Learn everything you can from your job -- but sooner or later you will exhaust its learning potential. When that happens, invest all your energy NOT in the job but in getting a better one, or in lieu of that, building skills to open up opportunities.
Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3...
Sounds like an atheist, more so in the KJV version. I thought the bible was pro-heaven? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3... Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes is in the Old Testament. The possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ.
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#33This is some rich dude bitching about the bad customers service he received at the weekend while shopping.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like an atheist, more so in the KJV version. I thought the bible was pro-heaven? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3... Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes is in the Old Testament. The possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ.
No, it's not something introduced by Jesus. There is "everlasting life" in Old Testament:
"And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=daniel%2012:1-12...
However, any reader of Old and New Testament should know that both "books" are in fact the collections of the hand-made copies of the texts written by different authors in different times. The idea of everlasting life is more recent, so it isn't present in the older texts, unless some copyist decided to "correct" that. Book of Daniel is believed to be quite "recent" compared to the most of Old Testament texts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel#Authorship_and_d...
Still it predates the times of Jesus for up to 200 years.
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#36tl; dr "Let's all learn to love being exploited for the convenience of others"
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#37Some wage slave making minimum wage doesn't hop to attention to the second a college educated "lifestyle website" owner walks in the door, let me break out the violins. Then she's going to give some condescending life advice to the guy who is supposed to wait on her hand and foot. Lowly wage slaves have their ways to deal with annoying, self-important customers. I have friends who are waiters. Believe me, the people…
Reactions to obnoxious customers is strictly unprofessionally and shouldn't be tolerated. Someone is paying you to do your job. Do it right.
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#38Mr Smaggle is too "up his own arse" to understand wage slavery.
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#39I remember seeing a matrix where the axis were attitude and skill/knowledge:
Promote - excellent attitude, excellent skills/knowledge Train - excellent attitude, poor skills/knowledge Manage - poor attitude, excellent skills/knowledge Fire - poor attitude, poor skills/knowledge
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#40Glad the guy who didn't smile & didn't respond cheerfully (but actually went and found the answer!) didn't have to hear this speech in person. Twenty seconds without a beaming smile at the auto parts store (not exactly a place I'd expect to be greeted w/ big wide smiles) and we learn this employee apparently has a lot to learn about life. Reads like a "This young generation is going to hell, but let me tell you how we did it!" talk.
Maybe the employee should just find a job he likes better and not give a second thought to the auto parts job if he truly does hate it. In some cases, life is just too short to eat the shit.