"By popular request, it’s the Ordinary Unhappiness Severance episode! Abby, Patrick, and Dan reflect on the hit show from the perspectives of political economy and libidinal economy, from Adam Smith to Adam Scott to Karl Marx to Mark S and beyond (with plenty of Freud and workplace war stories along the way). What ensues is less about answering plot mysteries (although spoilers abound) than it is about exploring how the show poses questions about repression, the division of labor, alienation, and more. What does working do to us as individuals, as co-workers, and as political subjects? How do our workplaces and their rituals channel our desires and our anxieties, shape our personas, and even divvy up our basic experiences of space and time? What are the psychic wages of maintaining “work-life balance” and what interventions – technological, chemical, and ideological – do we rely on to “make it work”? Does living under capitalism mean that we have always already been severed, and what should we expect about the limits, and the possibilities, of prestige television when it comes to representing the paradoxes and foreclosures of capitalism itself?"
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"For many of the Gen X-ers who embarked on creative careers in the years after the novel was published, lessness has come to define their professional lives.
If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That’s because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically, shutting out those whose skills were once in high demand.
“I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,” said Chris Wilcha, a 53-year-old film and TV director in Los Angeles.
Talk with people in their late 40s and 50s who once imagined they would be able to achieve great heights — or at least a solid career while flexing their creative muscles — and you are likely to hear about the photographer whose work dried up, the designer who can’t get hired or the magazine journalist who isn’t doing much of anything.
Gen X-ers grew up as the younger siblings of the baby boomers, but the media landscape of their early adult years closely resembled that of the 1950s: a tactile analog environment of landline telephones, tube TV sets, vinyl records, glossy magazines and newspapers that left ink on your hands.
When digital technology began seeping into their lives, with its AOL email accounts, Myspace pages and Napster downloads, it didn’t seem like a threat. But by the time they entered the primes of their careers, much of their expertise had become all but obsolete.
More than a dozen members of Generation X interviewed for this article said they now find themselves shut out, economically and culturally, from their chosen fields."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html
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What a way to make a living: These musicians are advocating for fair wages
Festival season has almost arrived in Newfoundland and Labrador, and for musicians across the province that means it's time to get to work. But there isn't a set wage, and that can spell trouble during the busy period.
#music #wage #work #festival #Newfoundland #Labrador
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/music-living-wages-1.7501680?cmp=rss
Can’t divulge details, but I’ve had some very positive news from work today and I’m buzzing about it. 
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/microsoft_remote_desktop_support/
LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Winning for who?
"we are not able to provide additional feedback or information"
How you are *not able to* provide feedback on a candidate that you decided to reject? There are two possibilities:
1. You are just selecting randomly and therefore there is no feedback you can give
2. You *chose to* not explain your criteria.
Choosing to not give feedback and not being able to give feedback are significantly different things. Don't frame it like you have no choice.
FFS, just got some spam email for some junket on "how to write work evaluations with AI."
FML, how much more lazy do people need to get?
(I have separate thoughts on the bs that work evaluations are, but that is another story).
"Is it time to ditch your emotional support hoodie?" Boutayna Chokrane writes for @WIRED. Her piece examines how what we wear can affect how others perceive us in the workplace, and consequently, our opportunities. "The hoodie masquerades as an everyman’s garment, but in the office, it’s a rich man’s privilege. For the rest of us, it just makes it easier to be overlooked," she concludes. We want to know: Do you have different wardrobes for work and home? Tell us in the comments what you think.
I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month
https://www.simonberens.com/p/i-hired-5-people-to-sit-behind-me
#HackerNews #I #Hired #5 #People #to #Sit #Behind #Me #and #Make #Me #Productive #for #a #Month #productivity #experiment #productivity #hacks #work #life #balance #hiring #motivation
Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.
Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?
CV at: https://danq.me/cv/index.html
Just had a meeting today with someone I hadn't seen the last 5 years. And she told me that she's always reading my LinkedIn posts ...
That feels strange. I would rather like to draw people away from it - but that's likely beyond my influence. 
If you want more feedbacks, you should put a picture image, an #introduction, and maybe some links to your work.
I recommend to follow hashtags like #Job #remote #remotework #work
Ask the #fediverse for opportunities but provide maybe a cv on request.
And, sorry, I dont have anything on my side right now, but if I see something I'll ping you.
Bom dia fica aqui o desejo de uma boa Quarta-Feira, tudo a correr bem.
Good morning here is the desire of a good Wednesday, all going well.
Work finally issued a replacement for my antique Surface Laptop 4!
...it's an HP :(
Paid leave now extended for victims of domestic violence in Nova Scotia
As of Tuesday, paid leave for victims of family violence expands to five days from three, a move intended to give employees more time away from work to seek support.
#violence #law #work #NovaScotia #Canada #DomesticViolence
https://globalnews.ca/news/11109997/paid-leave-domestic-violence-nova-scotia/
I always wondered why most EU countries seemed to have nicer things, and better lives than most Americans, despite having lower per capita GDPs when I was younger.
I realized when I studied American #economics that it was because of income disparity.
All the GDP gets stuck at the top, and never enters the hands of most Americans, so most are overall more poor. Also military spending, and corruption has a lot to do with it.
The American Dream is more of a lottery than #work.
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Like this #meme? Try the stream!
#coffee #work #workplace #monster #attitude #hell #social
