>AAAAAAAAA I HATE MY STABLE WELL PAYING EASY JOB AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IM GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

>>211499235 (OP)
>Stable
it wasn't he was set to be laid off
>Well paying
It wasn't he lived in a crappy apartment
>Easy
It wasn't he was constantly called in to work late and on weekends.

they made him work on Saturday

were millennials really that delusional

Every single day I dream about quitting my programmer job and moving to a rural area.

>>211499235 (OP)
lol I look like that and say that

>>211499362
>>Well paying
>It wasn't he lived in a crappy apartment
He was an IT monkey in the 90s he could have easily afforded a 4 bedroom house

A nine-to-five job is designed to keep you working, all you do is live from payday to payday - at the end of the week you broke again. What a pathetic NPC life

>>211499235 (OP)
He should raise his monitor to eye level he's going to grow a hunchback lol

>>211499529
What do other people do for a living?

>>211499235 (OP)
Why is this shit here every day
Stop

>>211499884
People didn't give a shit about that in the 90s. You're given a cubicle, barebones PC and you're told to crunch numbers.

>>211501706
thats zased

I quit my desk job to do construction after watching this movie. Best decision i ever made

Office space is a movie about a guy about to be laid off from a job that was only ever temporary by efficiency consultants hired by his company to justify terminating people they hired specifically for a short term job, who were hired under false pretenses at the time, believing they had landed permanent employment. His job was to manually edit raw code to not shit itself when the year rolled over to 2000 from 1999, under supervision of eight different bosses.

>>211499518
He was a code monkey.

>>211499464
Then do it. Oh wait, you can't, but because [enter stupid excuses here]

>>211499529
If you have a cushy 9 to 5 you shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck. That's for blue collar and retail fags

>>211503450
The only way to avoid living paycheck to paycheck is to get a job in a place with a much higher cost of living than your home.

Or be an upper middle management diversity hire with no actual job.

>>211503535
If you make over $50k and are still living paycheck to paycheck then I have no sympathy for you and will just assume you're a financial retard who probably blows their money on cigarettes and beer like a trailer trash faggot

>>211503248
Seems fair to me. You can't have coders on permanent employment when you gotta pay the salaries of all the bosses. Workers should expect to be expendible.

>>211503079
Why do you like working in construction?

>>211499235 (OP)
you can take some classes at a community college and learn to code if that seems appealing to you, anon

>>211503731
50k isn’t a living wage in most of the US.

>>211504399
It's not if you spend it all on cigarettes and beer

imagine not taking the self employed pill

yeah just keep working to make your boss money

>>211504514
'self employment' doesnt exist, you just become the slave of your customers and clients

>>211504598
can confirm what you said is wageslave cope

>>211503079
>now instead of working in an air conditioned office, I get to destroy my body while being exposed to the sun all day and will develop chronic pain by 30! Fuck yeah!

>>211499235 (OP)
At this point, I sympathize with him. I can't stand working 9-5, five days a week. It's driving me insane. I have to find a job that does 4 day work weeks.

>>211504488
>he fell for the "its your fault the cost of living where you're employed is higher than the wages anyone is willing to pay" maymay

>>211504891
if physical activity destroys your body, you're doing something extremely wrong.

I for one am glad that gen Z's lives are so miserable that they openly yearn for dogshit because at least that'd be better than whatever the fuck they're doing now. It's a generation that needs to be drafted and sent off to die, at least that'd be an arc.

>>211505114
it isn't zoomers making these threads.

>>211504399
I live in a normie suburb in southeast Pennsylvania. Rent is $1200, my payments on my 2023 vehicle are $450. Other ~fixed expenses: utilities, car insurance, etc. bring me up to a total of $2300/month. Food/gas/entertainment I spend about $1k/month. I don't separate these out because they all just go on my credit card. That's $40k/year spending and that's with making payments on a new car. Take that out and the spending drops to $35k/year. A $50k gross after federal/state/local taxes is just over $40k/year. I need nothing. I want for nothing. I am wealthy in a way 90% of the world cannot even fathom.

This movie couldn't be made today, because AI has taken over the job completely....

>>211505114
I'm glad gen z are miserable because they say mean things to me on the internet.

>>211503403
not him but how do i make a living in a rural area and provide for my family when I have no previous connections in the area?

>>211505236
some people dont want to live in breezewood anon no matter how affordable it is

>make under 50k as a programmer at a university
>asked boss directly for a raise
>basically said yes you totally deserve it but almost every university has a hiring and budget freeze because of trump so I literally can't get you one now

Trump is directly negatively impacting my life

>>211505236
>high cost of living? What’re you talking about cost of living is fine in places where there are road signs warning to watch for horse drawn carriages

>>211505236
what about your health insurance expenses and savings and retirement?

>>211505881
work remotely

>>211506128
working remotely is for bugmen and not something you can count on for 10-20 years

>>211505236
>being glad youre barely able to save 5k a year at BEST, and never be able to afford a home unless he buys a crack shed 4 hours outside a city
grim

>>211499235 (OP)
>I'm going to post about a movie I only know of through references
>I've completely fried my attention span and won't read past the first reply
The draft can't come for you zoomers soon enough

>>211505965
>because of Trump

I've been working at the same company for 8 years and there's been a "hiring and budget freeze" literally every year. It's just corpo bullshit to demoralize workers from asking for raises while middle management gets promoted and stacks fat bonuses. Of course they make a few hires for optics, so that the newly appointed managers can feel like they aren't worthless pieces of organic paperweight. Biden is shit, Trump is shit, but the shittiest people are the fucktarded upper management of billion dollar corporations. I hope more of them start getting assassinated.

>>211505214
What does total internet usage have to do with 4chan?
You think the demographics of social media (the sites used by the majority of the population) are the same as 4chan?
The only Indian posting here is you
Fuck off pajeet

>>211499235 (OP)
Wasn't the company going through a review of its workforce, specifically to cut down on costs? One of the employees wasn't even told he was fired, and they just kept him working without even paying him.

>>211506029
oh yeah, lots of amish here

>>211505819
>It's alright for me to spend say after day trying to make everyone else miserable but if you call me out for it you're actually the one with the problem
Get fucked nigger

>>211499235 (OP)
>People worked the jobs they wanted and had enough money to live comfortably.
>If not, they quit and found a better one.
The 90s were wild, weren't they?

>>211499235 (OP)
2025 remake of this movie:
>Majority of workers Indian and women
>Wages even smaller and layoffs more often
>Several workers living together in a cramped apartment instead of their own
> The 2 Bobs are replaced with "Gen Z boss and a mini" white women

>>211506188
not many options in rural areas

>>211506353
>making shit up
why are you like this

>>211499235 (OP)
It was the 90's
We didn't understand how good we had it, and there was a sense of general ennui in the country
This is the same decade where movies like The 13th Warrior and Last Action Hero came out and were completely overlooked, only to find out that they were kino upon rewatching them

>>211506188
[Enter excuse here]

Just like I said

>>211507293
if you think everyone in rural areas works remote you're deluded, rural doesnt even have good internet often

>>211505904
>>211506029
>>211506197

>waaah cost of living is too high, I can't afford anything!!!!
>noooo I will NOT live in a more affordable town!!! I just love the HUSTLE and BUSTLE of the big city too dang much!!!

>>211506219
Nah Trump sucks

>>211506813
Notice how all the ennui and rebellion got flushed down the drain the moment YouTube and the IPhone hit the market.

>>211499235 (OP)
Boomers are so fucking stupid fr

>>211507399
>if you think everyone in rural areas works remote you're deluded

No, they work local jobs. Rural places still need mechanics, pilots, store managers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.

>rural doesnt even have good internet often

You're retarded

>>211507447
if you think about a 90s office job you have to keep in mind there were no smartphones and no real internet with content
you were just working with slow word processors or ERP systems or 90s excel all day long. that's it. nothing else, no checking the news, no social media, no music, no forums, nothing. solitaire or pinball on the computer at best

>>211507430
Affordable Towns are affordable because they’re above ground cemeteries. There’s nothing to do. Nowhere to go but Walmart and Applebees. Third Places to gather after work or school are also nonexistent. You don’t live in those towns. You exist between shifts.

>>211507648
OK. If you say so. Enjoy living paycheck and paycheck! Don't forget to keep coming back here every day to complain about how everything is terrible

>>211507648
>There’s nothing to do. Nowhere to go but Walmart and Applebees

Ever heard of the outdoors?

>Third Places to gather after work or school are also nonexistent

You're so stupid. We're talking about small towns here, not a shack in the woods

>>211507430
Hey anon. >>211503535

>>211507648
>There’s nothing to do.
except to have sex with your wife and raise your children and form white communities

>>211507430
>affordable
>can only save 5 grand a year
lol

>>211507996
Sure I guess that's why literally every joke before the 80s was about how you hate your wife or you hate your kids or you hate both. Because having a wife and kids is such a fucking joy.

>>211508299
people were tarded and leaded up back then, my wife is easy to work with

>>211499441
Gen X, fuckface

>>211499362
constantly called in to work late and on weekends.

>Can you stay another 30 mintues?
>An hour?
>At 10 hours now, and have to take another unpaid 30 minute lunch break.

Starting disappearing into the warehouse towards the end of my day to avoid these fuckers.

>>211508299
Those jokes were seated in how worthless the nuclear family is for happiness. The extended family is the only functional model but jews don’t want anyone to have large families.

Do you think his problems could have been solved if he just started drinking during work?

>>211499235 (OP)
The call that the epidemic of Influencia Movies of the 90s (and the turn of the millenium).

There's a billion and one examples of guys who have it all, an easy job, a big home, a hot wife/gf, and/or a job that can easily support an entire family.....

.... but the entire crux of the movie is that they aren't spiritually satisfied despite having it all.

Office Space is a good example of this (though Peter isn't rich), American Beauty, Fight Club. It was a common movie theme back in those days.

And it already seemed like a ridiculously foreign concept by the mid-aughts because everything became so economically difficult, jobs wanted to wring every cent out of our labor, rents and interest rates conspired to take all we have, and we had to fight every day for our literal lives rather than have it all and feel unsatisfied because it doesn't sooth our souls.

The fact that they could focus so deeply on "deep spiritual satisfaction" after being economically comfortable is a sign of how incredibly cushy those days were.

>>211509367
Yeah, no shit. If this biggest problem with my job was the receiptionists chipper repetition and being asked to a put a cover sheet on my TPS reports, you can effectively say that I've got it made.

Those were the days of American comfort and they didn't even realize.

>>211499235 (OP)
Literally me right now and I'm making my employer's life hell right now because I'm irreplaceable.

>>211505236
Lancaster nigga

>>211504891
Ah yes, it's the construction workers filling the hospitals and not receptionists and desk jockeys.

>>211505965
During 2020 while Trump was president I got the biggest raise ever of like 3 dollars an hour.
Every year since, when Biden took over, I've not even been able to keep up with inflation and have made less money.
Just look at the cars that your administrators are driving.
There's money out there for you.
They just gotta find it.

>>211506333
Between harrisburg and philly is like amish central

>>211509604
A young fit construction worker probably spends far less time in hospitals than a desk jocky at the same age.....

BUT there comes a point where the body breaks down from hard physical labor. You don't personally see it because those guys usually wash out almost instantly (despite working there for decades before the significant injury happen

s).

But once they're at that point, they're gonna be spending a lot more time in hospitals than desk jockies at the same age. They're also likely going to be in an extremely dangerous financial predicament because they needed their body for hard physical labor that they can no longer perform. And since unions and pensions are things of the past, they're gonna have to make it solely through disability payments which are extremely hard to get these days and even once approved, it does not cover much.

Those "tradies" never seem to think much about how it all ends these days.

>>211507569
>>211507786
>>211503403

Hates life, projects onto others

>>211509866
Beautiful code-monkey cope.

>>211508299
You fell for a psyop

>>211509693
>biggest raise of 3 dollars an hour.

Yeah bro. That's pretty much nothing. That's about a cost of a living raise.

I think you need to closely look at your skill set.

Also, that has nothing to do with Biden and Trump and everything to do with you.

You need to either climb the ladder or get more training that can open up better opportunity.

If you've only gotten a 3$ raise once in your life, you have to be falling way behind financially.

>>211509950
Other way around.

Hard life "tradie" with a broken body. Did construction and butchery for a long time.

But don't listen to me, such is the wheel of life. I didn't listen when people were telling me my body would break down either.

>>211510060
I got the biggest raise in the department because I raised hell.
34 bucks an hour to be a cable man with $750/month rent is uncomfortable to only the most inexperienced in life.

>>211505018
this shithole is full of bots and "people" indistinguishable from bots, no surprise they're posting dreck like that

>>211507569
>You're retarded
The internet in "rural" WV even in the eastern panhandle is DOGSHIT

>>211507430
>more affordable town
and what jobs are in such a town? how does their pay compare to your current pay?
if cost of living gets cut in half but you take a 75% reduction in pay, you're not better off moving retard

>>211504995
EMS and fire have typically 24-hour shifts where you stay at the base and work 2 days a week, can be easy to hell depending on your venue. Pay is shit though, some healthcare jobs have 4 day weeks too but you'll also go insane if you work in an ER since they are the most catty bitches on planet earth and also pereptually busy

>>211503403
Dipshit neet who never worked a job in his life.

>>211499235 (OP)
Oh good it's this daily zoomzoom thread. I'm sure we'll get some good insight this time.

>>211510904
Thanks for bump faggot

>>211510961
Bump this.

The problem isn’t necessarily the work, it’s the workers who don’t know how to live outside of work, so they complain about “never having enough time” despite working 4-5 day weeks
The general rule is that if you’re enjoying your living conditions and are able to see a steady growth in your accounts due to even mild savings abilities per paycheck, you are just fine
You DO have time to have a life outside of work
You DO have resources to make feasible hobbies and goals possible and fulfilling
You DO have the ability to have a social life
If you DONT, you messed up somewhere far worse than your employment situation
Do NOT become addicted to substances, do NOT overspend like a retard on things you cannot afford at the moment, do NOT make your off time a constant financial drain with going out to bars or whatever
Unless your job is absolutely soul sucking (it usually isn’t for 90% of people), then just get over yourself and stop blaming your dissatisfaction with life on things you are fully in control of

>>211509121
That’s basically what he did.

>>211509494
Except >>211503248

>>211503450
>That's for blue collar
Trade work is very well-paying in Australia. Every tradie that I know from crackhead bricklayers to respectable electricians make more than the high level IoT programmers and luxury salesman with 20+ years experience.

>>211504598
This is such a sad point-of-view. Don't you have a single productive hobby or interest that brings you joy? Are you still capable of feeling joy, anon?

>>211507570
Peter had to wipe his entire computer to get Tetris on it.

>>211511445
>having 3 hours to yourself per day is perfectly fine actually! just change your outlook bro!
no, its pretty shitty and thats why zoomers are based for realizing that 5 days a week 8 hours a week is bullshit, especially since most of these jobs dont need people sitting in the office for the entire 8 hours, works and productivity slows down massively after 12 PM lunch anyways. people pretend to work on fridays. it has been shown in practically every single study and work experiments that 4 day work weeks have little to no loss in productivity while also massively boosting morale and happiness. people dont care if the job sucks dick or how hard it is, they just want more time for themselves.


and god forbid you get into management or any salaried positions, ive seen way too many people in the upper tiers of the pay scale stay extra hours, 5+ hours and weekends, because the bosses demanded it.

Whats a good weekend job to make extra money? I work at a relaxing office m-f but I want more money. Wouldn't be opposed to something completely different like restaurant work, hospitality, construction, etc.

Or not sure if my time would be better spent trying to like practice programming or something

>>211511869
Porn game development would be my hailmary. These guys sit on Patreon for decades raking in decent cash for like monthly updates if even that, and a lot of them use community contributions as content. Just take your favorite depraved fetish to an easy game engine and run with it.

>>211510347
Not sure what weird holler you’re in, but typically mobile internet in the appalachians is good enough to compete with any broadband niggers who’d try to lay line there because the carriers put the towers on ridges so pretty much everyone has 4 bars at all times

I dislike white collar faggots like the rest of us but his job objectively sucked. Also I once played magnetic key darts with the guy who played Samir and when I told him he looked familiar and I think he worked at my mom's old job he said "I'm sure I do" and walked away in a huff. My managers were looking him up on google later and that's when I realized where I knew him from lol

>>211507436
not an argument

>>211499235 (OP)
The guy's job was to literally updating banking software to prepare for Y2K.

That was 25 years ago.

He was probably the last IT-tech of his generation that could get a full career into retirement.... anyone doing his job today, would have their jobs replaced by AI completely in the next 10 years.

>>211499235 (OP)
the other dude with glasses in this movie came to my yard sale and bought an incredible hulk storage container and started doing bob barker impressions weird dude, i rubbed grease on my Ewok a lot to creep him out but he didnt leave

>>211511869
find the nearest Goodwill outlet and flip anything and everything. You pay by the pound.

>>211509121
The whole movie is about the games managers play. Its unexplained to the audience but if you been in that environment you know.
Inatech is downsizing and they give peter and his peers the stress test to have them quit on there own rather have the bobs come in and evaluate their complaints against the company. Peter becomes aware his stress from Bill is not him being depressed but Bill just fucking with him to get him to quit on his own.

>>211514699
Anon his job was literally over as soon as the date rolled over to 2000. Tons of tech companies overhired and overpaid for y2k patching and then laid them all off.

>>211506309

>>211510844
Lol touched a nerve didn't I

>>211510351
>Nooooo, I need so much hecking MONEY to be happy!!!!
>when I'm on my deathbed, people are going to be so proud of how much hecking MONEY I accumulated!

>>211499518
Tired of zoomer niggers fabricating and exaggerating things about the past when everything took longer to do and was less convenient, in order to play the victim harder
Tired of zoomer niggers also pretending they were the only generation ever to be criticized or have things expected of them
Wish you'd act human for a change

>>211511760
>>having 3 hours to yourself per day is perfectly fine actually! just change your outlook bro!

Last I checked the average work day is eight hours, so you have 16 hours every day to yourself. Even if you don't want to count sleeping that's still 8-10 hours of free time every day. It's not my fault you cityfags spend four hours a day commuting

>>211499464
Yeah the glorious American country side full of alcoholics, drug addicts, third worlders, and retards. You can go join the hoard of nigger cattle out there whenever you want, houses are like $150k since they nuke their own property values by piling trash in their front yards and stealing from their neighbors.

>>211519160
you're brown

>>211519160
>alcoholics, drug addicts, third worlders, and retards

Oh I didn't know those things didn't exist in the city! That's awesome!

>>211519160
3rd worlders and neegras live in rural America, huh?
The stats say "you're a faggot"

>>211518875
No, I just think you're a clueless spoiled brat and this confirmed it.

>>211519151
>8 hours of free time
>30 mins to make breakfast and eat it
>1 hour for commute both ways
>30 mins to get ready for work via showering brushing teeth and packing lunch
>1 hour unpaid lunch
>1 hour gym
boom already down 4 hours of "free time" and of course peoples commutes arent perfect, that one hour for both ways can easily go 1 hour 30 or 2 hours. if you have any kids, gotta pick them up from school and take care of them, or pets. this is also assuming you have lunch for the entire week already made. god forbid if you even have to cook 2 or 3 times during the week, a trip to the grocery store getting the shitty traffic out of that and then needing to make the food. days wasted. all of a sudden that 8 hours is shrunken down to 2-3 hours of free time. then its back to the grind for 5 entire days. saturday is taken up by chores, cooking for the week laundry cleaning house. lets say thats on sunday. then boom, you have one whole day to yourself vs 5 days of work. do this for 65 years, no wait 70, or maybe until you die because retirement age keeps getting pushed back. no wonder gen z wont have the wool pulled over their eyes.

>>211520671
just NEETmaxx

The romanticism for blue collar work and trades on 4chan is so retarded.

>>211499235 (OP)
Fuck
>>211499362
You
>>211499374
Ninga
>>211499441
Suck
>>211499464
Mine
>>211499508
Dick
>>211499518
Bitch
>>211499529
:)