Thoughts and writings of a boozy prole. @mindinrederspect - Tumblr Blog

Lonely...

It's torture to feel so lonely when you're surrounded by so many wonderful, loving, and caring individuals. I know just sitting in my room doesn't help with that but I don't want to be a bother.

#personal #my thoughts #mental health #life

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Anonymous Twitter user @FellyThelly blew up their (apparent) employer’s spot the other day when they posted photos of anti-union training materials from Office Depot. Later, they acquired the entire manual from another employee, titled, “Labor Relations Training for Office Depot Supervisors and Managers.” The user compiled the tweet thread into the Imgur post below.

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Capitalism is only sustainable through a system of violence and social control

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I still have a copy of the t*rget team lead guide to dealing with union activity that I nicked from the office when I worked there, it’s mostly the same stuff but it also revealed just how much of their management tactics were intended to frustrate any unionizing activity. For instance, they said that cross-training in multiple departments was the best way to get reliable hours, and encouraged everyone to do it; according to the manual, however, it was their way of keeping departments mixed up and jumbled, making it impossible for any single department to unionize (and forcing anyone who wanted to unionize to get the entire store to do it).

And that’s just part what the store managers are taught. Throughout, it mentions holding off on action and consulting a labor relations officer in the company on how to proceed. Who knows what kind of shady shit the people a step above do?

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If you’re in retail and wondering how to go about unionizing, contact an existing retail workers union.

Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (US)

United Food & Commercial Workers Union (US/Canada)

Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers (UK)

Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (Australia)

FIRST Union (NZ)

They are all very familiar with the anti-union tactics of retail owners and managers, and will have some advice for you, some literature to distribute, and strategies to counter these tactics. It has historically been extremely hard for retail and fast food employees to unionize specifically because the owners and managers keep us scared, disorganized, and are happy to fire us for unionizing, labor laws be damned. Their entire business model hinges on us being overworked and underpaid. Contact a union for help organizing in your store.

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”i care about you”

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Poem #12

They tell me

To get more sleep

To just rest for a while

That I'll feel better then;

But they don't know

That every time I close my eyes

I see what I once lost,

And I am broken again.

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Act Two

long-gone-silvers

This is like “you messed with the wrong fandom” only 9000 times worse

socialistexan

Proud slut.

I was raised by a proud slut.

Raised to be a proud slut.

I dated a proud slut

Fell in love with a proud slut.

Wanted to marry that proud slut.

Was hurt by that proud slut.

And then hurt that proud slut.

But I am still a proud slut.

Wild and free.

Be caring for me.

See the world as I.

I will meet you half way.

Onto this day the slut is me

And I am proud to be.

#my writing #personal #poetry #slut #proud slut

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“Capitalist production is not merely the production of commodities, it is essentially the production of surplus-value. The labourer produces, not for himself, but for capital. It no longer suffices, therefore, that he should simply produce. He must produce surplus-value.”

— Marx - Capital Vol 1 Ch.16