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[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Haha as an office worker, I wish I wasn't living paycheque to paycheque 🥲

edit: also having done retail work, the retail politics are as bad, if not worse, than office politics

[-] MxRemy@piefed.social 25 points 10 months ago

This seems lopsided, there's no way working in an office is worse than being so broke that a single setback will make you homeless. Unless that's the joke and I'm just dense lol

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 26 points 10 months ago

For most office workers, it's both working in an office and living paycheck to paycheck.

[-] MxRemy@piefed.social 3 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah that too, that's very true...

[-] tatann@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OP is lucky, in my world, the old guy is always before me in line 🥲

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

You don't have to be in an office to have to deal with workplace politics, so the cashier potentially has the worst of both worlds.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

You can have an office job and still live paycheck to paycheck

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

You can indeed, but I've done both retail and office work, and dealing with the public is just awful.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

For real! I never want to work in hospitality again.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago

Who emptied the shopping basket in the last panel?

[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

...who isn't living paycheck to paycheck?

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

They probably make the same and deal with the same bullshit.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Office politics is stupid. This is a company why can’t we just do what makes logical sense why do I have to do what jeff and his bad ideas want to do 🥲

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