The Job Market Bait-and-Switch
The Job Market Bait-and-Switch
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I heard my dad parrot every single one of those. Each one a perfect hit to enrage him and make him angry, each one contradicting the past, and all together show how it was always about wanting cheap labor.
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It was all about forcing someone else to do it, to the point of enslaving citizens in a for profit prison that doubles as a forced job center. Whether is micky D's or the plantation that sources the produce they all force prisoners into labor camps. America has really aced concentration camps and applying it to everyone who is poor (not the elite billionaires)
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Ditto, definitely had relatives literally saying the 2008 point for me after graduation.
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It was never about freedom or prosperity. It was always about rich people's pockets and it will be until the last one suffocates on CO2 while clutching their pennies.
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I misread that as "clutching their penises". I was like, "Alright, don't make me like them right as they're dying."
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don't die giving a billionaire a handy
edit: wait, one billionaire, clutching their (gender neutral) penises. i might like this billionaire too
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Vagrancy banned. Workhouse reinstituted.
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Buying some woodland in the Scottish highlands live alone under the trees? Also banned.
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Let's see Your fucking AI flip burgers.
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Seems relatively easy? You don't even need a full ass robot, just a robot arm with sensors. No one gives a shit about fast food quality anyway.
Heck, this happened before the AI boom
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But that arm and its maintenance costs more than a minimum wage
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"flipping burgers" is a colloquialism for fast food work. It involves a lot more than rotating patties on a grill.
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Do you even need a robot arm for that? Just have the gridle be on both sides of the burgers (and have like a locking mechanism or something. Kinda like a waffle machine) and then just attach a motor to it that periodically rotates it. Then a timer for when it's done
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Is that robot about to flip a burger cheese-side down?
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There already are robots for flipping burgers. If you prepare the burgers for them and place them on GBE grill and then assemble the burger.
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2029-30 How many burger flipping robots do you want...
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2031 How come no one is buying burgers from my fully automated burger joint?
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I didn't understand last image so I tried look for article, then found this one : https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/despite-progress-child-labour-still-affects-138-million-children-globally-ilo-unicef
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flipping burgers is often used an insult for college grads that cant find a job in thier field, due to gatekeeping in that field too.
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This meme hits like a laser guided munition.
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Guess they should have chose option 3 joined the Military. Serve 20 years get a pay check and medical for life.
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Bonus, you join army, army breaks you, tries to sweep it away but eventually your children get survivor benefits.
and fun fact, Some veterans can get free mental asylum and cremation. (My mom tells us when she's over the hill, hand her to the va, they'll stick her in a ward till she dies and then cremate her so we don't have to worry) (My dads running plan is to work till he dies at his desk, then the army will bury him for free too)
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If you wanted to eat, why didn't you just sign up to murder brown kids. Service guarantees citizenship.
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*some exceptions apply (sorry, Afghan translators, we did you so dirty in so many ways)
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They even want their boots to be free labour.
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Military Retirement checks and VA are getting paid. I did miss checks while active though during 1st shut down
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All of these have been true at every point.
It depends on where you are in your life's journey, which one you hear.
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AI powered automation:
\Slave labor is not cheap enough.
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My workplace had become super toxic and I'm desperate for another job, but the market is abysmal. I'm hoping for a miracle, because I want out of my current job asap
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I'm much the same.
I can't leave my geographic area for very good reasons, and I will in IT support. I'm experienced enough to be a "senior" support tech. But the average going rate in my area for my job is about 60k/yr. That sounds great until I tell you that I'm in Canada and that's Canadian dollars, which is about 43k/yr USD.
The state of the market here is embarrassing and I can't find jobs hiring for remote workers, or anything local enough that I could feasibly commute, that pays enough for it to be worth it to even apply.
If I do find a posting that's close it's a 1.5hr commute away and pays about the same as my current work from home gig.... Despite the toxicity, why would I take a job I need to spend an additional 3+ hours in a car to do the same work, with potentially the same toxicity, for the same pay?
I fucking hate everything.
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In in the same boat as you, right down to the industry. Except I'm in the US and I'm only experienced enough to be a level 2 tech.
I have a friend tracking down a hybrid position lead at his company, but the commute for the in person days would be 1.5 hrs at least one way. He's going to be seeing what the pay is and how many days I'd need to be in the office so I know if it'd be worth it. I don't want to waste my time and the time of his coworkers if the pay and schedule wouldn't be right.
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The phrasing for the 2008 frame isn’t right. Should be “Are you too good to flip burgers?” Or “Is flipping burgers not good enough for you?”
Or "you went to college? You're overqualified for flipping burgers"
I've heard that enough times. I only have some community college under my belt and have been deferred from jobs.
2021 seems off too since it's in the middle of COVID. I can't think of a better quote though.
I think it's accurate for late-2021
People used the pandemic to up-skill, or otherwise find a better job, so when things started re-opening in 2021, most retail and service industry places had a very hard time filling roles
Story time
In 2019, just before the pandemic, a friend of mine worked at a gas station for years as the assistant manager. He loved it. Some responsibility without having all the responsibility. Lots of overtime, enough money to live off in a LCOL area. He was making something like $14.75 an hour. The store manager bumped him up to $15.75/hour, since he was doing the work of two people, showed up on time and sober, and was generally a much better employee than a gas station has any right to have
After he had already gotten his raise, corporate went back to his manager and said no (a decision by the current head of the company). Corporate rolled back the pay increase. According to them, he was already the highest paid assistant manager in the chain (~20 stores in the midwest). They wouldn't approve the pay increase, even though employee pay is generally at the discretion of the store manager
He started looking for a new job the next day. COVID happened shortly after that and upended the job market. He got a job as the equivalent to an assistant manager at a warehouse making $27.00/hour, with much better hours (generally 8:30-5:00), and better benefits. The gas station had to hire 2 assistant managers to replace him. They also started at $16.00, even more than the raise that corporate had rolled back