“For those of us who worked on the top floor, the closest toilets were down four flights of stairs. People just peed in bottles because they lived in fear of being disciplined over ‘idle time’ and losing their jobs just because they needed the loo.”
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Hell, when I was a child, I used to pee in bottles, because I was lazy and didn’t want to go three rooms over to the toilet. Now 40+ years later it’s pee in bottles because… well… they are super industrious
Oh the humanity
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Kenneth, the article makes me wonder how women workers manage it. Do they use a funnel?
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… also, wouldn’t worker’s still have to find a secluded area to “do the business”, else run the risk of exposing oneself.
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This is what happens when billions of people are hooked into the matrix and no, I don’t mean their computers. I mean that we are all complicit in what we have come to hate; the fact that all we do is work to keep a roof over head, food in our belly and the lights on. And how many of us are happy at what we do? How many of us are glad to get up in the morning, sit in traffic for hours, go to a drive-through window for lunch, return and either shuffle papers around, fill orders or prepare food?
Why has no one figured out that if billions of people just stopped doing what we have been programmed to do from the moment we speak and walk, there would not be a damn thing the so-called ‘elites’ could do. If we stopped making them rich, where is their power then? They count on us continuing to be the good sheeple that we are and as long as we continue as programmed, pissing in bottles at work to pay the rent/mortgage will continue until this sad existence ends.
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Alas, Shelby, Marx was saying the exact same thing over 150 years ago – that revolution isn’t about violence but about withdrawing your labor from the capitalist machine. Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again.
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That is just as sad, the fact it would appear to me that we are never, ever going to learn if Marx could see this 150 years ago. That speaks volumes as to what will still be going down 150 years from now. Again, how sad is that? Extremely sad!
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When I worked in retail here in the US, my performance at customer check out was graded by the cash register. I once complained to the store manager that I felt like an indentured worker. After that, I was a marked person for more abuse.
We can only change the system with collective action.
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I think you’re absolutely right, Rosaliene. It has to be about organizing, in any way and at any level you can.
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