Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”
Americans:
Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal
WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE LUDLOW MASSACRE, WHY WASN’T I TAUGHT THIS IN CLASS
The long answer short is that everyone who knew how to organize was killed, the rest were silenced, and the bootlickers’ voices were amplified.
2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.
3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?
But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.
And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.
Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?
Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.
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Also: let’s keep it real – we multi-task better than you do. If I’m on the phone with you, I’m FORCED to do that ONE thing and put whatever you want above all the other things I could’ve been doing. If you e-mail me, I can research what you want (while doing other things), find the solution (while doing other things), and offer it to you in a nice concise package (while doing other things) without sitting on the phone with you in awkward silence looking for the answer to whatever you think is urgent. (It’s not urgent. You’re not dying. I know it’s not urgent.)
OP is being kind in saying “i don’t have to trust your recollection.” people straight up lie, especially customers.
As a note: Living in a country with universal healthcare, any situation where the workplace requires a doctor’s note, the doctor’s office charges the workplace a fee of 100kr (about $15). Most workplaces don’t want to pay the fee so they don’t ask.
I’ve never seen a workplace with a ‘limit’ to sick days either; you’re either sick and stay home or you go to work. I’ve been sent home from work and school due to my ‘american work ethic’ and been scolded for infecting others. They don’t want you to come in when you’re sick.
it’s still classist (+ableist) in countries with universal healthcare because it assumes that “too sick to come to class/work/etc” somehow magically disappears when you need to get to the doctor for that note. if you’re reliant on transit or your own legs for transport because you can’t drive (whether because of cost or inaccessibility) then often it’s literally less effort to drag yourself to the thing than to try and get a note. if i can’t get to class because i’ve dislocated my shoulder, i’m not taking that shoulder on the goddamn bus
Thank you. My boyfriend has been sick a lot and he was either using unpaid days, or paid days he was legally entitled to. But his work place wanted a note and he was too sick to get to the doctors because….of course he was, so it was up to my disabled ass to get him there.
Asking someone to go to a doctor and waste their time and the doctor’s time when the doctors advice will be “go home and rest” is such a bullshit system and it’s such a transparent way of trying to punish workers for being ill.
One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback.
All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.
“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”
how come when you’re working or at school with some white people they can’t remember your name for shit but suddenly some white customer wants to talk to your supervisor and she remembers your first name, your last name, your star sign, your blood type, your social security number,
This will work, I used to be a recruiter. Recruiters don’t got time to read every single resume they see, they look for keywords, find what they want, Call and do a preliminary interview. That’s it lol
This is amazing
Omg!!!
Boosting this!
AMAZING 😀
I will remember this tip!
I have no idea if this works at all, but I don’t see how it could hurt. I’m all about resume cheat codes. Here’s some more advice:
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