[andai]

I worked at a warehouse last year. Managers always breathing down my neck to work faster. Constant stress for 9 hours straight. (Okay, we got a lunch break at least. There are worse jobs!)

It got me wondering. Alright, what's his problem. Well, his manager is breathing down his neck too. It's literally his job to make my day as stressful as possible. Okay, why? You trace that chain and where does it end up? Fat capitalist?

Well, something something mutual funds. Okay, that's beyond me.

But what else? Well, where's that pressure coming from? It's the customer. If the company stopped whipping us, and let us work at a normal pace, they'd need 40% more employees to cover the work. Delivery costs would increase proportionally, and suddenly grandma would stop buying from us. She'd go to the company that whips their employees. The whole place would go under.

Something something, Moloch is my nan?

[xg15]

No profit margins or shareholders at all of course...

[andai]

Well, it's just a slice of the picture. It's just the one nobody likes to talk about.

A different slice: went to the supermarket the other day, late on a Sunday. There were two workers in the whole supermarket, both elderly women in their 70s.

Economy sucks here so pensions are bad, they chose to keep working.

But obviously they didn't chose to work on Sunday night. They didn't have a choice there.

If they owned the place, they would have closed at a normal hour.

One of them let out an exasperated sigh when I walked in. More work for her, but not more profit.

I overheard one say to the other, "and then at the end of the month you go to the bank and collect 800 Euros."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH2pFTx_8VE