyl incident every single day.

Also I feel that our area lacks some sort of manual or white book. Having to remember by heart several rules and exceptions is just too stressing. It's like playing those platform games where out of nowhere a hole opens after you dodge some obstacle and you lose anyway.

Correct me if I'm just being cranky or lazy.

This is just funny at this point. Yes they send every text in multiple languages which gets annoying when my phone goes off 8 times cause they want to tell people when someone is here to discuss benefits.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10230353

Okay, so the job is still sometimes a... real doozy. It's still a demanding retail job, which is fine, but sometimes, it seems that "something" is happening every other day. Drama, interpersonal relationship issues between my co-workers (not with me, I get along with everyone, it seems), and confusion about the task at hand have all happened at some point or another.

That said, I love my job and am transferring to a location that's much closer to me. As I may have said before, it's a church nonprofit thrift store classified as "retail." It's like Goodwill and another Catholic service I know in Florida (this one isn't Catholic, though). I also met another transfem, who seems to be transitioning or just started (relatively recently). She's high up in the business too and well-respected.

Anyway

Thank you all for cheering me up in the lead-up to my new job (which took about 8 to 10 months for me to get after much searching). I want to be an assistant manager or switch to Goodwill BUT, in the meantime, I have this job that gives me a bigger paycheck than the ones I had before, at least.

Thanks to @EmDash and @zeca@lemmy.ml

Also, thank you to @PoY and @davel.

Oh, and @Onno as well as @Maeve and @Nondiegetic.

Anyway, that seems to be everyone that encouraged me in the previous thread and gave me advice.

I'm referring to this thread, by the way:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9782130

Not sure what else to say; I've had this job for almost two months so far and I'm halfway through my seventh week. Any other advice is much appreciated, of course. I think my first order of business is basically to just keep saving money, but budgeting is surprisingly difficult, at least so far. I don't know what else I can do when it comes to budgeting and saving money beyond just having more in the bank every two weeks (biweekly payment through Direct Deposit).

Another thing I'm nervous about, however:

I'll have to drive myself to the location that I'm transferring to from now on. I may use Uber or Lyft sometimes, but I need to drive myself there by myself. I can't have someone take me 30 minutes in the direction of the current location I work at. Now that I'm transferring to a location that's nearer by, I will likely drive myself, but it will take 15 minutes to get there, or around that much.

The reason I'm nervous is that, even though I have my driver's license, I heard about an Autistic person from a friend of mine at work that said that one of his Autistic cousins got into a car crash (but had their driver's license) and he couldn't understand that and said that he "can't take care of himself and shouldn't."

Maybe he's not a good friend lol

The point is that it made me nervous; I've driven before. I've driven for about 30 minutes, tops.

I think since we share a car, I forego driving myself and just rely on others, but I have driven here and there.

I transfer to the new location early next week.

What do I do?

Anyway, again, thanks, everyone, this job went better than I thought it would.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix/p/449273/food-is-literally-rule

Food is literally rule

Edit: Could you please chill it with the taking everything so bloody seriously? It's low-hanging fruit leftist agitprop from c/196. It doesn't aim to be coherent with the very letter of Marx or whatever leftist group/cult-leader you prefer.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/58914591

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9782130

It's a church non-profit classified as a "retail" thrift store.

Meant to aid the homeless and needy.

Here in Virginia, I needed it.

I certainly needed the income because my funds or money have dried up or almost have.

But goddamn, tomorrow's the first day.

It's a small building and it's pretty homely from what I've seen of it.

Commute is 30 minutes long, but I'm transferring to another area that's about 10 to 15 minutes away in a month or two.

I'm on a probationary period as a full-time worker for three months so my job seems safe for the time being.

But I have to do cashier-work, pricing and stocking, and lift to about 50 lbs., among other retail work.

Honestly? Nobody ever had me do cashier-work before in all the time I've worked retail before. Is there a video or source online that walks you step-by-step on how to do it? And what about pricing and stocking items?

Usually, I did backroom work before and even that I found a bit hard.

I get paid $13.00, which is more than I received before.

They said it would be busy now.

I'm sure I can do it... but goddamn, I'm nervous...

Around this time some 13 years ago, I had took a seasonal job at Toys R Us, the "happiest place on Earth." It was the worst job I ever had.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56418314

Not sure if this belongs here but felt it was appropriate.

I work in a state owned company in Brazil that provides IT services to the federal government. About 90% of our workforce is currently fully or partially remote and we're happy about that.

Now, some capital-funded MPs are looking for something to strike back at the government since they had to swallow a highly popular bill that creates an income tax exemption for anyone earning less than about 12,200 usd per year, and greatly reduces it for those earning about 18,000 usd. It was passed unanimously much to the chagrin of the opposition since they couldn't simply tell their voters "we're not gonna do it".

So they've chosen an administrative reform, and their evil package includes restricting the rules to achieve job stability (right now, 3 years after being admitted you cannot be fired without an internal inquiry), restricting the rules for admission but flexing rules for subcontracting (right now public employees can only be admitted through a public test), and of course restricting remote work to a single day per week. It's not approved right now but the report on the bill is already transiting through some commissions in the chamber of deputies, the federal lower house.

It's not clear if this will affect state owned companies, but of course this fell like a bomb among me and my fellow workers. At least most of them. We were discussing this development in the union's Whatsapp group, and some clown came with these ideas that "regular presential work is not that bad, there's nothing we can do about it, remote jobs reduce efficiency". And then came the cherry on top of the shit sundae: "anyone that campaigns for the maintenance of remote jobs is a corrupt".

Now this guy has been saying shit for some time, and I told him: "Well, easy to say that on a Whatsapp group, would like to see you telling that to someone in person, about a meter from you". The cunt completely lost it and challenged me for a fistfight on our office's premises.

Sorry about the rant, just wanted to share that.

Lately, things have been taking the turn for the better. Recently, a piece of shit team lead got dropped and she used to intimidate and threaten me. She was very unprepared for the role, obviously did it for the money and whatnot. She has been with my store for about 10 months, so yeah, she was bound to go at somepoint.

I had to re-adjust my schedule when I was pulled into HR yesterday, because the manager after a year and 2 months of having this 10-8-8-10 format schedule of mine, wanted me to adjust. So now I'm on 8-8-8-8 which doesn't bother me because;

I don't have to worry about going to sleep earlier than normal when I get back from work the night prior. I don't have to worry about accounting for dumbfucks in day crew about fucking me over when they don't want to help or that they do help but do a poorer job in helping me, plus I don't have to deal with a mountain of shit expected to be done in 2 hours, that's finally over.

Sure that makes me a part-timer but I still make enough to cover my monthly expenses in the combination of bi-weekly payments. 64 hours combined, yeah I've seen the numbers, I can make it and still have some left over because I don't try living luxuriously.

So I have a nice work-life balance, some shitty people got tossed to the wayside and I'm not complaining about making a little less than what I'm used to. What's wrong now? Well I still work around prissy management and that stupid fucks can still get me fired anyways, customer or personnel.

I started a new job last month. I'm about to get my first pay raise and with that I'll be making twice as much as I was making just a couple months ago at my last job. Most seem happy for me cause I'm slightly less depressed coming home from this job and am making a good amount of money. However I still just hate being here cause work is soul crushing. Nothing about working anywhere feels worth it for any amount of money. It just sucks away all the time and energy I'd be much better off spending doing literally anything else.

I worked at Office Depot April 2025 and resigned in early August.

People were leaving. Some guy had worked for OD for 20 years and the Assistant Manager kind of wanted to kick his ass and he quit. Another Assistant Manager with 10 years left.

My hours went from 9 to 12 hours a week, which I was fine with, to 27, 21. It was good except I never had a weekend or two days off in a row. I was getting burnt out and I told the manager this but he did not really seem to care.

Well, this miserable crippled hobbit came back to work and it was atrocious just being around her.

At work I had ChatGPT make a selfie of me at the counter with space aliens behind me.

She responded in the group chat saying, 'Is this what you're doing instead of working?'

The other Assistant Manager, who was awesome, said, 'Hey, don't pay her any mind. She's just miserable and misery loves company. The General Manager probably doesn't care and that's who really matters.'

Well, the next day I called in sick through text and the GM replies, 'When you get back we have to talk to you about your work performance.' I texted back saying I am giving my two weeks notice and that he'll have it in writing when I return. He said not to bother and took me off the schedule.

I was being paid $16 an hour and I thought that wasn't enough to put up with a miserable assistant manager and a GM who really doesn't have your back. One of the worst work experiences I ever had, I have had many way better jobs in the past.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26529345

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