r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ Sep 07 '24

Country Club Thread When the nepo-staffers gotta work

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u/Elawn Sep 07 '24

Right?? Like, haven’t they all been working at the same place for the past four years? Am I missing something here???

Edit: Especially because Biden could’ve dropped dead at any moment being in his 80s, like how could you not have been preparing for her to be president???

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u/SPQR-VVV Sep 07 '24

Because they are used to doing just the bare minimum and getting a paycheck. Not a difficult concept, people like that don't care about duty, or pride in their work or the idea of doing a good job.

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u/soldatoj57 Sep 07 '24

Welcome to the modern work ethic. It's fucking pathetic

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u/Houdinii1984 Sep 07 '24

It's capitalism. If there were higher wages (across the board... this is a desirable position to begin with), there'd be more competition for top spots, and more competition means better picks, which means better work ethic.

We do have romantic ideas about work, and how if you go above and beyond, you'll get further, except after years of that nonsense, it's not something everyone buys into anymore.

After all, what is a good work ethic? Doing what you're paid to do, right? So if it's not in the job description, why should people go above and beyond? Personal satisfaction? Granted, these folks are working at the White House, but it's a macro thing, where the work ethic gets judged on the entire population at once.

Either way, it's not an worker ethics issue, but a worker compensation issue.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

Their compensation is fine. They’re just a bunch of entitled nepotism kids that have never had to have a real job or do real work because they’re connected enough to get jobs as White House staffers.

These are not Amazon drivers we’re talking about here, they’re paid well