{"id":49715,"date":"2023-12-08T10:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49715"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:54:31","slug":"this-is-oddly-validating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49715","title":{"rendered":"This is oddly validating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49716 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unhappyworkers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unhappyworkers.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unhappyworkers-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/georgia-has-unhappiest-employees-nation-according-new-survey\/AXWZPCWMCRFTJCC6AXMITETLHE\/\">We\u2019re #1!\u00a0 Or #50<\/a>:\u00a0 Georgia ranks first (or last) in happiness of employees, according to rando <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectsoftwarereviews.com\/blog\/happiest-employees-usa#strongthe-10-us-states-with-the-happiest-employeestrong\">website<\/a>, then reported by WSB<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Considering the fact that I have very specific brog tags for \u201cohatlanta\u201d and \u201cohgeorgia\u201d I\u2019ve been critical of my home state since basically, I moved here.\u00a0 It did not take too long for me to recognize bullshit when I saw it, combined with the age in which I moved here, really growing up into bullshit recognition and as my generation is often liked to be labeled, as woke, there is an odd sense of ironic satisfaction at seeing Georgia win, or tank at employee happiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It validates a lot of criticisms I\u2019ve had and witnessed throughout my life living here, and there\u2019s a part of me that likes to pawn off my own struggles with depression as having reason on account of working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But back to the data aggregation itself, the rankings were based on criteria such as quit rates, commute times, working hours, injuries, paid time off and state positivity levels.\u00a0 Considering the fact that Georgia has turned into a battleground state politically, it obviously has a very high rate of contention in general state happiness, as at any given point, nearly half the state is pissed about the color of it.\u00a0 But if I had to guess what is really anchoring down the state\u2019s general workforce happiness, has got to be the commute times, in which is further anchored down probably by Atlanta itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to GPS, I\u2019m barely six miles from my office, but I still need to give myself an entire half hour in order to traverse home to work, and I don\u2019t actually have to touch a highway either.\u00a0 I\u2019m usually below the median commute time of 28.7 minutes according to this study, but barely, and any little divot such as a fender bender or some rando school bus being late easily pushes me past it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And to think there were varying times in my life where I had commutes of 70+ minutes and 55 miles each way, and I was living my life then, I couldn\u2019t imagine going back to such hellacious commuting conditions ever again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But again, I\u2019m just going to assume most of Georgia\u2019s ranking is weighted heavily by Atlanta since lets face it, outside of pockets of civilization in Augusta, Macon and Savannah, there ain\u2019t shit else in Georgia that could muddy up the picture of the state, and even those pockets are merely blips of population compared to the five million-plus that live in the Metro Atlanta area.\u00a0 And most are innately aware of the escalating cost of living in the Metro Atlanta area, with obviously the wages not rising commensurate to meet them, which would of course lead to a lot of unhappiness.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure this is nothing different than lots of other major cities across the nation, but based on this study, it\u2019s very apparent in Georgia, more so than everywhere else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Honestly though, when I came across this article, I thought I\u2019d have way more to say about it than I apparently do, but continuing this post any further would just be parroting things already said.\u00a0 Georgia is apparently full of a bunch of unhappy people in the workforce, and although I don\u2019t necessarily think I\u2019m one of them, I\u2019m definitely not really in the happy camp on a daily basis, but I don\u2019t think a lot of these correlating conditions really help either.\u00a0 I know my general sense of happiness wouldn\u2019t mind some extra wage to help alleviate a lot of my anxieties and issues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re #1!\u00a0 Or #50:\u00a0 Georgia ranks first (or last) in happiness of employees, according to rando website, then reported by WSB Considering the fact that I have very specific brog tags for \u201cohatlanta\u201d and \u201cohgeorgia\u201d I\u2019ve been critical of my home state since basically, I moved here.\u00a0 It did not take too long for me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49715\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is oddly validating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,104,45,37,83,143,8,52],"class_list":["post-49715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-depression","tag-fail","tag-job","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49717,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715\/revisions\/49717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}