Gobble gobble First of all, thank you for your beautiful notes And happy thanksgiving if you get thanksgiving off Even though the story of thanksgiving is bullshit It's a day off with friends and family And that's important I'm realizing that in this hyper capitalist, post truth, genocide ignoring, impending climate apocalypse world... Loved ones are important Shared meals Hugs I'm learning a lot from Gen Z They werent raised with any mythology No house with a white picket fence, no nuclear family, no retirement plan They figured out very early on that everything's absurd UPS is absurd A French multinational building call centers in the Philippines and Egypt and Brazil is absurd Companies aren't too big to fail, they're too big to succeed They're impersonal robot zombies and they really couldn't care less that your passport got lost in transit Or about the driver who stole your Christmas iPhone They'll pay people around 200 dollars a month (black market rate) in countries with economic crises to listen to your screams because ultimately that'll pacify most people out of suing And even if they did sue it wouldn't make a dent, not even a dent Some account in some global south country would get shut down as the sacrificial lamb A couple hundred people would lose their shitty jobs and join some other company that needs cheap exploited labor And no one will ever know about it because we get terminated on the spot if we talk about it on social media There have already been 7 more batches of trainees We need to meet a head count every few minutes or nobody gets paid So we're mostly just bodies to be thrown at the waves of angry customers Every few minutes our noise cancelling microphones block out the sound of a shift manager screaming EVERYBODY IN THE TRACKING DEPARTMENT GO IIIIN NOW NOW NOW It's ridiculous I realized the supervisors disliked me because I was actually following the rules Which I have now understood is bizarre and abhorrent behavior Half the computer stations don't even work I'm learning to do things the Egyptian way The Gen Z fuck this noise way Sooo instead of waiting in personnel for a locker to be assigned to you, just claim one Abuse every possible weakness in the system Dedicate your time to finding out what the bare minimum is and learn all the creative ways to achieve that and only that Quiet quitting It's pretty effective as a collective action Especially since COVID and people figuring out that working from home and four day work weeks don't affect productivity and make people happier The robots have lost ground I'm lucky that I can see this as a temporary dead end job to get me through the next currency devaluation Sometimes I feel like an impostor I miss my mom. I feel more feelings these days so the grief is pointier Tomorrow I'm going to go see Maru chan And I'm going to sleep in |