{"id":1424,"date":"2018-10-19T07:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2018-10-19T07:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:35:04","slug":"why-has-work-gotten-a-bad-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/why-has-work-gotten-a-bad-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Has ‘Work’ Gotten A Bad Reputation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By H.V. MacArthur<\/p>\n

Our society seems to have launched a war against work. We\u2019ve become obsessed with certain jobs and have developed complete disdain for others. It\u2019s such backwards thinking. Why is it that we\u2019ll stand in line for hours for a chance to watch a popular singer perform for thousands, but we view the person selling the singer\u2019s concert tickets or serving us a meal as \u201cless\u201d of a person?<\/p>\n

The most recent example of this was the attempt to shame actor Geoffrey Owens, of The Cosby Show fame, for holding down a job as a bagger at Trader Joe\u2019s. Photos were secretly snapped of him on the job and went viral on social media, designed to show a man who had fallen to an all-time low.<\/p>\n

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By H.V. MacArthur Our society seems to have launched a war against work. We\u2019ve become obsessed with certain jobs and have developed complete disdain for others. It\u2019s such backwards thinking. Why is it that we\u2019ll stand in line for hours for a chance to watch a popular singer perform for thousands, but we view the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,66],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-hr-2","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/https-_specials-images.forbesimg.com_dam_imageserve_1048807370_960x0.jpg-fitscale.jpeg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-mY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1583,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/this-dad-left-his-staffing-job-and-built-a-million-dollar-one-person-business\/","url_meta":{"origin":1424,"position":0},"title":"This Dad Left His Staffing Job And Built A Million-Dollar, One-Person Business","author":"admin","date":"December 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"By Elaine Pofeldt Brian Abrams could have easily gone after one more corporate position. 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