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fatalida

tgirl-thucydides

cedricredwood

get real

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Official Bush Post

dogpuppy

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

There is a distinct technique used by capitalists to bypass the legal and contractual rights of workers which to my knowledge has no name currently - so I’m giving it one - Lunch Grinding.

Lunch Grinding is a manipulative erosion of worker rights both in and out of the workplace. It bypasses legal and contractual standards through informal social pressures which the bosses cannot be held directly accountable for.

Lunch Grinding is named after one of the most common examples. It begins by asking a few employees to skip lunch in order to finish a project. Workers who are already insecure about their position due to economic anxiety will see this as an opportunity to prove they are a good employee. Those who refuse to do so may receive blame for failing to finish the project on time.

The issue becomes compounded when the bosses begin to purposefully schedule less time to complete the same projects. A distinct class begins to appear ignoring their contractual right to a lunch break - who become hostile to those who refuse to work during lunch for being “lazy” or “the reason we didn’t finish on time.”

At this point the management no longer needs to influence anyone directly to work through lunch break, simply by keeping up the sense of constantly being a little late for the project they have ensured the lunch-grinders will apply pressure to their peers who aren’t working through breaks.

As workplace hostility increases towards the “unproductive” members who are expressing their formal right to a break - they will be replaced with new individuals who may not even realize they have the right to a lunch break because working through the hour has become normalized by their peers.

Thus formal written standards from contracts and legal code become functionally non-existent. After which a new standard will be identified by management for erosion some examples include:

+Accepting uncertain hours. +Working off-the-clock. +Staying “On-Call” at all times. +Finishing projects / responding to emails at home. +Never using time off or sick leave.

All of which are socially conditioned in the same format - starting with “The Good Worker” who does a little favor for their boss - and ending as a peer enforced pressure and a perpetual hostility from management claiming productivity isn’t as high as expected.

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

This old post of mine feels increasingly relevant with the popular protest of worker’s mistreatment happening in the USA of late.

identitty-dickruption

I'm reading a study on how nurses define the term 'drug seeking', and what makes them more likely to put the 'drug-seeker' label on a patient's charts and. well. let me just throw down some quotes

"Needy, unable to cope" (<- you try coping with chronic pain)

"Comfort seeking" (<- you mean.. having a preference for not being in pain.. how criminal)

"Using or trying to obtain drugs on a long-term, chronic base" (<- do you understand what 'chronic pain' means.)

"Asking for pain med then returning to sleep."

"States he’s level 10 pain, but does not appear to be in pain (or ‘5= on appearance)." (<- it is well-known that chronic pain patients tend not to display pain in the same way as acute pain patients)

"Dramatic response to pain" (<- notice how this directly contradicts the comment above. you cannot win)

"Gets IV med, then leaves unit to smoke or walk around" (<- wow requiring medication and then going off to do something you needed pain meds to be able to do is so suspicious)

the article itself put it best when it says: “some comments depict patients trying to apply sound pain management principles, such as continuing to take medication for persistent pain”. no wonder all the other literature on the matter says that women of colour are the most likely group to be labelled drug-seeking. this shit is entirely vibes-based (read: based on the prejudices of nurses and doctors)

wherelibertydwells

knitmeapony

A Flock of issues. The post Florida Man Finds Easy Way to Stop Flock Cameras From Working Right appeared first on Mandatory.

hidewaku

越後　瓢湖　ヨシゴイ　蓮の傘

fakeymcnamerson-blog

big plant or tiny bird?

sixquarksinatrenchcoat

The plant is the Pink Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) and it can have leaves as large as 1 meter in diameter. That's not even the largest water lily. The giant amazon waterlily, Victoria amazonica, can have leaves up to 3 m in diameter and is large enough to support up to 100 lbs of weight when afloat

sugiichi

Ixobrychus sinensis [ヨシゴイ,Yellow bittern]

花の前を通過🥰

#this is the bittern equivalent of shrimping

galaxywarp

greenlabcoat

can you let me in pleeeeeaase. i promise i wont use my raptorial limbs to attack and kill you

hidewaku

越後　瓢湖　ヨシゴイ　蓮の傘

charl0ttan

okay fine. i will. fuck

charlesoberonn

The reverse of cozy games that are actually psychological-horror: A psychological-horror game that is actually a cozy life-sim.

You start in a creepy abandoned town full of nightmarish horrors, and you beautify it bit by bit. You befriend the monsters and help solve their problems so that they don't want to murder people anymore.

charlesoberonn

In the same way that fake-cozy games still have the gameplay of cozy games, this game would still have the gameplay of a psychological horror game.

You'd be beautifying the town by solving obscure puzzles. Your monstrous residents communicate with you via cryptic hand-written notes.

charlesoberonn

You boot up the game on your birthday. There's a bloody note your welcome mat that reads:

"the day of emergence has come --- rejoice!"

Then a spider-creature made of baby limbs drops a rusty pendant from the ceiling and skitters into the darkness.