So I'm currently in a temporary living situation and have a lot of free time on my hands. I live extremely frugally and don't have a lot of bills, but of course I have some, so I figured I'd start doing some day labor a few days a week to make a few bucks. I started on Thursday and worked Friday and yesterday (Monday). I told the guy who I was working with yesterday that I wouldn't be in today (spending time with family), but would most likely be back on Wednesday. The way this place works too, is that you have to get assigned to a job every day and I purposely didn't ask to be assigned to one for today.
This morning, however, the woman at the office both called and texted me, leaving a voicemail saying, “We need you at the jobsite. We were counting on you to be there this morning.” The point of this post isn't to rag on this woman. She's simply doing her job and it sounds like she just didn't receive the message that I wouldn't be working today. I share this story more as a friendly reminder that the capitalist class NEEDS us to make money. This job I've been doing is hard manual labor. If I don't show up to dig ditches or move heavy stuff around, the bosses either have to do it themselves (not likely) or they simply just won't make the amount of money that they were expecting to make. Don't ever forget the power that we have to withhold our labor.