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So when you start working, they always train you not to do things. NEVER do this thing, or you’ll get fired. But then when you do the job you find out you have to do that thing or you can’t do the job. So you can get fired if you do it or if you don’t. What are those things? I’ll start. I used to work at a large chain grocery store. Obviously if unpackaged food fell on the floor, it was trash. But we were so short staffed, there wasn’t actually time to restock the items that fell. So if it fell, it got dusted off and put back. Otherwise you got in trouble for not stocking all the items. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Anyone else experience this?

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What a sad sentence.

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For the record: Women have an excellent track record in the labour movement

Post author By Olivia
Post date February 21, 2022
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Commented this elsewhere, but I think it deserves its own post. Edit: deleting irrelevant point Women have an excellent track record with labour protests. I'm already expecting some issues (read: horrible DMs) by mentioning women. But, just as the working class gives up power by political ideology, so too is it divided by gender (and, by extension, sexism). A lot of people on the left like to think misogyny is only an issue on the right. In my experience that is not the case. Leftists also have this issue. For example: there is good reason not to vote for neoliberal and corporatist democrats in the U.S. But the choice to vote 3rd party often doesn't take into account the perspectives of women. At least for me, a forced birth (in a system without guaranteed heath care, no maternity leave, very little help for working parents, and a very high childbirth…

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