he didn’t shake the boss’s hand strong enough

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    33·
    2 years ago

    “Fell to his death” sounds like he died accidentally, but the rest of the article makes it fairly clear that he jumped. Dishonest headline.

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      22·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, this is typical in western media. Can’t let people know the job market is so bad PhDs are killing themselves.

  • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    If they don’t commit suicide they become homeless. In the capital city of our country I remember some homeless guy roaming around. And as it turns out he was a Professor at a university for a while. I don’t remember the reason why he lost his job. But he too couldn’t find another job.

    Also he said that at night there was always this group of neo-nazis roaming the streets who would beat him up and humiliate him if they’d cross paths. And during the winter he’d rob a bank and wait for the police to arrest him, because then he’d be in jail with a roof over the head, a bed and 3 meals per day.

    • ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      2 years ago

      then he’d be in jail with a roof over the head, a bed and 3 meals per day

      The plot of The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry. Tories are trying very hard to turn prisons into indentured labour camps so he might have to rethink that strategy soon.

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    2 years ago

    Capitalism treats people no different than an over abundance of fruit (or other product). Too much fruit? Let it rot in the fields. Too much labor? Let it rot on the pavement. It’s fucking disgusting.

    Under communism this man would have been valued for his education and worked with to find a position that would use his knowledge. Hell he probably would have been a part of an education to work program where he’d go straight into working from his schooling. No waste of labor. No waste of education.

  • bubbly_walk_5615@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    Ah yes, the capitalist virtue of being able to choose your own job. Imagine if he had the right to work at an institution suitable for his education because said institution is not run for profit with overworked skeleton crews, but instead for scientific progress where more minds is always a benefit.

  • incici@lemmy.ml
    51·
    2 years ago

    I’m suprised that it was a physics PhD. Those with humanities or social sciences degrees are having huge problems finding a job, but the job market for those with STEM degrees are super hot right now.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      2 years ago

      I have a physics degree too and i can tell you it’s not as easy as you make it out to be…not unless you’re willing to work an ungodly amount of hours for very little money for years and years until you can actually be seen as qualified.

      Unless you go into the financial/consulting sector that is, as that’s basically where all the cushiest jobs for STEM graduates are. Most of the rest just end up in IT where they do the same job anyone with basic programming skills could do.

      This narrative that the right wing likes to spread about “oh just get a STEM degree bro and you’ll be fine, the only reason you’re struggling is because you have a worthless liberal arts degree” is pure nonsense, it’s just not the case anymore.