Folks Are Laughing At The Concept Of Employment
And Machiavellian bosses will hate the reason why.
If you’re a boss who operates on scaring the shit out of your employees, now is a really bad time for you. People are just straight up laughing at the very concept of employment. Just: I have to be somewhere and do something every day? What? Why?
Bosses won’t like the reason why. It’s because fear causes burnout, and burnout causes no fucks to be given. See, you can’t actually motivate people with fear forever. For a long time, sure, but eventually…and I know this because of my own psychological meltdown when I was in an abusive relationship…you just stop fucking caring.
JUST DO IT. I DON’T CARE ANYMORE.
This is the turning point. Something inside just…breaks. Your ability to feel fear is broken. You may feel numb. You may find threats funny, even.
One day, it just stops fuckin’ working. Something snaps.
For one, we have been threatened with automation for so long. RoBoTs ArE gOnNa rEpLaCe YoU. We have heard this for so long: Don’t unionize. Don’t cause waves. Don’t discuss wages…otherwise, the robots will replace you. Everything can be automated! Live in fear of the day we get a robot on wheels or a large printed arrow to replace you!
Fine, then. Let the robot replace me, and give me a guaranteed income. Literally just change the money in our bank accounts to larger numbers. Rich people don’t pay taxes and use Twitter to turn the stock market into their own fuckin’ game of Monopoly. Why should I care if you replace me with a robot? Because I’ll be broke? We’re already broke. Fuck your threats.
Fantasies of being promoted have turned into fantasies of remote work and telling bosses to go to hell. Four-day workweeks. Unions. Abortions sponsored by Amazon. Fuckin’ give us stuff. Give us stuff or replace us with robots. Or both. Give us stuff AND replace us with robots.
Go directly to hell. After two years of a pandemic and more years of working under constant threats and raised cortisol levels, the mere thought of employment is hilarious now.
If we were so disposable, replaceable, and our jobs so easy, and if we were so weak and expendable, then run your shit without us.
Do it.
