yeah my brain is screaming "quit playing dumb and give me an answer you little shit" on that one but i would never actually say it like that
that said, that only matters if the job is not a bullshit one and if there is a consequence to you not doing the work, either
also, in my experience people who have worked non-bullshit crappy jobs at some point in their lives tend to understand this concept of pulling your weight a little better but it doesn't really translate well to the bullshit-job world because there nothing really matters, at least until material conditions get bad enough that these jobs will cease to exist
it has a direct positive impact on potentially thousands of lives so i love doing it well and i feel like people exploit my good nature :deeper-sadness:
that's cool (the first part). well another thing you could do is tell that person the same thing about pulling their weight with other workers around (but no managers) in the same room or meeting. it would even help if those people are ones that you have some solidarity with in the frist place but even if you don't that person will have to squirm a little more and will be harder for them to just say nothing in that situation since there are other people seeing it.
ive brought up unions and stuff to people i like and theyre all like 'the pay is alright and its important work what do we need a union for!' and its just...
sigh
ive explained it all everyone is just really special
i work with other high payed people too and the best i've managed to do is get them to join a secret chat where we talk about what we hate in the company but most were not interested in organizing and basically felt they had a sweet thing going so why try to change it. i work for a nonprofit now and its a similar dynamic. all the frustrated energy that could get directed at capitalism gets discipated into inter-departmental little catfights and passive-agressive nonsense. i've legit given up on trying to organize at the workplace because of that but hopefully the rising labor unrest hits the IT sector at some point.
ive tried to tell him about it but he just look like fish
yeah my brain is screaming "quit playing dumb and give me an answer you little shit" on that one but i would never actually say it like that
that said, that only matters if the job is not a bullshit one and if there is a consequence to you not doing the work, either
also, in my experience people who have worked non-bullshit crappy jobs at some point in their lives tend to understand this concept of pulling your weight a little better but it doesn't really translate well to the bullshit-job world because there nothing really matters, at least until material conditions get bad enough that these jobs will cease to exist
it has a direct positive impact on potentially thousands of lives so i love doing it well and i feel like people exploit my good nature :deeper-sadness:
that's cool (the first part). well another thing you could do is tell that person the same thing about pulling their weight with other workers around (but no managers) in the same room or meeting. it would even help if those people are ones that you have some solidarity with in the frist place but even if you don't that person will have to squirm a little more and will be harder for them to just say nothing in that situation since there are other people seeing it.
ive brought up unions and stuff to people i like and theyre all like 'the pay is alright and its important work what do we need a union for!' and its just...
sigh
ive explained it all everyone is just really special
i work with other high payed people too and the best i've managed to do is get them to join a secret chat where we talk about what we hate in the company but most were not interested in organizing and basically felt they had a sweet thing going so why try to change it. i work for a nonprofit now and its a similar dynamic. all the frustrated energy that could get directed at capitalism gets discipated into inter-departmental little catfights and passive-agressive nonsense. i've legit given up on trying to organize at the workplace because of that but hopefully the rising labor unrest hits the IT sector at some point.