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>> boring, shitty work I envy you. Everybody (who has a boss) endures at least a little boring, shitty work. If it gets to be too much, the antidote is to star

>> boring, shitty work I envy you. Everybody (who has a boss) endures at least a little boring, shitty work. If it gets to be too much, the antidote is to start seriously looking for another job. Or write some automation scripts and chill out. Fuck you money is reserved (or should be) for much more egregious offenses: Pettiness. Hypocrisy. Withholding compensation from you for made-up reasons. Not upholding promises. Instituting new rules arbitrarily to suppress you. Negating excellent performance with irrelevant attributes on a "performance evaluation." These are the types of things that seriously throw off your economic planning, both in wasted time and missing dollars. This is what you save the f-u fund for, so you can avoid the above at all costs.

bryanlarsen 6y ago
> Everybody (who has a boss) If you don't have a boss, you'll have customers, which also results in boring, shitty work. Unless you can pass that off to underlings. Which means you have management duties. AKA boring, shitty work.
- listenallyall 6y ago
  valid point... we're in agreement, pretty much everybody has to endure at least some boring shitty work
david-gpu 6y ago
> Fuck you money is reserved (or should be) for much more egregious offenses Why? I'm not saying that once you have FU money you are entitled to be a primadonna and expect everybody else to bend over for you. Of course not. But if there's anything you don't like about your current job, it enables you to discuss it without fear of not being able to meet your financial obligations. So, as long as you are not a jerk about it, what is the problem with taking advantage of the leverage you now have?
- exolymph 6y ago
  Because the person you're talking to has adopted scrub mindset and constrained themselves out of winning the game.
- listenallyall 6y ago
  Some level of boring, shitty work is mostly unavoidable -- choosing to leave for that reason alone, is unlikely to be remedied at a new job. But if you find yourself working for true assholes? That's a great reason to peace-out.

bryanlarsen 6y ago

> Everybody (who has a boss) If you don't have a boss, you'll have customers, which also results in boring, shitty work. Unless you can pass that off to underlings. Which means you have management duties. AKA boring, shitty work.

listenallyall 6y ago
valid point... we're in agreement, pretty much everybody has to endure at least some boring shitty work

david-gpu 6y ago

> Fuck you money is reserved (or should be) for much more egregious offenses Why? I'm not saying that once you have FU money you are entitled to be a primadonna and expect everybody else to bend over for you. Of course not. But if there's anything you don't like about your current job, it enables you to discuss it without fear of not being able to meet your financial obligations. So, as long as you are not a jerk about it, what is the problem with taking advantage of the leverage you now have?

exolymph 6y ago
Because the person you're talking to has adopted scrub mindset and constrained themselves out of winning the game.
listenallyall 6y ago
Some level of boring, shitty work is mostly unavoidable -- choosing to leave for that reason alone, is unlikely to be remedied at a new job. But if you find yourself working for true assholes? That's a great reason to peace-out.