honestly not sure that labeling any kind of decent human behavior towards another person as "emotional labor" and demanding compensation for it is gonna result in an overall improvement in social relations, folks
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Replying to @palecur
excessively simplified explanation: people pushing this narrative are mostly demanding increased status for something they imagine they do disproportionately and see paid compensation as the only credible means of raising status?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @palecur
emotional labor was originally about people who are actually compensated for this job, like waitresses and bartenders, who are expected to be cordial as part of being paid.
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Replying to @AmbrosialArts @palecur
oh boy they should also consider the emotional labor that comes into play in corporate work
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and academic work! my God some of the students probably the same students most strident about emotional labor if I were to guess
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Replying to @eigenrobot @palecur
I mean, like, tips are weighted based on emotional labor performed a bit, at least in theory. notionally it was about _customer-facing_ roles. which still exist in those cases you cited, but
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my personal complaint: orgs relying on someone of a more femme or dadly social orientation to do the light physical labor of keeping it running, taking away time from that person doing Actually Important Things, and then not compensating or recognizing that person's labor.
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