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It's normal if you work two blue collar jobs but two programming jobs and now people in here saying they should be investigated by the IRS, c'mon what are you d

It's normal if you work two blue collar jobs but two programming jobs and now people in here saying they should be investigated by the IRS, c'mon what are you doing. And this tweet, if true, what a weird way to snitch on someone trying to work.

birdyrooster 6y ago
It's not normal to work two full time blue collar jobs. They wear you out. You don't have the energy. This original post is unbridled greed and while legal, it further cements my opinion about this industry and who it serves in society. It's a wealth transfer to the already wealthy and well connected. The work is laughably easy and the pay is at least an order or magnitude better than the average. The demographics skew hard towards white males. The reason people start talking about going to the IRS is because they see the inequality and want someone to do something -- even though there is nothing they can do.
- sjs382 6y ago
  Maybe not normal but it's definitely common. That's splitting hairs though—conversationally, they're a bit interchangeable.
  - birdyrooster 6y ago
    Ah yes, I meant common. It is not common that people have two 40+ hour blue collar jobs. Not at all. I would agree if you said its common to have two (nearly full time) part-time jobs at 30-35 hours per week each.
    - asdff 6y ago
      Well yeah, because most blue collar jobs don't want you to be classified as a full time employee. It's still de facto a full time job even if you are only on the time clock for 38, imo.
      - birdyrooster 6y ago
        Exactly, they have to work those 38 hours while a tech worker can probably work half of those hours and still get their work done (and again an order of magnitude better pay).
danielscrubs 6y ago
All my colleagues that have been lazy have basically been “push-driven” while normal people are pull-driven (find more work to take). Problem is that it’s not the boss that gets blamed when the deadline is not delivered, its the team on the floor that has to take up the slack and push through. And everyone try to be nice and just accept that some people are slackers. I understand the anger some people might have, but at the end of the day there will always be more work.

birdyrooster 6y ago

It's not normal to work two full time blue collar jobs. They wear you out. You don't have the energy. This original post is unbridled greed and while legal, it further cements my opinion about this industry and who it serves in society. It's a wealth transfer to the already wealthy and well connected. The work is laughably easy and the pay is at least an order or magnitude better than the average. The demographics skew hard towards white males. The reason people start talking about going to the IRS is because they see the inequality and want someone to do something -- even though there is nothing they can do.

sjs382 6y ago
Maybe not normal but it's definitely common. That's splitting hairs though—conversationally, they're a bit interchangeable.
- birdyrooster 6y ago
  Ah yes, I meant common. It is not common that people have two 40+ hour blue collar jobs. Not at all. I would agree if you said its common to have two (nearly full time) part-time jobs at 30-35 hours per week each.
  - asdff 6y ago
    Well yeah, because most blue collar jobs don't want you to be classified as a full time employee. It's still de facto a full time job even if you are only on the time clock for 38, imo.
    - birdyrooster 6y ago
      Exactly, they have to work those 38 hours while a tech worker can probably work half of those hours and still get their work done (and again an order of magnitude better pay).

danielscrubs 6y ago

All my colleagues that have been lazy have basically been “push-driven” while normal people are pull-driven (find more work to take). Problem is that it’s not the boss that gets blamed when the deadline is not delivered, its the team on the floor that has to take up the slack and push through. And everyone try to be nice and just accept that some people are slackers. I understand the anger some people might have, but at the end of the day there will always be more work.