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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When people say these jobs literally could not care less about you...

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't particularly care about my coworkers, but I feel I would notice if someone died at their desk or didn't show up for days unexpectedly.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t particularly care about my coworkers

Damn, it sounds like a toxic environment with people you spend one third of your day with; it is just your regular corporate environment, most likely.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

I work in a kitchen, people tend to be fairly negative and miserable. The leadership above me is untrustworthy and mostly concerned with their own trajectory. I say I don't particularly care because I would not choose to associate with them if I had a choice. This doesn't mean I don't help people at work or look out for folks, though I do the same for people outside of work I don't personally care about. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but you don't have to care about a person individually to treat them with human kindness.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

They are suggesting that coworkers aren’t friends. They can be but probably usually aren’t.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago

The article says it happened on a Friday, so it makes more sense now, but Christ, that's terrifying.

It sounds like it was just a perfect storm of shitty circumstances: Happened at a bad time, in a part of the office that's underpopulated, not near the main aisle, etc.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Curious how that last paycheck is gonna work. Does she get paid overtime for the weekend?

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Not if she doesn't sign her timesheet ☠️

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Has anybody seen my stapler? It’s red.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I could set the building on fire...

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The squirrels, they were married...

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Notified her family? The ones that didn't look for her after 4 days?

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 months ago

Maybe she lived alone? I don't talk to my family every single day, sometimes not even for weeks 🤣

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

When they did it in workaholics it was funny 😐

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 2 months ago

That’s what stand-up meetings are for: to make sure nobody has died, and if they have, find them before decomposition starts.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Sounds like the first episode of HBO’s Industry. dude tries to outperform his peers and causes heart failure. It’s a great show.

[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 8 points 2 months ago

I had a thought that people didn't want to report or say anything out of fear