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I found 2011 to be the most enlightening quote: > Man, what a weird week. Unless it's on their own terms, it seems nobody wants to work anymore. It's the only
by cypherpunks01 3y ago
I found 2011 to be the most enlightening quote:
> Man, what a weird week. Unless it's on their own terms, it seems nobody wants to work anymore.
It's the only one with any acknowledgement that agreeable terms may actually be needed in order to attract people to work. It doesn't take a PhD to figure this out!
Utah Phillips, one of my favorite storytellers and all-around anarchist and hobo has a line I was reminded of:
That’s when [Fry Pan Jack] told me – you know, he’d been tramping since 1927 -he said, “I told myself in ’27, if I cannot dictate the conditions of my labor, I will henceforth cease to work.” Hah! You don’t have to go to college to figure these things out, no sir! He said, “I learned when I was young that the only true life I had was the life of my brain. But if it’s true the only real life I have is the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that at the end of the day they will give it back in an unmutilated condition?” Fat chance!
From the track Bum on the Rod off the album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere with Ani DiFranco https://youtu.be/-rw4sd4AuJE https://youtu.be/-rw4sd4AuJE
- shove 3y agoIF I CANNOT DICTATE THE CONDITIONS OF MY LABOR I WILL HENCEFORTH CEASE TO WORK
- cypherpunks01 3y agoYes, thank you! That's the related one I could not think of : )
- shove 3y agoIn a similar vein, this poem by Pedro Pietri: Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) woke up this morning feeling excellent, picked up the telephone dialed the number of my equal opportunity employer to inform him I will not be into work today Are you feeling sick? the boss asked me No Sir I replied: I am feeling too good to report to work today, if I feel sick tomorrow I will come in early
- influx 3y agoI read that in Mitch Hedberg‘s voice.
- irrational 3y agoMy company would call that taking a mental health day, which is considered a legitimate reason for not coming into work.
- shove 3y agoMine too, but I’ve not always had the pleasure of working for the enlightened
- schwartzworld 3y agoEasy to do as a knowledge worker, but I've had plenty of jobs where you get in trouble for resting.
- red-iron-pine 3y agocalendar store -- one of the pop-ups in the mall during the holiday season. literally just an empty storefront they were able to rent on the cheap. few shoddy racks of calendars. we had to keep walking and chatting to the customers when they came in. In December. For calendars. No chairs, no cell phones. Couple of the HS kids no called/no showed so I was often the only person there for 8 hours. Exhausting.
- doublerebel 3y agoThat’s called sales
- red-iron-pine 3y agoI've had sales jobs. I worked 3 hours a day, make a lot of phonecalls, and did power lunches twice a month. This was retail, and for calendars. I was a seasonal hire and had no more information about the product than the customer did, nor did I get any commission or incentive if I sold or didn't sell.
- WalterBright 3y ago> agreeable terms may actually be needed in order to attract people to work aka the Law of Supply & Demand.
- Nifty3929 3y agoThis Utah Phillips quote sounds like it came right out of Atlas Shrugged.
- wak90 3y agoMy goodness what an insulting thing to say about the man
- nroms 3y agoI mean, like it or not Atlas Shrugged remains one of the most influential novels of all time
- wak90 3y agoI didn't say it wasn't. I'm saying calling an anarchist someone out of the "objectivist" manifesto is especially insulting.
- nroms 3y agoIt wouldn't be considered an insult from those many who liked the book, is my meaning. Just that the parent didn't seem to me to be especially insulting
- wak90 3y agoThis is going to sound insulting and it is not meant to be insulting. Your comment shows a fundamental misunderstanding of anarchism and Rand. Her philosophy is particularly odious to people on the left and is especially incompatible with anarchist political philosophy. The idea that there are special super intelligent humans who should be placed at the top of society's hierarchy and be given free range to make any and all decisions for those lower on the hierarchy is outright rejected as baseline anarchist political thought.
- nroms 3y ago