#and require labour

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Honestly hate the web of social conventions and competition and capitalistic career-worship that prevents me from answering the question “so, why do you want this job?” by simply texting the interviewer this image:

[nacreousor]

There are soooooo many instances in The Pitt where a character says an objectively completely normal/socially acceptable/logical next step in the conversation thing to say and then everyone looks at them like they're insane.

[dead-generations]

people like to get their panties in a twist over the phrase "unskilled labour" because it implies stupidity and low wages and because it literally says unskilled, but then they also say that there's no such thing as 'unskilled labour' because you every job takes some degree of effort and thought.

which, sure, true, but when you look at what unskilled labour denotes in practice (besides fuck you, get paid less) you'll see that it actually denotes pre-job skill. Being a waiter is unskilled labour because anyone can just jump in and learn, but being an electrician takes years of both study and apprenticeship.

I think when you pretend there isn't a difference here, you just sound like a middle class kid cranky about being a cashier, who has no idea the level of skill that goes into a trade.

[inorganicorgan]

This is what I look when I listen to music and imagine the most impossible-to-create, highest budget, most gut-wrenching Snowbird animations:

Me after listening to my Snowbird playlist for too long

[nando161mando]

capitalism requires a reserve army of labour.

[sunjoys]

holy shit i need to kill every british tourist in ireland in the 1840s - 1850s

[unmotivational-motivation]

Just continuous improvement in the workplace thing <3

Sometimes you just want someone to listen to an idea of yours and give you a straight answer; not a roadmap, some excuses, and a vague promise to look into it <3

[softcarebears]

decision making for tumblr themes are so hard like why does nobody talk about it?...like do i keep my theme or do i change it?? the thoughts in your head will be like "i'm so attached to this theme i love it so much...but i also want something new" but "if i change it i need make it look pretty and aesthetic i'll have to look for a good colour scheme and palette , bios, headers and profile pics that match..." URGH!!!

[clementime8]

award for Most Experience goes to drawing a rope at 1am when you're so tired you feel like your about to die and you're also in the verge of a panic attack because this rope is art homework that you have missed twice

also tinutus

anyway my ights going great how are you??????

[majorbaby]

i think the global collapse of esports is a net positive for labour because the business model was so exploitative that it couldn't survive a single day, let alone be profitable, without people willingly signing on to work in deplorable conditions which weren't a secret to anyone. kids being paid in mousepads and team merch and shit. fans tweeting their support for teams for a single season and getting picked up (read: preyed upon) to do social media management in three languages. high visibility casters getting sacked via text message to say nothing of how they treated women and the very young and mostly Asian player talent.

i think you might be able to argue that it's possible for some industries to be reformed, but personally i'm happy to see this one die when most of the workers would've been better off pouring coffee and literal teenagers were investing 5-10 years of their lives into this house of cards. hopefully when it comes back people just refuse to get involved unless there's something more attractive offered than clout and poverty wages - if you're paid at all lol. and that's not to say it's the fault of the very passionate labour force for getting involved, the blame is still primarily on franchise owners and publishers. but we can and should encourage people not to knowingly or not, engage with scams when they come with a big red label that says "scam" on them - without shaming them. fame was such a big part of the draw. love of games the communities around them was another, and we know how that traps people in game production and esports was a severe downgrade from that.

... however the lengths to which the very people who were exploited by this industry are going to eulogize the good stuff right now (and don't get me wrong, there was lots of good stuff) makes me nervous that when it does come back we won't remember how overwhelmingly terrible it was. every kind of terrible you can imagine.

[draconicsplendor]

Boggles my mind that people are looking to get rid of other people that do the job they want done. Like cashiers are being replaced with self-checkout stations and artists and writers are being replaced with computer-generated images and writing but if I ever had a business my whole mantra would be that if the job can be done by a person and I can afford to pay that person then that’s what I’m gonna do. Forget GenAI like the second my hypothetical business can afford to hire graphic designers I’m ditching Canva and never looking back.

How did we ever get here

[forehead451]

fuck it.

I AM DISABLED!!!

[tenth-sentence]

Longaville. You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Love's Labour's Lost (Act I, Scene I)

[olivergisttv]

How New UK Immigration Laws Impact Small Businesses

The UK government’s recent changes to immigration laws are stirring up debates across industries, particularly for small businesses. These shifts are reshaping the landscape of hiring, workforce diversity, and operational flexibility. Small businesses, which often rely on hiring talent from overseas to fill skill gaps, are facing new challenges, but also opportunities to adapt and thrive in an…

[acolyteoftheabyss]

Me: my office job is awful and I hate it—truly the worst

Average Tumblrite: actually you’re privileged and entitled

[virtue-boy]

also literally stated in the excerpt:

"A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling. But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."