I mean, yeah, that’s the American dream. I get six figures and work like maybe 3 hours a day on a busy day. When I was 16 I was washing dishes for $5 an hour and it was 8+ hours of constant, hard work, every fucking day
This is not a shower thought but ok ig
I found this to be true too. 16 years old minimum wage supermarket job: had to work every second of the shift and was micromanaged to hell.
Now a professional engineer earning almost 10 times minimum wage and I have to pace myself so that I don’t run out of work during the 3 days I’m in the office, followed by 2 days WFH where I rarely have any work left to do.
You should use those 2 days to maybe see a doctor… rectal cancer is no joke.
You’re not paid for how hard you work, you’re paid for how hard you are to replace.
Only if your bosses are careful, and most aren’t.
True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.
“Act your wage” is just a poor excuse to normalize laziness.
When I got paid minimum wage to work at a grocery store, I certainly didn’t give it 100% every day. They paid me minimum wage because they wanted to pay me less, but the law wouldn’t let them. Why should I stress myself out for a job like that? Of course I shouldn’t, and it didn’t bother my bosses that it took it easy on a regular basis.
The same general principle applies to other jobs as well. If you’re fairly low on the totem pole and some the big problem comes up that could affect the company in a major way, you’d be out of your mind to try to tackle it yourself. They don’t pay you enough to risk your job to tackle it yourself. It’s your boss or your boss’s problem.
In theory, yes.
I’ve painted myself into a corner with the skills I’ve acquired. The job isnt common so the few of us in these roles have to leave completely in order for a vacancy to open up.
In theory I have transferable skills, but in a job that’s more common there will be more people with those exact skills competing for those roles. So by comparison, I become a risky hire in a sea of perfectly qualified candidates.
You’d think this means my “lucrative skills” are fairly compensated, but I assure you they are not. If I don’t get a raise and I complain, they remind me that I can leave if I’m not happy.
It’s in my nature to work hard regardless of my salary or working conditions, so I’ll never “quiet quit” or “act my wage”, but I understand why a lot of people do.
True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.
The entire video game industry would love a word.
I’d argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.
Act your wage.
Take your exployer as an example. They want to get the most return for the least investment. This is “good business.”
You just want to do “good business” for yourself. Since your return (wage) is essentially fixed by what the company is willing to pay you, the only way for you to maximize the equation for yourself is to work as little as possible.
Seriously, nobody gives a damn how hard you work. Just be extra clear about what people want, what they actually notice, what you can do to get that done and what makes sense for you to do.
I learned that the hard way when I worked my ass off and nobody noticed but even worse thought I was arrogant and whatnot.
Nobody givea a damn about how hard you work especially if you make mistakes.
Yes. You either be a hard worker and you get exploited by an increasing workload without an increase in pay. Or you do exactly what you are paid for and no more.
That’s why I do only what I deem necessary or interesting.
