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Workers' housing
near an early 20th century factory. Piazzola sul Brenta, Veneto, Italy. Leica R5 with 50 mm Summilux on expired Polaroid HighDefinition film.
#photographers on tumblr#original photographers#architecture#italy#film is alive#i still shoot film#analog photography#film photography#expired film#Veneto#Piazzola sul Brenta#worker quarters#industrial#pastel colors
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From Cuba to Louisiana: Two paths after slavery’s end
By Gregory E. Williams
This author visited Havana as part of the U.S. Friends Against Homophobia and Transphobia delegation in May 2023. Being from southern Louisiana, this author was struck by how much the old city looked like the New Orleans French Quarter. The architecture is similar – Spanish colonial. But there was one tremendous difference. The beautiful old houses were being used as homes. Colonial mansions were transformed into the headquarters of democratic mass organizations like the Federation of Cuban Women and the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX). There were no homeless people. New Orleans’ French Quarter used to be residential, but today is an adult Disneyland. Very few people can afford to live there, and tourist shops and short-term rentals take up the historic buildings. Contrasting Cuba and the U.S. South – and U.S. society generally – shows what happens for the common people when the exploiting classes are expropriated vs. what happens when they are not.
#Cuba#Louisiana#Reconstruction#slavery#workers#Black liberation#racism#BlackLivesMatter#socialism#capitalsim#cenesex#French Quarter#Struggle La Lucha
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Drop kicks this and runs
Trips, falls and explodes
Self insert for @/wyervan 's DCA slasher au
#dca slasher au#slasher au#art#self insert#gyxtar0.luvsart#not a worker cause realistically I'd just be some kid going to the arcade and probably trip on the floor even though theres nothing there#to trip me#or they could like help out for community service hours#also this mf has braces even though i got mine off last week cause why not i need that braces rep for one of my sonas/self inserts‼️‼️#will steal your quarters if left untouched for too long
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I fucking hate elon musk it's so crazy that he's weasled his way into a cabinet position and is having these one on one meetings with italys right wing pm all while being the ceo to multiple companies that all have SOOO many problems
#it's so crazy that acquiring enough capital at a certain points makes you immune to losing any of it#how did tesla make 2 billion dollars last quarter outside of fucking over their workers the amount of lawsuits they have against them#THE AMOUNT OF RECALLS#unimaginable amounts of money being funneled into the 1%
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ALSO!!! MAJ!!! WE’RE THE SAME AGE NOW :DDDDDD!!!!
i hope senior citizenship treats you well 😁
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I do think that leftists from upper class backgrounds should pay a mandatory fee before lecturing others on socialism/socialist thought. Until you’re willing to part with your own generational wealth, I’m going to assume that you’re only trying to utilize the same paternalism and self indulgence that you’ve enjoyed for for your entire life, under a radical facade.
#@ the psl member whose mother owns quarter horses … the one who is always behind the bullhorn but *never* gives mutual aid#always ordering everyone around like they’re your worker bees#this may be controversial#but by ‘upper class’ i do not mean children of those within the managerial or ruling class#i mean anybody wealthy enough to hide or minimize their background - ‘we’re comfortable’#personal
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MCFLY JULY ‘24 — manure truck driver.
NOVEMBER 9, 1955
Most days, Lemuel Hackett enjoyed his job.
It was always nice to meet the farmers and gardeners who would turn a waste product into something that would make the world a little more beautiful and that would help the flowers and the vegetables and the trees grow. Now, it wasn’t the most glamorous thing in the world, mind, but it was uneventful, paid fine enough, and he was always home for dinner with his family.
Yes, there were worse things, he thinks as he waits patiently for the stoplight.
Then he’s suddenly rear-ended and a cry tears itself from his throat.
His first thought is to the wellbeing of whoever hit him and he rushes out, only to find that Tannen nuisance and his band of cronies covered in a quarter of Mr. Jones’ daily inventory.
“Now, see here, Tannen,” Lemuel says sternly, hands on hips, once he makes sure they’re unharmed. “If you’re fixin’ to go careerin’ around town in that newfangled death trap ‘a yours, you’re gonna hafta deal with the consequences. I expect Mr. Jones’ll wanna recoup his losses from this little incident, so’s I’d suggest you save up your pocket change.”
#drabble tbt.#mcflyjuly#mcfly july ‘24.#a short one today bc i went swimming but!!#i have a lot of empathy for manure truck man#we never see him but being rear-ended by biff and having like a quarter of his stock ruined is awful#reminder to be kind to service / retail / essential workers!!!
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#feeling so entirely disillusioned with life rn#the current ai situations is already shitty but the true ai wave hasn't even started yet. we have no idea whats coming but we are so fucked#at least a quarter of all the software job postings are for AI development now#if we're in capitalism hell rn then we're about to enter mega hell#i was only feeling a little depressed today after job searching but then#i went on youtube & was hit with the memory of what yt used to be before 2010#& seeing all those slick & shiny hd seo-optimized yt thumbnails suddenly disgusted me#but ai is about to make the internet a whole lot worse#ai is about to make art a whole lot worse - and not just visual arts. ALL the arts#(sf ballet (aka. the most prestigious ballet company on the west coast & who plays to 3k+ ppl per night) has no fucking artistic solidarity#& designed all their commercial art for the nutcracker this past xmas using ai)#ai is about to make the job market a whole lot worse#i don't want to be a raging fear-mongering type of person but i am extremely pessimistic & depressed about the future#or the near future anyways. i'm hoping that once the consequences of unrestricted ai reveal themselves further#that legislators will finally start taking it seriously & start doing something to protect workers from it#but somehow i feel it will be too little too late#personal post
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me when the bacteria c o l o n i s e s
#m a n. i thought that the sample would turn out negative for bacteria (like the rest have been for the past. what. year and a quarter(?))#esp since the agar testing stick things used were freshly expired (thanks for the expired reagents workplace; cost cutting ftw!!!!)#but. ewwwwwwwwwwww it actually grewwwwwwwwwwww#and the small stick thing was covered from like top to bottom in countless dark red colonies. ewwwwwwwwww#all the other agar stick things were completely clean though so it was def a problem with the sample and not with my handling of the agar#in any case!!!!!!! it was the first time i saw a positive for bacteria growth on a sample and!!!!#it was also my first time reporting the results for this test!!!! without any of the test-familiar staff around!!! so!!!!! not fun!!!!!!!!#i didn’t even k n o w what they meant when they asked to ‘describe the colour/appearance of the colonies’ bc the managers’ expectations are.#just. *weird*. sometimes. ughhhhhh im ready for the inevitable groupchat callout on tuesday with ‘who taught you to report like this????’s#well e x c u s e me for not knowing sir you never taught me how to report colony growths or anything auauaaaaaaaaaa#but is ok!!!!!! i’m taking tuesday off anyway!!!! it’ll be the tuesday workers’ problem now!!!!!!!! good luck guys!!!!!!!#at least there was no fungi either… now *that* would’ve been extra gross#the bio class flashbacks were r e a l today… thank god i don’t ever have to open that stupid pharmacopoeia ever again#also reminds me of (one of) my stupidest moments in a bio class though…#back in the days of yore (read: anatomy class in the year of ‘17) i was an absolutely horrible student who’d never fail to nap in class#so when my lecturer asked connecting questions down the class register…#yk stuff like asking student 1 to ‘name a type of cell’ and then asking student 2 to ‘name an organelle that a [student 1’s cell] contains’#he asked the girl before me to name a hormone. she answered ‘growth hormone’. and i was like. dammit. idk where it’s found. lolhelp.#(bc i never read ahead either + the growth hormone didn’t even show up in lessons during that school term)#so when he inevitably asked me to ‘name the organ that produces the growth hormone’ i answered (exact quote) ‘i don’t know; the ovaries????’#the class laughed. sad. the lecturer retorted with sth like ‘then are you saying that boys can’t grow?’ and i just shrugged#the girl after me (who incidentally has the same first+last name as me phonetically speaking) gave him the right answer thoughhhh#i hope i managed to buy my name twin enough time to look up the correct answer (if she didn’t already know it) with my stupid guess#yeahhhhhh i do n o t miss bio class. at all. giggity#anyways that’s enough flashback sequences for one year. can’t believe the next year’s less than 10 days away tbh. can’t wait!!!!!!!!
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Just learned that the raise my company offers for becoming the next level above where I am, which would give me at least double the workload, is, at most, 5%, which is about $0.75.
This same company also requires all of it's employees to undergo an exam and an interview for the chance to get promoted.
For, max, $0.75.
And they wonder why they can't get people to move up in the company.
#an exam and an interview for the chance to get $0.75 more per hour for more than double the workload#yeah I think I'll just stay where I am#again this is the *maximum* raise#the more common raise is 2.5% which is approximately $0.35#an exam an interview and double the workload for ten fucking cents over a quarter#any upper management out there wondering why they can't hang on to workers?#yeah this is why#there's no such thing as getting organically promoted at my company#you *have* to take an exam#I've been working here for over 3 years at this point#if I didn't know how to do my job by now I would've been fired two years ago#take your bullshit redundant exam and shove entirely up your ass#we're fucking game testers not doctors like holy shit#trash king vents
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hey does anyone else never need to check their blindspot on the interstate or highways because they're hyper aware of every single car surrounding them from the moment they get on the road to the moment they get off or am i some sort of freak
#i keep a mental roster like#blue suv that's acting erratically red car that's been with me for miles white truck that's creating a bottleneck#cop up ahead there's a light in a quarter mile that might be tricky bc there's a semi truck 8 cars ahead of me over the hill#we lost three cars at that light back there they must be chem plant workers i hope no one wants to pull over at those gas stations ahead#like i know the surrounding mile of the damn thing like the back of my hand#if it had been trains i wouldn't have to do all this shit#adam talks too much
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when u tell someone who hasn’t had to apply for a job in a while “the interview process is like 6 weeks atp” they don’t believe you but a lot of employers will wait like 2 weeks to follow up, and they always need to do multiple rounds of interviews which takes a week for each round, and then there’s two more weeks of dead silence before you hear back. sometimes you’ll apply for something in january and they will call you up in the summer like “hey you still want the job” it’s crazy. they’re out here putting desk clerks through two phone interviews and two in persons at two different locations. they make the pages interview TWICE and they also have to do TWO sorting tests!! that job pays well below minimum wage, it’s a job meant for retirees and high school students why do you interview them like it requires a mlis
#i had to do a skill test for carson’s too but at least it was only one round of interviews#i know it’s not just libraries bc i applied to two eye doctors four dentists and as a desk clerk type job but idr where#i think they could tell i wasn’t enthusiastic about the job tbh and how dare they put me all those interviews aksjsj#also the one eye care made me refill out my entire resume when i got there. i think they didn’t like that i didn’t drive#but a lot of library workers are also car less lmao. like half of them like me could never afford it so we never got a license#and a good quarter are retirees who do this as basically a hobby and they only have one car so the husband takes the car bc he works farther#that may sound specific but i know like 12 different old white ladies with exactly that story#at goodwill they wrote us up if we were late bc of the train that was literally down the street meanwhile in libraries ur manager is always#late bc she commutes in from The Big City and the most senior person in the department is always late bc the bus was late and her husband#had the car that day and she is the oldest most wrinkled woman you will ever meet. a stiff wind will blow her away. she smokes 8 packs a day#anyway i hate applying for jobs#rani makes text posts no one will read
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i rlly kno im poor and old when i get excited that ppl be leaving their receipts at the self checkout and i get to do the surveys for the $100 gift card raffles lmaooo
#i entered this weeks raffle 7 times :D#oh i also do mcdonalds surveys for da free quarter pounder😭#i always put 'highly satisfied' perfect ratings so that the workers wont get in trouble working class solidarity#imma use the 100 bucks on more wet food for my fatboy pickles in case anyone is wondering
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since spotify wrapped is coming today i just want to bring awareness to the fact that around 86% of the songs on spotify are currently demonetized since spotify decided that tracks with under 1,000 cannot be monetized. not only that the ceo of spotify cashed out $35.8 million dollars in spotify shares in the third quarter of the year and it has been reported that he earns more than the top artists on the platform.
for a platform that claims to support artists, this is outrageous and i hope people realize that an artist who is starting out, cannot make a living out of spotify streams simply because daniel ek and his friends made it worse for the artists trying to start a career. if you wanna support musicians and the possibility for them to get a living wage please follow United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) which are trying to make The Living Wage for Musicians Act a reality so musicians can be paid fairly through streaming platforms and get the cut they deserve.
#this is a daniel ek hate blog btw#i thought this was important#bc this isn't talked about enough#i found out about umaw this year#and truly we need unions for musicians#that fight for more rights and fair pay#spotify#spotify wrapped
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Even in food service, there is the demand for exponential growth. Each store has a profit target you're expected to hit every quarter. Each quarter the target gets bigger and bigger. The only way to make sure you hit or exceed that target is to increase sales or cut costs. Sales can only go so far though, so at a certain point there is the understandable temptation (not justifiable, but understandable) for your manager to start cutting hours. Once they do, your location has entered a Death Spiral.
The thing about the Death Spiral is it is nearly impossible to escape. It starts innocuous enough, with a few hours getting shaved off every week. And true enough at first you probably didn't need those hours. They were the slack, the extra hands that helped distribute the work and made it easier on everyone. You might not even notice they're gone. Maybe the morning rush is a little harder to handle, maybe there isn't as much time to chat as there used to be. But on the whole nothing has changed. You're still hitting your sales quota and, hey, everyone seems to be working a little harder. That's good, right?
Then the next quarter rolls around. You exceeded your quota. Upper management is very excited. But now your new quota is even higher than it would have been if you had simply performed to expectations. You raise prices a bit, push more expensive drinks, and sure, cut a few more hours. Bit by bit the slack gets tighter. The fat gets trimmed. All because continual growth, continual improvement, is not just demanded, but expected.
The endgame of the Death Spiral is the expectation that every worker will operate at 100% efficacy 100% of of the time, and that nothing will go wrong ever. It never reaches this point, as any food service worker will tell you, shit goes wrong. Service gets worse, you lose a few customers, and you miss your quota. This is the point of no return, because the only way to solve the problem is to add more hours. But there's no way upper management will approve spending more money. On a failing store? Don't be ridiculous. Maybe get those numbers up and we'll consider adding hours back. But the only way to get those numbers up is with no hours. It's a Catch-22. You're trapped. Slowly, inevitably, the store fails, and then closes.
The Death Spiral is a doomed strategy, but it is the one corporations push in response to investor pressure. It tricks workers into more work for the promise of relief later, if they do well and succeed, not realizing they'll only be asked to do even more next time. So how do you fight it? Know your worth. Don't let anyone give you more work without some kind of kickback. Don't fool yourself into thinking that being indispensable will lead to a reward later.
But the best defense? Join a union.
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Tatanagar Railway Quarters in Dire Need of Repair
Half-Century-Old Housing Units Pose Risk to Resident Employees Prolonged neglect of 2100 railway quarters sparks concerns over safety and living conditions, prompting calls for urgent renovation. JAMSHEDPUR – The railway quarters housing Tatanagar railway employees have fallen into a state of severe disrepair, raising serious safety concerns for residents. Built approximately 50 years ago, the…
#जनजीवन#employee housing crisis#Infrastructure Neglect#Jamshedpur Housing Issues#Life#railway safety concerns#Tatanagar railway quarters#urban decay#Worker Welfare
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