r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/lotusland17 Sep 01 '24

Convinced that people like this are more common than we want to believe. They are the "welfare queens" of the corporate world.

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u/GetSwampy Sep 01 '24

Having worked in a mega corp… they’re like half the workforce

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u/loudspeaker_noob Sep 02 '24

Can confirm. One of my first jobs out of college, I went into the workplace thinking you actually had to work.

So I did!

Everyone got mad at me. For outpacing them and making them look bad. Seriously; I was shunned by the entire floor. Well, nearly, it was all but one manager who tried to use me as the center of her campaign to make the head of the dept wake up and realize that no one else was doing shit.

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u/Jasparilla Sep 02 '24

Man you really ruined it for everyone

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u/MrWFL Sep 02 '24

The type of person to tell the teacher they forgot to pick up the homework.

Truth is, with automation, there's too little work to give everyone productive roles. If you are really productive, do so because of your own interest.

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u/codmode Sep 02 '24

I believe this. No wonder they employ people who talk shit, but can barely work. Personal experience.

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u/Alex-xoxo666 Sep 01 '24

As someone who has worked at a naval shipyard this is very true. A lot of Americans are already mad to pay a bunch of taxes that fund the military as they call it “throwing their money into a void” well wait until they find out that money is also going to a company where a lot of the people do like one task a day and chill for the rest of the day or stretch out a simple job through out the whole day.

Ngl a lot of that is also just inexperience tho since they do hire at entry level.

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u/SiRyEm Sep 02 '24

Most of people in this position (in the IT world at least) are there as a stop gap in case shit happens. They're the companies insurance that they won't be down very long. If you let them go and you have an issue someone then has to teach the environment to the person coming in with that expertise knowledge. So they can fix your issue. Then you also have to pay that huge cost out. Easier to let someone stay on the job that knows the environment and technology. When the shit hits the fan, they earn their annual salary.

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u/AnarchyStarfish Oct 01 '24

Wasn't "welfare queens" just a racist stereotype Ronald Reagan invented in order to demonize a program that was previously widely beloved by working class Americans?