These definitions from urban dictionary are evidence of how employees feel when they’re not engaged in their jobs:
- A slave with a paycheck.
- Groups of people at the workplace who engage in the means of production by providing labor to the employer. In return for their hard work, the employees receive pay and benefits while the employer makes a profit which allows the employees to continue to earn income which they spend in other places allowing other people to remain employees and their employers make a profit which allows those employees to earn income which they spend in other places ….
- Means by which at least 30% of your life is stolen from you to enrich the owners of a company making useless s**t that some other poor idiot in a job will buy.
- A futile effort for financial independence, social acceptance and personal happiness. — My job allows me to pay endless bills, envy my friends and witness my family fall apart.
- A thing that takes up much of our lives and sends a message to everyone that life sucks. 1) My job sucks. 2) I hate my job, however i need the money, so i guess ill go for the rest of my life.