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Thought you’d all find this funny.

Before there was Silicon Valley 📺, before there was Bullshit Jobs 📖, before there was Office Space🎞️...
There was Processed World - a terrific little anticapitalist magazine skewering the terrible bosses and petty oppressive workplaces with humor and a clear heart. La plus ca change... today's computers are better, the bosses, however...
http://www.processedworld.com/History/history.html

Do socialists actually think talk like this from Kamala Harris is actually helpful? That you need an 'equity' approach whereby people with low income or of color are helped first post catastrophe.
It's funny because I sort of agree implicitly, but Harris's phrasing makes me less supportive of it.
If I were in her shoes and I were asked, I'd say, we will help people in need, and those whose need is most dire will be a priority. In practice, that means the poor are higher priority, of course.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1575955899012694016
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I'm utopian and radical, but also an incrementalist in a sense - of doing the least to fix the immediate problems. Though even the least is a great deal of action, often, as with climate change.
So I think that while unionizing may be a sound end goal, for many workplaces there are far more immediate tactics with a higher reward to risk ratio. Organizing your colleagues is good, just to more specific actions - eg not showing up to the office to protest RTO directives, coordinated negative survey feedback for bad bosses/teams, notifying the unaware of who to avoid, having multiple colleagues bring up the same issue separately to make management think it's a huge issue - honestly so many people are so quiet at work that if you can get just a couple to speak up even privately, it can shake management out of their leisurely torpor, if it's not already outright class warfare.
Also merely just showing people their problems do not lie with them necessarily but potentially forces above them.
Also the concept of voice or exit is a useful one - so many people, especially among finance/consulting bros, think their only option in response to problems at work is to quit. and if you're acting alone, that may well be true. But in concert with colleagues, your voice gains gravitas. The first step is stop blaming yourself and struggling alone. Your opponents want to isolate you into weakness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Well guess what! There is a tech workers union that came out as a result of Microsoft classifying a bunch of employees as contractors back in the 90s
https://washtech.org/
Only issue is nobody shows up to their meetings and they need to rebrand somehow because they are national.
I personally think we should have dialogues with h1b and non-h1b workers bc we are all being taken advantage of
And we should always upload our salaries to websites like levels.fyi, this site and all the others.