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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] Shikadi 180 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's because anon can't spell than

[–] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Or she's paid for her skills/experience/contacts, and ~~he~~ anon doesn't have any of those.

edit: She probably makes lots of money for her employer in those 1 or 2 conversations per day

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't make it not absurd.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I'm not pro-management or anything. Maybe anon should be angry at their higher-ups instead of being annoyed at the success of their wife

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't seem to me like op is annoyed at wifes success. Op os annoyed that bullshit jobs make tons of money and the actual hard work only earns you a broken body, depression, and poverty.

You dont think laborers deserve ample time off and good pay?
Please explain your position.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You dont think laborers deserve ample time off and good pay?

Yes, I'm an actual monster. /s.

No! I was speculating about the anon's situation, as are you. Maybe they have a job at a factory, risking life and limb every day. Maybe they just dislike their boring office position. Maybe they dig ditches and their back will give out before retirement. We don't know. I did imply that they were unfairly compensated here:

Maybe anon should be angry at their higher-ups

And yes, I did read "My wife has a make-believe job and it's kinda annoying" as them being annoyed specifically at their wife rather than their own work situation. This is because they were disparaging their wife's job with "make-believe", which seemed dismissive to me. It doesn't seem like a stretch to go from "dismissive of their wife's job" to "dismissive of their wife". But I could see how you could interpret it the other way.

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[–] Maalus 15 points 10 months ago

Why would it make it absurd? Those few conversations possibly bring the company incredible value. Just because someone works hard doesn't mean their job has incredible value, since effort isn't proportional to value.

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[–] GraniteM 99 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Remember:

If you saw someone living a decent life while "working" a bullshit job, no you didn't!

[–] Cicraft 32 points 10 months ago

Yes you did, now go and demand a better working environment for the sake of "competitive pay"

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She's possibly a manager of some kind, I have seen plenty of managers that have days that are kinda like this, though less extreme

[–] PieMePlenty 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ahh yes, the air stirrers.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

We call them "flow through heaters" because they take the same info anyone already has and restructure it and put it in a ppt or something.

[–] MrJameGumb 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds awesome! Are they still hiring?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Grab an application for me too

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (7 children)

You guys need to read Bullshit Jobs. Some percentage of jobs just don't need to exist.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

That percentage being fuckin most of them.

Fantastic book BTW.

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[–] Etterra 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The ironic part is that the only changes are her lack of commute times and where she clocks in. Oh, and that he now knows the insides details of what she does. He should be grateful that she's earning a paycheck and quit whining (assuming it's even a true story). Most people can't even afford an apartment without 2 incomes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude I find guy who get weird about their partner making more money than them sorta odd. Fucking please, by all means honey go make significantly more money than me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's a toxic masculinity trait. His value is tied to how much money he makes in his mind, and because men are supposed to be more valuable to society according to the patriarchy he is therefore a failure.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (3 children)

literally

then me

This is how I know the OP isn't out of high school.

[–] Chouxfleur 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Regrettably I know many professionals whose grasp of written English is worse than OP's.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’d be shocked to learn that more than half of Americans have at best a 6th grade reading ability, so their writing won’t even make it to a high school level.

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[–] giggling_engine 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't see the problem. She makes more, then him. Is she available?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Anon's wife is a middle manager.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

His make believe wife's make believe job

[–] shalafi 18 points 10 months ago

This was my job until this week. Got onto a new team with a great manager. Now I actually have to work, but I'll get to enjoy what I do again.

[–] banneryear1868 15 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Yeah I bet it's really annoying for your wife to contribute to ~~her~~ your shared income with her hustling skills gtfo. This is either fake or they're both professional workers doing so well the man-child has to whine about how much money ~~she~~ they make.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I am an elementary school teacher. I took a personal day and I was hanging with my friend. She works virtually for an NGO. She replied to a few emails, updated some data in a spreadsheet, she called a few people. That was all she did. I made some snide remarks about it and she was like 'oh I'm sure your job is so much harder.'

The sheer audacity. I do all that shit she does, in 20 minutes before class starts, while I am slamming coffee and doughnuts. Then I do exhausting work all day.

[–] banneryear1868 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

If every worker wants other's to have it as bad as them we'd all be slaves, blame the employers and economic conditions rather than the worker who has it better than you. Really if your job is stressful and more work you should want better conditions for yourself, not worse conditions for someone else. She has knowledge that professional employers think is worth paying for, that's not something you should blame her for.

IMO I think for teachers and nurses, they should be way better compensated, and even treated as a special class.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ah yes, Federal employment. Can confirm this is the case for almost all of us.

[–] Kengaro0 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Any IT positions I can pretend to work at?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

can you download adobe reader

[–] EurekaStockade 29 points 10 months ago

Sorry all I know is Google Ultron

[–] afunkysongaday 11 points 10 months ago

Jeez that sounds like work forget I asked.

[–] Kengaro0 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I can even do that with a chocolaty command

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Pretend work sucks more than real work

[–] Kengaro0 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ok. I'm going to ask for a raise.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] lola_best_bun89 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is half the reason social services suck so much.

The other half is funding. But even with all the funding in the world, if the staff is a bunch of lazy asses, the service will suck.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The vast majority of social services are handled by state employees, not federal. Those state employees are often underpaid and overworked, and often only stay in their position because they understand the need too.

The problem with federal employees is that they're often underpaid compared to similar jobs in the private sector. Most of them only choose to remain federal employees because it offers a lot better work life balance compared to the private sector.

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