I don’t need to know exact companies, no need to unnecessarily expose yourself or anything, but as we are a workers rights instance of Lemmy, I safely assume we are all proletarians. I for example work at a unionized grocery and I work outside. I have many complaints but I try my best to work as little as possible while getting my paycheck. Customers are usually fine but occasionally just dumb af to the point where it’s annoying(I have millions of stories) managers are very kind, only ones who were dicks left(unfortunately they probably got promoted if I remember correctly) and my coworkers are eh. Some are great to confide in and joke with, while others are rude or annoying, some are very nice but have garbage politics (libertarians who don’t understand their benefits from being in a union/don’t care enough about the differences to advocate for it). I plan on becoming a firefighter, not only for the pay, job security and union benefits, but it’s also an essential job that doesn’t exist just to create capital (no judgement to those who work in corporate environments, I’ve never done it and can’t judge it). I like my job overall but Goddamn the weather. Edit: Kinda cool to see so many people who are in tech.
At the moment, white collar, mainly reading and writing and there’s a lot of answering emails. Long may it last. Unfortunately, I’ve been stung before. Multiple times. So while almost everyone around me seems to think we’re in a ‘job for life’ type of job, I’m not holding my breath.
I’ve done a bit of everything, more-or-less. I’ve been employed, self-employed, and a student, doing ‘gig’ work before there was a gig economy. Blue collar, white collar. Cleaning, cooking, construction, care (well, pastoral, but what’s a little accuracy for some alliteration?), waiting (tables and for jobs to come up).