/labor/ - Labor

>>1340
I actually hate STEM because it's too hard and I think the Humanities are easier. Is there something wrong with me? Am I a brainlet?

>>1370
>hate STEM because it's too hard and I think the Humanities are easier.
which field of STEM and which field of humanities?

>>1340
>How
Capitalism. The rote memorization makes good worker. Thinking does not. school is not for learning its like a pedigree certificate. you still need familiar connections the cert is just proof. you are supposed to trade money and time for network not for education.
>>1342
>speak with your professors
They can't do anything about a system working as intended.
>>1344
>get into philosophy
philosophy is also infested with stem brainworms. its been replaced with analytics

>>1371
Math and English Language Arts respectively

>>1372
Professors at my college were quite happy to give practical examples, feel like the main thing holding them back from putting it in the course material was time constraints, which ya know, capitalism upstream.

In December 1912, the UMWA had sent 21 "recruiting teams" to the Southern Colorado coalfields. These recruiting teams generally consisted of two union men: one who would embed himself among the miners and another who would find employment with the local management. Working in tandem, each pairing would locate miners who were opposed to unionization and report them to the company as union sympathizers—an offense that generally resulted in contract termination—in order to covertly replace them with genuine union members. It is possible that up to 3,000 UMWA members were introduced to the coalfields in such a manner.[20]: 10–11 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War

>>966
hmmmm

>I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize.
I've recently begun considering social work as a career path is it worth it?

>>966
That's fucked up

>>674
You should study the great October socialist revolution.

Creating a participatory/democratic class organization is the correct thing to do. The bolsheviki created the Soviets with other left factions and then struggled democratically within them for political leadership over the movement. If you don't commit to a structural Democratic form of organizing the class you end up in a position where political line gets propagated and accepted on the basis of the technical skills of whatever cadre follow that line not actual mass acceptance of the political doctrine behind it. This leads to an overestimation of forces and political prematurity. You can look at the humiliating failure of the dual union period in domestic communist policy in the United States for a clear view of what happens when you try to organize all of the radical elements and organizations separate from the rest of the class rather than creating democratic class organizations and functioning within them for political leadership. The reason that the strategy of boring from within was defeated in addition to the overall political moment was the fact that existing unions were not democratic, but when you're creating new organizations you don't have that problem. The Union Democratic struggle also allows communists to establish themselves in parallel to the proletariat's overall political task as described by Lenin as " the vanguard fighter for democracy".

>>1313 (me)
ah I skim read, you're familiar with salting.

Go for it, OP, but focus on the work first then look into salting once you've got a hang of it.

>>1313
>>1314
Thanks!
The impression I get is that the easiest mistake to make would be adventurism. You have to work hard and be normie about things for the first little while. Patience and professionalism is the key. Not romantic adventure shit.

Anyhow I do think people who have NEETbux are an undertapped resource for worker organizing. If you're already living off of disability and leaching off family it lessens the threat of firing.

>>1330
>intentionally go for shitty work instead
Not OP but bait taken: you expect someone to not only get a job in software development in current year, with a gap in their resume, and then salt a union into said software dev job?

I am in cadre/leadership of a union local in retail. It's very rewarding and you should get a service job and organize it. I am trans and had social anxiety disorder before I started working retail but not autism.

Computer jobs are not actually good except for money which doesn't really matter if you are a communist. If you have really bad dysphoria distress and want operations you can get that with a grocery job if you move somewhere where gender care is required by state insurance regulations. In Oregon we also have OHP which gives you face/puss for free if you are part time / poor

>tfw the main or only thing preventing from trying to get a job as a deep-sea fisherman is my fear of getting raped whilst trapped in a ship and none to call for help
Should I just stitch my asshole shut with dried shit?

>retail wageslave
>ask for a week off around Labor Day (US)
>they give it to me, BUT I have to come in the night before Labor Day

Why even bother approving the request if they're just going to break my week's vacation into two segments? As if I wouldn't just call in that one night and use some of my sick time instead. What are they going to do, fire me?

>>1232
just say "no, sorry can't make it that day" easy as that

The company I worked (and stopped before than happened) for went under last week, the 11th. They have immediatly made another company after declaring bankruptcy, and resumed operations as if nothing happened. Thing is, all 10 of their remaining employees were fired the 9th, right as they arrived at the office. They are not going in the new company. They are not going to be paid for the work they did in September. And they have yet to receive the necessary document to be eligible for unemployment benefits. Some of these peoples are in their 50s, they have worked for them for more than two decades, the sector isn't in good shape, they'll have a hard time finding a job again. Yet they have the gall to go bragging in the media about how resilient they are, and lying about saving their employees.

I was a temp worker, and I had left right before the banks asked them to repay their gigantic debts. So, I'm not involved in this shit directly. But the atmosphere in this shitty enterprise was so bad, I did bond with the employees there, and I feel so bad for them.

If you're wondering about the company, it's a familial SME, and the new one they created to try to mitigated the effects of the bankrupcy pretty much only contains the 5 members of the founding family. So, here's to family businesses.

These customers are weird as shit, I'm a pizza merchant and these mfs will wait over 2 hours for a cheese pizza. Not even a pepperoni or something just plain cheese

>>1352
I've already lived in China for half a year after all.

>>1294
>The program is for tech workers, sweetie, not bloggers.
I think it's more for foreign scientists because China has plenty of tech workers. With anti-rationalism gaining ground in the USA and the aging and decay of scientific facilities like the Arecibo radio telescope, China will be where science takes place from here on out.

I live in the US and work a quality role in manufacturing, and I feel ripped off by these guys on a daily basis. I genuinely believe that at least one person will die using our product due to the parts that China sends us. These things are supposed to be made to the same standard as the satellites that go into space, but I find it hard to believe they're made to any sort of standard.

Can't imagine having to live there.

>>1259
Same. plus i have a kid, and elders (who are halfway decent people) to take care of. guess i'm stuck in the burger reich.

>>1286
>There is very much something to be said about the settler brain and how easily it is to abandon wherever the fuck you live and go somewhere else.
as if you have deep roots to the Louisiana land, fuck off HHoudini

>>1288
Update, followed up after the 2nd web screen and they didnt give it to me. Fuckin assholes, its crazy how they even found someone else, the role was super niche. Its literally ogre if they're able to fill such obscure nicheass roles with ease these days

>>41
Why not acquire NEETbux and then use the cushion to salt shitty minimum wage jobs? You could be a hero.

I just want a house before powel's retard replacement lowers rates to 0 and they get even more fuckoff expensive than they are now.

>>1244
Will you help people in that role, will you reduce harm to others?
>>1270
I had the realization yesterday that I should treat myself as I do my friends, the kind I would show up at the drop of a hat for. This, so far, has helped me get stuff done and move forward instead of wallowing while work goes unfinished. You have a skillset, and if it was your friend in this situation, you would tell them to get back on the teaching horse, you would tell them to read books on teaching, to hone their craft, you would tell them all the parts of the job they were good at and to work on the parts that need improvement. You wouldn't just tell them they suck ass and life sucks. Treat yourself like your best friend.

My advice to you is to go to a used book store and pick up a book on teaching and start applying to other schools. You got this bud.

>>1172
>This sounds like something a boomer would say.
There's some kernel of truth to it: compsci graduates have highest unemployment numbers (7%) vs anyone graduating from a humanities major BUT humanities graduates have higher underemployment numbers than compsci graduates meaning that there's a greater chance that a humanities graduate will take any job vs a compsci graduate which will rather remain unemployed and bide their time

war would happen

>>1346

It already is a war, and the workers are losing.

Would make a cool plot device in a gacha game maybe.

>>1297
its not really their fault its just how corporations work. the one example going around right now is where they hire and underpaid immigrant but the conditions of the visa say they have to offer the job domestically first and can only import labor if there is no alternative. so they do fake interviews. its just checking a box to increase profit. if your hr person didn't do it someone else would. they do the same thing when they promote internally to save on retraining. hr isn't any better or worse than any other bullshit job

>>1329
nah but they have a say though, they just choose to remain silent. If the HR managers refused they would either have to lay off the whole department and cripple their hiring (which is an effective strike almost) or just cave and give better working conditions.

These class traitors would never do that though because they are greedy losers that love the feeling over power and steamrolling better workers than themselves. its like acab for HR the good ones probably just get laid off and only the psychos remain

>>1302
lmao no, and CEOs arent proletarian either

>>1317
cops get a lot of benefits everywhere, are you kidding me?

>>1322
>vibes and psych pseudery
just another awesome thread on leftoidpol dot org

>>1329
you are allowed to hate the bourgeois no matter how small (as long as you dont present it as "radical praxis")

It's Monday I within 10 minutes I got 2 rejections back-to-back from two end-stage interviews after dozens of initial applications.

It has never been more over.

>>1337
The end stage interviews piss me off, giga time waste. Like 4 or 5 rounds just so one lazy asshole in the end can fail you.