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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

Whoever came up with the word polyworking deserves to lose teeth, such a genuinely evil thing to think up for genuinely nasty purposes.

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Ma'am I'm polyworking my way through quiet quitting so I can save up enough to start land hacking

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Landhackmaxxxxing

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Remember when polycrisis was getting use to describe how ecological collapse intercepts with pandemics and inequality. So weird how that got dropped like a rock while this gets trotted out.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

Polyworking? Who gets paid to come up with this shitvisible-disgust

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Polly want a anti-cracker-aktion?

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Once again (as with "chronoworking") I am forced to repeat that putting a Greek prefix on a Germanic rootword gives me hyperangst.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Personal branding trends for 2024.

I fucking despise whoever decided that the job search process should be just like finding work in Hollywood, that you already need to be famous and in the top .00000000001% before you even begin your career (oh, and have connections out the wazoo just to work at the local McDonald's.)

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

Remember that time the Washington Post gave Bernie Sanders a bunch of Pinocchios for saying that millions of Americans work multiple jobs, because only eight million do, and "millions" implies ... more than that?

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that nearly 8 million people hold more than one job. But most of those extra jobs are part time, not full time. And the “millions” of people amount to just 5 percent of Americans with jobs. So that means 95 percent of workers are not working two or three jobs “just to survive,” making this a misleading statement.

love working my multiple full-time jobs which I do for fun

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The way which they massively overuse bullet points and single paragraph sections , omg its so obviously AI its sad.

Kind of shocking to see this from a huge msm site like this because it reads worse than some random wordpress blog post from 2008 about [insert trending hobby here]. Its not just obviously AI, its made and edited by someone that quite clearly doesn't give a shit too. AI is shit but you can get chatgpt to tell you something that isn't 20 paragraphs and 2 bullet point sections.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

And they have the audacity to call us "lazy". Hell, they even have the audacity to call us "misanthropic".

Is this what reactionaryism feels like? Am I the reactionary now?

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even the comments on the site picked up on that, and all of them are dragging it over that and the 'polyworking' lmao

You know it's bad when Forbes' own subscribers are treating it like the rancid trash it is

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Oh neat. More corporate horrors being conjured into existence doggirl-happy

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

and a workforce in search of deeper meaning and joy in their careers.

doubt

Also how the hell did our soulless society poison the word joy? The Dadaists continue to be right about everything.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

The last months of the Kamala campaign were like:

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

"How to become a polyworker"

Step 1: Be starving and desperate

Fuck these people. Wall.

[-] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

what does wall mean (sorry im stupid)

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

It means the subject of NuraShiny's anger should be put up against a wall and shot

[-] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
[-] REgon@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Where I live the media has gone from talking about "workers" and "employers" to "worktakers" (workers) and "workgivers" (employers)

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

ah yes, whatever would we do without the benevolent work givers being there

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How else would we be able to build houses and grow crops? We gotta do something about the greedy worktakers soon tho

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

If someone says this IRL I will become a "lifetaker"

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In this context that would mean you would be giving life, since the "worktakers" are workers, ie the ones giving work (labour) to the workgivers (employers who take work - take labour) and I love that for you

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds reversed, workers are forced to give part of their labour for free to bourgeoisie who take it.

And in Poland media also did it, though "worktaker" didn't caught up, the most used word is "pracownik" (literally worker, but in context more an employee) but workgiver (pracodawca) sadly is commonly used.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

America needs less polyworking and more polytwerking!
speech-r
mystery-emote pete

-- Pete Bootyjudge

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta have high high hopes for a living!

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

I've never had a job respect my scheduling limits, so I do know how people do this.

[-] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

dennis-stare

Death to America

[-] hexthismess@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

This is the same hustle culture, grindset that we are constantly exposed to, to hide the fact that we have to struggle even harder to survive. The insidious part is its designed to make us feel lazy and worthless if we don't work ourselves to death.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

The /r/overemployed sub is hilarious lmao.

"Yeah I work 3 jobs to get out of debt and purchase a home, while still funding my retirement, I feel like I'm cheating the system!"

Brother... a single union (good) union job should do all of that.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Polyworking? More like prollyworking, since they have to juggle so many jobs and responsibilities across so many different employers that if you wonder what they're up to right now you already know that they're prolly working.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago
[-] Des@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

this guy used ChatGPT to help him write this article.

[-] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AI is the other members of my polyworkcule

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Why Polyworking Is Popular

Broken economy.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I hear that many people are really passionate about not starving to death.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Of course it's from fucking Forbes...

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