petitioning for a fucking emoji epitomizes the criticism that social media is a vehicle for diverting action into impotent dialogue.
retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems, and should not eclipse the important work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.
I think you took the joke a bit too seriously
Edit: oh wait wtf I didn't notice the post body. I agree with you then lol
I just wanna conspire with comrades using pretty little pictures.
You mean like when the emoji for gun went from something realistic to a squirt gun?
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems
My problem is that I only understand one of those things. The other is meaningless hot air, spewed exclusively by intellectual elites who may or may not have any idea of what that is even supposed to mean.
work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.
And that explanation doesn't tell me anything either. Put up a guillotine. Put the man in. Let the blade fall. I understand that. Create a network of mutual aid to replace hierarchies? Never saw that happen. Never learned about that, or how that is supposed to work. Don't know what that is supposed to mean, or how that is supposed to play out.
If you assume anyone knows about any of that, and if you assume that anyone can imagine anything concrete about that, you are out of touch. You are communicating ineffectively. At least to me. And probably to most other people as well.
Bitching about someone else's efforts is just bitching.
You offer to no alternative effort.
If this wasn't social media, you'd not be saying this for fear of a swift ass whooping.
Here's my alternative effort: I joined the SSBN force to get a front row seat to the end of the world. Gimme a valid and authentic EAM and I'll flip that switch like there's no tomorrow, 'cause there won't be.
Did...did he just invent the vacation?
Nope, footballer Gary Neville beat him to it a few months ago!
That's amazing.
I remember watching this on Have I Got News For You.
I don't know why I watch it, I'm not even from that continent.
30 day vacations for all.
Should be 4 day work week and 6 weeks vacation. There is absolutely no need to work this much. So many bullshit jobs, just to keep people employed and busy all their lives.
Not just employed but underemployed. Forty hours a week for not-40 hours worth of money. We call it a grind because it's designed to wear us down to bare subsistence.
Sure, that gets you the time off, but this guy flew to Paris and hung out for that entire time and found his "creative spark". We also need like 50% higher wages so we're not sitting in a Parisian cafe thinking "oh fuck this vacation is going to bankrupt me" or stuck at home unable to afford the flight to begin with.
Seriously... I literally just opened up lemmy after checking my vacation balance to see this lol Took 5 years to get 10 days vacation at my current job and I've used them all already... boooo
I will never understand how American culture has considered that acceptable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country
4 weeks/year is standard isn't it?
My work you get one week the first year. Two weeks for each of the following 6 years, three weeks the 7 years after that, then finally 4 weeks once you have been with the company for 15 years.
If you don't work for any 30 day period, you are let go and if you work for the company again I'm the future, you restart the benefits back at 1 week vacation.
It's actually one of the best around. I just hit 15 years and get 4 weeks now. Yay America.
Oh I should mention they now "expect more" out of a 15 year employee so now my evaluations are almost always "barely acceptable", despite going above and beyond always. They want us to feel like we are lucky to have the job and they could fire us at any time. It gets worse the more benefits they are paying.
"What if I pay my workers even less..." ๐ค
Source??
Or is this just rage bait
Engagement is engagement, whether people are engaged through anger or love.
Engagement is the only metric these types of media sources care about.
scrub the influencer brainworms from your gray matter for one moment and produce a critical thought--
engagement with what, exactly?
the signal which carries no message is white noise.
meaningless engagement is distraction, wasted bandwidth.
an emoji is not a meaningful improvement to the material condition of the working class, or a threat to the status quo. It's not even relevant to the abolition of work.
Found a source from Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.nl/im-a-ceo-who-was-burned-out-so-i-took-30-days-off-from-work-to-recharge-in-paris-and-found-my-creative-spark/
Still could be a rage bait article though.
Oh boo fucking hoo. I have zero empathy for these fucks making millions every year and grinding wage slaves into dust.
This guy could be anybody in the EU
I mean... I came here to say that you can go after the guy for being a CEO, but taking a month off is not particularly controversial over here. If anything, when I talk to a US business owner, which I sometimes do, hearing about how they are constantly working is normally more of a red flag than the opposite.
Even here in the EU not everyone gets a month off.
Of those who do, not all can take a month as a continuous vacation.
Of those who do, not all can afford to go to Paris.
Of those who do, not all can afford to stay in Paris for a month.
It's about the nonchalance these CEOs spew their shit with.
UK here (so not EU but this isn't something that's changed since we were) that's not really true, most companies would raise an eyebrow if you want to take that much of your holiday in one go. Plus it would leave you working like an American for the rest of the year.
I'd settle for a Trebuchet emoji, because I'm fine with flinging billionaires across the landscape at high speeds.
Honestly, a lot more fun than a guillotine, imho. Think about the ragdolling as they tumble in the air.
EDIT: Also, the longer the hangtime, the longer they have to think about the decisions that led them to people wanting to fling their body a few miles with a trebuchet. No forced self reflection with a guillotine.
eat the richfling the rich at high velocitiesNot quite as catchy, but that does sound amusing!
Iโm imagining an event like the old school Punkin Chunkin, where people build elaborate devices to try and fling a pumpkin as far and as accurately as possible. Call it The Billionaire Fling and wherever the billionaires land is where they get buried.
Have amusement rides, bounce houses, fair food, etc, and donate all proceeds to food banks and homeless shelters.
I doubt they'd spend the hangtime thinking about their transgressions.
It would more useful for other billionaires to see the hangtime and imagining that, as a deterrent.
Yes this is a completely pedantic comment
We all need a little pedantry sometimes.
While fun to think about, they probably end up at least knocked out if not dead before they even get released.
Surely there's a fine tuning that maximises air time while not rendering them unconscious for the trip.
Fuck emoji, we need guillotines.
People on LinkedIn be like....
Oh god I have so many screenshots of peoples LinkedIn posts that are so detached from reality. Unfortunately most of them are in German.
Please post them! My German could use some work anyway.
please post
You can post them on the community [email protected]
Post them on [email protected]
I saw one where he was like, when I have people to interview for a job in my company, I ring them at 7 in the morning and tell them to be in the office by 8 and make them do a whole days work and then if they pass that the interview process startsโฆ like go fuck yourself you pretentious cunt, youโre just making people work for free then telling them to fuck off, and to top it off he had people below saying yeah I applaud that and thatโs the best way to take out the worst people who donโt want to work????
I was burned out so did mushrooms and looked at the sky naked in a parking lot. I found my God.
Rage bait, moving on.
Obligatory reminder that the guillotine was primarily used against commoners who were the political opponents of the party then in power.
We have to manually eat the rich to keep it from becoming an industrialized process that people can tune out.
You mean the revolution didn't turn out the way people expected? What a surprise.
and right after that against those who brought it on the scene in the first place. but ins't it harsch to ruin teenage anarchist wanabees' wet dreams with facts? ๐
The fact that a 30 day vacation is seen as privileged is a failure of the US.
The CEOโs who are making millions of dollars? I donโt think really do anything, so if they just didnโt show up to work for a month would it even be that noticeable?
You'd see a noticable uptick in productivity without their meddling.
Must be nice
I mean, I'm not a CEO and I could do the same and have vacations days remaining. What you need is an union.
I wish unspeakable violence upon this piece of shit
Forget about them, white torture will do the whole trick
We need a guillotine
emoji.Sign the petition on change.org for a guillotine emoji.Bring some lumber and a large blade and lets get the party started.โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโกฟโ ฟโ โ โขโฃโกโขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโ โ โ โฃโฃโฃคโฃคโฃถโฃพโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขฐโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโ ฟโ ฟโ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโก โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขโฃโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโกฟโ โ โ โขฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขโฃโฃโฃโก(ceo)โขโฃโฃโฃ โขธโฃฟโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขธโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃทโฃคโฃคโฃดโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโฃฟโกโขธโฃฟโ This reminds me of the Mel gibson talking to bloodied up jesus meme
I did a search to find the original article, first from Business Insider, then from her LinkedIn share.
Definitely not the gender nor race -- or even age range -- that I anticipated the person being.
I totally assumed white guy around 60 years old, not Imani Ellis being it looks like about 32 years oldAs far as I can tell, it looks like her companies, CultureCon and Creative Collective NYC, don't seem to be massive or rolling in the big bucks like finance and banking (rudimentary search result here), but nonetheless, to even be ABLE to take 30 days off work, spend the money on a flight -- and hotels!!! -- for 30 days in an incredibly expensive place overseas, that's still flaunting money that most of us would have spent on food or rent.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/10/21/imaniellis/?sh=2ba4cc261eff
Wait, you guys have money??
Thanks, doc, I'm cured!
/s
In the leftist Slack groupchat I'm part of, that was one of the first emojis/Reacts that we created custom: a guillotine
B R A V E
I'm sure he is now paying for employees to do the same. It's good for business!
I mean i hate ceos but why should i hate him for taking a vacation? Seems the least of issues
guillotines cure economic anxiety.
