Hmph. Let me have the job. I won't complain.
I saw this striking protest today. Pathetic. A bunch of mostly Spanish workers with matching logo t shirts that stated encore employees striking and th union number. (how much did THAT cost? That's what signs are for. You're whining about MONEY but you'll spend it on matching logo t shirts??)
These people were barely organized around the bus stop in front of Encore (great get in the way of the transit public instead of attracting the attention of traffic) most of them were hiding out behind some bushes to the left on Encore property. Bullshitting and some girls sitting on the ground with food and drinks laughing playing with cell phones.
A LITTLE KID had the electrified megaphone and was playing with it out front and an adult had to tell them to stop messing with it as they carried it somewhere away from the 'strike' area.
I'm getting really sick of this crap. People in general BARELY do their fucking jobs nowadays and they also have serious fucking attitude problems all around nowadays or worse they are uppity as fuck because they believe their employment is some power trip (like the peon ivy league University Garbage man heckling me out of my sleep spot the other day).
Listen the damn brats from Starbucks trying to organize and unionize was BAD ENOUGH. Do you actually expect that you are going to contribute to CIVIL UNREST and the harassing of elderly American citizens and anyone else who uses the wrong fucking pronouns or isn't woke enough while you also act as if being a barista is something akin to working in a lab with nitroglycerin or some shit?
That crap you pulled after 2020 was complete bullshit. Seriously unqualified people were hired JUST to serve the agenda of politicizing corporate everything. People should not have their food fucking politicized.
Every time I look at that damn sign with that logo I can't help but think back to Pompeii or ancient cities where gods and symbols ruled the people.
As a houseless person I have suffered greatly from the closing of many Starbucks locations especially nice quiet remote places in this area like Waban.
However I completely understand what corporate has done because people have forgotten what business is about and money and power. You cant fuck around and expect to get a just deal for YOURSELVES when you've played power games and been irresponsible with power effecting OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES.
Myself and others had suffered through bad service bad behavior and other crap due to hiring purely to satisfy agendas during the past five years. I actually saw an absolute beast hired in a Jewish Boston burrough that I never thought would fall to the infiltrator and enemy..thank gods it was very short lived.
This person actually went after an eldelry man who simply thanked the person for the coffee using a feminine pronoun (more than It deserved). I had to calm him down and tell him he didnt do anything wrong and to just wait it out and it will pass. As it has. I then explained to her (ever so carefully) that he doesn't understand which of course just scraped by without a tantrum (I want to use another word but you know I can't lol).
No one cared. It was absolutely disgusting. That man had paid taxes all his life and worked and helped to maintain the infrastructure of this nice area in which people could be safe and is very pleasant to live in and visit.
They've gone from being over tolerant and helping to blow up homeless areas by trying to be makeshift safe space (while not knowing what the hell they were doing and not being old enough to handle anyone's life much less a potentially dangerous and complicated demographic like the homeless) to being totally snobby and intolerant. The CEO ripped out much needed seating especially for our population then shut down the stores that didn't have seating due to low performance (and many were unionizing stores). Now you can't even get a hot water due to some political bullshit with some black dude waiting for his friend at some Starbucks where it blew up into more political drama.
I have always noticed something about union people. They have a specialized knowledge of something, they are craftsman or professionals (nurses etc) and they hold employees to standards as well as usually perform their jobs and basically MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS. The only politics I notice is anything to do with their work, skill, field or union. They generally don't interfere with society..not overtly anyway.
The other issue I have is this outrageous claim from race baiting assholes during BLM (the people on FB posting that "white guilt is where it's at that's the new game that's where the money is now" and whoever works for whatever private security run intelligence agency creates these messes for globalism and corporate) claiming white people never had the issues and struggles they've had.
Let's scale it down to just the USA. I think there needs to be a major lesson in where unions came from or where people GOT THEIR FOOD FROM before industry or big companies and machines.
Here's a folk song from Woodie Guthrie about just one of many massacres that seasonal food workers had to live through as they tried to form unions in our history.
There's a good reason you have a 8 hour work day or breaks and lunch or recourse about work conditions like OSHA.
People from 3rd world countries need to understand that the conditions were very similar to what they experience back home. The only exception is that America has a lot of land that can feed us and it's a wonderful safe place. However it's true that freedom isn't free.
Also I don't think the Native Americans that were genocided are being mourned or respected as we treat this land the way we do nowadays and exploit everything all the time just to serve a system of waste and over consumption. As well as the sick dimensions of reality we've created with things like what the Internet has become and video games.
It's very telling that as this country has become completely taken over by corporate culture and alleged 'diversity' (mandatory social engineering lacking any free association or free will or even natural neighborhoods forming. Globalism has destroyed neighborhoods) that every last sign of Native American peoples has disappeared. Except maybe for areas out west.
People are the land and the land is the people. We should not have to be mandated to forget we have a past and ancestors with cultures just because some gods on high tell us life will reach Nirvana if we all can be equal and get along so long as we are all part of the corporate reality. people don't respect the seeds the way they should.
So people should know the history of how their food came to be and how different kind of people's suffered in this country to get it to them and thus like other workers helped start unions and their suffering that gives us the decent conditions and recourse we have available today.
Without unions you get exploited. Now your in a union you exploit the public with red tape to get anything done and overpriced services and sadly Woody's generation's dream was ruined by organized crime seeing the profit and potential of unions. You can't win.
With humans you never can.
Let's at least try to remember what it once meant to be human as we allow people in power to usher us into a sick era of inhumanity, overconsumption, ignorance and disconnection utilizing the illusion of constant interconnectedness provided by the dangerous new dimensions created by technologies.
Listening to the song about the massacre and comparing it to seeing the laziness, spoiled culture and distraction and marked lack of seriousness or desperation I saw today reminds me what a sick and deadly era we have entered into and how it can only get worse if no one says anything does anything or at least leaves some wisdom for those young people who arent fooled by these new yet very old atypical human failings.
You can laugh all you want about how out of touch and how out of date this sounds and the content of this hhowever what I say does have value.
If it doesn't have value for you then it's not for you. Pretty soon everyone's going to have to make a choice between the world that they're creating and the natural world.
