Meaningless Job

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A Meaningless Job is a wage-based job where a worker performs a meaningless task.



References

2014

  • (Williams, 2014) ⇒ Joseph Williams. (2014). “My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor.” In: The Atlantic, March 11 2014.
    • After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store. In a personal essay, he recalls his struggles with challenges millions of Americans return to day after day. …

      I hadn’t had a job in retail since the 1980s. Perhaps youthful nonchalance and the luxury of squandering my paycheck on clothes or beer had helped camouflage the indignities of minimum wage retail job, though I don’t ever recall being frisked at the door. Yet over the decades, employee bag checks have become standard operating procedure in the retail environment, …

      … Mop the floors in the bathroom, replace the toilet paper and scrub the toilets if necessary. Vacuum. Empty the garbage. Wipe down the glass front doors, every night, even if they don’t really need it.

2013

2001

1929

  • (Woolf, 1929) ⇒ Virginia Woolf. (1929). “A Room of One's Own." ISBN:1614272778
    • QUOTE: ...I need not, I am afraid, describe in any detail the hardness of the work, for you know perhaps women who have done it; nor the difficulty of living on the money when it was earned, for you may have tried. But what still remains with me as a worse infliction than either was the poison of fear and bitterness which those days bred in me. To begin with, always to be doing work that one did not wish to do, and to do it like a slave, flattering and fawning, not always necessarily perhaps, but it seemed necessary and the stakes were too great to run risks; and then the thought of that one gift which it was death to hide -- a small one but dear to the possessor -- perishing and with it my self, my soul, -- all this became like a rust eating away the bloom of the spring, destroying the tree at its heart.