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You should strongly consider seeing a therapist, in all honesty. Read some books on mindfulness, consider putting the phone down and staying away from news head

You should strongly consider seeing a therapist, in all honesty. Read some books on mindfulness, consider putting the phone down and staying away from news headlines for a while.

unsupp0rted 4y ago
That can be good advice for OP (I suspect it is), but also OP can have a point: things can largely be getting worse, not staying the same or getting better. > General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go I have noticed a major increase in this in my day-to-day interactions
- autotune 4y ago
  Most workers I've hung out around recently, at least in the service industry, seem cheerful and friendly as ever. Most of my remote coworkers in the current gig are some of the friendliest, most intelligent working people I have had the pleasure of working with. But again, I've stopped looking LinkedIn, disabled or deleted and stopped engaging on the majority of social media platforms (HN remains as a final crutch), and have taken up meditation, therapy, and art as well, so it's not just empty words. The only thing I have really noticed that's different on a multi-year scale is some companies went fully remote that weren't prepared for it or didn't really want to, which made 2021-2022 my own personal hell with career stability.
  - unsupp0rted 4y ago
    Workers in the service industry are cheerful and friendly to each other, but not to me... e.g. in Best Buy the other day I walked up to a group of 4 workers chatting together about 10 meters from the checkout counter to ask if any of them could open another till so I could purchase the microwave I was holding. They told me in an ultra-polite passive aggressive way to wait in line at the single checkout that was open. Obviously no big deal: hourly workers in their teens and 20s have always been less than stellar. Except the worsening trend has been noticeable.
maerF0x0 4y ago
Despite you getting downvoted, I appreciate your input. I do understand how this might help the observer, but it also feels a bit like just look away and act like the problems aren't there. Like we call could meditate for 30 mins a day and feel better about a shitty existence. Or we could spend 30 minutes a day (billions of man hours) doing something about it?
- autotune 4y ago
  Thank you. This is about increasing your ability to put those man hours to work in a way that makes sense, the most useful thing spending 30 minutes a day meditating does, at least for me, is realign priorities for that day in a way that makes sense. Whether work related, or just figuring out how to find a way to volunteer in the community more in a way that you are passionate about. You might not be able to stop global warming, but maybe you can donate a book on the legal system to an organization that sends books to prisoners so they can better understand and navigate it. Honestly this is going to be my last comment on here. It’s time to break the habit once and for all.

You should strongly consider seeing a therapist, in all honesty. Read some books on mindfulness, consider putting the phone down and staying away from news headlines for a while.

unsupp0rted 4y ago

That can be good advice for OP (I suspect it is), but also OP can have a point: things can largely be getting worse, not staying the same or getting better. > General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go I have noticed a major increase in this in my day-to-day interactions

autotune 4y ago
Most workers I've hung out around recently, at least in the service industry, seem cheerful and friendly as ever. Most of my remote coworkers in the current gig are some of the friendliest, most intelligent working people I have had the pleasure of working with. But again, I've stopped looking LinkedIn, disabled or deleted and stopped engaging on the majority of social media platforms (HN remains as a final crutch), and have taken up meditation, therapy, and art as well, so it's not just empty words. The only thing I have really noticed that's different on a multi-year scale is some companies went fully remote that weren't prepared for it or didn't really want to, which made 2021-2022 my own personal hell with career stability.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  Workers in the service industry are cheerful and friendly to each other, but not to me... e.g. in Best Buy the other day I walked up to a group of 4 workers chatting together about 10 meters from the checkout counter to ask if any of them could open another till so I could purchase the microwave I was holding. They told me in an ultra-polite passive aggressive way to wait in line at the single checkout that was open. Obviously no big deal: hourly workers in their teens and 20s have always been less than stellar. Except the worsening trend has been noticeable.

maerF0x0 4y ago

Despite you getting downvoted, I appreciate your input. I do understand how this might help the observer, but it also feels a bit like just look away and act like the problems aren't there. Like we call could meditate for 30 mins a day and feel better about a shitty existence. Or we could spend 30 minutes a day (billions of man hours) doing something about it?

autotune 4y ago
Thank you. This is about increasing your ability to put those man hours to work in a way that makes sense, the most useful thing spending 30 minutes a day meditating does, at least for me, is realign priorities for that day in a way that makes sense. Whether work related, or just figuring out how to find a way to volunteer in the community more in a way that you are passionate about. You might not be able to stop global warming, but maybe you can donate a book on the legal system to an organization that sends books to prisoners so they can better understand and navigate it. Honestly this is going to be my last comment on here. It’s time to break the habit once and for all.