It is literally impossible to be 100% productive at work - even machines start to break down if they’re constantly being run at full capacity.
I'll give 100% when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.
Submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Rooty@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Design them to work up to 1500w and limit “100%” to 750w. Now you can always run at 100% just fine.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
Gotcha, so when the boss tells me to “give 110%” I can go ahead and translate that to 55%.
And then not do that either.
menemen@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I get most of my work done on friday afternoons. It is also the only time of the week when I actually enjoy work. Finally I can relax, knowing the phone won’t ring. (And I start feuds with anyone who calls me on my workphone on friday afternoons!).
Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I always give 100 percent of what I get paid. Minimum wage equals minimum effort.
segabased@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
We need to normalize not just starting worker owned and run co-ops, but taking over businesses and converting them to these co-ops.
Federate the co-ops, establish a shared workforce (one co-op goes under/not enough business at x? Come work at y) and have them become actual workers councils
The Marxist critiques of this are not lost on me, co-ops are not immune to exploitation and fool proof by virtue of existing under capitalism but I think we need them for two reasons:
Sitting around and waiting for a revolution from a small group of people with one idea of how to run things is a bad idea
We need to practice what actual day to day life will look like. I think the experiences and connections made will far outweigh all of the bookclubs, protests and other purely political avenues of organizing
It doesn’t need to be all central planning and state owned, it doesn’t all have to be zaney pure communal experimentation right from the start …people could just literally experience going to work at a normal job but feel the agency of having a say in their workplace, not live in fear of an overbearing boss, decide their wages, always have a place in case their job implodes or they become redundant (bounce to co-op y).
cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Sitting around and waiting for a revolution from a small group of people with one idea of how to run things is a bad idea
This is just a strawman of vanguardism . The bolshevik revolution was only possible with the overwhelming support of the peasants and proletariat class. A revolution is literally not possible without huge numbers of soldiers turning on the government.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
What is the name for a strategy to cut out shareholders?
I imagine it’s something like, we syrike and demand 60% of controlling shares or else company dies.
Price tanks, workers buy their own discounted shares.
5 years later do it again, seize 60% of the remainder.
Continue until shareholders are fully marginalized and financing is done through regular finite terms loans. Preferably from loans direct from the central bank at the policy rate.
MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My dream is to start a co-op bicycle shop/worshop once I finish my mechanic traineeship. But the other trainees don’t seem to share my vision, they only care about making lots of money…
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I recently waxed the chain in my bike, can I join?
MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Good enough, you’re hired!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
What are they thinking, owners make the most money.
ksigley@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
I’ll come help out at your bike shop.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
that’s a lot of work on Wednesday
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah it’s Thursdays for me when I realize that I haven’t done shit this week and need to crank out a bunch of stuff haha
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It’s that one day with no meetings.
Tencho@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Its only 40s of work.
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, the counter-argument is that nothing is stopping you from creating such a co-op today. You not doing it is seen as a point in favor of capitalism/ruling class.
Show them wrong?
space_iio@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Funding is stopping me. Lack of investment money to get started. Access to capital.
I don’t have the luxury to stop being an employee, even momentarily because I need the income
Tja@programming.dev 17 hours ago
How many banks have rejected your business proposal?
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Which is precisely the argument for why capitalists are needed, and thus warrant recompense (at the expense of the worker).
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To be honest, with my current job, I would have a 4 days work week, it would change absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t even have to work more on the other days.
Kyouki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wish this was acceptable to work as, I sit in the same position. I think I am averagely productive at only 23% of the days…
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I work 4 10s with Wednesdays off. Deal.
El_Azulito@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That hump day is real shit though.
squid_slime@lemm.ee 1 day ago
101% is abit much…
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
count again
trslim@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I work at like… 40% over the whole week? Thats what they pay for, so thats what they get.