You just stood there and watched her die?
Okay so this story is actually a fucking doozie. This was a very good friend of mine. Right on the cusp of retirement age. She was at the age where she could take it anytime, but was continuing to work longer because she wasn’t going to get very much, and had aspirations to live a lot longer. so one of the jobs she took was this really really high intensity like 12 hours a day as many days a week as you can do standing in a factory peak season to make all of those little customizable mugs and blankets and everything that people get for each other around Christmas. She made it like three days I want to say, and and just straight up never physically recovered from that.
Now, the doozy. I took care of her for like the nine months 10 months or so after that until she died. And the week that she died, I was in jail because I had been going around with a warrant for like two years by that point and I finally rolled a one and got pulled over.
so like when I’m having a bad time, it really feels like the police finished the job that capitalism started.
Anyway, I caught my breath at some point and m now fully embracing the doomed revolutionary shtick. It wasn’t a stretch. Ihave a tasteful facial scar from a police beating and everything.
I hate seeing grocery store cashiers standing and complained to the manager, not that it would do anything. But I just like to make it known how insane and stupid it is for a person to stand there for 6 hours when a stool would be great. But no apparently sitting while checking out items is “unprofessional”
As someone who became disabled later in life, I can say this with first-hand experience. The ADA prevents employers from refusing to meet reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, provided those accommodations do not interfere with their ability to complete the tasks listed in the job description.
Ah but you see employers will do everything in their power to shoot themselves in the foot if it means employees have a worse time. To them, since they’re broken people, comfort means laziness. So basically anything, no matter how obvious and proven it is, could “interfere”.
See, but employers, especially shitty ones, still bend over backwards to try and explain how even small accomodations are completely impossible.
The Treasure Chest Shop gal is working in a Van’s now?
Excuse you, she runs Bombchu Bowling in this reality. Or at least she did up until 2001 when Bombchus were outlawed after 9/11. Now she just works at a Vans.
Is this a USian thing? I’ve never seen a standing cashier at a supermarket here in South Africa.
You what?
WATCHED A 62 YEAR OLD WOMAN WORK HERSELF TO DEATH
We’re all forced work ourselves into early graves, one way or another. Worse still is the lack of quality of life you’ll have, later on, after the ownership class has worked you into the ground and discarded you as no longer useful.
There are “blue zones” where way, way over the average number of people live past 100. Not only that, they’re really active and fully mentally there at those advanced ages too. We’ve tried to replicate every one of the things they have in common: Mediterranean or Japanese food, more excersise, community etc. but we just can’t get the same results.
Well, every part but one:
They all work far, far less than we do in the west. Like 3 hours a day and light chores afterwards, with the family usually while chatting or singing.
You can’t live better than a king could ever dream, off of other people’s hard work like that though.
I recently watched a Rebecca Watson video where she rips into the “blue zone” concept.
Thats cool thanks. At least i was right to be skeptical, I guess lol and I agree on there being a pattern for living a better life and its wealth.
Not wage or salary, just to be clear.
Specifically: wealth which comprises of things that earn you money, for not working, meaning you don’t have to work or you can work much less. Which, along with diet, is the main reason wealthy people live longer.
Its right there in front of us but we’re not allowed to look at it.
