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Why's It A Bad Thing To Hate Your Job?

It's definitely not any type of moral failing.

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Ted Bauer
Jun 11, 2025
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You need to take anything that The Wall Street Journal says with a grain of salt, especially about work or management or in-office performance, because that publication is very (very) specifically geared towards the 10% (an extension of the 1%), and the people that read it mostly want drones in cubicles hitting meaningless targets and managers feeling good about themselves.

So, here’s a rare article from them which speaks to “worker plight.”

Here’s the essence of this article:

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Despite wage increases, more paid time off and greater control over where they work, the number of U.S. workers who say they are angry, stressed and disengaged is climbing, according to Gallup’s 2023 workplace report. Meanwhile, a BambooHR analysis of data from more than 57,000 workers shows job-satisfaction scores have fallen to their lowest point since early 2020, after a 10% drop this year alone.

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