Current Events > Over 70% of Workers in the US are unhappy with their jobs. Who is to blame?

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The first two choices are essentially the same thing.

Lol Wtf

I think most people work on something they didnt study for, but jobs are made 10 times worse by the environment and hostility from supervisors and management.

Surreal thats actually there.

Dystopian as fuck

BTW, if something applies to 70% of people that would imply that something systemic is at play

Themselves and probably their parents.

not surprising. a truly fulfilling job is rare.

Why would you blame the employer and not themselves? If they're that unhappy then they can work and better themselves to get a better job. It's hard but it's within the realm of possibility but people rather bitch and moan than actually attempting to better themselves. _

It's literally the same logic with those incel topics you see here constantly, everyone tells them if they want to attract a mate then the first crucial thing they must do is to better themselves. And it makes sense, why should anyone accept someone who won't even try to get better as a person. If you can't do that even for your own self then you deserve to be unhappy. It's as simple as that.

Motherfuckers won't try to resolve their unhappiness but will quickly point the finger and blame everyone else for their failures and saying that everyone else is the problem... please make it make sense to me. _

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

BTW, if something applies to 70% of people that would imply that something systemic is at play

It could be 99% and people that literally hate their jobs would be blaming workers for hating their jobs. It already happens.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

I think most people work on something they didnt study for, but jobs are made 10 times worse by the environment and hostility from supervisors and management.

Surreal thats actually there.

Yup. I had a job that involved being in an office and it made me physically ill to be there. The lights, the noise (of people, of the printer, of phones going off constantly), and just being trapped there.

I started working from home and my productivity shot through the roof. I'm also fortunate that my job doesn't micromanage the remote work; I had an offer from a place that was going to constantly monitor me through a webcam and I wouldn't have been allowed to even drink water or get up for the entirety of my eight hour shift.

Were serfs to blame for being unhappy with their situation?

You're supposed to blame yourself according to all those self help books. If you're just gonna blame the employer you're accepting that it will always suck instead of doing something to make your job suck less.

75/25

75 their employer
25 their degree

They're unhappy their not making enough to paybback their loans for the degree, but mostly because their employer wont pay them what their worth. But its both.

_Rinku_ posted...

Yup. I had a job that involved being in an office and it made me physically ill to be there. The lights, the noise (of people, of the printer, of phones going off constantly), and just being trapped there.

I started working from home and my productivity shot through the roof. I'm also fortunate that my job doesn't micromanage the remote work; I had an offer from a place that was going to constantly monitor me through a webcam and I wouldn't have been allowed to even drink water or get up for the entirety of my eight hour shift.

Sounds illegal. They gotta at least let you take a lunch break.

I didn't like my job so I got a job I liked

BilalPowell posted...

Sounds illegal. They gotta at least let you take a lunch break.

Not in my state. You're not legally entitled to any kind of break (except a smoke break, I think).

BilalPowell posted...

Sounds illegal. They gotta at least let you take a lunch break.

A bunch of states don't legally require breaks.

_Rinku_ posted...

Not in my state. You're not legally entitled to any kind of break (except a smoke break, I think).

Well there you go pretend you need a smoke break

Probably a little from each column.

Newsflash: next to no one really loves their job. At least I don't think anyone wouldn't rather be doing something else. Some of us are lucky to get something we don't mind doing, but even then, I think a lot of current unhappiness is just a culture that hates giving up free time for anything or anyone, which leads to poor work attitude and results, which leads to upset bosses and customers that get angry after a while, ending in misery that could be avoided, or at least minimized by coming in to give a rats ass.

fuck That that is evil

We are all to blame

You left out the biggest reason: customers

(Depending on the job of course. But ffs can we please stop letting customers getting away with being pieces of shit?)

What_ posted...

We are all to blame

But mostly employers. If they aren't bringing you down, bad co-workers are, which is also their fault. It usually comes down to greed and lack of respect.

Employer hands down.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/5/AAMM2kAADCyL.jpg

Fuck employers. It doesn't matter what industry. They almost never treat or pay workers right. We have to fight them on everything.

This comes from a high school thing in Florida btw. They're brainwashing kids young.

rexcrk posted...

You left out the biggest reason: customers

(Depending on the job of course. But ffs can we please stop letting customers getting away with being pieces of shit?)

But if stop letting them be pieces of shit, some of them will either get violent or sue

Neither of which corporate would want

MachineJaipur posted...

But if stop letting them be pieces of shit, some of them will either get violent or sue

Neither of which corporate would want

Right. Part of stop letting them be pieces of shit includes taking them out if they start getting violent with no repercussions on the employees end, and the courts dismissing their cases ;)

rexcrk posted...

Right. Part of stop letting them be pieces of shit includes taking them out if they start getting violent with no repercussions on the employees end, and the courts dismissing their cases ;)

My understanding is unless they leave willingly or via police escort, security services usually can only get involved to immediately protect someone under attack.

So idk how you're going to take them out if they don't want to leave.

I do like the thing is about Emotional Health and its telling you to blame yourself

That is totally healthy /s

Turtlemayor333 posted...

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Man do I hate CVS

Mr. Booze

hockeybub89 posted...

Man do I hate CVS

Totally missed the bottom sign

That's so fucked lmao

Turtlemayor333 posted...

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lmfao

Turtlemayor333 posted...

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Companies really do treat their employees like they're children

Turtlemayor333 posted...

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L m a o

These kind of numbers are meaningless without a point of comparison. "People don't like to work" isn't even a controversial statement, but if you say "70% of Americans don't like their job" suddenly in it's an indictment of something?

I'm also kind of confused where these numbers came from given that the world economic forum puts job satisfaction in the US at close to 80%:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/job-satisfaction-global

s0nicfan posted...

These kind of numbers are meaningless without a point of comparison. "People don't like to work" isn't even a controversial statement, but if you say "70% of Americans don't like their job" suddenly in it's an indictment of something?

I'm also kind of confused where these numbers came from given that the world economic forum puts job satisfaction in the US at close to 80%:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/job-satisfaction-global

One key thing is the study you are showing is from 2019. Now idea where the data in the OP is pulled from, but if it is recent since COVID, it could explain a lot.

Turtlemayor333 posted...

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Replace the water bottles with vodka, and I'm applying there tomorrow.

Then again, my company has a very liberal alcohol policy, so I think I'm good.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Replace the water bottles with vodka, and I'm applying there tomorrow.

Then again, my company has a very liberal alcohol policy, so I think I'm good.

Unless I'm misreading the sign, the employees aren't being given the stuff on the table. That is merely a display of appreciation, not actually giving them anything.

The government for subjecting us to two decades of wartime wages and inflation. Money and resources that SHOULD have expanded the workforce was spent on the war, which was essentially divvied up by the various war profiteers who have run roughshod over our country for twenty years.

Norman_Smiley posted...

Unless I'm misreading the sign, the employees aren't being given the stuff on the table. That is merely a display of appreciation, not actually giving them anything.

Oh. That's why it's not vodka.

_Rinku_ posted...

I wouldn't have been allowed to even drink water or get up for the entirety of my eight hour shift.

Pretty sure that is illegal.

Norman_Smiley posted...

Unless I'm misreading the sign, the employees aren't being given the stuff on the table. That is merely a display of appreciation, not actually giving them anything.

Wait yeah I didn't even notice that little sign that says "Please do not tamper with anything on Display Table. Its being returned to the(?) shelf"

They just had to add that extra kick in the balls, didn't they?

YugiNoob posted...

Wait yeah I didn't even notice that little sign that says "Please do not tamper with anything on Display Table. Its being returned to the(?) shelf"

They just had to add that extra kick in the balls, didn't they?

One of those times where it is better to do nothing at all.

Norman_Smiley posted...

One of those times where it is better to do nothing at all.

A "fuck you" would have been better lolol

Over 70% of CEmen say the employer is who to blame