If you punch a clock to pay your bills, you’re working class. Don’t let them turn us against each other.
Happy Labor Day!
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gastroglizzy@piefed.social 13 hours ago
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 13 hours ago
So I’m a salaried engineer and can’t be part of the movement?
Elmirador@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
If you work in order to actually be able to to live, eat, and have shelter, you are working class.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The double-edged sword of western labor. Your options are:
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Work hourly and get some middle manager rolling dice to see which hours/days you’re scheduled for every week, the day before the timesheet goes out.
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Work salary and get sucked into late night deployments, lunch meetings, and assorted overtime projects you don’t receive pay for.
They catch ya comin’ and they catch ya goin’
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white_nrdy@programming.dev 12 hours ago
I think their point is we should be part of the movement. Although, IMO we should also recognize that there are definitely chose who have it worse
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I’m bourgeoisie, can I still be part of the movement or do I have to divest first?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Look to what Engels did. There are plenty of class traitors throughout history.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Do you make enough from those investments to live off of them? If not, you’re not bourgeoisie.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
No, by the very definition you are cosplaying as a poor. That might be worse.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Don’t put workers against workers.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 minutes ago
Agreed. Unify, don’t divide, everyone who can have the day off should. There’s certain positions they have to keep operating but for them they should get time and a half for so.
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I see no point in trying to pit us against each other. People with normal desk jobs aren’t inherently the problem.
snoons@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Eh, I’ve worked pretty much all of those jobs and worked on stats; it’s true that these people aren’t the problem, but a lot of them aren’t helping either. They inherently don’t care as long as they’re comfortable.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
They inherently don’t care as long as they’re comfortable.
Isn’t that just humanity?
ms_lane@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Have you ever said ‘Those jobs are never coming back’?
If you have, you’re part of the problem.
Greymattertripp@lemmus.org 10 hours ago
chewypoops@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Americans will attack other workers for minor differences in lifestyle rather than attack their boss for failing to provide basic quality of life in exchange for full time work.
Just like the ruling class wants…
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
The slaughterhouse I work at had Labor Day off and then today they told us we’re now gonna be working 6 days a week.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ignoring factory and warehouse workers as per usual
MadBits@europe.pub 6 hours ago
Which, I, personally, would say that have it the worst.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Office jobs are still jobs. If a business genuinely was wasting vast amounts of money on fake work, then these jobs would be eliminated already. They are gradually being automated away, same as physical labor, but they still exist because they are still important for production.
The target of your ire should not be this or that subsection of the working class, but instead the capitalist class.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
A lot of jobs are pure bullshit jobs that only exist because the corporation needed to hire inorder to appear growing. They then do mass firings to appear like they’re cutting costs. It’s all smoke and mirrors for the shareholders.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
That doesn’t make the people filling those roles not working class, in fact it highlights how disposable the working class is to the capitalist class, and further reinforces my point: capitalists are the enemy.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I doubt that. You could do the same thing with fake job postings if you really wanted, and it’s cheaper.
But let’s say you’re right. Those people would still be given lots of work and be busy, because if they were allowed to be not busy everyone else would see and not want to work.
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Just because our cage is slightly nicer and we get fed slightly better slop doesn’t mean we’re not in this together.
Most of us are sticking with you … the real problem is the 1%
Caesium@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I mean y’all could stick it to the one percent by forgoing going to the store or eating out on labor day
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I wish it were like Christmas Day, where almost every business is ACTUALLY closed.
I don’t celebrate, so this isn’t nostalgia for Christmas magic or whatever.
I just like that it’s a day that no matter what, for the most part, you’re on your own. Forgot to buy groceries? Scrounge the cupboard. Forgot to fill the gas tank? You’re staying home. Faucet leaking? Turn off the water, wash your hands in a different sink, call the plumber(or go to the hardware store) tomorrow. Ain’t NOTHING getting done today.
It’s the only day where the majority of people in areas where the holiday is celebrated, all agree that ain’t nobody doing anything that day.
Granted there’s lots of caveats. Some businesses are open by choice, some by necessity. I used to work at a nursing home, that’s gotta stay open, me and a few coworkers would volunteer to take the holiday shifts.
These days I’m still blue collar, but I do have most big holidays off.
But if you thought some random gas station or grocery store was gonna be open so you can pop in on Christmas? No dice.
Why isn’t labour Day that way?
Areexor@feddit.org 10 hours ago
In Germany it is thanks to labor unions
Commander_Keen@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Used to be that way in the US. The. We let them dismantle the unions :(
And that’s coming from a proud IBEW member. Remember folks unionize. It’s the only way to get your fair share of the profits.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Where I grew up if your pipe bursts on Christmas you better hope you can find a Jewish or otherwise non-Christian (cultural or religious) plumber that’s only charging mild holiday markups, because the Christian plumbers ain’t gonna be so charitable (but you can probably get one to come out).
It’s emergency workers only. So yeah you’ve got medical professionals in the ER, folks keeping the water running, and some tradespeople will leave their phone on just in case they get the opportunity to make a very high hourly wage, as well as owner operated businesses that don’t feel like taking the day off (hence the old stereotypes of Jewish people getting Chinese food and watching a movie on Christmas). If it’s not an emergency you’re better off not even checking if anyone’s working.
And I agree that that’s what labor day should be like. In fact, we should have a handful of holidays like that.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I wish it were like Christmas Day, where almost every business is ACTUALLY closed
Idk about where you live, but a bunch of businesses in Houston will close a little earlier on Christmas Eve and open up at around noon on Christmas Day. Nobody wants to Not Work anymore. Everything has to be open all the time.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Northeast US. But that’s a shame about Texas.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Idk the factory shut down for the holiday, just like every factory I’ve ever worked in. Yeah I’m an intellectual laborer, but the folks on the floor doing manufacturing also got the day off
MadBits@europe.pub 6 hours ago
Back in the day I worked in a plastic molding factory, on the workshop floor. Offices would get free days for everything and different stuff like food days, gifts for Christmas and other things while we got absolutely jack shit.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Yeah that’s bullshit of them. I’ve seen a lot of favoritism towards office workers in manufacturing, but never differing days off
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Guess my kid’s elementary school teacher has a fake internet job too.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Just using email while also doing something important doesn’t make a job a fake job. Fake jobs are the kind of jobs that society would be fine without. Marketing, sales development, hr. Jobs which exist solely to peddle around useless emails like competitive reviews, social listening reports, messaging matrixes, research debriefs, etc., or responding to such bs in an ever escalating cycle of useless burecracy.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
All teachers do is abuse kids and enable kids to abuse other kids.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Your bad experiences are not universal
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Do your kids have a Chromebook?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 16 hours ago
Even if they had, it wouldn’t still be the teacher’s fault; a computer can also be useful for some type of neurodivergent people
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
No
betelplouf@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
The international worker’s day is a holiday in france, so everyone can go protest (or do whatever at home, but there are usually big protests on may 1st)
Brimstone@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
So how is it different to any other day in France? 😅
betelplouf@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Sadly there are no protests everyday (bu( I’d like, that’s so fun to go)
slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yes, let’s pit workers against each other, very helpful
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
PSA, Labour day is the first of may.
WereHacker@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Mayday like the rest of the world
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Weird. It was yesterday in Canada. Funny that.
Caesium@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
someone unironically told me yesterday ‘you must be so busy with everyone off!’
I WAS busy, nothing changed on my end compared to every other Monday of the year. which is basically I’m given a job that’s too much for one person, but I struggle to get help so often than even getting my legally required breaks can be like pulling teeth.
anyway I just said ‘except for me! (:’ and she didn’t say anything else after that.
it’s like these people forget that we too are humans working behind the counter. People that are WORKING on LABOR day.
sanzky@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
it’s curious that the US does not observe it in that day since the events that commemorates it happened in Chicago, during a series of protests for a 8 hour work day.
But of course, that is not accident. They put a lot of effort in framing workers’ movements as a communist plot. At one point they even instituted a “loyalty day” on 1st of May to counteract any labour movement.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Every job I’ve ever had, I’ve had to work on labor day.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Is this some kind of americian thing I’m too free as a candian to worry about? You can still end up working it but it’s overtime by default or paid time off if don’t work it
Fishy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The rest of the world has May 1st.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh yeah most of those jobs like McDonalds offer no compensation. Labor day is just another day.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Feels like amercia needs to learn the true meaning of labour day
Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
My boss handles everyone a chocolate bar
“Thank you guys for yo hard labor. Happy labor day”
Everyone gotta get back to labor
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I didn’t even get anything
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Meanwhile everyone in the office upstairs gets platters of free food and drinks while working a half day but getting paid for the full day
binarytobis@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
My boss’ boss gives everyone a Lindt chocolate on their start date anniversary, which is nice and all but if I WFH for a few days or simply don’t see him for a while, then when he finally gives it to me he says something like “I haven’t seen you around for a while?” and now it looks bad. Keep the chocolate just stop thinking about me.
Hegar@fedia.io 1 day ago
Fake email job is great! I'd not heard that before.
Where i work, all the bosses get the day off and those of us who actually work still have to work.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Fake email job” I guess this is just a weird spin on “office job”?
Deme@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
No, I don’t think so. Just the subset of those which have no value for society and only exist to respond to and perpetuate useless burecracy. Unnecessary middle managers, hr, etc…
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
More of a spin on bullshit job I’d say.
Etterra@discuss.online 16 hours ago
My fiance is a chef at an old folks home and gets holiday pay + normal pay.
lengau@midwest.social 13 hours ago
Most of the coffee shops in my city were closed yesterday. Only the big corporate ones were open, and they were pretty empty.
anistorian@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yes, because we unionized. At least I did. With my beer. And my burger.
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 22 hours ago
Why take a swing at the honest, humble Modelo. Makers of the finest canned Michelada, Modelo Fine Beers Inc. has stood at the forefront of th
commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Labour days are a joke, it’s pretty nice in countries where it’s a day off but otherwise it’s just a circus show for students and unions (who are completely subordinated by capital and act as a price indicator for labor power) to parade around for a few hours.
dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
I hope this email finds you…
Denjin@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
What if you have a regular working class job but also like Modelo and juicy burgers?
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Anyone who works for a living is part of the working class and bullshit like this only strengthens capitals grip by putting workers against workers.
osanna@lemmy.vg 1 day ago
yup. It’s the epstein class we should be guillotining, not each other.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
the epstein class are the ones who have the biggest fakest email-jobs.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Fucking dammit thank you.
I’m glad to see this as the top comment
criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah honestly EVERYONE should be able to enjoy Labor Day.
wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The cunts who works at places like kalshi and such can 100% disappear with zero detriment to society. Those are the fucking fake-ass e-mail jobs, and to act like there’s no difference between some piece of shit pulling barely legal scams and someone in a public service position is fucking stupid.
ivan@piefed.social 20 hours ago
I’ve turned down few job offers in my time because those would have me work on online gambling systems and shit.
I know people who still chose to work in there, whose motivation was something like “If I didn’t scam these people - someone else would have”. And what I think after all that - if person’s job is detrimental to society - this person doesn’t matter, even if they’re working hard, 9-to-5, all that shit.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Remember when covid happened and everyone had to stop working? Well not everyone, just everyone with bullshit jobs.
Everything was basically fine. The only real problems as far as i could tell were that we all thought we were going to die and were scared to go near our grandparents incase we killed them, and some lines stopped going up.
I wish we could do it again, share the “real jobs” out amongst everyone so we only had to work a couple days a week.
Malica@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
👆
strop@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Even car production workers?
story@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
yay labor day