/dep/ - Depression

I work as a cashier for a gas station and it’s unironically a comfy job and isn’t stressful. For 8 hours, I’m either standing processing payments and lottery stuff, vacuuming the place, filling ice bags, and restocking drinks. I get paid $14/hr for this.

>>296833
Wish I worked at your gas station. At mine it's stressful as fuck, people are rude as hell, stupid as shit, and overall just some of the worst people on the planet

I have an office job, and it's the most tolerable job I've had. It would be perfect if not for the open office setup. It's a constant reminder how much I don't fit in with other people, I mean they're socializing all the time while I just sit there with nothing to say. In a cubicle I could just forget about the world and do my job…

now that Agi just arrived, or a hair away,

automation tsumani is close behind,

but i believe it will be best in long run,

>>296880
It's only gonna get worse, 2025 will be the layoff year. Tech jobs are being replaced by ai and many more. Like you said it's a good thing in the end because Universal Basic Income could become the norm.

>>296886
>because Universal Basic Income could become the norm

With the rise of right wing politics? Not likely. If anything I welfare will be cut first.

>>296887
Idk the modern right wingers seem sensible enough to understand that there is a large population of "useless eaters" as Yuval Harari called them. They also seem compassionate enough not to send us to the meat grinder called war. On the other hand, normies probably wouldn't even notice if social outcasts disappeared, since they never noticed us and our problems in the first place. Meh, it's best not to expect anything to get better, and prepare for the worst.

>>296880
AGI is nowhere close, there has not been any progress toward it at all.

>>296848
I have the same. Do you also have an impatient asshole there constantly trying to pry and get you to talk?

>>296891

10% away, friendo

>>296915
very funny

As a follow-on to this post >>296180, I got the job and have been at it for about a month now.

The early starts are OK, I don't mind getting up early and the roads are completely empty at 03:30AM so it only takes me 5 minutes to get to work. I get the impression my colleagues don't like me, probably because I'm an asocial sperg and I haven't really introduced myself to anyone. The few people I have managed to speak to seem OK with me though.

Most of the managers are OK but one is breathing down my neck a bit, telling me to go faster. We're supposed to pick 200 shopping items per hour but I only manage ~150 per hour at my fastest. One day this particular manager shadowed me as I went around the shop "to see if we can get [my] items per hour up". I felt like she thought I was a retard but then when I demonstrated putting items in the baskets I was going plenty fast and in conclusion she said I should walk quicker between aisles. I felt like saying "I've only been here a few weeks" but I'll save my excuses for my performance review. I try to keep it light, thank people for "their tips" when they tell me to go faster and do sort of play up being a retard a little bit.

I feel like I'm going as fast as I can and trying hard. If that's not enough for them and they fire me then so be it. But hopefully they are willing to invest time in me to allow me to speed up.

>>296834
I absolutely believe you because I have no reason not to, but I really don't get it why. I mean when I go to a gas station where I live it's always the same thing - say hello, say the station, pay, say goodbye, leave. I don't even know what I could be unfriendly and aggressive or annoying about. It makes zero sense to me. People are just aliens when they really act as you describe it. What's the fucking point to be rude? Everyone just loses this way, it's embarrassing.

>>296915
55 % was the highest though.
https://arcprize.org/2024-results

>>296912
No, actually everyone is alright at my workplace, which is why I want to cling to it for as long as I can.

>>296912
>>296963
PS if anything, I feel bad for bringing "creepy crab vibes" to that workplace.

>>296920
>>296811
>>296834
I had a similar job, folding boxes at a soulless warehouse production room to package candies. I elaborated on it in the last thread a bit; I got fired because the manager was a power-tripping faggot that hated me because I wasn't totally subservient to him. If you're working and your manager keeps complaining about superficial shit, it's over and you'll be fired soon; it's not your fault, it's just that the manager's a bitter faggot from wageslaving for years.
I worked at that shit tier gas station that payed me close to min wage and blatantly sold illegal vapes and made thousands every shift I had, (pic related) there was no nightshift rate or weekend rate either and they made me pay for till shortfalls too which is illegal.


Anyway Anon, the moral of my post is that if you're not NT, it's fucking over in terms of work and relationships; it's weird how normies can tolerate this endless horror without any sense of discomfort like farm animals being lined up to slaughter.

I still have flashbacks of having a customer throw a credit card at me while screaming because I told him to prepay once.

>>296970
the work pill is more brutal than the relationships pill

I swear to God the succubus boss I'm under always finds a reason to bitch, gripe, and moan about us despite doing the best we can with the fuckall communication that we get. Like actually communicate with us rather than being a total passive aggressive bitch. Jesus Christ.

Got fired, gonna collect unemployment. I'm doing the angel retritubion ritual to fuck with my coworkers and asshole employer. I know their names and faces. Their souls are mine to rape.

This has been the worst work week of my life. I don't get shit done, I can't meet deadlines, colleagues start to get annoyed by me, I couldn't keep calm and spoke in an unprofessional way to a costumer, I felt suicidal and panicking the whole week, I barely get sleep and have nightmares three days in a row, I almost caused two car accidents, painkillers don't work against the migraine, I get random tasks ordered that stop me from doing stuff I already am too late for, I barely can grasp a clear thought and my head feels like it's packed with cotton wool, I dissociated again and doubt whether I exist. And it's only wednesday. Life's good.

>>296811
I worked for company A for 2 years. It was a small warehouse, me and 2 other revolving guys. I kept busy taking care of the day to day stuff of the warehouse while carefully avoiding any physical toil.
Well, about 6 months ago, Company A merged with Company B, as my boss purchased a failing company. No one else came over but my boss asked for me to come over, even paying for my travel until I got a driver's licence.
I was given a seat in the office of 3 other people. These other people are always working away doing sales for Company B (the companies are still considered separate). There are 3 in the warehouse picking and packing. I was given an office uniform.
Well ever since then for the past 6 months I've basically been chilling at my desk in the office. My day consists of scrolling and trying to look busy while getting happy when my boss once in a week asks me to do something. Again in the old place I was taking care of the day to day of the warehouse but that role is already filled over here.
I've tried learning skills but I can't really focus when I'm worried someone's going to come by and see my screen.
I don't think the members of Company B actually know I don't have any work to do otherwise I think I'd have been shown the door by now.
I want to ask for more work but I don't want to be told, go help in the warehouse. I don't want to do manual labor. I would happily do any office task, however tedious, I just don't want to do anything physical.
Any ideas? I know I should be looking for another job. But in order for me to get certified in something it would take months and I don't know how long I can take this anymore.

>>297451
>My day consists of scrolling and trying to look busy
This is just how office jobs are, you're not doing anything wrong.
It's why they are fantastic if you work from home, because you don't have to act busy.
If you've been there 6 months then you could move on and it won't look bad on your CV.

i was very close to punching my bathroom mirror just now, mentally i wanted to but it would bring too much trouble.
it has 4 hangers screwed into the wall, 2 at the bottom and 2 on the side. way too much trouble replacing.
i don't want my mother seeing a broken mirror if she ever drops in.

>>297564
damn… *spits to the side* you're one tough bastard…

>>297565
ok..

Should've bought bitcoin, faggots.

>>297573
dude, btc back then was a glorified wow gold, it was hard to believe it

>>297574
It wasnt, it just seemed like it to those who didnt understand. Thats why the people that understood what it was and what possibility it offered are right to be rewarded.
I tried to tell wizards and nobody understood.

>>297575
With me, I am just financially illiterate and the more I learn about financials, the more confused I get. So as a result of that I always err on the side of caution.

>>297575
I have a hunch if you rely on trading crypto, there will be negative consequences later on in life

>>296970
One of my coworkers is a power tripping faggot too The guy gets mad because we didn't throw more meat on the grill and had to halt on orders all the faggot does is take orders on drive thru and cashes out drive thru. We had a new guy who is liked as far as I see and he was complaining how the new guy was ignoring him when he was giving him orders. The new guy greeted me though. I also heard him talk shit about other employees too including the managers. Overall the guy isn't likeable and I think he's just tolerated because he works overnight. I just can't see people genuinely liking him
Oh yeah there was a guy in the drive thru that wanted onion rings and I already cashed him out so I told him to talk to the customer since he took the orders and he started getting uppity with the customer telling he told him fries instead of rings.I returned to give him his food. I could tell the customer was ready to crash out on my coworker so I just told him it's my fault but man you could just tell he was ready to shoot up the place because of the way my coworker talked to him. Some people man

>>296811
How is working a security job as someone who is not strong at all? I heard someone say they prefer you not to get involved and to call the cops, but I don't know how true that is in practice.

>>297595
>I heard someone say they prefer you not to get involved and to call the cops, but I don't know how true that is in practice.

It's 100% true, you're there to observe and report. Anytime drama happens you just call the police and wait while you have a coffee.

>>297595

>>297596 is right. Security guards are the eyes of the law - nothing else. The most you'll have to do is tell someone they're trespassing, and in a lot of positions that is done over a CCTV intercom. Inner city security work has its own quirks like informing hobos and drug addicts that they can't be there, repeatedly, every night. As an overnight mall cop your job is more of a legal requirement for buildings of a certain size, so they don't get sued if some kid who was hiding in the mall overnight falls off the escalator and dies because nobody was there to tell him he wasn't allowed to be there. Also you just need to make sure the building doesn't burn down and that you inform daytime staff of any damages or oddities you found so they can attend to them before shoppers are allowed in.

That is, if you're not working as a response security. Guarding bank trucks, hospitals, courthouses, and buildings that themselves deal in security will require you to be ready to shoot someone in the face at all times. You will be tested for strength, mental health, drug abstinence, criminal record, and general intelligence before being hired as a guy who gets to shoot people in the face.

I work 6 days a week….
I don't have time for anything

Been waiting for this thread

4 10 hour days in a row, and I've been picking up overtime to make more money. Still fucking sucks but I guess it's money.

Some people even here say that being NEET for an extended time damages your brain, but I feel like doing monotonous work under bad conditions in a toxic social environment is 10 times worse for your brain.

>>297707
Depends on the workplace. Sometimes the work can be shit but if the people are cool enough it's fine

>>297705
Been there. Only having 1 day off is unbearable, no time to get anything done.

>>297604
I always wanted to get into security work, seems easy and comfy. Patrol the grounds, say "Who goes there?" and shit like an oblivion npc. Eat greasy food all night. Take shits in perfect solitude.

>>296848
Office jobs might be the key to it all, from a quality of life standpoint. Show up, bearly work, leave and not worry about finding fulfillment

>>297707
Constantly being othered at work has made more Suicidal than being a neet and rotting online.

Callcenter wageslave with a rotatory schedule. It aint so bad than jobs before since Im not dealing with end consumers anymore, still draining.

Been trying to move into something else at 33, as hopeless as it sounds, even reached a therapist to tackled on this issue. Did a career test and I got Hard sciences and stuff. I have tried work and study at the same time with no luck before.

>>297707
The bad environment is more damaging than the work itself. Still, I dont think I can go back being a NEET for long

does anyone know a way out of getting suicidal over past mistakes nobody cares about? cowagies have been increasingly treating me like i am invisible, it stings my ego but rationally speaking, those groids won't ever change. i would rather do likewise but, ego

>>297707
I've been on both sides of the coin. And you're right, monotonous slavework is more damaging to you physically and mentally.

How do you deal with losing all intellectual curiosity and drive? I used to be severely poor and the only thing I was passionate about was learning math and coding and physics and shit. In my freetime I would work through textbooks and do those online coding challenges. It was a fun escape for me. I would say my interest was genuine at that time. However I became a wageslave and managed to escape complete poverty, but simultaneously I lost any and all interest and drive I formerly had. I don't get excited to learn something new anymore. I try to motivate myself for months but all I do is sleep, eat, work. How do wizards escape the rut of only doing the bare minimum? I don't think I'm depressed, just too content. I think my drive before was a result of sublimation of unfulfilled desires. I lost sex drive some time ago, and I'm no longer cold and hungry and I sleep on a bed instead of a floor. I guess it was an escape from my situation but I don't have anything to escape from now just endless comfort and boring but tolerable wageslaving in an endless loop forever. What is the solution to this? Cutting out distractions doesn't do anything because I'll just sleep all day anyways.

>>297933
the long-term effects of wageslaving are becoming conditioned to only be motivated by money and social status. if your boss came to your desk tomorrow and said, wizzie i need you to learn to play an instrument by the end of the year, i will reward you with a big bonus and all your co-workers were like yeah you can do this wizzie, do you think you would have motivational problems? you followed the carrot for so long that you now expect the carrot or you don't feel like moving forward anymore.

>>297934
>i will reward you with a big bonus and all your co-workers were like yeah you can do this wizzie, do you think you would have motivational problems
That wouldn't motivate me at all. At my work there actually is something exactly like what you described. There's an extremely intense focus on 1 particular metric, basically sales. If you don't hit your "goal", you get fired. If you exceed the "goal" you get massive life changingly large bonuses, raises, promotion, etc.

I give 0 fucks about it. I usually don't even reach the quota. I do only bare minimum to not get fired. I have less than 0 interest in progressing. Actually I actively resist it, because promotions just means more work, higher expectations, and running harder in the wagie hamster wheel to please your sociopathic masters.

I hate working in general, being NEET wasn't an option for me and homelessness and near homeless adjacent living was miserable and chaotic. All I ever wanted was to have my own place with no one around to disturb me. Now that I reached that point I have 0 motivation to do anything more. I hate waging with a passion and I assume most people posting here feel the same.

>>297936
I feel the same. I barely spend any money beyond basic needs, and any excess goes to my savings, with no goal to spend it on. So bonuses don't really mean much to me, since I will never earn enough to be able to NEET off my savings. I will have to wageslave forever, and I have no mind for investments or trading crypto, since my full-time job drains all my energy. My only comfort is that I actually have a very comfy office job, and most of my coworkers are alright. It's not one of those bullshit make-do jobs though, and it does take effort and attention, so I can't just browse le funy memes like some can.

>>297938
My job is "okay". It's an office job but not exactly great. Some days it's extremely busy from start to finish since it's basically a call center. So on busy days you are having to talk to strangers for 9 hours straight with maybe 10 - 15 seconds between calls. However it is comfy enough compared to many my previous jobs. Just barely tolerable. The pay keeping me in my own apartment is really what keeps me going, I still remember the 10+ hrs of working physical labor,in person customer service, tons of really awful and miserable jobs. So this is an "upgrade". Actually I sometimes miss working back of house in kitchens, even though that was hard work it felt somehow rewarding and also low stakes. Also I had other jobs that were way more chill which I miss. I worked at a very small hotel in the front desk, but literally many nights only 2 people checked in or maybe 0 people, so that job was literally just paying me many weeks and weeks to just show up, clock in, and play video games or read books or lurk imageboards all night with 0 actual work. My favorite job of all was a security guard. It was even better because instead of being at a static location, I got to go to all sorts of different places. Huge convention centers, random fields in the middle of nowhere, huge variety of spots. I got to explore huge building complexes late at night with no one else around. Furthermore the job itself was literally to just exist. Didn't even have to pretend to be busy, just wandering around listening to music etc. This was my dream job and I loved it to death. I love exploring and wandering, even as a kid I always dreamed of getting to walk around inside all those buildings and stuff as like the last person on earth and security guard literally was getting paid to live out that fantasy. 0 socialization, 0 normalgroids since most coworkers were wizard types too, and anyways you only saw them at the morning when changing shifts.

The ultimate bonus was they would fly me or pay me to go to different cities and states. And pay for hotel room for entire assignments. So I got to travel and explore random places all over the country and get paid for it.

I can't stress enough how much I loved that fucking job. It was literally the fucking end game job for a wizard like me. Sadly the pay was very low, and the company was very sketchy/unreliable and often didn't pay us on time,sometimes several weeks late.

If I ever get fired or whatever I'm going back into security. Office jobs are okay and all but security was way better by every metric except salary, which I only care about so far as it enables me to live in peace and undisturbed

>>297938
>trading crypto
Just buy bitcoin and wait 5 years

>>297940
Funny thing is that bitcoin was at 15-16k in 2022 and no one was interested

Now that it's at an all time high every tard wants to buy, same thing every time

>>297944
open a short if youre so confident this is the top and youll be rich

>>297946
No thanks but enjoy your tard circus

>>297938
>I will never earn enough to be able to NEET off my savings

look into etf index investing (msci world or sp500)
Nominal return is 8 (world) or 9.5% (sp500).
Look into compound interest but over decades this is life changing money even if you invest a little bit a month.

>>296833
Update: This was my uncle's gas station. I don't work there anymore as they don't have a spot for me so instead, I have a job at a Kroger that's five minutes away from my job but the pay isn't good and work/life balance is non-existent :(

My idiot coworkers had the pizza toppings discussion again. 3rd time in six months

>>298064
cheese pizza is srs buisness

I'm a 32 yr old Pajeet failure.

Got a degree in Electrical Engineering and numerous IT certs but I just can't hack the world of normies. Office jobs are painful when you're too low IQ and slow witted to converse with normies and dodge the blows of office politics.

I now work as a lifeguard at a swimming pool. It's the only job where I can be paid to just exist. This is the closest I'll ever come to sustainable employment.

>>298215
I also have a qualification in computer science but I hate office work, I prefer to be outside

I can't stand being in buildings around other people for long, it makes me feel claustrophobic and I don't like to breathe the air inside of buildings that aren't ventilated, I really hate smelling people's breath and other smells but I'm OCD weird

Being outside is best, I used to drive for a living and it was slightly better but the exhaust fumes gave me constant headaches, so I can't live in the city

Starting to get used to unemployment now, I don't really have any urge to not waste all day doing ultimately meaningless activities and "hobbies" instead of just slaving away at some corporation and being yelled at so I can tell people "I have a job".