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poem for a mass resignation

~starbreaker

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.

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~tetris wrote (thread):

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

~inquiry wrote (thread):

When I look in the mirror I see boss and/or "the wealthy" potential.

Methinks *that's* the problem in need of fixing.