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What would you like for everyone to know about the type of job you have?

Well since I’ve been mostly in customer service jobs I’d like for people to know that the reps don’t make the rules or decisions. When there is something about a store or service that’s undesirable such as prices then it’s something to bring up to upper management or just let them lose you as a customer. But you can be as nice to the reps as they are to you.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I work food service and I never eat at restaurants.

Drusas ,

That's something about you, not your job. You'd need to specify why you don't in order for the comment to be about the job.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

You’re right.

z00s ,

Were the maggots already there or did they come as an added bonus with the jizz?

200ok ,

Go on…

theDutchBrother OP ,

The amount of grease pumped into a personal pan pizza where i once worked…

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I worked with a guy who whenever he’d drop anything it would go in the deep frier for five seconds to disinfect then off to the customer.

RoquetteQueen ,
@RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works avatar

I work on a farm. Where I live (in Canada), farm workers don’t have the same rights as other workers. We don’t even have to be paid minimum wage.

MrGG ,

Oof! Hello, fellow Ontarian here. I had no idea this was the case for Ontario farm workers! Is it common for people to be paid less than minimum wage and not get breaks? Is it just for specific times of year (ie harvesting) or for the entire growing season?

This may sound weird, but: thanks for the work you do in agriculture and feeding us! 😛 I’m in / from Toronto, and try to buy local when I can.

RoquetteQueen ,
@RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works avatar

I work on a small farm and am treated well but my understanding is that the big farms that supply the grocery stores employ almost exclusively underpaid temporary foreign workers (TFW). A lot of the farms that sell at farmers markers also employ underpaid TFWs or idealistic young people who will work for food, a room to sleep in, and a $50 a week allowance.

MrGG ,

Ah, TFWs. If you go by the news, neither big farms nor Tim Horton’s can survive without them. I’m glad you’re treated well. It pains me to think about how much exploitation is in the industry.

It’s a dream of mine (and a handful of friends) to start a commune / cooperative farming thing (closer to the hobby side of things) east of Toronto once we pool enough money, so insights into the industry are fascinating to me. And yeah, we know it’s going to be more work and recurring failures than we can possibly imagine (especially to start) but we’re determined and going to be diligent in research and preparation before we jump into it.

RoquetteQueen , (edited )
@RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works avatar

I don’t really know how to feed everyone without TFWs either, to be honest. They really are so much better at this work than any local Canadians I’ve met, myself included. And people are only willing/able to spend so much on their food. I’m paid better than most farm workers because my boss is idealistic and willing to pay himself very little in order to pay us more and sell at a price regular people can afford, not just wealthy people. He can only get away with paying himself so little because he lives in an off-grid cabin and I’m pretty sure his parents are rich. It’s a nice job for me and we do feed quality produce to people who normally couldn’t afford it, but it’s only about 200 people. Places like this aren’t going to feed all of Canada.

I hope you get your farm one day, though. It feels good feeding people.

Editing just to clarify that I don’t think it’s okay to treat TFWs like we do. People need to be paid and treated properly regardless of where they come from.

DessertStorms ,
@DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This may sound weird

We should absolutely normalise thanking those who work to produce our food.

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

You are not entitled to:

  1. minimum wage
  2. daily and weekly limits on hours of work
  3. daily rest periods
  4. time off between shifts
  5. weekly/bi-weekly rest periods
  6. eating periods
  7. three-hour rule
  8. overtime pay
  9. public holidays or public holiday pay
  10. vacation with pay

WTF? That is insane what you are not entitled to. If you don’t mind my asking, can you not find another job than being a farmer?

SchmidtGenetics ,

It’s usually family business, and they have a lot of write offs and incentives usually, so it prevents abuse of the system, but it also applies to non-arms length employees since farms trade work all the time as well, so bobs mid works for me and my kid works for him.

RoquetteQueen ,
@RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works avatar

I chose to do it. I like it. I have a good boss who pays well and gives me a lot of freedom and flexibility. The vast majority of farm workers aren’t as lucky.

Xavienth ,

Engineers are much the same. If you look on that site, under engineers it lists every single bullet point from agriculture workers except for the 3 hour rule.

However, despite not being entitled to it, it is typical to expect. It’s just wild to not be legally entitled to it.

some_guy ,

The things I ask you to do while troubleshooting aren’t guesses. They’re based on years of experience.

Garbanzo ,

Sometimes I’m guessing, but my guesses are more informed than yours and I’m only suggesting giving it a try because it will be faster than this argument we’re now having about it.

borari ,

If you can frame every guess so that it can only ever have a binary A/B answer, troubleshooting and guessing are pretty much identical.

all-knight-party ,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

If you work around forklifts, never trust the driver. Ideally they're being safe and watching out for you, but don't gamble on it. They're heavier than a car and can very easily kill you or at the least break your foot and it will be an arduous healing process.

mundane ,

Never walk behind a forklift

SchmidtGenetics ,

Never get near one unless you’re getting in it to use it.

DessertStorms ,
@DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Ideally they’re being safe and watching out for you, but don’t gamble on it

Also, accidents just happen - people have heart attacks, strokes, seizures, machines malfunction, all sorts of shit can suddenly happen that is out of anyone’s control, so even if someone is being safe and watching out for you, it isn’t worth the gamble…

NakariLexfortaine ,

Icing a cake takes time, especially when it’s one meant to feed between 90 and 100 people. We’re not trying to ruin your kids birthday when we need 24 hours notice for something that size, it’s that someone needs to take at least 2 hours to get it done, and we can’t magically make that happen on short notice and full days.

DessertStorms ,
@DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Ha, it’s your cake day today…

neidu2 , (edited )

If your router or switch costs less than your computer, I can’t help you.
If your computer costs less than your car, I can’t help you either.

Tolookah ,

Ah ha! My $100 car, $120 PC and $150 router have a new support guy!

Though really, those PCs must be either very special purpose or very general purpose.

cm0002 ,

I mean, you can hit 10/15K on a single server spec out really really easy

If you need to build out a whole rack, you can easily top 60-70k+

And that’s not even factoring fancy dancy AI hardware either lmao

MutilationWave ,

You should see the prices hospitals pay. Talking like 10k for a 24 port poe switch.

neidu2 ,

10/15k is a really cheap server in my book.

etchinghillside ,

Are you THE cloud?

OutlierBlue ,

That’s Mr Cloud to us!

Hugh_Jeggs ,

My router was free with my fibre connection and it’s worked perfectly for three years along with the free TV streaming box

My car cost 12k brand new cos it’s a little shitbox and that’s all I need

My pc was about 3k and I built it myself

I’m guessing here, but it sounds like you’re an pretentious dick and I wouldn’t ask for advice anyway

brygphilomena ,

He’s saying he works on enterprise gear. It’s different. In networking, a lot of similar but other than rebooting shit, there isnt much to do.

And managing servers, services, using terraform or Jenkins, docker, podman, kubernetes or any other enterprise tool isn’t the same as fixing your computer not printing.

Totally different skills

borari ,

I’ve seen a ton of response across lemmy like this. People are just primed to get hostile/argumentative for no reason and, as in this case, because they completely failed to comprehend the original post.

agressivelyPassive ,

Maybe because the original post seems awfully arrogant, if you don’t know the context - and the post didn’t provide any context.

I’ve seen a ton of responses like yours. You’re implying that everyone gets the context, if they don’t, you assume everything is “hostile” if it’s not the exact line of thought you happen to support.

Accept that other people live different lives from yours and have different experiences and knowledge.

etchinghillside ,

Things running in a datacenter might not be quite analogous to consumer equipment.

Is how I would interpret their comment.

faltryka ,

I think the point he’s trying to make is that he works on specialized network gear for enterprises and really isn’t the right person to go for IT support for your home internet issue. Not that you’re beneath him.

I kinda understand too, I have spent a lot of time in highly specialized technical domains and people often then ask me for tech support for things like their printer or whatnot that I am ignorant of.

neidu2 ,

Bingo

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