• kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    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:

    • bordigasbodega [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        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

        • bordigasbodega [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.