[Description: a tweet by Teh_Snowflake reading “People keep talking about laziness, but productivity has doubled since 1980. Meanwhile, wages have only increased by half. So, BE lazy. Sit on your asses. Put your feet up on your desk, and take a nap. If wages aren’t gonna match productivity, what’s the fucking point?”]
A few years ago the New York Times did a massive multi-day feature on increasing workplace productivity, and our bosses got excited and we all spent a couple of days reading it and talking about it, which culminated in a meeting to spitball ideas about how we might increase productivity in our workplace.
“That was an interesting meeting,” one of my colleagues said to me afterward.
“Yeah, I just wonder,” I said.
“About what?”
“Will we be paid more?”
“What?”
“Well, if we’re being more productive, we’re probably expending more energy, since all those ideas were for how individual people could be more productive. In theory we, specifically, are earning more for the organization, which is doing nothing different. So. Will we be compensated for that?”
She gave me potentially the most thoughtful look I’ve ever received.
(We didn’t end up implementing jack shit, which is just as well.)
no wait this is the most alive ive felt in months someone announce something else batshit lets keep this shit train going what im feeling is not serotonin but BOY is it getting my blood pumping
CNN referred to Native Americans as “something else” on their voter demographic poll last night. The poll on the screen read like this:
White
Black
Latino
Something else
Asian
We weren’t declared as citizens of our own stolen land until 1924. We didn’t get the right to vote (in all states) until the early 1960’s.
And yet non-natives can’t even refer us as Indigenous people when we’re a part of the electoral process.
Y’all wanna know why Arizona flipped blue?
The Navajo and Pima/O’Odham (one of my tribes!!!) communities have been crucial in flipping this state. the Native vote in Arizona was MASSIVE - no doubt to the impact Covid has had on our communities there. I’m going to look at other blue-flipped states but what I’m seeing so far is that Natives have been critical for the Democratic vote regardless of voter suppression tactics designed to keep Natives away from the polls.
I also noticed that CNN started running ads raising awareness for Covid impact on Navajo territories and my thoughts are: 1) it doesn’t fix the mistake you made by calling us “something else” 2) the Navajo/Diné are not the only natives on that territory and the other tribes (including mine) deserve to be officially recognized.
very 2012 feel to the dash tonight lads. there’s an election happening. supernatural did something big. everyone is going apesbit. 40 note posts everywhere
some of you people NEED to be fucking reminded that loving minorities will always be more important than hating bigots
BLM goes before ACAB ALWAYS. loving black people is more important than “pissing off bigots.” loving jewish people is more important than “making nazis angry.” dont just fight against oppressors, start fighting for minorities. fighting against the oppressor is important, but start doing it for the right reason.
