Forum Post: resistance at work
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 5, 2011, 9:36 p.m. EST by buik
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from Towson, MD
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if you are lucky enough to have some kind of job where you are responsible for multimillion dollar accounts (so many of us are), work to fuck up those accounts in a seemingly innocent fashion. make a bunch of clerical errors. you can also fuck up other people's work in a transparent way.
hopefully, the megacorp you work for will lose the accounts and you will get by with a couple warnings ( if they fire you, its not like they can prove you did anything on purpose, so just get a similar job somewhere else and do the same thing)
i did it for years. made the workday more enjoyable. if you're in the system, you know exactly how to go about doing this already.
if we have can get enough people doing it, that in itself may be a reason to start getting better wages and benefits. nothin like having the employees turn against you in a discreet and costly manner. if we cant get it organized like that, then at least you'll have more fun at work : )
"so just get a similar job somewhere else and do the same thing"
Good luck with that...
they are not allowed to say you cost them millions; there are laws against that. they cant even say if you were a good employee or not anymore.
they aren't allowed to say anything, but rumors on the rumormill can travel really really quickly.
of course. you have to exhibit the guise of a conscientious, caring employee. if you get written up for it just dont do it again till you get a new job.
but they almost never catch it.
This could potentially harm normal working people not just fat cats. If it doesn't have a specific tangible benefit even I don't think its a good idea.
its fun, thats the benefit : )
I'm half asleep. For a second I thought this was a serious post.
take it as a reminder, then, if you must have a message:
when you're solvin the world's problems, you'd better account for people like me, hoss
<3
We just gotta keep everybody accountable to everybody and flick the lint off each others backs. Only really way to deal agent provocateurs and other trouble makers.
Not that I am categorically opposed to creative destruction, I just think it should be planned--- and it shouldn't harm innocent people--- and it should serve a strategic purpose--- and not be counter-productive
You know, like a protest against unfair tax cuts given to a giant multinational corporation. Like the East India Trading company. We could even wear a costume. Say like Mohawk Indians. And we could commit mass vandalism against said firm. For example, we could dump a significant quantity of their product into the harbor, in symbolic contempt.
Wonder what the tea party or fox news would say about that?
and that wouldnt jeopardize the jobs of the innocent? any time you cut into corp profits, you jeopardize the working man's job.
necessary evil i guess.
You bet they would try to play up that angle for sure. "Violent mob of Marxist wealth redistributists make class-war on american jobs---Stalism imminent"
the only way to hurt a corporation is in the pocketbook, and any time a corporation loses profits the employees suffer in some way. hell, most times the employees suffer even in a highly profitable company.
sucks, but thats the way it goes. may as well make it count. see, in my scenario, i dont have to dress up like an indian or do anything other than flip a couple excel entries, and i get more done in 20 seconds than your whole crew does in a day.
you say to that, "well we get public sentiment." corporations dont care about that shit unless it affects their wallets. what corporations would care about is if their employees suddenly, inconspicuously, started turning against them.
its the best way.
audiovisual aid : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tpzGCOHncM