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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 172 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This article makes me want to vomit. Like blaming people who are forced to work multiple jobs to survive and treating them like criminals.

Fuck you. These aren't billionaires hoarding wealth, they are people who can't afford school, a place to live, or their next meal. If one job can't support them, then they'll take five!

Even if the work is getting done, Maleh says employers care because:

It creates trust issues: If you’re hiding this, what else are you hiding?

Even if the work is getting done, eh? These are the same employers who underpay and want to spy on their workers as if they were prison inmates, right?

Fuck you twice!

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago (1 children)

WTF do they have a leg to stand on to complain about or question ‘trust’ between employee and employer? They’re paid for the work, the product. If it’s getting done, then good. What goes on after hours or outside of work? None of their goddamn business.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago

For once, the quiet part is quiet; in order to suppress worker's rights, employers need us at a disadvantage. Any breathing room, comfort, success, or independence we can win threatens them because they like us weak.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

This is Fortune magazine so it's probably an affront of fiefdom that one person-one job traditionally abuts. Now managers have to compete with each other through the worker and the worker has the power to take sides and screw upwards. Someone isn't getting help unless they all work together. It's upsetting the work/life balance that used to be one-way.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those are not the people they're talking about. The article is about people with good paying jobs taking more than one. They're gaming the system and I'm all for it.

[–] rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think it's selfish. How many of those jobs could have gone to someone who actually needs one? It's essentially job hoarding. If you're that much of a productive genius, why don't you (the people with multiple well-paying jobs, not you personally) volunteer or start your own business and do something to actually improve the world instead of just hoarding wealth.

I don't think you understand how many well paying jobs go vacant because they "haven't found the right person" and other bullshit.

Just as likely the jobs went vacant if he wasn't hired.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago

Job hoarding? Lmao

[–] Nay@feddit.nl 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you’re hiding this, what else are you hiding?

Hiding? So now everything we don't share is hiding?

I can't wait to go tell my boss about the massive shit I took this morning. I don't want to hide anything from my employer!

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 days ago

You didn’t take the shit on his desk? What are you hiding by not shitting infront of him?

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 5 days ago

First you accuse me of hiding things, then you reprimand me for telling you about my long list of kinks? Make up your mind!

[–] oyo@lemmy.zip 50 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I can't even land a single job at the moment, how are these shits getting five?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 5 days ago

Note the source... This is anti pleb shill op

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

These read like straight propaganda to try to convince people it's not that bad, things are actually really good.

[–] ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago

Billionaire propaganda, OP literally doing billionaire's work on independent social media.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

CEOs have one job and earn $100k a day. It’s totally legal!

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Elon musk is CEO of like 7 places. If they can do it, so can we.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tbf the less musk works the better the companies are doing on their own

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Elon Musk is the homeopathic principle applied to leadership.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

I mean if I can satisfy your requirements by working two hours of your nonsense job, then why would I work 8.

And if that nonsense job doesn't pay enough to live then I'll work another one of those.

That's logic, not crime.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 20 points 6 days ago

https://archive.is/gzrsj

Have these whiners considered a living wage and affordable, good insurance? Self-insured businesses are absolutely possible, and megacorporations can afford it.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Wealth redistribution is required to fix the majority of economic and social issues globally.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why would my job see my taxes?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

They can see your W4 withholding and any deductions like child support or garnishments. They cannot see anything beyond their payroll system.

SOURCE: Worked IT for a payroll firm.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago

Good. Lot of these companies contribute nothing to society other than GDP and consumerism.

You can replace workers with AI but not customers.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

unless your influencer, which are already welloff or wealth individual you arnt getting 3k per day.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 days ago

Shhh... Let the fake news cook 🤡

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I swear, lack of common sense and awareness really hit Gen Z hard. Here's why this is stupid and summing up the article. You're letting society know you are ok with filling your day with tasks for wages that cannot sustain a living. 2. If you sign an non-compete or NDA and thinking you're clever because nobody will find out, you will have 0 jobs when they do and probably out of that field for a solid 1 year minimum. Nobody will hire you which is also not illegal. How do you fix this? Stop accepting shit jobs for minimum wage or unionize to where it doesn't get over taken by a nefarious party persuading an entire generation multiple jobs instead of one solid paying job is ok. This is on the same level where Gen Z employees say it's ok to live out of a uhaul. God damn disappointment. No, Gen Z'rs don't get to blame on Millenials, Gen-X, and Boomers. Lead to a change. Dammit I am ranting again.

[–] Turret3857 2 points 4 days ago

Gen Z here, you're speaking facts and I hate that gen z is in no way advocating for themselves. I dont understand it.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago

This is just being a freelancer, with extra lying.