Yeah so today I learned that a ton of people on the internet or at least on tumblr believe that “office workers” are some pampered and privileged upper class who have no right to complain about their “cozy” indoor computer jobs, like those jobs are all just Dilbert raking in free money to chill in a little chair on the internet.
How about y’all look up the physical health problems, let alone mental ones, that come from cubicle work? A 10 hour work day scrambling to crunch numbers, manage accounts, repair code and slam together a college final’s worth of presentable information just to eat for another week is not the same as your 10 hours on discord arguing about the sex lives of cartoon network characters.
Going from retail and warehousing to an office job was honestly the closest in my life I felt to imposter syndrome.
I was getting paid $6 more an hour than my previous job to do the easiest glorified customer service job ever. The customers can’t even spit on you over the phone. They had free tea even in the breakroom, along with AC.
All the other people there that had retail experience would also admit how privileged office work was comparatively.
11 hour days at Amazon, 5 days a week is far worse physically, and stress-wise in a lot of cases too.
Idk, not everyone can do manual labor, but it deserves just as much pay as most office work.
hellocloudyart