Anon envies his wife's make believe job

It's because anon can't spell than
- Or she's paid for her skills/experience/contacts, and he anon doesn't have any of those.
  edit: She probably makes lots of money for her employer in those 1 or 2 conversations per day
  
  Doesn't make it not absurd.
  
  We don't know who those customers are. If she's meeting with Google and Microsoft, or Walmart and Safeway, then "one or two customers" is huge.
  Also, we are seeing an easy day for her. Many people are hired for when the shit hits the fan. If there's a huge recall that jeopardizes all the business with Walmart and Safeway, or some similar issue that affects Google and Microsoft, you better believe she's doing more than 2 hours of work. That's probably what she's waiting for.
  
  That's a lot of assumptions. I think it's equally probable that in this insane reality we live in, she doesn't actually do shit and is basically paid so that her salary won't get cut from her department's annual budget.

Remember:
If you saw someone living a decent life while "working" a bullshit job, no you didn't!
- Yes you did, now go and demand a better working environment for the sake of "competitive pay"
- Yeah no. If I'm starving working 50 hours/week I'm gonna be pretty fuckin pissed seeing someone do fuck all for more.
  I'm not saying I'm gonna take it out on them but if they ever complain about work I'll eviscerate them.
  
  Instead of getting mad af someone else's begter paying job, maybe work to improve your own?
  
  This is a bad take.
  
  Instead of getting mad at a fellow worker for having a job that doesn't exploit them, why don't you get mad at the people who actually exploit you?

She's possibly a manager of some kind, I have seen plenty of managers that have days that are kinda like this, though less extreme
- Ahh yes, the air stirrers.
  
  We call them "flow through heaters" because they take the same info anyone already has and restructure it and put it in a ppt or something.

That sounds awesome! Are they still hiring?
- Grab an application for me too

You guys need to read Bullshit Jobs. Some percentage of jobs just don't need to exist.
- That percentage being fuckin most of them.
  Fantastic book BTW.
- But people need them to have a decent quality of life unfortunately
  
  So then why do other people have to break their backs or starve?

The ironic part is that the only changes are her lack of commute times and where she clocks in. Oh, and that he now knows the insides details of what she does. He should be grateful that she's earning a paycheck and quit whining (assuming it's even a true story). Most people can't even afford an apartment without 2 incomes.
- Dude I find guy who get weird about their partner making more money than them sorta odd. Fucking please, by all means honey go make significantly more money than me.
  
  It's a toxic masculinity trait. His value is tied to how much money he makes in his mind, and because men are supposed to be more valuable to society according to the patriarchy he is therefore a failure.

literally
then me
This is how I know the OP isn't out of high school.
- Can't tell you the insane amount of resumes I've come across that I just want to send back with corrections lmao
- You’d be shocked to learn that more than half of Americans have at best a 6th grade reading ability, so their writing won’t even make it to a high school level.
  
  Oh, it will. Bigly.
- I don't see the problem. She makes more, then him. Is she available?
  
  I also choose this guy's wife!

Anon's wife is a middle manager.

His make believe wife's make believe job

This was my job until this week. Got onto a new team with a great manager. Now I actually have to work, but I'll get to enjoy what I do again.

Yeah I bet it's really annoying for your wife to contribute to ~~her~~ your shared income with her hustling skills gtfo. This is either fake or they're both professional workers doing so well the man-child has to whine about how much money ~~she~~ they make.
- I am an elementary school teacher. I took a personal day and I was hanging with my friend. She works virtually for an NGO. She replied to a few emails, updated some data in a spreadsheet, she called a few people. That was all she did. I made some snide remarks about it and she was like 'oh I'm sure your job is so much harder.'
  The sheer audacity. I do all that shit she does, in 20 minutes before class starts, while I am slamming coffee and doughnuts. Then I do exhausting work all day.
  
  If every worker wants other's to have it as bad as them we'd all be slaves, blame the employers and economic conditions rather than the worker who has it better than you. Really if your job is stressful and more work you should want better conditions for yourself, not worse conditions for someone else. She has knowledge that professional employers think is worth paying for, that's not something you should blame her for.
  IMO I think for teachers and nurses, they should be way better compensated, and even treated as a special class.
  
  Ooh look at mister fancy-pants over here who can have coffee and donuts at work.
  
  Fellow teacher here. Wow thats crazy and you totally got it right.
  Meanwhile I doubt her clients argue with her about stuff.
- Wow, being envious of his wife's job makes him a man-child and incapable of understanding how marital income works.
  You read that much into a fucking greentext 😂😂
  
  I'd do it again too
- I'm detecting angry vagina vibes.
  
  Lol, lemme just vagina-splain how money works when you're married.

Ah yes, Federal employment. Can confirm this is the case for almost all of us.
- Any IT positions I can pretend to work at?
  
  can you download adobe reader
  
  Pretend work sucks more than real work
- "Work slow, look busy"
  
  Why do you work eight hours or more, we'd both have jobs if you only worked four
- This is half the reason social services suck so much.
  The other half is funding. But even with all the funding in the world, if the staff is a bunch of lazy asses, the service will suck.
  
  The vast majority of social services are handled by state employees, not federal. Those state employees are often underpaid and overworked, and often only stay in their position because they understand the need too.
  The problem with federal employees is that they're often underpaid compared to similar jobs in the private sector. Most of them only choose to remain federal employees because it offers a lot better work life balance compared to the private sector.

Sounds like a good job.

She could be a sex worker
- I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages. Does data entry in the field of sex work qualify as being a sex worker or are you merely a sex industry ghost writer?
  
  Does data entry in the field of movie production make you a movie producer?
  
  I only recently learned that large onlyfans accounts hire employees to reply to all of the messages.
  I think most public figures with large social media accounts do. It's not really possible for a single person to answer messages for someone with millions or even thousands of followers, but the appearance of personal connection is important to build your brand. All of it boils down to the commoditization of the fear of loneliness.
  It's very unhealthy.
  
  I wouldn't call it "data entry". They do provide the actual sexual service to the customer - even if they are lying about who they are. I mean, it's not like the actual model isn't lying...
  
  definitely a sex worker
- Just because she’s a woman?
  Plenty of jobs are like this. It’s half the reason corporations are able to go on massive firing sprees every other year: because the second they bother to look they find people like’s OP’s wife

I bet she also complains that she works too much
- Guys see this one comment and immediately think, "Hell yeah"
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