Thinking that your coworkers are friends and your boss is your friend and the company needs you is a sure path to disappointment and depression.
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This is what we need… yes, I’m posting it again…
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Reminds me of a good little book I should read again.
Optimization has always been at the heart of capitalism—the word productivity literally means the rate of output per unit – but now it’s become an ethos woven deeply into the fabric of our lives. So much so that the question of what (if anything) we’re producing is besides the point.
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy asks us to pause and look again. Odell’s debut book is a rich and expansive work born from her “interest in using art to influence and widen attention.” Spanning music, literature, art, philosophy, and a deep awareness of how the attention economy is disassembling our selves, How To Do Nothing is both perfectly of this moment and a text that takes a remarkably long view.
Of course, effectively resisting the pressure to get a lot done on the job can be a privilege that many workers just don’t have.
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First victory- now let’s do the others.
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At some point the Alabama warehouse gets a re-do.
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Texas teachers say they’re pushed to the brink by law requiring them to spend dozens of hours unpaid in training
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“If you can’t tell your employees when they work, then you’re really not able to have much of an ability to move product,” he said. “The unions will be in charge of time that you need to work, and that would be dreadful!"
“No one wants to work certain shifts,” he said. “So you can just say, ‘Listen I’m not going to work that shift.’ And Amazon would not be able to say, ‘Yes you must work it!’ So that’s what’s at stake with unions.”
So, Amazon will have to treat their employees like humans?
The horror….
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They could just offer a salary for that shift that enough workers would want. Welcome to the “free market,” Amazon. Funny how that concept is so commonly used for products, but not for labor.
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No one wants to work extra hours without overtime! No one wants to work graveyard and change their whole life without extra pay. No one chooses swing shifts freely, they have to be compelled! If companies have to expense to pay workers better wages then they won’t be able to buy back as many shares!
All this from a guy whose life work is the equivalent of doing tarot reading on TV.
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If you can’t force your workers to work when you want, why did you even buy them?!
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Huh. You’d think there weren’t tons of paper mills and steel factories, just to name 2 industries, that are unionized and operate on the 3 shift system that this supposed “expert” could’ve looked to to see that that’s not at all the case. 
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John Oliver covers how truckers are being exploited, and possible solutions to industry problems:
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On his first day back as chief executive of Starbucks, billionaire Howard Schultz said during a town hall Monday that the coffee giant and other U.S. companies are “being assaulted” by unionization drives, a comment that workers took as a signal of his union-busting intentions as he takes the helm amid a nationwide wave of organizing."
Here’s where it gets a little sensitive, because I’ve been coached a little bit," Schultz told an audience of employees in Seattle. “But I do want to talk about something pretty serious. We can’t ignore what is happening in the country as it relates to companies throughout the country being assaulted, in many ways, by the threat of unionization.”
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