Posted on 11/15/2023 6:48:14 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson, the far-right former Fox news host known for his incendiary takes, might have actually made himself the darling of liberal Gen Zers. During a recent appearance on comedian Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast, Carlson, 54, took an unexpected angle: Supporting young workers who are exasperated by thankless work.
“I just so hate that culture that treats people like they're not people,” Carlson said. “And for what?"
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Carlson went on to reference a video posted by a recent college graduate that went viral on TikTok. The poster, struggling with time management and work-life balance, told viewers she doesn’t understand how a typical 9-to-5 is sustainable.
“If I was able to walk to work, it’d be fine,” the poster said. “Nothing to do with my job at all…Being in the office 9-to-5, like, if it was remote, you’d get off at 5, and you’re home and everything’s fine.” But because her job is in person, “I get on the train at 7:30 and I don’t get home till like 6:15 earliest. How do you have friends? How do you have time for, like, dating? Like I don’t have time for anything, and I’m like so stressed out.”
Naturally, certain corners of the internet were quick to ridicule the poster, saying she needs a wake-up call. As Carlson put it, “Everyone's like, ‘shut up and work, honey.’” But he, famously short-tempered, took a more sympathetic approach. “I watch this, and I’m like, ‘no, no, I hope you win.’ The seeds of revolution are sprouting in my heart.”
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I work full time and it’s 12 hour shifts. My commute is about an hour. I have zero free time on my work days but only work 7 days in every 14 days. Today and tomorrow, I’ll be catching up on housework, dishes, laundry(work clothes) etc and need to go shopping.
My dad used to commute an hour each way with a 5 day work week but he had a wife that got up early and made him lunch to take with him and was working on dinner when he got home. She was a housewife so the only chores he had was mowing, shoveling snow etc until those became my chores. He always said a 15-20 minute commute is about right. Gives you time to adjust your mindset from work to home or visa versa.
Yes, being single and working full time can seem like you’re only living to work and working costs money too. Clothing you normally wouldn’t need, gas, wear and tear on a vehicle, buying easy button food because coming home and cooking for two hours and the one hour cleanup from that is not something you feel like doing.
But by the title of the thread, I thought he was talking about the whole HR thing because I’ve heard his thoughts on that and he’s not a fan. Neither am I.
The first place I worked was run by an Italian guy and his three sons, one of which was the shop foreman. They also had a secretary/receptionist and a bookkeeper. 100 employees and they ran it fine with no HR. If you were late a lot, Tony, the shop foreman, would notice and say something, plainly and bluntly. “You need to start showing up on time if you want keep your job.”
AND they didn’t refer to you as a “resource” like the raw materials they use up while calling all the equipment and machinery “assets” and only to refer to a person as an asset after they had used themselves up for the company.
They didn’t need a spreadsheet to track something they could simply notice. There were no head games. There was no rah, rah, go team. No psych 101 games to try and mold you into a part of team.
I saw a questionnaire that someone else got that they’ll likely spring on me at some point with questions like “What do you think your greatest strengths and weaknesses are?”
I will not be filling that out. I didn’t sign up for some wanna be therapist’s experiments.
Every once in a while, this HR lady still wears a mask to show she’s a good little cog in the machine.
She obviously never had a paper route, joined a swimming or hockey team because she needed beauty sleep growing up.Kids need tough teams and jobs at a young age. The harder the better.
This thread is posted by a Zeeper who hates Carlson because Carlson is against Zelensky and US funding of Ukraine.
Each day he posts crap to try and turn people against those who are on our side. He is Biden’s best buddy.
Zeepers are neocon warmonger leftists and support RAT causes.
Trust Fund Tucker Carlson Swanson calling for the proletariat to revolt against their 9-5 corporate jobs? That’s funny.
I worked 60-70 hours a week summers during university and something close to that for a half dozen or so years while starting a school.
At times that can be fine in the long-term, but if I was planning on having a large family I wouldn’t want more than five years of that over a span of about 30 years raising kids. My dad was gone 50-65 hours a week when I was growing up. Gone between 5 and 6 AM most days, home between 5 and 5:30, and having to work some overnight and weekend shifts on top of that. On the whole, I thought it a bit much.
Like, that like, you know, sucks!
That may not be her saying the word ‘like’, it may be people on facebook liking her post.
Naturally, certain corners of the internet were quick to ridicule the poster, saying she needs a wake-up call. As Carlson put it, “Everyone's like,‘shut up and work, honey.’” But he, famously short-tempered, took a more sympathetic approach. “I watch this, and I’m like, ‘no, no, I hope you win.’ The seeds of revolution are sprouting in my heart.”
True, but I was thinking more about the 1990s-2000s when it was cracked wide open.
It was the globalist GOPe (i.e. George W Bush, the Kock Brothers) that thought it a great idea to ship the best jobs overseas and import the 3rd world.
LOL! Comfortable pensions! I’ll bet you could also buy a house too! ROTFLOL!
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Not sure I get the joke. You have to buy a house BEFORE you retire, which, of course, we did, and both our parents did, and we have income from renting out those houses.
I agree completely. Where she lives and what she does for a living might be able to explain it better.
As someone who worked a 9 to 5 job and commuted, I can’t say I have much sympathy for the girl. For some feminists I have to say that working a job may not be as much fun and gratifying as you think.
I grew up with the expression “good honest job.” Someone who worked a good honest job deserves respect. The garbage collector had a good honest job. Hunter Biden has never had a good honest job, despite being paid well.
A lot of people have had honest jobs, to include a long daily commute. I think the source of their satisfaction, despite a long workday, was the self-respect that comes from having fulfilled their obligation to their employer, themself, and to family.
From the short Carlson quote, I can’t tell what he thinks.
As a customer, I’ve learned not to take workers for granted, to try to be pleasant and appreciative of their work. I remember a little sign at a KFC: “It’s nice to be important; it’s more important to be nice.”
“ that life is not always fair and there will always be people you dislike and disagree with.”
That should be posted at the top of every Israel - Palestine thread.
“I chose a job as a government lawyer”
A good friend of mine quit his government lawyer job to go for the big bucks with a private firm. He was very skilled and had many offers.
He lasted two years—and then quit and went back to the government job.
The reason—the private firm had him working eighty hours a week and he just burned out...
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