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That’s not how it works anymore. And that’s fucked up.

They know I don't know what it will take to get y'all to understand how much they enjoy hurting people like it's a sport Like they can't wait to hear your complaints The complaint department gets them hot and bothered even

So much for the so called work ethic.

but what if I burn out a little more doing MORE good work

Along the same lines, how are we possibly going to convince the generation that's growing up right now that it's good to be honest and intelligent, when they're seeing the opposite being rewarded every day?

8 years at Disney. This is exactly what its like working there at all levels.

Watching Sam Altman repeat the same scam twice and not being held accountable is infuriating.

You are right. We do not reward the right employees.

Yes, it is. I know some people who happen to be white men who aren’t very good at much of anything, and make huge salaries.

Coupled with those doing the most vital work keeping us educated, safe, alive and cared for (quietly in the background, I might add) being increasingly forced to work for poverty wages…

Hitler & his abominable military invaded half of Europe in the 1940s. On the surface, it looked like a success, but in reality it was just a disaster waiting to happen.

And the people that work their asses off for peanuts and no future

i had that mentality up until I got the same mandatory $0.01 yearly raise all of my coworkers got

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pardon my profanity... they lied to you... suck dick and kiss ass and they will promote you so they feel better.. I was told by most of the places I worked I was the best worker they had... but they never cared to keep me because i told them the truth.. 1 musta held 50+ jobs in my life

It was ever thus😡🤬

Failing Upward is Very American.

"DEI" affirmative action for mediocre media "centrists" and you get far more money and funding, elite positions and prestige, underserved influence and power within the system (hopefully "dismantling the master's house"), travel, even a statue of yourself (at a fake university in Austin, Texas):

Nationalize the Ivies, make them land grant colleges, and put their trusts under state control.

abolishing private education is a great idea, especially boarding schools

they're called "data centers" and they were installed as a dare to see if Americans have any balls

Brunchlord 😂

That guy exudes odiousness.

I feel you! In such a situation you have two choices... - Go somewhere else, or just accept that reality. Either way hurts but only one has a certain future.

Why we need to fix the system and that’s gonna take some muscle and pain! 🙏🏼

A few years before I retired, I developed a really good project, and my new boss took credit. He was "one of the guys". We have a big meeting, and he got asked questions he could not answer. It was painful to watch. I said nothing just smiled. It was wonderful.

2/2 meanwhile, her bestie who went to rehab twice in high school and didn’t attend an hour of college makes almost twice that at a medical records job she fell into. Choices.

This is French Revolution level bullshit

Have to redefine successful.

Someone gave you bad advice. Never heard that one myself. Here's what I know. 1. Life isn't fair. 2. Do good work because you have integrity. 3. Success in the corporate world is for those who are good at managing up. 4. Define success in your own way not what society tells you.

You can fuck the boss, just don’t *fuck* the boss

Bottom line, If you're unhappy you can always leave - but that is often wholly dependent upon finding another job 1st And if you're of a certain age? Nope And if you're of a certain age and a woman? God no And if you're a person of color AND a woman? I have friends who attest to the 100's of "NO's"

It's all about their greed, isn't it? :-(

4Jun26 Never give up God's Great Life's so very short Accomplish and Achieve til you die

You said it.

You should have worked harder to be born into generational wealth.

The “attention economy” made it worse. If you spend enough time jumping around in the internet screaming “me, me, me!” it doesn’t matter what kind of dogshit work you’re doing. It’s even better if your “work” consists of being an insufferable prick rage baiting everyone.

100%! Well said, much better than my grumble-cursing.

Been there, done that. ✔️

I've mainly worked in hotels since 1998(mostly night audit aka 3rd shift). Trained several people who did crap work who are now General Managers, yet I'm still on 3rd. Every time I try to move up, I'm told I need experience. This 54 year old will likely die on the job!

Eternal truth, heightened considerably by the invention of Instagram.

What’s up with that bullshit?!🙄

So much of the Epstein class fails up. Until they are president.

Quite.

And like... I feel like the quality of my work has slipped dramatically over the years just from how little I feel like it's valued by anyone?

Ya know if there was a god, would all these fortuitous bastards succeed where the honest folks don't? And don't give me that crap about earning your way to the top either💩

This sentiment makes me think about the stuff Daniel Markovits talks about, "The Meritocracy Trap"

It is the kind of bullshit that eventually leads to the construction of guillotines.

Some think it a matter of course that chance Should starve good men and bad advance, allpoetry.com/Why-Should-N...

The lie is not that work matters. The lie is that work is all that matters. The system does not reward quality; it rewards access, confidence, and the ability to make failure look like someone else’s fault.

You're right. Over the past few years, it has been "brutally, psychically injurious" to see the worst of us prosper. And yet, good people are inclined to do good work, and the definition of success is not soley based on money.

Meritocracy!

"Succeeding while doing shit work" is the true definition of a patronage government system. It's the bedrock of fascism.

I think most people would consider making enough to live a comfortable middle class life doing something you like as success. Granted, teachers don't actually make enough to do that, but ya know. People *think* they do lol

Having made a lot of money (not to mention what he inherited from Fred) helped get trump got elected. MAGAs saw that as success.

yeah but this is actually what poisoned me also: I was taught not to be concerned about getting rich. but it turns out if you don't compete to make as much money as you can you can't afford a home and healthcare and to ever retire.

Right? There are so many ways one can be successful that have nothing to do with money.

myths are meant to be debunked. Crappy, treacly maxims are to be challenged. No, cream doesn't always rise to the top. Bad people succeed all the time and dedicated workers live in poverty frequently. Sorry mom, some stuff is not right to repeat. Shoulda taught me not to care and to pretend.

IKR!!! WTF!!!

Exactly. Watching these incompetent, corrupt rich ppl take over the 🌎 with lies, abuse & murder all while they’re looting/bombing countries. They’re yachting druggies/drunkards who rape kids & young women, destroy the environment, kill jobs & bring back irradiated diseases & NOBODY is stopping them.

Truest words my mom ever said…life ain’t fair… Reminded every day unfortunately

Yup! It’s called a meritocracy and it’s a bunch of BS. The hardest workers I know are usually poor. Many poor people work two and three jobs just to survive. Yeah pull yourself up by your boot straps is a bunch of crap.

Stupidity (or narcissism) + Luck has ALWAYS been the recipe for the most unusually successful people, because being unusually successful requires you to make foolish risks that happen to pay off. We've just reached the point these people have become the entire economy.

Nobody says that.

It’s demoralizing.

💯 on this !!

That's what it sure seemed like.

Much of that has to do with what those truly in charge (managers, customers, etc.) consider to be "good" work, and who they believe is doing it. I've also observed that those who sell themselves the best tend to get ahead regardless of the quality of their work.

Yeah, my workplace goes so against my lifelong work ethic.

Or no work. Some people just stumble into success or are born into it

Turns out the secret was to be a sociopath all along

classautonomy.info/israel-is-mo...

You definitely right. But why is that?

Everyone who has ever had a job has experienced this. But seeing it on a macro scale in almost literally everything - from government to media and anything in between - is a different kind of demoralizing.

Kakistocracy…I never heard of this word until the Trump administrations started

Profit motive rewards those who conform to predator culture. If you're too ethical, you don't get invited to the important networking events like child abuse parties. Our culture is built on disincentivizing caring about love > money. That valence MUST flip.

predator culture rewards ruthlessness over integrity. It's why we sh1t on vegans here. Because CARING is "bad"

So imo

My mother told me: "Mediocrity succeeds".

But they have time give up their morals to do so.

Oof, I felt that in my gut.

Welcome to Black people’s whole existence in this country.

And then everyone wonders why nobody tries very hard at work anymore

I saw a post on Reddit the other day asking why young people don't want to do solid respectable jobs like being a postie or a nurse any more... The replies were basically "bc everything is now a scam and the only way to make money is by being in on the scams"

💯 See if you can find a single one of the sociopathic incompetents responsible for this fiasco who has ever been held to account. Even with a funding of "widespread failure" from a formal public inquiry, the corruption at the top covers for its own, and they fail upwards to kill again. 🧵:

their entire world view was based on rigging the system so we would not have a chance but believe we did and hence believe all the shit they were telling us was the most disturbing thing that happened to my entire world view. But once you see it it all makes sense and it is radicalizing.

so real

the trick is to surrender to the flow

... And watching people who work hard and do excellent work getting nowhere and not being able to afford a stable place to live.

This is probably the most relatable post ever

Most women know that just doing good work and not constantly bragging about it is the perfect way to be ignored, unappreciated, and undervalued. And yet, bragging about it makes us pushy, obnoxious, aggressive, shrill.

What they meant: Don't care about quality, understand the buzz words, don't care about working hard, display the typical exhaustion, befriend the workers, do them $1 favor in return for taking their credit worth thousands. Shine your boss like a prize. Lick their boots. Tell lies about coworkers.

This sounds about right. I worked at a large magazine company for more than a decade. You could count the suits/publishers who seemed to have the remotest clue what was actually involved in putting stuff out on the fingers of one hand. How we cursed them silently as they sloped off nightly at 5.30.

There are fewer more egregiously untrue career mythologies than this one.

Give a man a fish. He eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for life. Sell that man a ten part multilevel marketing class series on your secrets to success at fishing, and you'll be rolling in it, baby!

I suspect that statement is likely inherited from the time of slavery. Trump for sure is doing a shitty job, yet somehow he's killing it, he's excellent at exploiting the poor.

Welcome to my world.

I completely agree.

OMG you're me!

"just talk about how hard you're working and how great your ideas are" doesn't have the same vibe but those people seem to be killing it. (it is my soul)

Frustrating

That’s because those people don’t want you to get ahead like they do, by lying and cheating. “Keep believing that hard work will get you there, while I play the system and get more for myself.”

💯

Work hard, study hard, keep at that grindstone, and in 15-20 years you'll graduate with a professional degree and be a succe oh, wait, your degree is no longer "professional" despite being required by state professional licensing boards, because a person with a BA in French says it's not.

“Failing up” while starting from a privileged position — seen it over & over again!

Do good work [on sucking up to your boss] and you'll [come very close] to being successful.

💯 Agree! Very hard bringing kids up in these times 💔

It all depends on your definition of success & sometimes physical (monetary) success takes a very long time. The real success is when your word can always be trusted & you are respected by friend & foe alike.

It was supposed to be just dumpsters past returns. Maybe because he paid epsteon money and wrote it off as a business expense?