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We don’t get paid enough to work here We but further enrich the wealthy What have our managers done for us lately; why should *we* remain loyal? They did not make efficient use of our time during standard business hours, every meeting could have been an email, and they mistook us for family Nor did they pay time and a half for the overtime they thought we'd work to cover for their failure to plan; how is it our fault that they planned to fail? Our efforts went unrewarded save what Sisyphus found atop his hill and we have suffered enough to earn our pardons from this corporate Hell Like Atlas we bore the weights of all the little worlds they could not run, but we had found that like old scrivener Bartleby: *we would prefer not to* Thus we bid farewell to our silent suffering for nothing more than a paycheck that barely covers our bills Consider this our resignation Accuse us of disloyalty because we quit without notice, but you know damn well our bosses would fire us all just to save a buck; let's unionize Our bosses can all go fuck themselves Which of them will be the first to lick clean our unwashed assholes after they eat the peanuts out of our shit? Was this scatological turn too crude, a sentiment unsafe for work? Your sensibilities are no less tender than the rich; they taste like pork.
The pyramid of backs that our most worshiped Lords step upon is crumbling. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
The Good: The ratio of exploited:unexploited is reduced because much of the work needed to carry out the whims our Lords is replaced with automated machines. That is, we're careening towards a post-work soceity.
The Bad: The previously exploited have nowhere to go. We don't own houses, we do not have the means to easily secure our own food production, and the laws are written in such a way that any attempt to secure a community effort for all of the above are shutdown pretty quickly. We're going to be fleeced, and then we're going to be left to die. It doesn't need to be like this, but somehow it is.
The Middle: Managers are becoming aware that the gap between them and their exploited employees is much much smaller than the gap between them and the Lords they serve. That is, they're becoming just as replaceable as we are, and they know it, and the fear drives them to treat us like peasants so that even if they're no longer useful to their Lords, they are hoping that their loyalty will at least be worth something (spoiler: it won't).
"...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” -- Steinbeck
When I look in the mirror I see boss and/or "the wealthy" potential.
Methinks *that's* the problem in need of fixing.