I gotta say, and I know this may seem harsh to some, but....let me call that waaambulance for you. What a bunch of crybabies. That's just how it feels to me.

People in technology get some of the highest wages on earth. The industry is continuously rated as one of the most stress-free jobs there is, for as long as I've been reading about it.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/slideshows/16-low...

Let's face it. People in tech sit around on their ass every f-ing day (not saying not working, I work in it), nobody crawling up your ass like they do in other jobs.

I mean, have you even read about people who work in the warehouses for Amazon? Every single solitary thing that they do is monitored.

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This is what actual stress is (from https://nypost.com/2019/07/13/inside-the-hellish-workday-of-...):

Guendelsberger, 35, only decided to join the blue-collar workforce [at Amazon and Convergys] after losing her job as a senior staff writer at the (now defunct) Philadelphia City Paper. It was part necessity — she needed an income — and part curiosity.

What Guendelsberger learned, she writes, is that she’s “embarrassingly unprepared for what ‘normal’ means outside the white-collar world, and I’ve grossly misjudged what $10.50 an hour is worth to a lot of people.”

Her biggest surprise, she tells The Post, is not just how much abuse her co-workers were willing to endure, but how they remained optimistic and grateful despite often staggeringly brutal conditions.

The work in factories and minimum-wage facilities hasn’t exactly got harder in recent decades, Guendelsberger says. It’s that the jobs have become unreasonably more stressful, mostly due to advanced monitoring technology that meticulously tracks every second of every day for many employees. The reason, weirdly enough, is that their productivity is being compared to robots.

At Convergys, Guendelsberger was “lectured about how using the bathroom too often is the same thing as stealing from the company.” Every bathroom visit was clocked from the moment she left her cubicle, and a daily report of her bathroom time was sent to a supervisor for approval.

The workers that Guendelsberger met exemplified these conflicting traits. They described Amazon as an “existential s–thole” but also “accepted that this was just the way things were. They knew they weren’t being treated right, but they tried to look on the bright side.”

At fast-food franchises like McDonald’s, employees are often pushed to work at such dizzying speeds — “like a Benny Hill video on fast forward”— that injuries are inevitable, Guendelsberger explains.

Brittney Berry, who worked at a McDonald’s location in Chicago, told Guendelsberger that while trying to keep up with the pace, she slipped on a wet floor and severely burned her forearm on a grill to the point of nerve damage. “The managers told me to put mustard on it,” Berry told Guendelsberger.

It’s a grim reality that most workers have just learned to live with. “They don’t have an expectation of being treated like human beings,” Guendelsberger says. “It’s become so normalized to be treated like garbage at work and clamp down on your self-respect and dignity.”

Blair, a young working mom [working at Amazon], was especially determined to see how far she could push herself during the randomly announced “Power Hours.” This special incentive challenged workers to fulfill 100 orders in just an hour, with the reward of “a dollar coupon for some — but not all — of the vending machines in the building,” writes Guendelsberger.