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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Is this supposed to be serious or is the term "bro" used so heavily to criticize/call simplistic their take on it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a parody of an ancient meme (knowyourmeme link) where in the original, the rant above is instead "That's my world without you bro."

Also not that it justifies the pay disparity but do people really think there is zero labor involved in management? Cause even then, it comes with a crapton of liability risk under respondeat superior. Not sure everyone wants to be personally sued for every negligent mistake their coworkers make.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you and exactly. I think most people who think managers do no work actually just don't understand managers' jobs (and how much work some people are to manage lol).

[–] rezifon 3 points 11 months ago

The employees who don’t understand managers’ jobs are the ones who are making the managers’ jobs hard.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem to be like it's trying to be 100% accurate but the underlying message it tries to convey is probably serious (that there's a class of people who mostly make money because they have money to own things).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah makes sense. As someone deeply and unfortunately entrenched in middle management, I never think of "boss" and "owner" being the same person, and I know for a fact that my boss is working hard as hell lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Also technically in a management position, but 90% of my work is what I was doing before the promotion and its not that I'm doing less of that stuff (I'm doing more of it). I just have extra responsibilities like more emails and making sure we have supplies. I hope people don't really think of me as a "boss." Given its a small company, my boss is the owner and all the workers were interviewed, hired by, and regularly interact with said person. But I know no one at my job would accuse me of not doing any work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds exactly like my (and most managers') situation(s). Oh, work...

[–] Zehzin 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's part of the meme template

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zehzin 4 points 11 months ago
[–] KazuyaDarklight 4 points 11 months ago

It does have "stoner revelation" vibes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, you'll never get 100% of the value of your labor unless you freelance or become your own boss, simply because if you did, there would be no incentive for companies to hire you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No one expects 100% return for labor. They expect fair pay for fair work. The fact is that employee wages have been flat or declining for 50yrs, while productivity has more than doubled and profits gave gone up 5x. Companies are getting 10x out of their workers then they were in the 70s, and paying everyone less.

If the wage line kept going up with the productivity and profit line, people would be chill. When profits go up 23%, exec comp goes up 230% and worker wages go up 2.3%, thats the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I agree with you but I have also seen the prices of the housing market rise while interest rates went down.

Wages can rise or products can become cheaper.

Problem is that resources become scarce. Things out of plastic are cheap. Things out of wood have become much more expensive.

[–] Delphia 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As someone who is a floor manager partly responsible for 50 people if you think "the boss" does nothing take a moment and think about the dumbest cunts you have ever worked with and the dumbest laziest ones you currently work with.

Those people are their problem.

One person can literally eat my whole day by being a jackass for 3 seconds.

[–] headset 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

take a moment and think about the dumbest cunts you have ever worked with

Yep, they are all managers.

[–] Wogi 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have worked with some real idiots, people so stupid you wonder how many tries it takes them to get their pants on right. Those guys ain't so bad.

By far the worst people I've worked with are the people who are smart enough to know they're smarter than most, but not so smart as to realize they're pretty fucking stupid. Those people claw their way in to management then make life miserable for as many people as they can, all while thinking they're doing just great.

[–] Delphia 1 points 11 months ago

See I'm a step smarter than those people. Im smart enough to know that I'm a dumb motherfucker. If someone comes to me and says I think you might have made a mistake, Im like "yep, thats definitely possible."

[–] Delphia 1 points 11 months ago

Oh that happens too, on my management team one of us is a hapless idiot.

[–] Wogi 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, 3 glorious, beautiful seconds. I know how to make it look like an accident. I can make it look like someone else. I can bring this entire building to a halt with one simple mistake.

What was that about working this weekend?

[–] Delphia 4 points 11 months ago

Its now mandatory.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 7 points 11 months ago

My boss works a lot harder than I do. I know he is the exception rather than the rule, but still. The man is working himself into an ulcer and an early grave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

"bUt ThEY tAkE aLl tHE RiSk$!"

[–] _number8_ 3 points 11 months ago

i hate it

i mean it's fine but i hate it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago