Month: April 2022

The same way Bezos built Amazon! If we don’t break the cycle who will? Let’s not die and leave the world massive warehouses full of our dead bones… — Archaeologists now believe that the Great Pyramid of Giza (at least) was built by tens of thousands of skilled workers who camped near the pyramids and worked for a form of tax payment (levy) until the construction was completed, pointing to workers' cemeteries discovered in 1990.

So my union is prepping to strike to get actual living wages for us grocery store workers. Our store manager went around today asking a bunch of people to head home early so they can “save hours” our location is already horribly short staffed and we can barely keep up with our normal responsibilities as is. We don’t even have a closer for our bakery most days and have three days of the week when we just don’t have a cake decorator. Are they really this stingy to try and save every penny they can while making our working conditions worse even under threat of a strike? One of our employees even got scheduled for just two days next week instead of the minimum 24 needed for full benefits. The managers have been upset about us working overtime in the past (which is weird since we actually have to in…

Do we have any representation on r/Place? considering this has been one of the most influential communities in the past year or two, it feels like we need some kind of large presence?

He's a locksmith, and he's a lifetime resident in a small town, and between being related to bikers and having a barely-not-jailed criminal past himself (25 years ago) and working for half the town now that he's straight, he knows about everyone. He's become a guy who gets calls about “I need a job”, and he knows fully that a lot of these people are unreliable to start with, and most of them think they'll just stand at a counter and punch a cash register. He needs a lot more from them than that, because who pays for one register person and one key-maker/advisor/salesman/emergency lockout person? No one does. So his solution is to tell them that they can come along for a couple days and see if it's for them. I greatly suspect that they're working for free during that time. It's all totally informal, and I think part…

Don’t get me wrong, I know the massive impediment to this gestures at tax law, entire corporate stock and investment system but I think this is a primary step to place in the public mind: investors, board members, CEO’s are the biggest waste of money and leech of the value produced by labor in any company. Major decisions can be made by the workers and designated representatives among them. The profit and value saved by eliminating the unproductive top heavy senior leadership in a company should go to the workers who produce the value. And EVEN THEN those workers should be represented by their own union of course. The question is how do we popularize the idea that eliminating CEO’s saves companies money other than the obvious fact that it would? What would be even one step to start restructuring and reclaiming our own labor from the investor class while…