TheOwlyOne

(I honestly couldn’t think of a better way to categorize it) 

We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Thistle and Thyme by Sorche Nic Leodas

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Bernett

I Capture Castle by Dodie Smith

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

When corporations run your country why not hit them where it hurts

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Over 250 #JewsAgainstICE have been arrested in the last month protesting what we see as impending genocide.

nobody is able to support the same exact people that you are able to

nobody can write like you or draw like you or sing like you

nobody can tell stories or jokes in the same manner that you do

nobody has the same expressions or the same voice or the same laugh

you are NOT replaceable, you are not a misfit because nobody “fits in” anyway

Lunch Grinding is a manipulative erosion of worker rights both in and out of the workplace. It bypasses legal and contractual standards through informal social pressures which the bosses cannot be held directly accountable for.

Lunch Grinding is named after one of the most common examples. It begins by asking a few employees to skip lunch in order to finish a project. Workers who are already insecure about their position due to economic anxiety will see this as an opportunity to prove they are a good employee. Those who refuse to do so may receive blame for failing to finish the project on time.

The issue becomes compounded when the bosses begin to purposefully schedule less time to complete the same projects. A distinct class begins to appear ignoring their contractual right to a lunch break - who become hostile to those who refuse to work during lunch for being “lazy” or “the reason we didn’t finish on time.”

At this point the management no longer needs to influence anyone directly to work through lunch break, simply by keeping up the sense of constantly being a little late for the project they have ensured the lunch-grinders will apply pressure to their peers who aren’t working through breaks.

As workplace hostility increases towards the “unproductive” members who are expressing their formal right to a break - they will be replaced with new individuals who may not even realize they have the right to a lunch break because working through the hour has become normalized by their peers.

Thus formal written standards from contracts and legal code become functionally non-existent. After which a new standard will be identified by management for erosion some examples include:

+Accepting uncertain hours. +Working off-the-clock. +Staying “On-Call” at all times. +Finishing projects / responding to emails at home. +Never using time off or sick leave.

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