• MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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      1 year ago

      No matter how endless or insufferable people might be, that job may still be preferable for someone than the alternative opportunities available.

    • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Let me translate that.

      If you get overworked at an exploitative minimum wage job, then that’s definitely on you

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        There are many different minimum wage jobs out there. Speaking as an introvert who has had several of them, if small talk is that taxing for you then you should consider a job with less intrinsic social requirements.

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      1 year ago

      Hey look it’s a comment from the parallel universe where we live in an anarcho communist society and don’t have to work to live. What’s it like being able to make coersion-free choices about how to spend your time?

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        1 year ago

        on the one hand, victim blaming is bad, and we shouldn’t do that. On the other hand, there isn’t a shortage of bullshit dead end jobs that don’t require previous experience, so you can absolutely get a job that is more or less customer facing if need be.

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          I definitely feel like there’s a correlation between jobs being entry level and being customer facing. Also in many jobs of any level you still have “customer management” even if that customer can take different shapes than the usual retail crowd, but that’s not always a good thing.

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            1 year ago

            Restaurants have kitchen staff. Retail has merchandisers and night crew. I’m sure I can come up with more if I put any effort into it whatsoever. I’m not saying that customer facing jobs aren’t the majority of entry level positions, but they’re far from all of them.