Things I've said in the office:
- Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
- Management's primary duty is to pay as little as possible for labor. HR's primary job is to keep the company from getting sued. Labor's job is to extract as much from Capital as possible, while providing as little productivity as possible to Management.
- "Bougie" is taken from Bourgeoisie, most noteably used by Marks as oppressors of the proletariat.
- Yes, it is ethical and legal and permissible for you to discuss pay with other employees without management present, and this is a legally protected action.
In other news: Guess whose impressed his bosses sufficiently to be promised a promotion after we negotiate the new contract?
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And that is how to épater le bourgeois, B. Congrats!
ReplyDelete<-- has been ordered to not discuss salary upon pain of firing... after organizing a department wide collective bargaining threatened walkout after we all disclosed our salaries to each other. (Which actually worked, because they could not afford to fire a whole department.) Cat was already out of the bag, BOYOS.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you, High School History, for giving me the concept of collective bargaining for use in my oh so very much not union shop. Too bad public education can't decide if it wants to indoctrinate labor or create new intellectuals. (Mostly the former, sadly.) But these ideas only need one seed, and spread really well in an environment of gross inequity. (Bullshit is great fertilizer.)
ReplyDeleteVery nice, Gretchen S.!
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