{"id":7575,"date":"2017-03-28T05:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T05:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2017\/03\/28\/white-collar-office-workers-looking-down-on\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T05:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T05:07:28","slug":"white-collar-office-workers-looking-down-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2017\/03\/28\/white-collar-office-workers-looking-down-on\/","title":{"rendered":"White collar office workers looking down on minimum wage fast food workers…"},"content":{"rendered":"

haveievermentioned<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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inquisitorhotpants<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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thepeoplesfriend<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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punlich<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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telegantmess<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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blue-author<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You go into your job, you piddle around getting coffee and getting \u201cset up\u201d every morning when you\u2019re on the clock, you spend an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon on Facebook, you mess around on the internet in between that, and you have a custodial staff cleaning up after you.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to do the cleaning yourself. You don\u2019t have bosses telling you\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019ve got time to lean, you\u2019ve got time to clean.\u201d You have time to lean. You lean on your desk during the mid-afternoon slump and no one says anything except to remark on how many hours you have to go. You lean on your friend\u2019s cubicle wall while you talk about the big game or your guild raid or who said what about whom on TV last night. Sure, if you do that too often or too obviously, someone will say something, but the mere fact that conversation happens isn\u2019t automatically taken as a red flag that someone is stealing time from The Company.<\/p>\n

You might have to kiss up to the boss or a touring client from time to time, but mostly, you don\u2019t have to provide service with a smile or anything like that. You don\u2019t have to smile and speak cheerfully and politely to customers who are making your job difficult by their apathy, entitlement, and disrespect. You can sit there and grimace and sneer and roll your eyes at the computer monitor, muttering under your breath (or speaking out loud to your neighbors) about what a live one you\u2019re dealing with as you type out your considered and professional reply. Whatever your job is, you\u2019re just expected to do it, not do it and perform the emotional labor of a continuous mask of unflappable perkiness.<\/p>\n

Your schedule is not a weekly guessing game. It\u2019s not set by someone playing chicken with the part-time\/full-time boundary. You aren\u2019t expected to come in before your shift to get everything set up or stay after you\u2019ve clocked out in order to clean everything up for tomorrow. You don\u2019t live in a state of constant tension between the fact that you don\u2019t make enough money even with the hours they deign to give you and the fact that they give you hours designed to ensure you can\u2019t have any life or commitments outside the job.<\/p>\n

White collar workers are paid with the expectation that they will have done their jobs within the time that they spend in the office, not that they will have worked a solid 8 or 10 hours the entire time they were on the clock.<\/p>\n

Minimum wage workers are treated like if they aren\u2019t performing two or three jobs the entire time they\u2019re on the clocks, they\u2019re stealing their wages.<\/p>\n

Source: I have worked white collar office jobs, and listened to my friends who have worked minimum wage service jobs. I could probably still do the former, if I hadn\u2019t transitioned and if transportation weren\u2019t an issue. I know for a fact I could not do the latter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have worked both types of jobs and this is very accurate.<\/p>\n

even the micromanaged white collar jobs are still less intensely policed than minimum wage jobs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To every fucking Desk Jockey calling fast food workers \u201cBurger Flippers\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve done both this summer and it was super odd to have my \u201ccareer path\u201d job being something I could read every single new York Times op-ed over the course of while I had to be on basically constantly for my 9 an hour fake job<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When IT works well, you have a lot of time to fuck around. If you\u2019re good at your job, you have a lot of time to fuck around.<\/p>\n

I came home from my fast food job FUCKING EXHAUSTED every fucking night. There was no standing around. There was no posting on LJ. I had more free time in the office IN THE MARINES than I did working fast food.<\/p>\n

People who call fast food workers \u201clazy burger flippers\u201d around me get an earful, because that is some bulllllllshit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve done food and retail, currently working white collar. <\/p>\n

Yeah. Food workers are NOT lazy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

haveievermentioned: inquisitorhotpants: thepeoplesfriend: punlich: telegantmess: blue-author: You go into your job, you piddle around getting coffee and getting \u201cset up\u201d every morning when you\u2019re on the clock, you spend an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon on Facebook, you mess around on the internet in between that, and you have a … Continue reading White collar office workers looking down on minimum wage fast food workers…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3037],"class_list":["post-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-truth","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}