Month: September 2023

The title says it all but a little back story. About 4 almost 5 months ago, my normal manager was fired abruptly one of the days I was out. I (f28) work from home and have been for over a year and I’ve never met any of my coworkers in person, including the manager that was fired. (this is important later). The operations manager for my department and they’ve been claiming to be in the process of hiring a new one. This has been on going for months. My operations manager knows I’m a newly divorced single mom. Though I have a partner, he works long hours himself. My ex isn’t involved with my daughter so if my kiddo ends up sick or needing anything I’m the go to. It’s not ideal but I’ve had to take more days off than most. It makes me feel awful but I don’t…

How can we truly make these companies and corporations suffer for how they treat their employees?

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Academics claiming to have the answers of liberation often miss real world interpersonal sources of strength because they lead lives of privilege and comfort.” This quote was really moving for me as a college student surrounded by (who I perceived to be) a bunch of overzealous political loudmouths and general well-to-do / upper class folk who couldn’t walk leftist praxis the way they’d talk it. There’s a working class heart to the book, even though a lot of it is propped up with super pretentious and almost intentionally obtuse or exclusive language. Dude hit the nail on the head enough for me to take interest, though. That quote up there made me…