This was kind of how I felt when COVID was taking over the world. There was literally a pandemic where people were dying and our bosses were all scrambling to keep productivity up.
It's like dude, brad, our metrics aren't the most important thing right now.
I work for government, in a software development area, and I had to be at work during COVID.
At first in person, with free parking which was nice, but no coffee shops. Then we got the 200 remote work licences that were originally for field workers and worked on VMs, then the organisation got a remote work system for the whole workforce and could work on our own work desktops from home and everyone was virtually back
We worked so hard during that first year (2020 good riddance) and delivered so much emergency support software so quickly
Then things get back to normal and are told that we can't deliver while working from home so have to be in the office 3/5ths of the time
Until some businesses found out the hard way that if a few critical people are sick for weeks, maybe months or even die, a department stops running and without that department the entire company shuts down. That's when companies changed their minds with remote work and measures.
Restaurants around here are mostly closed during the holidays because they can't find enough people. Lots of their workers were laid off and found work with better pay and/or hours and didn't come back. The whole sector is now permanently understaffed.
They found out, sure, but did they remember and permanently adjust their priorities and behavior to something more long term sustainable in response? Nope!
During the pandemic, I was in management at an office supply retail store. It was insane that we were open, and even more insane the people who wanted to shop. Boomer people who felt that we were keeping them from the damn printer ink and paper. People were dying and they were worried about being able to print the silly email Aunt Helen sent them.
Boomers are 100% a liability in any survival scenario.
Something, something, easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of Capitalism and all that
The capitalist AI companies are unintentionally trying to end capitalism. It's a snake eating its own tail, it's ridiculous and inevitable.
I'm all for it.
No, they're just trying to end capitalism's need for workers.
"That is completely accurate, when I encountered a freeway swallowing lake of fire, I did not consider weather or not it would impact my and my work teams performance. At that point in time my mind was occupied with some rather more immediate problems"
"So what you are saying is - contrary to earlier statements - that you are not a teamplayer?"
- bossEdit: typo
Collectively, we make all the parasite class’ money. The workers who show up and do actual work create all the value. The second the workers don’t show up collectively, the entire machine grinds to a halt.
A general strike is the only way to fix things. Logistics workers, tech workers, all the “essential” employees who had to work through the pandemic, and everyone else who busts their ass so some rich asshole gets richer without paying you your value. Their need for your work is the critical weakness in the system. A general strike fixes things rapidly, because it all collapses without us.
Already happened in Valencia.
I was just going to comment the same.
Iceland when a lake of fire literally swallows the highway
Of course we'll still be working. We have to keep society running. Think the Ukrainians just stopped when Russia invaded?
What about the other 90% of jobs that don't actually need to be done for society to operate?
We're living in the most wildly complex society in history and you think 90% of jobs are useless?!
Well, if you want to strip it all down, I can grow food, raise and hunt animals and make charcoal. And that's just for a start. What you got?
