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 @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 @johnthebeeler
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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Replying to @ascorbic @johnthebeeler
One is ephemeral and the other is a permanent record and transcript under management control
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Replying to @Pinboard @johnthebeeler
That just means it's easier to enforce, not that one is any more company space than the other.
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Replying to @ascorbic @johnthebeeler
No, the difference is very significant. One is completely between employees, the other is a permanent stored record with potential legal liability etc.
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Replying to @Pinboard @johnthebeeler
You're moving the goalposts. Your original tweet said that it would be alien to working class people, and lots of people have pointed out that everybody talks about politics at work. The only difference here is that remote work means everything has an audit trail.
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I wish I'd phrased the top tweet better. I'm trying to make a distinction about where the line is between employer vs. employee worlds. The construction site where everyone talks shit and conservative talk radio plays the whole time is not the same as memegen and company slack
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