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This still sounds awful. Never unplugged, never tuning down. What the fuck kind of life is that?
It's the life that all these corporations want their workers to be forced to live. In their eyes, if you're not producing value for the one on top, you should either be sleeping or dead. Oh, and they'll only be paying you for 8 of those 18 hours you'll be working, at the lowest possible rate they can, if you get the luxury of payment at all. If you're a prisoner, tough luck.
i had an HR person who kept saying their "wages are competative" as if that was something to brag about. you are saying you pay the lowest possible pay that still brings in employee. loved leaving that job after a decade, told that HR person to go fuck herself when she tried to talk to me my last day.
Prisoners get paid. It's like $0.08 an hour or some shit, but they get paid. And the funds are used exclusively to buy temporary products like toothpaste, and deodorant.
True, not much better though.
Here's the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she's not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week's groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn't get most of her groceries from.
She just doesn't realize it, because that's not a life she's experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it's as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.
Do you not gly GuineaAir? Who do YOU fly with? Spirit??? Pssshhhhh!!!
I always wondered why people fly an airline effectively calling itself death.
Gonna call mine Round-Trip Airlines. You might not need a round trip, but we want to emphasize that our planes actually work, so you'll get to your destination safe and could still return someday.
She's not talking about being nonstop plugged in. The corollary is that you can unplug when you need to. That sort of thing goes without saying when you have a solid job and management.