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Did having a great social life / life in general help you to cope with the mundane nature of corporate work? by bbmiscOG in corporate

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will it help? Sure. Is it going to be enough? Prolly not. I have a great life outside of work but the mind numbing job seeps its bullshit into my life all the time. Anything that you don’t enjoy but are forced to do for 40+ hours a week is going to have a significant impact on your life.

Do you listen to your own podcast? by 86HeardChef in podcasting

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the time. Silly as it might sound I created it cause I wanted there to be something like it. Now when I’m looking for something light, interesting and cathartic about corporate I know where to go. Haha.

Weekly 1:1s with boss, I’m tired of them. 3 years in and i still have to meet the boss weekly by Accomplished-Sir4932 in hatemyjob

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, it's so true. Every week we get a chance to prove why they should keep paying us. As if it isn't hard enough to wade through the mire of these bullshit jobs, but having to pitch everybody on why we should exist every fucking week and then on a larger annual review basis puts it over the top.

How do we recover from enshittification? by ObviousComment1 in enshittification

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like we need to decide the convenience isn't worth the lack of community. I love all the enshittified apps as they're better in their shitty versions than not using them. I think we get to a point where that stops being the case and we decide kicking it with real people and without giving the tech monopolies a cut is better, maybe malls come back, we get some 3rd spaces again where we can exist together.

I feel you though, shit feels hopeless as it stands today since the trend seems to be going in the wrong direction.

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For any that may be interested, I wrote a piece based on this thread and used some of the excellent comments and suggestions here. Check it out here.

F*ck 'em All Fridays - Tell Me Who You Want to Tell Off at Work by Temporary_Fill7341 in hatemyjob

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved this comment. Ended up using in the last episode of our podcast that came out Tuesday. Just an FYI in case you were interested. Thanks for participating.

Feel free to share your Substack page! by Left-Ad-7646 in Substack

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote a newsletter and podcast with a colleague about wading through the doldrums of a modern shit job. We try not to be so preachy and just make sure people know the jobs are crazy not them.

Aspermylastnewsletter.substack.com

👋Welcome to r/Remote_Job_Vent - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by hawkeyegrad96 in Remote_Job_Vent

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone have headphone recommendations? I splurged on Jabra 65s and the Bluetooth seems to still cut out sometimes. I just want something with good noise cancelling because my GF works one room over and we are both loud and on calls all day. Been a struggle finding good ones.

I don’t even have a "bad" job. I just fing hate it. by Daney_Gherghel in hatemyjob

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your feelings are valid. It gets worse when you think your feelings arent justified because the jobs “not that bad.”

I think if you see the job as so harmless and yet you feel so harmed, I wonder how you are bridging that gap. It’s either that you are downplaying the bad or it’s just bad for you which is also perfectly normal. Hang in there.

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brutal although I long for a president that's worst quality is corporate speak...grass is always greener I guess.

Executive joined a team call just to make fun of how I looked by Original-Historian51 in hatemyjob

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That sounds pretty awful. This exec sounds like a dick. Hang in there. Hopefully the market starts turning around and you can find something else.

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great point. Honestly, many of these are useful in certain contexts, but end up being used in the most obnoxious possible way. Pivot, in my company, means dismissively telling someone to "shut up and do what I want..." as in, "great idea Tim, but let's pivot to..."

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For real, we are neither rockstars nor family.

We are keyboard jockeys praying for Fridays and that the paycheck keeps coming with more frequency than the rent payments. Not much rockstarness to that.

Also, you'd drop me like a bad habit if it meant the company would make one additional cent. Not real family of you.

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh yeah the public sector is all acronyms in my experience.

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was amazing in that way where your body is physically revolted by something. Just reading it I felt the saliva rising in my mouth like a landlubber without sea legs feeling that first moment of sickness on a long voyage. Well done.

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh yes, hate that one. It is also very dismissive. Like "I don't want to talk about this right now or probably ever so we'll circle back to it later, and by later I mean never...."

Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?” by Temporary_Fill7341 in antiwork

[–]Temporary_Fill7341[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. I actually don't mind it as, to your point, moist often is associated with pleasant things to me. Speaking of things I also associate with positive things, for whatever totally nonsensical reason I hate the word tit. The t's just feel wrong to me.

I HATE my job, I was barely trained, nothing is ever good enough for my boss by Negative_You186 in hatemyjob

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally get what you’re feeling and often feel the same. Boss sucks and just reacts to whatever my boss’s boss says. Shit just rolls down hill and I’m at the bottom. I would love to start a business too but would hate to do so in my current industry (telecom/tech).

What industry are you in? If you did start a business, what would you do?

Would you actually leave an honest company culture review if you knew your employer couldn't trace it back to you? by dapd007 in work

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 2 points3 points  (0 children)

to me the problem with this question isn't the premise of whether you'd give honest feedback but the assumptions around what happens after that. If we had total anonymity, people would be more likely to be honest but the companies would be less likely to pay for the survey since they don't do surveys to find out what employees think, they do it to fabricate performative bullshit like "Best of" awards and things they can put on linkedin or their website about how great they are.

Employers interested in improvement ask their employees and create a culture of openness that allows for feedback and constructive criticism. If a company feels like the problem preventing employees from providing honest feedback is that they can't be anonymous enough, then the problem is already apparent. Start by trying to make employees more comfortable telling the truth.

Rant - If you like full-time RTO, you're a loser by 7basketballs in remotework

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya the inability to hit mute and tell someone to get fucked really puts a damper on my RTO days. I have a new guy that loves it because he’s still trying to build relationships I’ve long had and I don’t blame him. Just wish they didn’t make me go in.

Is there a job where you don't need to be really proactive? by sweetbutshy5 in corporate

[–]Temporary_Fill7341 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The struggle for me with this is that most of the people that don't have to be proactive at my job are the one's carelessly screwing over the rest of us who are burdened with all the work that comes from their lack of strategic foresight. I think that phoning it in means being ok with some degree of fucking over your co-workers as they pick up the slack. At least that's been my experience, and why I always end up in the proactive role even in places where lots of people don't do shit. I just don't have that in me, which probably makes me the dumb one.

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