sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago"I like being helpful and productive!"lemmus.orgimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1246arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1227arrow-down1image"I like being helpful and productive!"lemmus.orgsundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVespair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up58·6 months agoI like being helpful and productive too, but I’m not naive enough to confuse helping my company make profits with actually helping society. I work because otherwise I would starve and die. That is the sole and only reason I work.
minus-squaresundray@lemmus.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 months agoI’m in it for the donuts, myself.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoI am in it for the stuff I can buy for the money I earn.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoDepends on the work. If you have customers using your products for a good cause, it’s pretty rewarding. Also depends how you’re treated.
minus-squareKichae@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoIt’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI’m sorry to hear that :( I hope you find something better
I like being helpful and productive too, but I’m not naive enough to confuse helping my company make profits with actually helping society.
I work because otherwise I would starve and die. That is the sole and only reason I work.
I’m in it for the donuts, myself.
I am in it for the stuff I can buy for the money I earn.
Depends on the work. If you have customers using your products for a good cause, it’s pretty rewarding. Also depends how you’re treated.
It’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.
I’m sorry to hear that :( I hope you find something better
Bingo.