The work culture at rich tech companies (people read something upsetting in the news and want to discuss and 'process' it on company time) is so alien from most people's experience of work that it makes me despair for ever finding common ground with the actual working class
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I think of it as where the mental line is drawn between "our business" and "the employer's business". Tech workers in my experience have an identification with and trust of their employer that would make a steel worker's hair stand on end
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aren't those like the infamous water cooler ? how is that different from having talk at the coffee machine ?
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No they are right. Workplace organizing has famously never been used to address issues outside the workplace until this person got annoyed at it.https://historyatnorthampton.com/2020/07/06/a-story-of-solidarity-miners-and-the-gay-community/ …
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How is the office water cooler, building site or production line any less of an official space than Slack, message boards etc? Everyone talks about politics with their colleagues, the only difference is that this is remote.
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One is ephemeral and the other is a permanent record and transcript under management control
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