The Terror

Guest Post by NickelthroweR

I was taking a break from cutting firewood and I sat down at my computer to see if anyone had responded to my post over at r/antiwork.  I’m not a popular guy over at r/antiwork and my comments usually get downvoted into the negative.  But, this was my first ever post over at the site and I was curious as to what the 4 or 5 commenters would have to say about what I had written but it wasn’t 4 or 5 commenters.  I looked at the numbers in disbelief and then I looked again and that was when I felt the first twinge of terror.

For those of you that do not know, r/antiwork is a forum populated by fierce/brave Communists that wish to destroy Capitalism so that they can all receive UBI so that they can focus on being Influencers, Podcasters and YouTubers.  After all, they did figure out that work is difficult, and they most certainly want to share that philosophy with everyone so as to justify their lifetime free ride of goods and services that are OWED to them.

A popular topic over at r/antiwork is the job interview process.  I understand the frustration of interviewing in a bureaucratic hyper-regulated system can cause a lot of anger but the corporation has boxes that it must check in the hiring process or be sued into oblivion.  You’ve got to interview every single minority group, the alphabet people, radical feminists, etc, even if you’ve already decided on promoting someone in-house.  That doesn’t matter, HR still has to pretend as the bureauracy demands that it go through the motions.  The Maoists over at r/antiwork do not understand that it is their own woke idealogy causing these problems but to them, it just looks like malice from an evil corporation.

By the way, if you were to take the advice given by these philosophers over at r/antiwork then you’d most certainly go to your next interview in your pajamas, make fantastical wage demands, dictate the terms of your employment to HR, and end the interview by dropping your pants and crapping all over the nearest desk.  That, more or less, sums up the advice you receive from the geniuses over at that forum.

As for myself, I’m really just a lurker over at that forum as I sit there gobsmacked by what these people that didn’t get a chair when the music stopped have to say and whom they blame for their misfortunes.  When I do chime in, it is to remind everyone that the solution to their problem is to open their own business.  After all, genius-philosopher-influencers should have no problem opening their own businesses, right?  I mean, if you don’t like that people receive low pay then open your own business and pay your employees more while still remaining competitive.  Should be easy, right?  If you don’t like government regulations then open your own business and ignore those regulations.  Should be easy, right?

Those comments of mine are universally downvoted because opening your own business would make you a Capitalist and you’d have to take on a whole bunch of responsibility.  Genius-philosopher-influencers don’t have time for any of that, dontcha know?  The Revolution is Today!  Get on board!

The other area where I like to chime in has to do with censorship.  For some strange reason, these guys are 100% on board with censorship.  It is funny to hear them repeat the talking points of corporate media that a private business “can do what it wants” with regards to censorship and if a bank, GFM, VISA, wants to cancel a customer because of their politics then that is fine too.  They are also 100% on board with masks and having the corporation dictate medical procedures for its workers because a private business can do what it wants.

When I remind these guys that cheerleading that a business can do whatever it wants also means that the business can pay you whatever it wants and treat you however they please.  You can’t have it both ways.  Naturally, those comments get down-voted too.  See, a corporation powerful enough to cancel the president must shut up and immediately allow its workforce to unionize while providing everyone a starting pay of $25/hr plus endless benefits!  Is this an amazing fantasy world or what?

I find all of this fascinating because my daughter is a manager at a progressive woke grocery store.  She has 4 unique generations working at her store and it is interesting to see how the different generations (and classes) function in a modern work environment.  Her store was able to retain its staff during the lockdowns and isn’t having any problems filling the occasional open position.  How progressive woke grocery store did this is very insightful and was the subject of my post over at r/antiwork.

According to my daughter, the ideal person to hire in 2022 is an attractive 17-year-old girl that lives at home with her wealthy parents.  That is the person you want to hire.  I asked her why and I’ve got to say that I was surprised by the corporate insight.

1. Young wealthy people are on their parents insurance. You can work them more than 29 hours a week without having to provide them with those expensive benefits.
2. Young wealthy people drive newer better-maintained cars than poor people. Poor people call off work when their cars break down.
3. People with lots of student loan debt seem to be sick all of the time. Stress is the #1 killer and people with lots of debt are depressed and call off sick more than people without those debts.
4. Attractive people are seen as smarter and more competent than their less attractive counterparts. Customers are less likely to “freak out” on an attractive person. (Halo effect)
5. Attractive people like to be seen and are more likely to view work as a social event.
6. Wealthy attractive 17-year-old girls tend to not be single mothers. Consequently, they are easier to schedule and do not call off of work when the child is ill.

In the same way that a bank will only loan you money if you do not need it, progressive woke grocery store will only hire you if you do not need the money.  They simply do not want the drama that someone that needs a job brings to the table.  I would have thought it would be the complete opposite.  I was wrong.

Think of the advantage this gives to the teenager?  They can live at home without rent, car payment, insurance payment, and just sock away the majority of their earnings.  In a few short years, they can pay for their own schooling, travel the world, or open their own business.  It puts them light years ahead of the 27-year-old guy that is a few pounds overweight and has $60,000 in student loan debt for a useless degree.  That guy or gal is locked in a cage that they themselves built and may never exit.

I decided to share all of this with the r/antiwork crowd because they erroneously believe that they have Corporate America on the ropes and if just a few more of them would quit their jobs then Corporate America will give in to their demands and strip the CEO’s of all of their wealth so as to give it all to the genius-philosopher-influencers over at r/antiwork.  Utopia achieved!

So, I wrote about the conversation I had with my daughter and offered some advice to those on the site that actually need jobs.  I advised them to rent or borrow a new/newer car for their interviews.  I advised them to look as youthful as possible.  I suggested to them that if they had debts then to not broadcast that fact.  “Don’t look desperate” was the point I was trying to get across.  Then I went outside to chop some firewood.

When I next returned to have a look at what was going on, I noticed that 1300 other people were currently reading what I had written.  On top of that, 322,000 people had read it in the last two hours, and the post had been shared 476 times.  The post itself had almost 1000 comments, an 89% upvote rate and there were 306 private messages in my inbox.  Like it or not, this was going to go viral.

“89% of the people approve of what I have to say so let’s read those comments”, I said to myself.  Well, that was a mistake.  The comment section was 90% negative with people telling me that I was a horrible person that raised a horrible daughter.  Other threads within the comment section were of people working out who I was and who my daughter was so that a campaign could be put together to get her fired and me canceled.  But the comment section was tame compared to what I received in the private messages.

The private messages were nearly all threats to my life.  Threats to have me “swatted”.  Threats to have me poisoned.  Threats to reveal my identity and location.  Pretty much any threat you can imagine was leveled at me for having dared explain how a corporation thinks.  I read all of this for about 15 minutes and decided that I had kicked a hornets’ nest.  These people could go after me, my business partner, my daughter, and my associates.

It was at this point that I felt The Terror.

I’m not weak at the knees and I certainly enjoy a good debate.  Furthermore, I can defend myself against the occasional belligerent individual but how do you defend yourself from hundreds, perhaps soon to be thousands of hysterical Maoists?  Like it or not, I was going to have to ride this wave to its conclusion.

Having decided that fretting about the post was not going to make it better, I got busy preparing my home for any unwelcome guests to include news outlets.  After all, r/antiwork had just been featured on Fox News where one of its moderators made a complete fool of himself.  Perhaps there were more fools to put on the air?

I waited a full 4 hours before I returned to the post and just as I returned to the webpage, my DM’s began going off with people wanting to know why I had deleted my post just that moment.  I scrolled past 700 or so death threats to see a message from a moderator telling me that my post was removed because I used “derogatory language”.  Of course, I hadn’t used any derogatory language but I was actually relieved that the post was censored.  I must admit that I am curious as to what the final read tally was but that is a question that I’ll never have answered and I’m okay with it.

I am forever banned from posting or responding to posts over at r/antiwork.  Pointing out to the Communists that the hostage situation they believe exists isn’t real didn’t win me any friends.  Explaining how to navigate that world only made them angrier.  These guys are disgusted by the inhumanity of being a cog in the machine but see no other solution than UBI.  They will happily give up all of their freedoms so long as they never have to work past that of sharing their genius philosophy to the rest of us.

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