Current Events > My friend's dad: Office kind of jobs isn't really a real job

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AzNDarkSamurai
09/05/23 11:43:29 AM
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Mainly because in his experience, a lot of people there are spoiled, entitled brats who dont want to work hard. He believes that those jobs do not teach you real work ethic and its pampered and cushy all around.

He also says thats the reason people like them talk down to customer service people.

His definition of real jobs are jobs where you work your ass off like food service, customer service, construction, transportation, etc.

I hate to be that guy but from my experiences working in offices. I kind of agree with him.

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bluezero
09/05/23 11:44:42 AM
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I still get a real paycheck

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2Pacavelli
09/05/23 11:46:20 AM
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I can understand where he's coming from but depending on the individuals job duties and responsibilities it can be even more demanding than hard labor jobs. But I do see where he's coming from. Corporate seemed somewhat like an extension of high school and college at one point to me
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codey
09/05/23 11:47:05 AM
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I've worked blue collar and white collar jobs, and I can tell you -- as will anyone that's ever worked a blue collar job -- that it's full of lazy motherfuckers too.

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Heineken14
09/05/23 11:47:43 AM
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Your dad sounds like one of those dumb fucks who cries about people talking down to others in certain jobs while conveniently ignoring the fact that he's talking down to others in certain jobs.

Oh sorry, your "friends dad."

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LordMarshal
09/05/23 11:47:52 AM
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Ok......

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royic
09/05/23 11:48:15 AM
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Either you have difficult to achieve responsibilities at your job or you don't. Having any job where you are easily replaceable and don't bring any particular skills to the table, at a desk or on a jobsite, just teaches you to be walked all over.

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Payzmaykr
09/05/23 11:48:17 AM
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You should only have sympathy for those sorts. They literally bought into that whole hard work is a virtue, sacrifice is good line of BS that their generation had going on.

I would rather work smart than hard. You think I want to come home sore and covered in dirt and sweat? No thanks.
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NO2_Fiend
09/05/23 11:51:01 AM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
Mainly because in his experience, a lot of people there are spoiled, entitled brats who dont want to work hard. He believes that those jobs do not teach you real work ethic and its pampered and cushy all around.

He also says thats the reason people like them talk down to customer service people.

His definition of real jobs are jobs where you work your ass off like food service, customer service, construction, transportation, etc.

I hate to be that guy but from my experiences working in offices. I kind of agree with him.
The thing that bothers me is the cluelessness of those who work in the office. I had a moron in HR tell me I had to wear coveralls in the shop at all times no matter what I was doing and all during the worst heat wave in human history where our shop gets to 120+ degreese F regularly. He tried to justify it by saying he had a dress code he had to follow too. Must be really fucking awful for him to work in slacks and a short sleeve button up in his ice cold air conditioned office. Just shut the fuck up and let me do my job.

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Turbam
09/05/23 11:51:45 AM
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Your friends dad is literally this stupid ass boomer comic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/7/AANKsdAAE0CB.jpg

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TheGoldenEel
09/05/23 11:51:51 AM
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office job is a pretty wide umbrella

is engineer not a real job?

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Rexdragon125
09/05/23 11:52:17 AM
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Let me guess, he's a boomer who flipped burgers when it could single handedly sustain a family with a house
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AzNDarkSamurai
09/05/23 11:53:03 AM
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I have bad news for you because you will find a ton of people that are not so bright in office jobs too

Ask any government job

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AzNDarkSamurai
09/05/23 11:54:36 AM
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TheGoldenEel posted...
office job is a pretty wide umbrella

is engineer not a real job?

I dont think he means something highly specialized and skilled like that. I think he is referring to ordinary admin work or computer based jobs.

Rexdragon125 posted...
Let me guess, he's a boomer who flipped burgers when it could single handedly sustain a family with a house

hes actually a police officer lol

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codey
09/05/23 11:55:07 AM
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NO2_Fiend posted...
The thing that bothers me is the cluelessness of those who work in the office. I had a moron in HR tell me I had to wear coveralls in the shop at all times no matter what I was doing and all during the worst heat wave in human history where our shop gets to 120+ degreese F regularly. He tried to justify it by saying he had a dress code he had to follow too. Must be really fucking awful for him to work in slacks and a short sleeve button up in his ice cold air conditioned office. Just shut the fuck up and let me do my job.

Bro, when HR tells you to do something it's not because they want to go out there and fuck up the day, it's because the company is fucking up their day by telling them to go fuck up yours. You're getting mad at a messenger, not the message or who it's even actually coming from.

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Robot2600
09/05/23 11:55:11 AM
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bluezero posted...
I still get a real paycheck
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codey
09/05/23 11:55:29 AM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
I dont think he means something highly specialized and skilled like that. I think he is referring to ordinary admin work or computer based jobs.

hes actually a police officer lol

So an engineer lol

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TheGoldenEel
09/05/23 11:57:44 AM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
I dont think he means something highly specialized and skilled like that. I think he is referring to ordinary admin work or computer based jobs.
whats the cutoff of specialization where something becomes a real job

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AzNDarkSamurai
09/05/23 11:58:57 AM
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codey posted...
So an engineer lol


TheGoldenEel posted...
whats the cutoff of specialization where something becomes a real job

I dont know anything about engineering

but my guess is he is referring to something like IT

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Murphiroth
09/05/23 12:00:44 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...


I hate to be that guy

Lmao why lie, you love being that guy, it's your entire schtick.
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Naysaspace
09/05/23 12:02:06 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
spoiled, entitled brats who dont want to work hard
Most are lol. But so are blue collards. Most people in general dont work hard.

Sounds like hes using that as an excuse for his stupidly veiled "SWING HAMMER JOB IS TOUGH AND MANLY WRITE EMAIL JOB IS FOR WUSSY"

Which sadly, in the blue collard world, is a sentiment all too popular. And fueled by ignorance. And insecurity.
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A_Good_Boy
09/05/23 12:02:09 PM
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TheGoldenEel posted...
whats the cutoff of specialization where something becomes a real job
If you need to get up and pick up something that weighs at least 45 pounds on a daily basis.

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Turtlebread
09/05/23 12:02:22 PM
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Boomer has braindead take, anyway

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Gwynevere
09/05/23 12:05:51 PM
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bluezero posted...
I still get a real paycheck
This, and that's really all that matters. If you're getting paid, your job is "real". Anything else is just self imposed nonsense trying to apply greater meaning to work beyond just getting paid. Or in other words, cope

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Enclave
09/05/23 12:07:12 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
I dont know anything about engineering

but my guess is he is referring to something like IT

IT isn't a real job? Watch the company grind to a halt if they get rid of their IT staff.

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Rai_Jin
09/05/23 12:10:50 PM
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but an office job is often customer service?

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ai123
09/05/23 12:15:57 PM
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Unless you're doing the hottest and noisiest of jobs, you're not doing a real job.

Is the kind of attitude you get from insecure relics whose real heavy lifting involves carrying around the massive chip on their shoulder.

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UnsteadyOwl
09/05/23 12:23:29 PM
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bluezero posted...
I still get a real paycheck
Yep. Dollars still spend the same no matter how you earned them.

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TheGoldenEel
09/05/23 12:23:59 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
I dont know anything about engineering

but my guess is he is referring to something like IT
How is IT not a specialized job?

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AzNDarkSamurai
09/05/23 12:44:56 PM
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It is a specialized job but IT isnt that difficult

I have a lot of family members in that line of work and its pretty cushy

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codey
09/05/23 12:48:07 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
It is a specialized job but IT isnt that difficult

I have a lot of family members in that line of work and its pretty cushy

So you're saying it's a good job. Very specialized but doable for most people, and a comfortable work setting. That sounds like the definition of a good job to go into.

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ironman2009
09/05/23 12:48:24 PM
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bluezero posted...
I still get a real paycheck


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TendoDRM
09/05/23 12:58:38 PM
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This happened

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A_Good_Boy
09/05/23 12:59:58 PM
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TendoDRM posted...
This happened
It probably did. A lot of blue collar workers share this mentality towards white collar jobs.

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Intro2Logic
09/05/23 1:01:18 PM
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They're all real 8 hours a day

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TendoDRM
09/05/23 1:01:38 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
It probably did. A lot of blue collar workers share this mentality towards white collar jobs.

I don't doubt someone having this sentiment, I just don't believe any of TC's topics happened.

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darkace77450
09/05/23 1:03:24 PM
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"I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet." - John Quincy Adams

"I am a coal miner, so that my son may be a coal miner, so that his son may be a coal miner." - some dumbass
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Gwynevere
09/05/23 1:03:51 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
It is a specialized job but IT isnt that difficult

I have a lot of family members in that line of work and its pretty cushy
So is the criteria difficulty or is it specialization? And why does it keep shifting as more scrutiny is applied to the concept of a "real" job

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Jiek_Fafn
09/05/23 1:06:30 PM
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My uncle that works at Nintendo, says this guy is banned from Zelda now. If he keeps up saying this kind of shit, he'll lose Mario too. He needs to watch his mouth before he's only stuck with Fzero

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MedeaLysistrata
09/05/23 1:07:03 PM
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Office workers are truly the elite social class

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AzNDarkSamurai
09/05/23 1:13:43 PM
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Gwynevere posted...
So is the criteria difficulty or is it specialization? And why does it keep shifting as more scrutiny is applied to the concept of a "real" job

his point sounds pretty clear IMO.

A real job is a job thats difficult, not a job thats easy and that you can coast on which basically are most office jobs.

lets be honest. he has a point. its exactly why most cushy office job workers behave like spoiled brats. they dont know a damn thing about working hard.

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Murphiroth
09/05/23 1:19:58 PM
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Let's be honest, he doesn't have a point, you don't have a point, and your gimmick is trash.

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toreysback
09/05/23 1:20:28 PM
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it's a coping mechanism and/or a way to feel superior to others who you otherwise suspect might be feeling superior to you

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Kradek
09/05/23 1:20:43 PM
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Is your dad someone who spends his time figuring out ways to get the working class fighting with each other.

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Enclave
09/05/23 1:45:09 PM
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Kradek posted...
Is your dad someone who spends his time figuring out ways to get the working class fighting with each other.

Sure sounds like it.

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codey
09/05/23 2:01:17 PM
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...
his point sounds pretty clear IMO.

A real job is a job thats difficult, not a job thats easy and that you can coast on which basically are most office jobs.

lets be honest. he has a point. its exactly why most cushy office job workers behave like spoiled brats. they dont know a damn thing about working hard.

Your "friends dad" sounds suspiciously like you.

And again, having worked white collar jobs and blue collar jobs where I was literally filling sandbags day in and day out, blue collar jobs have just as many lazy motherfuckers coasting through the job.

Have you ever even been on a job site? You'll find plenty of dudes that "look" like they're working while more efficient workers get the job done.

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