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suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

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Political cartoonist does her job makes cartoon about media kowtowing to dictator. Cartoon is killed by editor b/c one media figure is paper’s owner. Political cartoonist quits job on principle. This is not a case of “biting the hand that feeds you”, this is demonstrating a threat to free speech.

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QuickBooks went to a rental model last year. I have a copy of an older version on my desktop at work. I need no backups, no online banking, I don't do payroll with it. I enter bills, write checks, and enter payments. I refuse to make my boss' company pay for shit we don't need. Once I figure out how to get it to stop asking me to login to Intuit (who is donating to the Cheeto's inauguration) I'm going to ask my boss for a bonus slightly less than what I'm saving him this year by not updating.

If you can figure out how to own your shit, own all of your shit. My kid took my CD player and CDs to college (which was super flattering). I should probably get back to burning

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

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I worked in a non-union factory for a while. Avoid those if you can; try to organize if you can't.

We did piece work. We all rotated jobs so we weren't stuck on the same job all the time, but someone forgot to rotate me for about a month. So I got very good at my piece. I got so good that a supervisor was sent over with a stop-watch to readjust the pay for each piece.

If memory serves, I was working a piece that earned about $0.0275 per good piece. In a 40 hour week, after deductions, I was cashing checks between $600-$650. It had been timed for no more than gross $500. It was the early 00s. I paid someone else to wash, dry, and fold my laundry.

I had been running this machine really well. No one else was anywhere as fast. If they retimed it for just me? Fine... But it would be company wide. Everyone working that piece would get paid at the new rate that I set.

That machine never fucked up as much as it did that day. Bad pieces all day. I even had to stop for a half hour to get a new mill fitted and then I had to recalibrate... It was a mess. My supervisor knew exactly what I was doing, but they were all things that do happen running those machines - I just made them happen. One after another. All morning.

After lunch, my supervisor said it was a terrible run of bad luck, really, but I should probably see if I could salvage the day so I made some money. Funny thing: his stopwatch battery died and he couldn't find a replacement. Huh. We chalked it up to a bad day and he left the rate where it was. He just remembered to rotate me out. And if we ran low on that piece, I got to run it again.

There are ways we can all look out for each other, even if we don't strike.

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

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"Thank Heaven! I thought he was queer," has got to be the best response to transgender children from the early/mid 20th century

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like the most politically neutered movie of all time unironically

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Being good to each other is so important, guys.

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Tell me a soft memory

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Fun fact: in the 80′s the Dutch Unemployed Union held ‘fridge raids’ to protest against poverty. 

They’d find out when a politician of big boss who upheld poverty and starvation wages was speaking at some public even, then they’d carefully break into his house with a LOT of people and they would eat EVERY piece of food in his house and leave the empty dished behind without taking anything else. 

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My last landlord told me that we were all family here. And I took that at face value. So I talked with the other tenants. There were so many fire violations between the three rentals that they weren't allowed to have tenants anymore. And the landlord tried to sue us and the judge did everything but laugh at them.

literally fuck companies that don't want their employees to act "unprofessional" in front of customers. I'm at a five guys rn and the employees here are joking around calling orders back and forth to each other and saying things in weird voices and laughing with each other while they work. Someone just came in for their shift while I was waiting for my food and was greeted by the whole kitchen with a secret handshake lookin thing. It was so silly and cute I love seeing ppl have fun at work and I know my food's gonna be bomb bc the ppl there are having fun with each other. Let employees be people and friends and have fun what is the issue!!!!

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