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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Replying to @Pinboard
Huh? We shot the shit about politics all the time at non-tech jobs. My dad picked up his conservative radio habit from working in steel plants. Hell I was at the hardware store the other day and the employees were discussing intl tariffs at the counter.
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Replying to @johnthebeeler
Yeah, I don't mean discussing this stuff at work, I mean sanctioned official spaces (message boards, memegen, forums) where you do this quasi officially.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Well, steel plants aren't going to have forums or boards, so you're comparing apples to oranges, but @ my dad's last job they did have a racial inclusion committee per req from the union (which was mostly Black). also plenty of trump rallies at factories over the last few years
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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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Replying to @Pinboard
To put some nuance as both a tech worker myself at time and son of a steel worker, there’s distrust of middle management, but also usually an aggressive defensiveness of job/employer writ large - not dissimilar from tech workers tbh
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I'd be interested in hearing more about this comparison, since you have a foot in both worlds. My experience (direct and through parents) of jobs was always service work, McJobs, or stuff like low-wage warehouse labor, never a unionized industry
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