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for every osha violation at my work, i will be forgetting to scan a customer’s item (of my choice) when i am checking them out. this will continue indefinitely

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Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988)

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Hottest day in Germany last year, June 2019

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#angelic / @angejpg

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I’ve seen workplace autonomy get reduced at several jobs I’ve worked at and it always follows the same pattern, where the initial change is “that sucks and I think it’s dumb but at least I can see some rationale behind it” and subsequent changes become arbitrary reminders that your employer controls you.

When I worked at a distribution center, we used to be able to wear headphones. Then one day, someone working at a different distribution center got their headphone cords tangled up in the conveyors and was seriously injured, and we weren’t allowed to wear headphones anymore.

I hated the change, of course, and thought it was stupid, and wondered if the incident they mentioned even happened, but I could at least see the logic to it: “wearing cords around miles of conveyor systems is dangerous.”

So people started bringing portable radios and stuff to work. No cords, no blocked ears, no problem. Until those got banned too. Why? Because they could, and they showed that they could when they banned headphones.

Then I worked at a testing center. After a while, cell phones were banned. And again, there was some logic to the decision: for starters, we were surrounded by confidential information, and also needed to maintain a quiet and discreet atmosphere. It was obviously an unnecessary overreach and showed that they saw their employees as children, but they at least had some security concerns they could justify it with.

So people brought in books and magazines to read during downtime. And then books and magazines were banned too. Why? Because they could, and they showed that they could when they banned cell phones.

It’s tied up with the culture of… I don’t know if there’s a term for it, but it’s something we’ve all seen. If there’s no tasks left to do at work, then stare at a wall. If you’re on the clock, then don’t sit down even if there’s no reason not to sit down. Smile. That whole thing.

placeheldbutch

“If there’s time to lean there’s time to clean”

Customers at stores complaining to management if you don’t look adequately productive.

No chairs for hours of stationary work.

Bosses who make you clean their offices during slow times because they’re paying you and you can’t so no.

Chronically and intentionally understaffed stores.

It should be minimum wage for minimum work but they will squeeze every ounce of “productivity” in your body for $7.25 an hour and leave you exhausted and dead inside and then turn around and say that minimum wage employees are lazy burger flippers and don’t deserve more.

Every ounce of control exerted on us, like how OP described, is because they think the wage they pay us is already too high, so how dare we not suffer while we work. They aren’t paying for us to have fun so if we don’t look adequately busy for the amount they’re paying us we are somehow cheating them.

antique-scarecrow

Also building a culture of control helps guarantee that employers will never have to pay more than bare minmum wage. Stripping workers of as many rights as possible–even when there’s no profit or logic to it–is a major corporate control tactic.

Workplace abuse happens for a reason–tired employees accustomed to miserable working conditions are that much easier to exploit.

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from sunrise to sunset 🧡

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Head empty, just sunlight pouring through stained glass windows

angeldreamgirl

aoc’s a fraud bc of the capitol thing or what?? i always like her personality but then she does stuff that feels calculating and apocalyptic like play among us on twitch ;// (i know thats not anything inherently nefarious it’s just weird for politicians to capitalize on the trends of young people, a lot of whom are too young to even vote)

She’s fraudulent because in a bid for both brand-building fame and power she leverages a platform that relative to most American politicians is progressive, without doing any of the work associated with bringing that platform to reality. She acts as a cowgirl coralling leftists into the fairly conservative but holographically progressive neoliberal agenda. I also personally think to leverage personal traumas as a politician is so sinister to me - politicians are our representatives, they should not be brands or characters pulling on the heart strings of Americans. I find AOC to be extraordinarily manipulative of her constituents and I trust her no more than I do any other person seeking a career as a politician in this day and age aside from Kim Kardashian West who I trust immensely for personal reasons I don’t really want to get into here.

evilrashida

What does this mean I mean I know what it means but I would just sit this one out if I were you? Lmao

angeldreamgirl

Ok My apologies I won’t criticize the celebrities who run America anymore :)

evilrashida

I don’t really care for AOC but I don’t want to hear white bitches complain about identity politics like at all no one wants to hear you talk about the very thing that allows you to navigate the world easily in comparison to other people in ur community who aren’t white bitches so even tho we all think the libs of color are cornballs no one wants to hear you say that cracker like just go reblog something from a smart non-white bitch that slaver blood got you thinking we all want to hear what you have to say 😭