[tetris11]

I feel like people on HN who have comfortable passive incomes from stocks or other sources forget that people need a paycheck to sustain their lifestyles.

[nehal3m]

I very much depend on my pay check to sustain my life in the long run, although worker protections and a small (!) nest egg make it so I wouldn’t have to put up with this kind of abuse. I see employment as an agreement for a set number of hours of my expertise in exchange for a fee. End of transaction.

The real world is slightly less black and white of course, but that’s the gist of it.

[JsonDemWitOster]

But if $DAYJOB actually keeps you from your dying kid's bedside, is it still there to "sustain" it? Or is it just leeching into your life?

[TeMPOraL]

If having a job is still marginally better than not having it, it's a sign of an efficient labor market.

(Market inefficiencies is where everything that is nice, beautiful, good, human, lives.)

[ulfw]

Why do you write '$DAYJOB'?

[nemomarx]

General nerd slang for "fill in the name of it here" based on coding syntax

so like imagine your day jobs employers name in that part

[pjmlp]

Many of us live in countries with work legislation that disallowes this kind of management.

[ToucanLoucan]

I'm told that's communism

[pjmlp]

Yeah,na common message among late stage capitalists.

[lukan]

It seems the poster was aware of that

"That's what I would've been thinking in the shower 2 days after the conversation, anyway."

[jojobas]

You can always find another job, even if it's worse than your current one. A prick who thinks my family is less important than a transportation project, and has the audacity to assert that to me, can do the project himself or in the company of spineless worms.

[dotancohen]

I'd take a mid-2000's Boeing engineer's salary for an asshole boss. Hell, I've been told worse here on HN.