labor diva

Someone who works in the laboring field, but gets upset when they have to labor in any other job setting, even if it’s only for one day.

Tom- “They hired me to do concrete, not cut grass, I swear I’m going to quit if they have me go do grass tomorrow.”

Bill-“Stop being a labor diva.”

by Maybeperhapsso June 17, 2023

Labor Digging

As originally defined by the account @uppity_negress_

A person participates in labor digging when they are searching for a partner whom they only value based on the labor they provide, particularly without proper compensation.

Crusty Man: I want a woman who will COOK and CLEAN, MANAGE my household, RAISE my children, and PLEASURE me regularly.

Decent Person: Ew, he is LABOR DIGGING so much right now.

by Credit to @uppity_negress_ April 27, 2024

Labor digger

When a male person only wants a female partner for the housecleaning, cooking, and other free labor he is too broke to hire on the open market. Usually unemployed and incel, has an overinflated valuation of the minimal effort he brings to the household.

That broke labor digger hasn't tried looking for a job.

by SilverKnight June 24, 2024

Labor daugh

when your john pappy slips you a sticky paper with dirt and you smoke it on labor day and walk around dressed as a break dancing naked pigeon while also being very suspicious of the line of brown midgets following you that you have no idea where they came from even though really you have just been shitting a dotted line on the ground as you walked around because the evaporated tree baby was almost definitely laced with laxatives.

Sum guy: "Liggin cats, I mean what the fuck are you doing break dancing and shitting at the same time dude? I didn't even know that was possible"

the person in question: "AUUUUGHGGHHH DUUUDEE I HAD PAPER AND I THINK ITS LABOR DAUGH AND I DONT LIKE NIGGERS!"

by Schrodinger's cock pasta February 25, 2025

Labor Digger

Labor Digger
noun
A man who accuses women of being “gold diggers” while simultaneously expecting unpaid domestic, emotional, or logistical labor in return for minimal financial contribution.
Originated as South Side Chicago slang in the 1980s as a satirical counter to “gold digger” claims. The term flips the economic accusation: instead of extracting money, a “labor digger” extracts cooking, cleaning, childcare, emotional management, and life administration.

Concept:
Highlights the double standard where financial provision is treated as transactional, while unpaid labor is treated as expected.
In short: If gold is money, labor is time — and time is currency.

“He says women just want his paycheck, but he can’t boil water and needs a reminder to pay his own bills. Classic labor digger.

by SChiLinguist February 26, 2026

Labor Digger

A woman who benefits from a man’s unpaid labor in everyday life, expecting him to handle countless tasks that make her life easier and more comfortable, often without acknowledgment or reciprocation. This includes fixing leaking taps, unclogging sinks, assembling furniture, cutting tree branches, carrying heavy items, repairing cars, changing tires, replacing light bulbs, ceiling fans, and air filters, cleaning gutters, washing windows, power-washing driveways, loading and unloading groceries, transporting large purchases, cooking meals, preparing snacks, planning birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and other events, buying gifts, stocking household essentials, coordinating family gatherings, mediating disputes, listening to her vent, giving advice, tracking bills and deadlines, driving children to school, tuition, sports, and classes, helping with homework and projects, changing diapers, bathing children, putting them to sleep, attending parent-teacher meetings, supervising outings, setting up electronics, carrying luggage, running errands, handling paperwork, taxes, legal documents, protecting the home and family, organizing closets and storage, maintaining appliances, trimming hedges, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, decorating for holidays, coordinating contractors, fixing furniture, maintaining vehicles, and performing countless invisible physical, emotional, and mental tasks that keep her life and household running smoothly.

Hey look, I love my wife, but she’s become a real labor digger! As her husband, I’m assembling furniture, cutting tree branches, carrying heavy items, repairing cars, changing tires, cleaning gutters, power-washing driveways, transporting large purchases, mediating disputes, listening to her vent, helping with her DIY projects, carrying luggage, handling taxes, protecting the home and family, taking care of kids needs and their future, teaching life lessons and sports to kids, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, coordinating contractors, and maintaining vehicles performing countless invisible physical, emotional, and mental tasks that keep her life and household running smoothly, all while feeling completely unappreciated and exhausted!

by UnpaidHeroMen March 14, 2026

labor shortage

what elites say when people aren't lining up by the hundreds to work for pocket change

" bob declared there is a labor shortage after he was unable to hire anyone to work for his construction company for the rate of $4/hour"

by superduperpasta July 23, 2025