If you’re not familiar with r/Fednews, it’s a subreddit where gov workers are sharing stories.

Unionizing is already going to be a uphill battle in this Trump era. But don’t quit. Don’t feel like it’s a hopeless cause. They want you to quit. They want you to be angry and get rid of you.

If you want change, then stay. Do just enough. Wait for an opening and force them to fire you.

That’s what they did during the democrat presidents.

  • @[email protected]
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    462 days ago

    Unionization will be an uphill battle… Wait… Not all non-managers public employees in the US are unionized??? Man, looking from the outside in, the US is ridiculous…

    • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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      222 days ago

      You can thank Rupert Murdoch, but yes, it is.

      Workers who are heavily exploited, underpaid, and lose their job to this type of political nonsense are usually at best suspicious and at worst hostile to unions. They bathe in right-wing propaganda about “right to work” and greedy/corrupt unions just being another layer of bureaucracy that siphons off their wages.

      • @[email protected]
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        152 days ago

        Can confirm. Got a shitty job at Home de Pot in 2016. The longest, most in depth video they showed during the onboarding process was about how unions are evil and they just take dues without providing any kind of service.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          But that’s a private sector job, here I was replying to someone talking about pubic servants not being unionized, which to me is completely ridiculous!

          • @[email protected]
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            82 days ago

            My point was that the anti-union propaganda is everywhere. And it’s pretty damn effective, considering the current state of things.

  • alaphic
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    692 days ago

    then stay. Do just enough. Wait for an opening and force them to fire you.

    Tbh, if you’re working primarily to make someone else wealthy and you aren’t doing this already, I have no idea what you’re even doing with your life.

    • @[email protected]
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      392 days ago

      I have no idea what you’re even doing with your life.

      It’s called earning a living. Not everybody has the luxury of a moral high horse to ride off into some picturesque sunset. They have bills to pay and mouths to feed.

      • @[email protected]
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        242 days ago

        This isn’t saying not to work. It’s don’t work harder than you have, don’t go above and beyond. Don’t be your employer’s simp, they’ll fuck you when it’s convenient for them.

      • alaphic
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        72 days ago

        Tf is your problem? Are you that desperate to lick the boot that’s on your neck? 🙃

        Sorry, you get what you fucking pay for… You wanna pay me the lowest amount you can (in most cases legally) get away with? That is exactly the amount of effort you’re gonna get in return.

        And if you don’t like it, feel free to go get fucked by your moral high horse right in your picturesque sunset 🖕😁🖕