Boss makes a million, I make a buck
Let’s steal the catalytic converter off the company truck
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
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Boss makes a 20 I make a buck that's why I do crack in the company truck
Boss makes six figures, I can’t pay rent
It’s either get a union or start living in a tent
Boss makes a billion, I can't retire.
Time to burn the whole system in a fucking fire!
But the fire will also incinerate my tent
I don't think that's the answer, although I get the sentiment
I just picked retire and fire to rhyme lol I'm not all that deep
:P
Haha all good
And a moderately sized fire every now and then is ok, I think
I make a dime
Boss makes a buck.
That's why i crank my hog in the company truck.
Even worse when you show you learn fast and are competent and you eventually realize that you're the dumbass stuck taking care of all the hard stuff for the same salary...
That's when you look for a new job.
I'm not one to defend companies at all, but in my experience when I can actually prove I'm "better" than my coworkers I've gotten the raises I've asked for. I make every attempt to prove my value, come with the argument, and if they deny me then I quit after I've found something else. (I'm a blue collar schmuck so it's not like I'm some high demand tech bro.)
You have to ask, they will never just give you a raise.
That said I've never worked for a corporation other than my retail days, but you'd never be able to prove any "value" in those situations anyway.
It's an issue with union jobs though, I'm currently pushing for the creation of a new position at a higher level to recognize the fact that although everyone might be trained to do the same things, some people clearly take care of stuff most employees couldn't handle.
That’s probably the biggest issues I see with unions. Unless there’s a path for star performers to move ahead faster, it completely removes the incentive to work harder. Sorry, “seniority” as the only measure of compensation and title is bullshit.
Boss won't give you a raise? Give yourself one by slowing production to less than 50٪ and find something fun or interesting to do with the time saved.
That or just call HR and pretend to be a complaining customer. Use *67 or text free. I did that ONCE and had a new boss in a month. (Yes, they deserved it)
I try at my job because if I'm going to do something for 40 hours a week, I'd rather take joy in being good at it than stew in resentment for most of my waking hours
Good example of two people in a team acting their wage.
Absolutely untrue in quite a bit of the market.
But quite true in the rest of it.
Unless you’re in sales lol