Let's Guillotine the Bourgeoisie Together, Qomrade

Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more

Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock

Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.

Have a little glass of wine

Take as long as you feel like for lunch

Deeply understand that work doesn't matter

Old Millennial American speaking here. I need you to adopt this mentality as early as possible and hold to it. The older you get, the harder it is to begin this practice and claw back the extremely unhealthy effects of a workaholic lifestyle. I am speaking from 20 years of experience.

This does not mean having a shitty attitude at work, or not doing your job, or relying on co-workers to carry your water.

This means you do what it says above. It also means not making work and productively your entire personality; not tying your productivity to your value; and not becoming so emotionally enmeshed in your work and workplace so that you are living and dying by what happens there.

They can never ever ask you to clock out and then keep working

They can never ask you to take work home without compensating you for it

It's never ever the "office culture" to eat lunch at your desk, even if they do it

If they call you in your off hours, it's your choice whether to call them back and it's literally totally fine if you don't

Remember that being "on call" is a legally specific thing. It means you are getting paid a certain percentage of your hourly wage, for a certain number of hours, and only on certain days of the week. It doesn't just mean that you are available 24/7, and you're not on call unless you're being paid on call wages

If you ever get hurt at work, in any way, for any reason - even if it wasn't anyone's fault, even if it was your own fault, even if you think you'll be fine if you put some ice on it - it's actually in everyone's best interests for you to take it seriously. Fill out all the paperwork in the world, go to the worker's comp doctor, let the other work fall behind because you're busy filling out the detailed incident report, whatever. Remember, it benefits everyone

You're not "bothering" HR, you're asking them to do their job. But remember, their job isn't to make sure you aren't being exploited, it's to make sure the company can't be sued for anything

You are not asking for time off, you are telling them your availability

If you have an emergency and you need to leave, "emergency" is literally the only word you need to give them

In fact they have no right to ever ask you why you need time off, because it's not up to them to decide whether it's a justified reason

Giving two weeks notice before you quit has NEVER been industry standard for any industry anywhere ever

And here's the big one the people really struggle with: every job will gradually increase your workload, bit by bit, forever. You will eventually reach a point where it will be more than anyone can do. This is not your fault, it's your boss's fault. The important thing to remember is that your limit isn't 100%, your limit is 80%. When your work day is 80% full, refuse to take on anything else. Some things won't get done, some things will completely fall apart, sometimes a 5-minute fix will turn into a 4-hour problem because it didn't get addressed in time. And, again, it's not your fault for not being able to carry an impossible workload, it's your boss's fault for not allocating workloads correctly. In fact, letting things fall apart instead of absorbing the overload yourself is the only way that your bosses will ever change the workload, because if you tell them that you're struggling and burning out but you can still get all your shit done, it still goes into the "it's fine" box in their heads

Remember folks: trying to be a good little worker bee won't save you from the chopping block when they're tired of paying you, it'll just destroy your health bit by bit. And you're going to have a lot of bosses in your life, but you only have one body.

(Oh, and one more thing - paper trail paper trail paper trail paper trail, get everything in writing all the time forever)

Salmon Cycle

me: "so you think men are better at literally everything, even things that do not require any physical ability whatsoever?"

terf: "yes! those should still be segregated by sex! males should not be playing against women ever. it's an unfair advantage"

me: "so my brother has an unfair advantage over me when playing fucking monopoly?"

terf: "yes. males are statistically better and managing finances, while women are irresponsible and lenient with spending money."

eyes: very nifty design only a little undercut by the viscera horror of something terrible happening to them. 8/10

nose: a lil goofy ngl but it works in context. 6/10

ears: also goofy, don’t like them, why do they produce wax and get infected. but the core concept is fine. 4/10

brain: very cool, does lots of neat stuff without having to gurgle, ooze, or twitch. 10/10

liver: like most good organs it is a calm, steady machine. a tranquil filterer of the blood. don’t like the whole oozing bile thing though. 6/10

kidneys: piss is actually slightly less gross than bile. 7/10

bladder, gall bladder: i strongly feel organs should not grow random rocks in them. 4/10

bones: very aesthetic. functional in sort of a primitive mechanical way but they give us an extremely useful set of imagery for death and time. 8/10

skin: terrifically design, though it does sometimes flake. 7/10

tongue, lips: crudely mechanical but in kind of a cool way. 7/10

digestive tract: why does it gurgle and ooze?? why must it engage in peristalsis and jerk and shudder? it’s not even the products of digestion I object to—it’s that so many organ systems in the body are at least on a macroscopic level serene and still and almost plantlike, quietly performing their function without calling any attention to themselves. and then we have the system that farts and burps and generally reminds you you are trapped in a prison of wet red meat. 1/10, only because eating is often pleasant.

heart, lungs: for such crucial organs the fact they have to continuously move feels so… primitive. we should respire by like passively absorbing air through our skin. our blood should be whisked around our body by millions of tiny invisible cilia in our veins. what is this rube goldberg shit, with an extremely vulnerable single point of failure? 3/10