Re:Where have all America’s workers gone?
by scarface74 on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:43PM
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How is that baseless? Do you know how many people work part time just for “fun money”
And sone people wouldn’t go back to a previous job at any wage. If you left Twitter and Elon Musk called you personally and offered to double your compensation, would you take him up on the offer?
Re:Where have all America’s workers gone?
by ThrowawayTestr on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:49PM
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A tiny fraction of the number of people that work to eat.
Re:Where have all America’s workers gone?
by scarface74 on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:52PM
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In the school system in particular, there are plenty of older people who work in the cafeteria, bus drivers, etc who did it because they just wanted to supplement their retirement or wanted fun money. A lot of them said forget it after Covid. Both for health reasons and lifestyle reasons.
And you didn’t answer the question - is there any amount of money you could be offered to work at Twitter?
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Re:Where have all America’s workers gone?
by scarface74 on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:23AM
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I can honestly say that I wouldn’t work for Twitter for any amount. This isn’t because I’m “rich”. But we make enough to be comfortable. Why would I subject myself to that?
Even before I fell into my current role at $BigTech, we had our big house in the burbs in “the good school system” built when I was making only 115K in 2016. Why would I be willing to suffer now that I make twice as much? Making more money wouldn’t affect my lifestyle.
Going from local enterprise dev to working remotely for $BigTech didn’t really change anything in our lifestyle
The statement you made is both badly phrased and irrelevant. What you meant is that you know people who wont go back to a previous job for any wage, which is so absurd (and baseless) that it's effectively noise.