What do you do for work?

3 days ago by A404 to c/leftymemes

Edit: wow, this got a lot of attention

orca 86 points 3 days ago

Righties can’t separate the human from material value. OP in the screenshot was absolutely gearing up to judge people based on their job, which is a good red flag to avoid someone at all costs.

Unless they’re a cop. You can judge them all you want.

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someguy3 69 points 3 days ago

He doesn't know that the left is more educated. Believed Fox that they're all unemployed.

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A404 37 points 3 days ago

The only thing keeping the GOP in power right now is tribalism.

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anomnom 10 points 3 days ago

Billionaire fascists are keeping them in power. The tribalism of one of the tactics.

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Rooskie91 2 points 2 days ago

The good news is that they're experiencing diminshishing returns from these tactics and, despite that, doubling down while spending even more money on them.

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red_tomato 19 points 3 days ago

It’s more that he thinks the left can’t do ”real hard working jobs”. Jobs that require university education doesn’t count as ”real” to them.

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deadbeef79000 21 points 3 days ago

"I don't understand your job therefore your job is fake"

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someguy3 2 points 3 days ago

Don't think he'd be asking what people do then.

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ironycanal 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah. Its very strange irrational and potentially self defeating behavior. A fascist would never.

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ironycanal 2 points 3 days ago

Education≠employability

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a_non_monotonic_function -1 points 2 days ago

Is this a tale of your personal woe or do you just shit on people with accomplishments?

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ironycanal 1 point 2 days ago

Impossible to know. Why assume I have an education?

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a_non_monotonic_function 0 points 2 days ago

I didn't. I presented one option where you were educated and bitter the traducation sucked, and another where you have no such accomplishments and are imagining why they are bad.

Since you reject the idea and also struggle with the notion of "or" I am going to guess it is the latter.

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applebusch 28 points 3 days ago

im an engineer with a graduate degree. my (work) dream is to work at an aerospace worker cooperative making stuff for space exploration with a bunch of fellow queer neurospicy people.

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FedX 8 points 3 days ago

Can I join in on this dream? Aerospace really tickles my fancy, but it feels impossible to get a job in it that's not destroying the environment and/or making bigger bombs.

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MarieMarion 4 points 3 days ago

So you want to work in Becky Chambers' To Be Taught, If Fortunate.
I couldn't have come up with a better pitch for the book.

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NocturnalMorning 1 point 2 days ago

The trump administration has kinda ruined the Aerospace field for a while. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Ontop of that, the push to commercialize space has kind of made doing it a lot less satisfying.

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Agent641 23 points 3 days ago

Freelance abortionist. I'll dunk any kid below the 12th trimester.

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ironycanal 6 points 3 days ago

Maybe its how online I am, but I feel unethical not taking any job below their 404th.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey 22 points 3 days ago

I'm a software engineer, but I moonlight as a fucking problem for bigots and child predators.

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ironycanal 7 points 3 days ago

Well there's your issue. Too old for the child predators to want to fuck. They'll never engage in your chosen medium. Can't say for the bigots.

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Jankatarch 19 points 3 days ago

Warehouse worker for a company that sells food over Amazon.

I inject HRT to every avocado spread we sell so toasts turn children trans and communist and immigrant.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt 19 points 3 days ago

IT at a hospital. I make sure to mess with all the data of women who have abortions so right-wingers can't murder them and their doctors. I also hide all the sex change operations forced on kids under the age of 12

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NM_Gringo 5 points 3 days ago

I thought the schools were doing the sex change operations after parents dropped them off? It's hugely inefficient to split the workload between schools and hospitals. I'm a retired software engineer who optimized business practices.

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Remember_the_tooth 19 points 3 days ago

Somewhere out there, there's a printout of this, sincerely pinned to a cork board under a thoughtfully arannged web of red yarn.

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DokPsy 7 points 3 days ago

Well, it'll have to be thoughtfully arranged. They can't just pop down to Joanns to pick up more so they can't waste it. Sure you can get stuff online but you can't feel if that batch will twist how you want it to. It's just not the same

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TefikiMupu 6 points 3 days ago

Joann's conspiracy board section really was the best. Not sure where to get all my thumbtacks from now.

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Spitefire 19 points 3 days ago

I work for for a health insurance company that tries to be a market disruptor that brings prices down. I vote to put myself out of a job at every opportunity, and realize that if my company goes under my only skills are for evil.

Yeah I'm drunk right now, why do you ask?

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blargh513 9 points 3 days ago

Aww, I wanna be drunk too!

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HertzDentalBar 17 points 2 days ago

I fix soda/pop equipment, I love what I do. I'm slowly going insane though, we've been trying to find a second tech for 2 years now but people just don't work out, it's a sticky dirty job but it's fuckin fun and you get to goto cool places and see cool shit like strippers.

People struggle with the lack of structure, we have like 10 calls a week at most and half the time they are bunched up so you may have 3 shop days where your just fuckin around fixing shit. Jobs ment for someone who enjoys soda and learning how shit works.

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LovableSidekick 1 point 2 days ago

Reese?

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SuiXi3D 14 points 3 days ago

I build and repair PCBAs for a company in Texas. I’m the one building the 5G to make the frogs gay.

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Dojan 12 points 3 days ago

I develop software for the largest underground iron mine in the world. It's always fun to say "I'm a software engineer, I work with mining" because most people's reaction is "oh god, not crypto right?"

It's not crypto, but we're still destroying the environment!

In my free time I homosexually walk my dog, I enjoy gay cooking, I homo read books, I same-sex play games with friends, and queer do a whole bunch of other things.

I'm joking on the idea of homosexual marriage, because it's fun to extrapolate it into us gay-verb everything.

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captainlezbian 12 points 3 days ago

I'm an engineer in a factory. They hired me to double check that the factory workers use my pronouns

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blargh513 11 points 3 days ago

I work for a national pharmacy chain that is kind of everywhere in the us.

I fuck with the perscription data so everyone gets extra doses of the gay pills.

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naught101 11 points 3 days ago

Climate scientist (not joking)

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ironycanal 3 points 3 days ago

Favorite way to get alcohol into your body?

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naught101 2 points 2 days ago

Scotch whiskey

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ironycanal 1 point 2 days ago

I meant wrt vectors, but I'm going to assume 'orally'. I guess the hard stuff is for ecology knower's.

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naught101 1 point 2 days ago

Sorry, I have no idea what you're taking about. Sound interesting though

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switcheroo 10 points 3 days ago

I work in QA.

Meaning I make sure that the websites I go over all have the secret Gay Code built in. See what it does is secretly pop up on the screen BE GAY so fast you won't see it--- but your brain will have! It's very cool technology that we are implementing so that all websites-- even the most innocuous-- further seed in the Gay Agenda.

You visit websites, it will eventually turn you gay. We are very proud of our work.

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ironycanal 3 points 3 days ago

Not apps though. Apps are safe and secure!

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Zier 10 points 3 days ago

I thought it was the job of frogs to make people gay. Stop stealing jobs from frogs.

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hemko 10 points 3 days ago

I do IT infrastructure. I ensure the it infra is hostile to cars

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A404 11 points 3 days ago

Fuck cars

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ThatWeirdGuy1001 10 points 2 days ago

As a lifelong kitchen worker I truly don't understand how anyone who works in the service industry can be anything less than the farthest to the left you can be.

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LovableSidekick 3 points 2 days ago

Real political organizations (I shit you not):

Gays for Trump
Blacks for Trump
Latinos for Trump

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yermaw 1 point 2 days ago

I can't find any references to it now when i went googling, but in my first job at McDonalds they automatically enrolled us in the McUnion, which meant that we didnt need to bother with joining a real union.

16 year old me didn't see too much of a problem with this. Randomly thought about it recently like what the fuck was that how did they think that would work and then how the fuck did we let that work.

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LovableSidekick 1 point 2 days ago

Many companies have avoided the whole union issue with profit-sharing, which is actually a nice benefit but also something the company can take away if the employees unionize. But "McUnion" - srsly? Did they have McBenefits lol?

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titanicx 3 points 2 days ago

Dude, my son-in-law is a huge right wing idiot, and he's a kitchen worker. It happens. I have no idea how. But yeah.

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impairedimperator 10 points 2 days ago

I invent the stuff we make stuff out of.

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tetris11 5 points 2 days ago

6 days of work a millenium and every sunday off. Must be nice.

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thingAmaBob 8 points 3 days ago

I’m curious as to what they think most of us do.

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RamenJunkie 13 points 3 days ago

Get paid to protest between getting our Communist Welfare Checks while sitting in our Communist Section 8 housing because we all hate Capitalism and just want free stuff from Communism.

Duuuuuuuh.

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HakFoo 8 points 3 days ago

I work in payments.

Remember the Superman movie scheme taking a fraction of a cent off of every transaction? Every time you dip your card, 1/30 of a cent is sent directly to Kim Jong-Il's personal hairdresser.

Coming in 2027 is the all-new Hezbollah Rewards scheme, where 125,000 points can be exchanged for a custom-painted missile lofted towards Tel Aviv.

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Diurnambule 3 points 3 days ago

As funny as it is you can't. Somebody made the mistake of sending an 1$ transaction to a forbidden country on the visa network while testing a filtering technology, (which didn't work at the time, obviously). Seem like this triggered some control in the US, the company was contacted by a regulator

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prole 8 points 3 days ago

The mistake was that it was $1 and not 7-9 figures

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Noodle07 2 points 3 days ago

They didn't get the budget for the tests

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VelvetPinkOtter123 7 points 3 days ago

I photoshop images of flat earth to make it look round

I always forget to add the stars though

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tetris11 7 points 2 days ago

I'm a prostrate driver working at night to stimulate your urethra to completion. During the day I roller blade

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CheeseNoodle 6 points 3 days ago

I'm a 3D artist, I specialize in optimizing my work in ways that AI models can't even comprehend yet.

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therealdries 6 points 3 days ago

Me? I'm a dishwasher.

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Bo7a 2 points 3 days ago

But who will do the dishes after the revolution?

I do my own dishes now. I'll do my own dishes then!

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BeardededSquidward 6 points 3 days ago

I help old shits like travelwithmrmichael figure out how to turn on their computer and phone.

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BarneyPiccolo 6 points 3 days ago

I'm the paymaster for professional Liberal protesters.

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hOrni 6 points 2 days ago

A lot less leftists than right wingers have made a career out of asking stupid questions online.

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A404 4 points 2 days ago

wHaT iS a WoMaN????!!!!

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ShaggySnacks 5 points 3 days ago

I am a sponge. I live off Soros bucks.

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MrShankles 5 points 3 days ago

Think Scar Face... except it's abortion pills

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irelephant 4 points 3 days ago

I get paid by George soros full time to go to protests

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grrgyle 3 points 3 days ago

Sever fella. I support students and researchers and occasionally move heavy things around. At least that's what I do for money

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strop 3 points 2 days ago

Imagine wearing a suit and a tie unironically

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hOrni 4 points 2 days ago

Sorry, what? I think it's pretty normal to wear a suit and tie. How would You wear one ironically? A punk rock concert? Funeral of your worst enemy?

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strop 2 points 2 days ago

Those are solid ironic examples. It's normal, sadly, yeah. Like wearing non-zero drop, narrow toebox shoes, especially high heels. Or polyester. Or branded clothing. Or flipflops. Normal but dismal.

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hOrni 1 point a day ago

I get most of these. But what's wrong with flipflops? And how do You feel about my beloved Crocs?

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strop 1 point a day ago

They're a hazard and should be only worn — in their safety form — by asian workers in heavy industry.

Wear sandals. Crocs are made out of crushed dreams and lullabies.

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tobebannedbygaymods 2 points 2 days ago

New Minimum wage engineer slave for a Capitalist Pig

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LovableSidekick 2 points 2 days ago

former software developer (retired) - now I just fuck around

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hexabs 1 point 2 days ago

When find out comes a knockin'

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LovableSidekick 1 point 2 days ago

If this house is rockin', find out came knockin'.

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RamenJunkie 2 points 3 days ago

I work for a telcom on the gay waves for the 5G.

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool 1 point 2 days ago

Im just a labourer. It in my free time I will hook up with your dad on Grindr

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captainlezbian 1 point 3 days ago
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Formfiller 1 point 2 days ago

I peel paint off of fascist reflecting pools

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NotASharkInAManSuit 1 point 3 days ago

I fix things.

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whereitsat 0 points 2 days ago

If I came from a wealthier family and went to private schools and all that I'd probably be an editor for Vogue and be a psychopath like Patrick Bateman. They just self-own when they ask a stupid question like this because they have no self-awareness or intelligence. I've never met anyone IRL who made more than 100k a year that wasn't an asshole. They don't kill people but they wouldn't put up a protest if it happened and they see the rest of us as vermin.

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titanicx 4 points 2 days ago

You are an idiot. Plenty of us that's make more than 100k are not right wing jackasses.

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chloroken -1 points 2 days ago

I went through the post history of several "leftists" replying here, and it turns out that they're liberals.

Hey Democrats: you're not leftist. You're reactionary.

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Leyah -5 points 2 days ago

Lol so gay people are suffering from a medical disorder

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