Just got hired as a restaurant manager. Not really my ideal job, considering that I have a college degree, but what the hell? My internship/volunteer work will still continue, allowing me to boost my experience so I can get a better job when the economy recovers (assuming Barack Insane Obama doesn't finish it off for good).
Plus I'll get to move in with two of my friends (both of them unapologetic communists--no joke) who are also working shitty jobs. We can all complain together and drink heavily! This is going to be super awesome.
Showing posts with label job culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job culture. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Why Are Young People Liberal?
Two National Review regulars debate why young people are liberal:
As a young person myself (but not a liberal) let me say that these guys are both totally wrong about nearly everything here.
Why are young people liberal? Answer: because nobody will fucking hire us! It's that simple. Older conservative employers would go a long ways toward fixing the situation simply by offering us jobs with decent benefits.
Unfortunately, most young people don't understand that the government (especially with our current fanatical anti-business president) is the problem. All they know is they can't get a job or pay the bills, and that only the Democrats are addressing those concerns in any way, shape or form. Yes, their solutions are garbage but they're at least providing young people with the delusion that they care about it. Republicans are more interested in calling us lazy.
Gee, it's such a mystery why young people don't vote for Republicans...
As a young person myself (but not a liberal) let me say that these guys are both totally wrong about nearly everything here.
Why are young people liberal? Answer: because nobody will fucking hire us! It's that simple. Older conservative employers would go a long ways toward fixing the situation simply by offering us jobs with decent benefits.
Unfortunately, most young people don't understand that the government (especially with our current fanatical anti-business president) is the problem. All they know is they can't get a job or pay the bills, and that only the Democrats are addressing those concerns in any way, shape or form. Yes, their solutions are garbage but they're at least providing young people with the delusion that they care about it. Republicans are more interested in calling us lazy.
Gee, it's such a mystery why young people don't vote for Republicans...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Claire Wolfe: Dark Satanic Cubicles
We've made wage-slavery so much a part of our culture that it probably doesn't even occur to most people that there's something unnatural about separating work from the rest of our lives. Or about spending our entire working lives producing things in which we can often take only minimal personal pride – or no pride at all.
We're happy! We tell ourselves. We're the most prosperous! free! happy! people ever to live on earth! We're longer-lived, healthier, smarter, and just generally better off than anybody, ever, at any time on planet Earth. So we go on telling ourselves as we dash off to our counseling appointments, down our Prozac, or stare into the dregs of that latest bottle of wine.
Horsefeathers! You know what we sound like, assuring ourselves of our good fortune? We sound like the mechanized voices whispering to the pre-programmed bottle babies in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: “Alpha children... work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas.”
To believe how happy we are we have to ignore our rising rates of drug abuse, our soaring rates of depression, our backaches, our carpal tunnel syndromes, and our chronic fatigue syndrome. We have to ignore the billions of dollars and billions of hours we spend on mood-altering pharmaceuticals, drug-abuse counseling, headache remedies, mindless escape entertainment, day-care centers, status purchases, unhealthy comfort foods, shop-a-holic sprees, and doctor's care for all our vague, non-specific physical and mental ills.
You think that's how a happy person spends his time and money? Gimme a break!
Dark Satanic Cubicles
We're happy! We tell ourselves. We're the most prosperous! free! happy! people ever to live on earth! We're longer-lived, healthier, smarter, and just generally better off than anybody, ever, at any time on planet Earth. So we go on telling ourselves as we dash off to our counseling appointments, down our Prozac, or stare into the dregs of that latest bottle of wine.
Horsefeathers! You know what we sound like, assuring ourselves of our good fortune? We sound like the mechanized voices whispering to the pre-programmed bottle babies in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: “Alpha children... work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas.”
To believe how happy we are we have to ignore our rising rates of drug abuse, our soaring rates of depression, our backaches, our carpal tunnel syndromes, and our chronic fatigue syndrome. We have to ignore the billions of dollars and billions of hours we spend on mood-altering pharmaceuticals, drug-abuse counseling, headache remedies, mindless escape entertainment, day-care centers, status purchases, unhealthy comfort foods, shop-a-holic sprees, and doctor's care for all our vague, non-specific physical and mental ills.
You think that's how a happy person spends his time and money? Gimme a break!
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