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You go into your job, you piddle around getting coffee and getting “set up” every morning when you’re on the clock, you spend an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon on Facebook, you mess around on the internet in between that, and you have a custodial staff cleaning up after you.
You don’t have to do the cleaning yourself. You don’t have bosses telling you “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.” You have time to lean. You lean on your desk during the mid-afternoon slump and no one says anything except to remark on how many hours you have to go. You lean on your friend’s cubicle wall while you talk about the big game or your guild raid or who said what about whom on TV last night. Sure, if you do that too often or too obviously, someone will say something, but the mere fact that conversation happens isn’t automatically taken as a red flag that someone is stealing time from The Company.
You might have to kiss up to the boss or a touring client from time to time, but mostly, you don’t have to provide service with a smile or anything like that. You don’t have to smile and speak cheerfully and politely to customers who are making your job difficult by their apathy, entitlement, and disrespect. You can sit there and grimace and sneer and roll your eyes at the computer monitor, muttering under your breath (or speaking out loud to your neighbors) about what a live one you’re dealing with as you type out your considered and professional reply. Whatever your job is, you’re just expected to do it, not do it and perform the emotional labor of a continuous mask of unflappable perkiness.
Your schedule is not a weekly guessing game. It’s not set by someone playing chicken with the part-time/full-time boundary. You aren’t expected to come in before your shift to get everything set up or stay after you’ve clocked out in order to clean everything up for tomorrow. You don’t live in a state of constant tension between the fact that you don’t make enough money even with the hours they deign to give you and the fact that they give you hours designed to ensure you can’t have any life or commitments outside the job.
White collar workers are paid with the expectation that they will have done their jobs within the time that they spend in the office, not that they will have worked a solid 8 or 10 hours the entire time they were on the clock.
Minimum wage workers are treated like if they aren’t performing two or three jobs the entire time they’re on the clocks, they’re stealing their wages.
Source: I have worked white collar office jobs, and listened to my friends who have worked minimum wage service jobs. I could probably still do the former, if I hadn’t transitioned and if transportation weren’t an issue. I know for a fact I could not do the latter.
I have worked both types of jobs and this is very accurate.
even the micromanaged white collar jobs are still less intensely policed than minimum wage jobs.
To every fucking Desk Jockey calling fast food workers “Burger Flippers”
i’ve also worked both kinds of jobs and yeah, 100% accurate
I also certify this shit.
I’ve done both kinds of jobs and I will never not reblog this because it’s 100% accurate.
The Justice Department has found that Baltimore police violated black residents civil rights.
Before Baltimore officers took Freddie Gray on a paddy wagon ride that would lead to his death last year, the local police force had been routinely violating civil rights and using brute force against residents in the majority-black Maryland city.
That’s the gist of a long-awaited report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice, which launched a probe of policing practices in the Baltimore Police Department following Gray’s death in April 2015.
Among its findings, the Justice Department said Baltimore officers disproportionately stopped and arrested African-American residents, often lacking probable cause and failing to tell arrestees why they were being detained. Hundreds of residents were stopped by police at least 10 times — some, more than 30 times — in the span of four years, according to the copy of the report that Mic obtained Tuesday night.
Justice officials also found that 82% of Baltimore Police Department’s traffic stops involved black drivers, even though they only accounted for 60% of the driving age population of the city. Officers had also used excessive force against residents and retaliated against those who spoke out against their tactics, according to the report.
The Justice Department’s investigators conducted interviews with police leaders, current officers, community members and civil rights activists, who all agreed on one undeniable truth.
Who didn’t know this? Who needed a report to tell them the obvious.
True, this is obvious and we don’t need a report to tell us what is right in front of our faces, but an official report is necessary in order for the DOJ to push for change.
As a result of these findings, the Justice Department is likely to ask a judge to force Baltimore officials to institute reforms that can be tracked by an independent monitor. (x)
Muslim, Somali-American woman Ilhan Omar just made history in Minnesota primary.
As of late Tuesday night, Ilhan Omar has won the Democratic vote for Minnesota state legislature. If she wins the election in November, she’ll become the first Somali-American, Muslim, woman lawmaker in the United States.
Omar, a Somali activist who currently serves as Director of Policy Initiatives atWomen Organizing Women, won the Democratic primary for Minnesota state legislature with 40.95% of the vote, beating out former representative Phyllis Kahn, who held the seat for 22 terms.
District 60B, where Omar lives and will be serving, includes the University of Minnesota and surrounding neighborhoods that host a large population of Somali and East African immigrants. Social media is going wild over her win.
“You get to decide how you are identified.” Every TSA employee (and person in general) should follow Darlena’s lead. The comments on Amanda’s post are even more heartwarming — she even responded to several people.
