Like most adults, I HATE my job. Every day I go into work I die inside. There is nothing rewarding about my job other than the pay check.
Still I try hard. Every day. It makes the lives of my co-workers easier. It makes my boss’s life easier. They are real people in my community and I care about how my actions affect them. Work ethic means a lot to me.
I get hating your job but half assing your job every day is awful for society.
I do as well. I know (or at least I used to know) that what I do helps the public rather than giving more money to some waste of oxygen on a yacht somewhere.
“if you don’t like your job you don’t strike, you just go in every day and do it really half-assed”
-Homer Simpson
Soviet era joke.
We pretend to work and the bosses pretend to pay us.
There’s a Chinese joke from my dad:
“做也三十六，不做也三十六.”
Which translare to: Whether you work or not, you still get paid ¥36 (Yuan/Renminbi) (per month)
I heard it this way.
“If you work hard, you make $36. If you work really, really hard, you can make $36. If you die, $36.”
Strong disagree with this.
Like most adults, I HATE my job. Every day I go into work I die inside. There is nothing rewarding about my job other than the pay check.
Still I try hard. Every day. It makes the lives of my co-workers easier. It makes my boss’s life easier. They are real people in my community and I care about how my actions affect them. Work ethic means a lot to me.
I get hating your job but half assing your job every day is awful for society.
I work in government.
Understandable. If you work in like welfare departments, working harder to get people more benefits is a bigger “fuck you” to the government
I generally sympathize with OP, but someone in your position is the exception.
I’m sorry your job sucks (especially now); and thank you for putting in so much effort!
I do as well. I know (or at least I used to know) that what I do helps the public rather than giving more money to some waste of oxygen on a yacht somewhere.