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There, fixed it for you Cathy
https://apnews.com/article/work-side-jobs-security-salaries-layoffs-df229576002b9b99cf4149b3978e937c
Nov 14, 2025 2:14 AM
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There, fixed it for you Cathy
https://apnews.com/article/work-side-jobs-security-salaries-layoffs-df229576002b9b99cf4149b3978e937c
SpartaWolf117
don't give your loyalty to a company who won't show you any
DwayneTheCrackJohnson
Fuck you, Cathy.
justadude41123
I wish euphemisms didn’t exist, they are gross.
orp0piru
Rage3
"Workers forced to work multiple jobs because of stagnating salaries and inflation"
There, now it's really fixed.
KevinStrexcorp
Remember when GW Bush celebrated this?
https://youtu.be/kIjo-dWE1Jg?si=W3sEdexStCvtLCzQ
Sorrontis
absolutely stupid.
TheFastpaws
I can’t even get one. It is starting to hurt my soul. =/
OperatorWay
Catheren
Oh it's SO much worse than the headline; they're trying this "Upbeat young-twenty something thinks this is an ABSOLUTELY PERFECT LIFESTYLE to work 2 full time jobs and a side gig to afford RENT and FOOD. TEE HEE XOXO!" Absolutely disgusting.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Should cancel also “turn to” and replace it by “are forced to”
dixxienormus
I pretend to work because they pretend to pay me.
Peace0ut
It's almost as if the media's actual job is to keep us all dumb and stressed out so we don't all decide to simply QUIT WORKING FOR A WHILE and bring this shell game to its knees.
deweydecibel
I heard the editor wanted to change it to “Polly Wolly Working” to make it sound even more tolerable
Osiricus
People become more desperate as large chunks of everything increasingly fall into the hands of private greed*
UncleMartha
Also, instead of "to combat frozen salaries and inflation" it should say "to survive", or "to endure", but there's just about fuck-all that you can do to "combat" this shit. Well, guillotines, for sure; but beyond that, there's not much.
NickRivieraMD
alternately, abandon the passive voice, the salaries aren't magically frozen, prices aren't going up by themselves. '...to combat corporate owners fucking them coming and going...'
ontarioOT
It's in the Business section. Of course it's bullshit propaganda for the C-Suite readers.
HamAdvocate
Not even C-suite - true C-suite "work" multiple jobs all the time, serving on boards left and right, or even somehow serving as actual fucking execs like Musk somehow allegedly "works". This shit is for middle management to get angry about, because they don't have time to work multiple jobs and so they get pissed thinking they're getting left behind somehow.
CurbYourClassWar
Fuck you Cathy
PirateArrrgument
Media is being paid to spin poor people working more hours than they sleep as a trendy new life direction. Meanwhile, a billionaire PDF file has openly committed treason, embezzled government money, violated tax laws, defrauded elections, accepted bribes from corporations, other billionaires, and foreign governments, violated the constitution, exceeded presidential powers, rigged the Supreme Court, destroyed the White House, and far more that I don't have room to list, all without consequence.
IOwnTheSpire
Reminds me of that 'quiet quitting' nonsense.
Daliena06
"Acting your wage" is the lovely response I heard to that bullshit.
circlebreaker
Right? As though just barely covering your ass to keep a shit job with a piece of shit manager was unheard of before the turn of the millennium?
sleepinggreenidea
It's the same BS they argued as "the gig economy", and "sidehustle/grind culture" before that. This is an old grift, but the bosses love it.
technofiend
My employer has explicit policies against working more than one job. You have to get pre-approved to even volunteer somewhere.
CptJohnYossarian
If they then fail to pay a living wage, literal wage slavery
suckstoyourauntie
Same. They eliminated my job because of AI, after 29 years. I got another job with my company, 12k less per year. I'm about 6 years from retirement. If rates were lower right now, my pension transfer would be amazing, and I'd bail. Loyalty means nothing to corporations. I'll be fine, but this is crazy. They don't give a shit if employees are knowledgeable, just sell the things. Ppl out there, don't trust your bankers, bring someone knowledgeable if you are not. And feel free to message me.
CurbYourClassWar
This should be considered wage theft (it’s not I know) but they should have no right to dictate your life outside the hours you’re hired for. We need more protections and rights. We build everything for them and enjoy crumbs of the profits. They’re fuckin parasites.
GravyEducation
And that picture on the right needs to be her waiting tables. That's a more accurate second job
JustABookworm
The right? I'd have said the pic on the left isn't a common job either
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Office work is extremely common
Zeterai
I think that's intentional. It's downplaying the "second job" as just monetizing a hobby rather than doing "real work" so it doesn't look as bad. Same way the article is trying to rebrand it as 'polyworking' when it's literally just working multiple jobs.
Woogyface
for my understanding polyworking means exactly working multiple jobs. this "fix" did not fix the meaning of the headline for me
ThatNoPicklePeeThatNoPumpARum
You don't know anything about journalism that's for sure.
NothingButTheWorst
The problem with it is similar to journalists using the term "underaged women".
It's softened corpospeak to deflect from the gravity of the problem, and it's shit.
thechelonianshelmet
It's because it's a shitty new horseshit term being used to make bosses, etc, happy, instead of the far more honest, 'underpaid employees are forced to work 2 plus jobs simply to break even, & not starve, end up homeless because of scumbag bosses, politicians, etc'.
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
"Polyworking" is a bullshit corpospeak term invented to rebrand and destigmatize the idea of working multiple jobs - a thing which used to be seen as gauche.
The idea of "I can't afford to eat if I only work one job, so I'm forced to moonlight" is rightfully disgusting, but normalizing exploiting your workers is more profitable for corporations, so they want to rebrand it to something that casts it as a voluntary choice workers make all on their own and which is nobody else's fault.
dontrike
Because using those terms instead of what it actually is makes people more agreeable to it
Illendor
It's the soft corporate approved language that's the problem here. People aren't "turning to polyworking". They are struggling, and are being forced to take another job on top of a fulltime.
It's insanity.
Wolfshead009
It's word choice. It's like the difference between "killed" and "unalived". Means the same thing, but the perception of one is harsher.
TheRedBaron8
Jes-us where is the hard cutting journalism? Fucking cowards! And thanks for fixing the headlines.
InfocalypseRising
All the real journalists are dead for the most part. News no longer exists, you only get propaganda and "infotainment."
DVSBSTrD
It left around the same time Millenials stopped buying newspapers.
rubber666
That’s too simplistic. Millennials stopped buying newspapers because who would carry around a newspaper if you can read it on a phone. And then ads came into play, because Millennials were used to not paying for content on the internet. And then the newspaper companies realised that you make more money off of ads when the news were either terrible or engaging. And now it is a shit show. Oh, and it doesn’t help that no one is able any longer to tead to the end of this text.
DVSBSTrD
Except they never read the news on their phone either, you liar.
rubber666
True.
somewierdusername
Don't worry, I tead it 👍
rubber666
Yeah, the one typo catches your attention.