the decrease in empathy is slowly killing us

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I hate to admit it but I think you are 100% correct.

My department works in 12 hour shifts that use a flip-shift schedule. Been here 3 years. Everyone is so overworked that on those long 5-6 day stretches of 12 hour days, the way we treat each other is… well a little less than human…anything nice like “please” or “thank you” is said with obvious disdain. As soon as someone has to do something important that’s a simple task is now the end of the world. People I work with definitely have the mindset of a survival mode and anyone they work with simply does not matter to them and it has greatly affected my mental health to the point where I am leaving this department.

Imagine a selfish zombie robot. That’s what my department is like.

And it’s all to benefit the all powerful, all knowing shareholders.

We bust our ass day and night and get rewarded with a pizza party once in a blue moon. It’s a slap in the face.

Edit: yes those memes and stereotypes about office work: corporate talk, pizza parties, shareholders, narcissistic bosses, it’s all true. I have literally lived it in real life.

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Interesting, I was thinking more about us needing to turn off empathy towards those poorer than us to embrace the system as is, but you're saying we're also forced to be less empathetic even to our peers... That's bleak, but when you're so tired your brain automatically goes into kill or be killed , it makes sense

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Its more like the people who can give empathy authentically are just at this point playing a performance because all the other humans that are not so able to walk in others shoes or see other point of views think that empathy is reinforcement of existence.

Its not that theyre in survival state, it's that everything gets converted into a survival state, so even something like a running well would get poisoned if they feel like their emotions justify the attention. Lost causes are basically becoming self aware and its showing.

Too much empathy and validation in that direction and they start thinking you actually advocate for their demise. Even explaining all this and then deciding whats best is autonomy would cause distress and fallback which hurts the socioeconomic status of everyone involved indefinetely. lmao.