Company culture makes your dreams seem unattainable.

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mayfluxitgay 10 hours ago

If work was just work, it'd be hard, but I could adjust to that. What I CAN'T adjust to is how you have to socially represent every employer and have superb soft skills. This nonsense makes me want to stop pursuing college once I get through my associate's degree and live on SSI forever. You can't rage-bait by saying Charlie Kirk deserved to die (I didn't do this personally, but if you knew the rage-bait I did behind closed doors for at least one phase of my life, you might be genuinely more angry), you can't have someone making a video of you saying the n word 10 years ago go viral on TikTok, you can't vent frustrations that go against the corporate interest on any public platform, getting doxed is easier and easier due to it not even requiring whitepages or you oversharing and simply people being able to connect the cookie crumbs from massive data leaks where all they need is your email or IP address or something less significant and doxers having a vicious appetite to try and mess with you in every way they can legally get away with, and you can't voice too hot of genuine takes. In order of difficulty from left to right: storing tons of college knowledge from multiple disciplines, very basic manners and social skills that people see without having to know deeper context about me, and PR stuff like hiding my past and changing my name and address to abate doxing and vigilante calling my boss to get me fired trolling.

At this point, hiding in some factory and not making a LinkedIn page might be the only way I get to do brainy stuff without having a squeaky clean reputation. That, or I'd have to just wish upon a prayer and hope that if I became a doctor or something, nobody could connect the dots. But it just seems so unfair that you could have knowledge 75% of people or more would never attain in their lifetimes, but corporate decides, "Oh, you're too problematic in your personal life", and all of that effort, all of these jobs society needs, must be done by people who are squeaky clean, or more realistically can just hide and filter their terrible sides more, since most of society is trash.

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bythelee 10 hours ago

There is no job culture only rich people. and poor ones.

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Reddari 9 hours ago

Corporates jobs are for the most part useless jobs that nobody really needs. Its making money out of nothing. No real production. Its just pushing papers around to create basically lag in transactions which in practice is money as paying debt is delayed and our money system is based on debt. So wasting reseources, paradoxically, creates wealth as you increase the amount of resources owed.
Society does not benefit from these parasites.

mayfluxitgay 9 hours ago

Originally posted by bythelee:
There are no job culture only rich people. and poor ones.

No, there is. No venting to your coworkers, or HR will stealth fire you. No criticizing the company on your personal social media account, or HR will stealth fire you. No showing human vulnerability and acting remotely negative, or HR will stealth fire you. It's dystopian. You should NOT have to do all this emotional labor just to SURVIVE. Employers treat your LIVING like a TOY. Aside from physical assault or repeated sexual harassment (not the "asking for consent to have sex as a one-off thing is sexual harassment" nonsense that has plagued popular and corporate culture), or things that directly affect a company like leaking trade secrets, it should be illegal to fire people, and the first amendment should apply to private companies only to the extent it's your livelihood and gives you the money you need to function in this world at a basic level. Unemployment is probably not enough to pay the bills, and being considered problematic too often means you're less likely to get hired elsewhere. This COULD be a case to get SSI and/or SSDI, but it's too uncertain.

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