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Lucem Ferre · 12-13-2020, 12:10 AM

True that.

I've done the super ****ty warehouse and the super good warehouse.

ReadyIce was the worst. Just constantly throwing ice bags into giant piles on pallets that have to be stacked both fairly well and at a consistently fast rate for hours on end.

~~jwb~~ · 12-13-2020, 12:40 AM

My job at lowes distribution center was pretty chill

Schedule was 3 days 12 hours. But you got paid on production too so if you made good

numbers that bumped up your rate per hour.

Technically it was no head phones but all jobs are like that. This one didn't enforce it at all since you were on a truck container with nobody around.

Factory work is completely different. You have to keep pace with the machines. All the worst jobs I've had were factory jobs. There are places I've worked where the machines are so hot that it's broiling hot in the building even during winter.

But then there are others that aren't so bad. At far this one isn't particularly bad except for the hours.

Lucem Ferre · 12-13-2020, 12:54 AM

The last one I was temping at was probably the best. They let you keep 1 headphone in for really easy work. Even better than Uinta and it's hard to top having a job where you actually take pride in the company you're associated with.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 05:19 AM

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Yeah if I can't make rent I'm not gonna be homeless

it'll just cost my pride

I’d say that makes it a lot easier not to be a class reductionist. The gun of capitalism might be aimed at your head but you know the chamber is empty. The wealth redistribution that I’m so obsessed with is the white privilege you enjoy, not just platitudes. You have the safety net of guaranteed nutrition and shelter. Giving the safety net that you have to everybody is the practical application of winning the culture war.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 06:10 AM

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I think it's obviously not the case that all opression is about class

Not all but by far the most important one. The real deprivation comes from the lack of access to resources. Micro aggressions might be unpleasant but they don’t cause starvation.

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and then I'm simply not convinced that you're actually going to get comrades out of people with a patriarchal excessively gendered status obsessed culture like the US has

I think wealth redistribution is so unfathomable they can’t even imagine the possibility.

I think Sanders lost because black people didn’t think he could do it.

Let me ask you this: Out of all the poor black people who come in and out of 7/11 during your shifts, how many would take a job where all they had to do was come in, get called a ****** and go home for $1000 a day? I’m going to bet 100%.

Psy-Fi · 12-13-2020, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

Factory work is completely different. You have to keep pace with the machines. All the worst jobs I've had were factory jobs. There are places I've worked where the machines are so hot that it's broiling hot in the building even during winter.

Lothar and the Hand People - Machines

Captain Beefheart - Plastic Factory

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 08:42 AM

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yeah but racial discrimination translates directly into economic loss

It’s always going to be financially advantageous for the rich to keep their foot on the neck of the poor. If racism works they’ll use racism. Rich blacks will use racism to protect their assets from poor blacks even. The only solution is to cut that ****ing foot off.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 11:13 AM

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is it your belief that there's no racism if there's no inequality?

No but it replaces the shotguns with with slingshots.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 11:16 AM

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I think inequality increases animosity towards The Other, but it'd be hard to convince me that we're ever gonna Utopia that **** out with Socialism

I don’t either but first order is nutrition shelter and health care. You can’t eat good intentions.

~~jwb~~ · 12-13-2020, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Yeah if I can't make rent I'm not gonna be homeless

it'll just cost my pride

man, **** pride

That in itself is a sorta boojie hang up

I'll take money anywhere I can get it. Tell your parents to pay pal me, I got no shame.

12-13-2020, 12:40 AM	#72652 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	My job at lowes distribution center was pretty chill Schedule was 3 days 12 hours. But you got paid on production too so if you made good numbers that bumped up your rate per hour. Technically it was no head phones but all jobs are like that. This one didn't enforce it at all since you were on a truck container with nobody around. Factory work is completely different. You have to keep pace with the machines. All the worst jobs I've had were factory jobs. There are places I've worked where the machines are so hot that it's broiling hot in the building even during winter. But then there are others that aren't so bad. At far this one isn't particularly bad except for the hours.