https://xcancel.com/BenRamanauskas/status/1833137695926698386
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Oh, it's misogyny 
I hate these fucks. Everyone knows highly paid CEOs do far less work than people working service and retail. But of course they need to virtue signal to these rich fucks and pretend low paid workers are worth less. Pathetic and cowardly
I love the pecking order misery olympics bullshit people trot out when an exploited worker wants better compensation. Oh you think your job is hard? Try shoveling burning coal with your bare hands! Try bending steel girders with your ass muscles! I didn't work 47 hour shifts sticking roofing nails under my toenails at the Cenobite Factory to hear somebody complain about the economy.
If they're so much more manly and strong, why don't they simply also organize for a raise?
I worked in warehouses for a decade. I was around before high vis vests were mandatory and let me tell you the amount of slacking off and drugs getting done was a lot more than any retail worker I've known. I worked in warehouses stocking stone and tiles, kegs of beer, you name it. We fucked around hard.
I know this is engaging with a bad faith idea and responding like this gives it legitimacy but i feel like i can get away with saying it here.
The amount of surveillance the piggies felt they had to implement in warehouses is a testament to how much harder these "strong men" are working. Stealing shit was one of the perks of the job back then. I get so tired of hearing how much harder these people work. Every "manly man" job I've had is mostly talking to the boys and drinking coffee unless there's something really important going on.
We used to have "safety meetings" at my construction job. These were just us sitting around not doing anything for like 2 hours lmao
I get so tired of hearing how much harder these people work. Every "manly man" job I've had is mostly talking to the boys and drinking coffee unless there's something really important going on.
I temped in some industrial supply offices in my 20s, and this is what I saw back then, too. I kinda suspect that these kinds of jobs sorta foster that "I work SO HARD!" attitude as a form of denial and an attempt at preservation of a facade.
Just like the men who bitch the most about women gossiping are always the first ones to grab a beer and start yammering the second someone starts wrenching on something. 🙄 dudes rock.
Everyone talks about doing that big double shift or that month where we worked a billion hours etc but nobody talks about how, averaged out over the year, we still didn't actually work even close to a full day
Stealing shit was one of the perks of the job back then
Genuinely do these people like actually think shit was “falling off the back of trucks” all the time?
for what it's worth i'm familiar with supermarket warehouses and while they're not quite amazon-tier awful they're pretty fucking hard. because everything's done through scanners nowadays you have targets to meet every hour that seem to always be creeping upwards. that said i've also worked on tills and it's mentally exhausting being forced to talk to people for hours on end. different kinds of exhaustion at the end of the day
That's why I, a proud individualist, will work to get one of these easy retail jobs.
I love being underpaid while the industry wholly refuses to establish any kind of ergonomic standards so that I'm constantly half crouched grabbing boxes without anywhere to grip and wildly different, with carts that break instantly because company can't be bothered to make sure we have enough so they get abused and damaged. This causes my body to break down and hurt daily because it turns slightly bending your back for hours straight is really fucking bad for it. My knees are shit also because to keep my back straight I bend down and put pressures on my knees. And now my hands ache because of gripping shit that doesn't have logical grip points has made my tendons ache and I guess I have carpal tunnel? (I don't even use my computer anymore and haven't for like 4 years and they have gotten worse and worse).
Also to anyone who thinks the person in the store isn't work just as fucking hard as a warehouse person. I'd like to push them off a cliff. So the warehouse sends us the pallets of product to put on the shelves... What do they think happens next? Does putting boxes on a pallet require more skill than taking them off? My warehouses don't even sort the shit. So we need to spend hours every day sorting the new stuff to the correct departments which means I'm basically half a warehouse. Except I also have to do customer service when someone asks for help finding the Tupperware section, and looks at me like I killed a family remember because I said aisle 2 and pointed the direction and said "it's in the middle of the store... Where all the numbered aisles are".
Can somone reply to Carlgon of Swindon and tell him that he's implicitly arguing for the Labor Theory of Value and that he's the real communist? Please? 🥺
We already have stupidpol and now MAGA communism. The western left is going to become “relevant” by just copying the right’s tactics in the 2010s, aren’t they?
“WE’RE not leftists! YOU’RE leftists!”
Dibs on being the guy that responds to racism by shaking his head and saying “this is reverse-wokeness. If Ronald Reagan was alive today he wouldn’t stand for it!”
I just want to inflict a state of psychological terror in the minds of reactionaries by aggravating their own cognitive dissonance. I'd love to see Sargon of Akkad being witchhunted by the people who are his supporters or for him to develop an aversion to discussing the value of labour for fear of being mischaracterised as a communist.
I want the reactionaries to eat their own. I want there to be a state of chaos under heaven in the reactionary camp. I don't think this is a viable strategy to achieve any particular outcome, I just want them to have an awful time.
If these people going on strike will lead to the bankrupting of the country, then they sound like they're very important actually
Nurses should be paid the same as heart surgeons
Unironically yes, they should, and it would probably solve some problems with the healthcare system if they did
Weren’t the british complaining to the EU to let in more polish migrants to do their jobs lol
Sargon of Fascaad really showing himself to be a great thought leader for working people in that tweet
The term "bint" is so funny when applied to a woman of Arab heritage. Hmm, yeah, a daughter, very incisive.
I'll never forgive Monty Python for making me think bint is a very funny word
dude i see these takes like a billion times a day and they've been talked to death
Thank you for the reminder, but as you said, if all unions are like this, than what’s the point of mentioning it in this context?
