We are growing tired of working to support the wealthy class. This is a diary to back up a comment made in La Feminista’s diary about the class war on those of us that work for a living, (I’m not really in this class due to a seizure disorder that left me incapable of caring for myself or my child, but that is another diary entirely.). We need to make a slow down of the corporate machine that is grinding the middle and lower classes into sausages at a steady rate. But how, do you ask?
More after the break.
We need to slow down this corporate dominated machine that is tearing our way of life to pieces. The way to do that is to use the rules and the law to support our endeavors in the most insidious manner. Yes, I know our employment will be put at risk but doing so, but if we don’t stop this roller coaster soon it will be too late to protect our families from future corporate slavery as we now are enduring it, or worse.
To protect yourself and your job document, document, document. On your cell phone if nothing else is available. Email yourself on a separate server, whatever it takes to protect yourself. If you lose your job due to following the rules outlined in the employee hand book, every state has a labor board, so appeal, appeal ,appeal; even if you have to represent yourself you will be costing them the only thing that matters to them, profits.
If the handbook defines your position as needing more employees than are currently on staff document it as such. Those rules are there for a reason, usually your own safety. If there is a shortcut being used that contraindicates the manual quit using it and follow the manual. Why?, because the reason that rule is there is to satisfy a legal requirement. Why should you put your freedom at risk to satisfy their greed?
If your company is not unionized start an employee union there. There are laws preventing these companies from inhibiting these activities, but your job and possibly your life will be at risk nevertheless. But legally you are allowed to unionize most jobs.
There are safety rules out there that we can use to slow down the profits from our labor. Follow the guidance of your employee manual to the letter. If you are in a sales job such as a cashier at a grocery, look at every price for every product that you scan. If you work at any corporation that is not owned by a local company putting their tax dollars at work in your community follow every rule in your employee manual to the letter. If said company supports Republican/corporate interests do the same. We are the machine’s that feeds these huge corporations that are using their dollars to upset the political process and subvert our votes through funneling money to politicians. Don’t believe me? Look at Citizens United decision by the SCOTUS.
When you shop only go to local stores if that is not possible use the slowest method of payment for that facility. Even if it means using pennies to get your point across.
If you have a job start putting in applications that you may be remotely qualified for. We have Kossacks here that have put in hundreds of applications to get a job and support themselves and their families to no avail. So we know that the HR departments are already overwhelmed, why don’t we put some more applications in the mix to cost these mega corporations bleeding us, the tax payers, dry and hopefully spur some jobs for HR if nothing else.
The only thing that matters to these corporations is profits therefore the only way we can hurt them is to reduce their profit making apprati. Their greed is endless, and if we, the ones feeding their profits do not put a break on it, nothing will.
Follow the rules, follow the law, because to do so is the only way to get them where it hurts, profits.