So this piece essentially becomes a high speed flying knife when it shoots off while driving.
I propose high speed cybetruck street races, where republicans line the street track and cheer - if they believe in freedom. You do believe in freedom... don't you?
If you're afraid of their hollow scare tactics, just send a reply that says, "Communication received. Continuing work according to my job role as typical".
Remember that they can't legally justify these firings and likely won't pay you severance. This is a weak intimidation tactic, this is when the other guy in the online game starts by telling you to forfeit before the gave has started. Make them fire you so you can collect unemployment and have standing to sue (if the world doesn't collapse before next administration).
This is partially their insurance policy - same playbook as always, just accelerated. Like how trump 1 admin planned for tax cuts for wealthy to be paid by the poor when next person would be in office. Now they are just breaking everything and setting up grounds for historically unprecedented class action lawsuits for potential next person. If a decent person somehow did reclaim the presidency in '28, they'd be forced to acknowledge and allow the illegal firing, pay trillions in back pay and penalty restitution.
Again, not addressing the valid points I've introduced. Also, very odd phrasing throughout...
"Did this for a job in my youth?"
We humans don't speak like that? Also, "in my youth" sounds like the shopping cars you were collecting were horse drawn.
"the least productive time I ever spent while working?"
Who the fuck worries about productivity in a minimum wage job like this? "Yeah, I don't know Dad... I've just been really worried lately that my productivity is down this quarter. I'm cleaning up less vomit per hour at Weiner Hut than typical and I'm just worried the business owner isn't extracting as much profit from my labor as they could be..."
Every Friday until he's gone and damage is reversed
We don't transact at all each Friday.
We directly call the businesses we would have shopped at that day to tell them the dollar amount we'd be spending with them if democracy wasn't under attack.
And/or email their corporate with the same message.
Maybe they can dismiss a total boycott that as a hollow, reactionary promise that will pass, but saying "I will shop with you much less" feels much more real and they can see it being enough to reverse their endless growth line. They care about one thing.
SO MUCH commerce surrounds a day at school. You disrupt that along with everything else.
If Mom doesn't have to go to work, she doesn't have to stop for that Starbucks on the way in and fill the gas tank. She doesn't have to pay to park or feed the meter. If she's not taking the kid to school, she doesn't have to drop them off early at early day care and doesn't have to give them lunch money to spend. If you're not at work, you wouldn't eat that shitty Subway at lunch and wouldn't have to go to that gathering at TGI Fridays after work. Little things that add up. Point is to show them that there is a light switch. You turn it off for a day to tell them you could turn it off longer if needed .
"labor that doesn't need to exist" feels like it's from a very privileged POV. what if those 30-40 mins here and there are the difference between me meeting the 29 hour a week threshold required to qualify for health or education benefits?
I'm commenting from a US biased perspective where you seem to be commenting from a European perspective based on your spelling. If that's the case, you already have your core needs met through your government, we do not in this flawed country.
I don't think this comment actually responds to my points. I've worked many hourly retail and restaurant jobs myself. In many there was a regular struggle to hit minimum hours per week to qualify for benefits and managers were instructed to cut people during perceived slow times - none of this considering that I sat in an hour traffic to show up for my scheduled 8 hour shift that I need to meet to make my rent.
I was happy when gobacks piled up, shelves needed to be faced, tables needed to be bused and yes, to carts needed to be collected. When that was the case, I typically made my hours in those common, "we're going to need to cut someone" moments.
Again, this entire conversation seems biased to the business owner, the corporation's labor cost, and not the employee. Saying "all the carts are going to hit cars" is a false premise, in my opinion. And what I'm arguing for is the "good trouble" version of this. Place the carts safely away and maybe near the corral, but not in the corral.
It's someone's job and they make their money grabbing those carts, aren't we taking that away from them if all is perfectly arranged and they can just collect the carts in 2 minutes? This concept seems to only benefit the business in saving labor?
Coincidentally, I was checking out two days ago at a Costco and the manager came up to my cashier and said, "close up after this one, I'm going to send you home early okay?" The cashier said, "yeah, I guess..." But you could tell they clearly didn't want to leave early. If there were a bunch of carts in the parking lot at that point, feels like that person might get an extra 30 mins or so on the clock... Why aren't we supporting that? Manager would say, " let's close you down after this one, and then please do a lap in the parking lot to grab carts before you go"
Us carefully putting the carts away as customers is just free labor that the corporation benefits from... Period. How does this help the worker making an hourly wage?
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