Overall job satisfaction among U.S. employees increased a modest 0.4 percentage points in 2023 from the year prior, according to the Conference Board’s annual Job Satisfaction survey released this month. A 62.7% majority of respondents reported being content at work last year, the highest share since the survey began in 1987.
But that record doesn’t tell the whole story: Worker sentiment fell across all 26 subcomponents of job satisfaction measured in the poll, which collected responses online from 1,699 working U.S. adults in November.
There are reasons to do with the history of this particular literary form, as well. It may be that, for a number of fair reasons, women are allowed to denigrate men in print, but not the other way around. “I think some of the things I get away with saying about men would seem a bit gross from guys, because of the obvious power imbalance,” Annie Lord, British Vogue’s dating columnist, told me. Women can write about dating because on a heterosexual date, society generally accepts that women are the underdogs.
Perhaps the presumption that the same privileges equally translate to different contexts plays a part. I don’t see any “fair reasons” listed here. I see a group that is allowed to say negative things about one, and another that is shut down for the same thing (but that they have fair reasons to be allowed to). Maybe nobody should be denigrating anyone and it is just, in itself, unfair to denigrate others?
On any dating advise site/community I don’t exactly see women as the “underdogs” with regard to support and who is ‘right’ in any given situation. The first examples that come to mind are reddits dating advice and “AITA” subs where I’ve seen more than enough examples of the old “switching genders completely changed people’s opinions” posts to not feel comfortable there.
However, ignore any differences between any of the genders and their assumed roles is not helpful.
This is part of what I was saying in the first bit. There are absolutely differences in genders that should be recognized and respected. But context is key. Assuming women are the “underdogs in heterosexual dating” that does not translate to talk about dating. In the context of dating advice and online discussions about relationships, I very much disagree that women are underdogs. But the author is using this, presumably, to support the prior sentence’s argument that women can “fairly” denigrate men in print for this reason.
Are you suggesting that those are valid reasons that “women [should be] allowed to denigrate men in print”? Because that’s the thing I was talking about.
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
I would be absolutely shocked if only 127,000 New Yorkers were the victims of wage theft. It’s not only drastically underreported, but a lot of people seem to take pride in giving their employers free labor.
Over the past 20 years, Kevin Ford from Las Vegas virtually never took a sick day because his job didn't offer paid sick leave. People across social media chipped in for him to finally afford a break.
So…he went to work sick where he prepared people’s food for a living instead of calling out (since they pay peanuts and he probably couldn’t afford to take off). Great.
Temperature are on the rise and weather is getting more and more extreme with truly no viable solution available. There is going to be growing demand for housing in more sustainable areas. So…probably cheaper in hurricane/tornado/mega-heat-wave country, and even worse prices in more survivable areas.
Or technology advanced so far and quickly that we either live in a utopia or are immediately made extinct by our new AI overlords.
The Conscience of the Wig ( startrek.website )
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Caught two peeping toms from next door ( lemmy.world )
Why do hardly any straight men write about sex and dating? | Imogen West-Knights ( www.theguardian.com )
Men do think about matters of the heart, but writing about it publicly could be seen as undignified, says journalist Imogen West-Knights
Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie ( collider.com )
Weekend Update: Marcello Hernández on Depression in Men - SNL ( www.youtube.com )
(Anti Union talk due to new UAW wins/Tesla to unionize) Elon Musk: I disagree with the idea of unions [5:36 | Elon Musk and Andrew Ross Sorkin | CNBC Television] ( www.youtube.com )
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Is there an insect that can devour plastic, breaking it down to less harmful components? ( www.youtube.com )
I felt a strange urge to buy me some bugs and let them eat my plastic garbage after watching this video 😂...
127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft ( www.propublica.org )
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
Burger King gave candy to a worker who never called in sick. The internet gave $400K ( www.npr.org )
Over the past 20 years, Kevin Ford from Las Vegas virtually never took a sick day because his job didn't offer paid sick leave. People across social media chipped in for him to finally afford a break.
Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?
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