https://bsky.app/profile/brenthor.bsky.social/post/3krzc7fs77k2i

Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and ‘developed my career’ and now im ‘successful’ but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.

So when people ask ‘who fixes toilets under communism?’ my answer is a resounding ‘me. I will fix the toilets.’

  • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    Mopping floors and peeling potatoes was less tiring than carrying a quota staring at these screens.

    • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      a clean floor and peeled potatoes ready to be cooked versus more TPS reports, higher KPIs, more semicolons …

        • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          not just money, but controlling our time – no time left to do anything for ourselves or too burnt out to do anything during those precious spare minutes …

              • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

                You’re good people, I like you. That’s the version I play guitar to after work on Fridays. Impossible to listen to Lennon afterward, has to be first lol (Also glad to know someone else also picks the Darfur interjection version over the audio track)