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 No.728[Reply]

What is your thoughts on 'gig economy'? What if socialism looked like a 'gig economy'?
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 No.746

>>745
>I'm going to forget the surplus part, do service workers produce value?

bro really i thought this was a marxist board
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 No.747

>>746
Not that anon, but they do refer back to surplus value a few paragraphs below that.

I've seen "surplus value" used to refer to profits taken from service workers, too - it's really common, and I'm not sure if it's meaningfully wrong, and it certainly doesn't seem meaningfully wrong in instances like retail, delivery, etc. where the function of the services done is still the sale and maintenance of products.
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 No.748

>>747
Yea I don't necessarily buy into the idea in that blog, that's why i asked. In fact when I was reading his post before i remembered I was the guy he responded to I was thinking, "whoever he's responding to is a moron". But conflating use value and surplus value like they're interchangeable is absurd, and on top of that, "sales" as I recall is a surplus-value-realizing occupation but not surplus value generating. The question isn't supposed to be, do service workers "have value" in some sense, but instead, "do service workers have leverage and revolutionary potential on the basis of seizing the means of production". And it seems the answer may be "no".

My feeling is it's that the value added to whatever product they're handling is just very low relative to the value already involved, because it's at the end of a very long supply chain. So if you are adding an additional "1%" value to your product, guess what: no leverage
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 No.750

>>748
>So if you are adding an additional "1%" value to your product, guess what: no leverage
That seems really arbitrary when the total amount "1%" actually covers would in practice be billions or trillions of dollars a year when evaluating service workers as a strata within the overall workforce. You can draw the line any number of places and get a larger or smaller percentage, but if you're asking about revolutionary potential then the whole will always be better than any of its individual parts. Service workers are increasingly aware of their exploitation just like other workers, and so they should be! The greatest hindrances to leverage are lack of organization, captured unions, and high costs of living/lack of adequate pay, and any progress anywhere against this is good.
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 No.751

>>750
I like the way you think. I was just inspired to be negative since 2-4 years ago in my city a bunch of baristas unionised and the owner of the coffee chain just shut down every one of his businesses in a tantrum. So unlike rail workers, nurses, flight controllers, whoever, it seems like the service sector (is nursing service sector?) is extra vulnerable to capital strike.


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 No.706[Reply]

Hey anons,
I'm currently an archivist and (substitute) teacher in the US. It's time for me to get the hell out. I know that Taiwan accepts substitute teaching licenses for public schools (most other countries require a real teaching license for public schools)

I know Taiwan was founded by the KMT, are they still fascist? Or Fascist Lite like the US? I'm just starting the process now and it's not like my heart is set on Taiwan or anything.

Has anyone else done this or heard good/bad things about it?

Comradely,
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 No.712

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>America is only Fascist Lite
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 No.713

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>only Fascist Lite™
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 No.714

>>706
>>713
>>>totally missing the point of the post and derailing it with a bunch of gore images
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 No.740

I've never taught abroad but I did work at a university abroad. I was in the Middle East so I can't comment about Taiwan, but make sure you vet the school you work at. Private universities are notoriously shitholes that violate labor laws among other things.

If you don't want to work in Taiwan, why don't you just go to China? Again, I've never been a teacher, but I'm pretty sure all you need is a bachelors and TEFL cert to start teaching English. If you want to break from that, I assume you could study for whatever cert you need online while already abroad.
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 No.741

Check out an IELTS if you can


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 No.683[Reply]

Unless you find your dream job and strike it rich, what is the point? To eventually get a house which you don’t even really own? Yours always paying shit anyways. Would rather play Overwatch.
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 No.726

>>725
>There will always be a job and if there are no jobs, that just means people are not looking hard enough.
No it doesn't.
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 No.730

>>725
>I want them to have more kids so we can eventually live in a utopia.

>That's true, but everything always happens. There will always be a job and if there are no jobs, that just means people are not looking hard enough. Or my kids can get their own jobs.


These two paragraphs contradict each other.
How can your kids be fruit full and multiply if there aren't enough jobs for everyone?

Are you aware that in small towns, unskilled labor is gatekept single parents?

Also the majority of the current job market is customer service. Blue collar jobs are lacking skilled quantity due to academic propaganda
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 No.731

>>730
When my children will grow up, they will get a job. The world will not remain static. My children will be better than other children.
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 No.735

>>731
So you're delusional.
Good to know.
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 No.736

>>731
not sure if satire


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 No.699[Reply]

I haven't made a resume in years. I am looking for a new job because the mill has become an oppressive nightmare and i refuse to work there. Can you guys help me with my resume? What website can i go to to use an outline?
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 No.700

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>>699
What I would do is just get yourself a LaTex template for a resume on a site like this: https://www.latextemplates.com/cat/curricula-vitae

unzip it, edit the .tex file (it's a bit like editing html, shouldn't be too hard) and then make a pdf with the pdflatex command.

(You can edit .tex with any text editor, or Gummi will render the document on one side for you)
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 No.733

>>700
Not OP, but thank you anon! I'll try this for my resume, it sounds useful!


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 No.715[Reply]

I have been a NEET for about two years. I dropped out of school at like 9th grade. I have no idea what I should be doing now. Is it over or should I just make up experience? Do employers even care?
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 No.716

Where have you applied?
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 No.717

>>716
Haven't applied to anything yet. I don't know if there's hope to get any sort of position. Not in this economy. Don't know what to do, at all.
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 No.718

>>717
Alright.
As a first step, I recommend making a day of going out into town and applying at every place you know. Retail, bars, clubs, restaurants, etc.

Make a resume to take with you, just write it down on a piece of paper - you dropped out in 9th grade? Did you get a GED, and, if not, do you think that you would be able to pass a GED? I'm asking strictly because it might not make that much of a difference if you simply write down that your highest level of education was "high school" and just say you graduated. Regardless, your highest level of education (we'll say 9th grade for now) goes on your resume.
Did you get any experience in anything extracurricular?

Whatever school experience you have goes on the resume, and if you've had any extracurricular experience you might want to include that, too, if you haven't had any jobs. Any gig work should also go on there.

If you aren't regularly going out into the place where you'll be looking, look at places in that area online - write down phone numbers, email addresses, etc. of the places where you're looking for work. Make a personal list for yourself of businesses where you will apply, and include whatever contact info you can find with this list.

If you know anyone who has a job, reach out to them, too. They may be able to put in a good word for you if you ask them, and they can tell you if there are any openings at the places where they work.
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 No.720

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>>718
Thank you so much for the advice anon!
>Did you get a GED, and, if not, do you think that you would be able to pass a GED?
No, I think I would be able to pass it, but with the bare minimum.
>Did you get any experience in anything extracurricular?
Not much, I developed games, and composed music, but I was an amateur at both. I wrote a lot in my blog, but I have a tendency to delete a lot of what I created. I also have created websites and own domains, and made a bunch of videos.
>Any gig work should also go on there.
I'll put it on there, should I just create a blank account, and see if it'd work out?
>If you know anyone who has a job, reach out to them, too. They may be able to put in a good word for you if you ask them, and they can tell you if there are any openings at the places where they work.
Thank you so much! I'll see if I can get in contact with some people, I've lost a lot of my hobbies recently. It's hard to be into anything.
Is retail the best? A lot of the stores I see already look to have all the employees they possibly could.


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 No.719[Reply]

switching from working s fuckass grocery job to a dishwasher at a local burger joint is amazing, I love a place I can work and know the guy who owns the restaurant and sometimes even visits to help cook and joke around with the staff, I respect a local owned business more honestly, you guys agree?


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 No.609[Reply]

idk if this is the right board but

how do i overcome laziness / procrastination? please


relating to things such as assignments
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 No.654

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asdfsadf
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 No.655

>>611
I know it sounds stupid but it's the only way.
If you think there's medical issues impeding you then you need to do something like see a docter for example.

Make sense?
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 No.656

>>609
I've never found a good way to stop procrastinating. Might as well focus on things you can actually do.
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 No.690

Stop doing assignments.
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 No.704

If you want to stop procrastination: -

1) change your environment. Go to a library or something, leave all your entertaining shit at home.
2) turn your mobile off, or lock it away
3) break down your tasks, and keep breaking them down smaller until you actually make progress. Just opening the document can be one, or working for 2 minutes, whatever it takes.
4) try the pomodoro method - agree that you will do X task for 25 minutes and then reward yourself with a 5 minute break. I find this very helpful.

The more you procrastinate, the more pressure you feel because the task gets bigger or more tasks get added to your to-do list. The more pressure you feel, the more stressed you are, the more you want to avoid the task and do something that feels enjoyable. It is a very difficult cycle to break, but you have to start somewhere, no matter how small.


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 No.11[Reply]

Welcome to the work day general.

Tell us about your day anon. Did you have a good day at work? Its OK we know work is horrible.

I work graves at a factory. If you have it shitty at work I can relate.

Tell us about your day under the crushing weight of the profit motive.
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 No.691

I worked a whole day… Now what?
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 No.692

>>691
keep goin
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 No.696

>>692
KEEP GRINDING WORK SLAVE!
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 No.697

Work bump

Wish i was neet sometimes
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 No.698

>>697
n33t is unhappy too. i think i am gonna save u like 400k and retire early by getting a part time job.


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 No.693[Reply]

is this /WRK/ culture?
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 No.694

Allahu Akbar
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 No.695

such a fucking classic


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 No.679[Reply]

> for context:
> I can't get a job due to my grades (still in school)
> On the urge of drugs
> I dont have a bank account

Anyone have tips for a person who needs to find work, most specifically online jobs?
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 No.680

Why online jobs?
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 No.681

Getting a job while still in high school was almost impossible for me. You basically had to know someone. I remember people wouldn't want to hire me for minimum wage jobs, even though it's like nearly free labour.

Some gas station called me in for an interview 6 months after I applied, what a joke.

Once you get a bit of experience somewhere it gets easier, but for now I would ask your friends, your friends parents, your parent's friends etc… See if they have any work for you or heard of places that are hiring. Follow up with them too, so they actually ask around.

It will probably be something local and physical rather than online.
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 No.682

>>681
This. Adults accuse teenagers of being lazy for not having a job but nobody wants to hire school kids for basic tasks due to liability laws


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