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 (DIR) Post #AqpaKXwTp9qb8wtujI by burgerdrome@aus.social
       2025-02-06T04:48:11Z
       
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       a significant part of my life is spent watching white collar workers speedrun the stages of grief as they run into problems at work and realise that the reason their employer doesn't want to fix the problems is because their employer simply doesn't care
       
 (DIR) Post #Aqpb1b3s6QdJGlt0Ii by burgerdrome@aus.social
       2025-02-06T04:52:14Z
       
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       many white collar workers at heart believe that they are better than blue collar workers and one of the factors they use to prop up this internal narrative is that their employer speaks softly to them and calls them "colleagues" and gives them an office chair. there comes a point inevitably when the worker realises that indifference with a nice hat on is still indifference and it's often quite confronting to have that ripped away
       
 (DIR) Post #Aqpb1cAI03MQgxtdwW by burgerdrome@aus.social
       2025-02-06T04:53:49Z
       
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       one of the main barriers to organising and collective action in white collar spaces is that white collar workers are often quite a few life experiences away from realising their employer wouldn't notice or care if they died, and you have to break through that first before you can move onto material issues
       
 (DIR) Post #Aqpb1d3wf7sdTZw5h2 by burgerdrome@aus.social
       2025-02-06T04:55:13Z
       
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       ultimately the blue/white collar distinction is materially meaningless and was just invented to do exactly what I just described: to stymie and blunt collective action through mentally reprogramming a workforce. but it's a very real distinction in the minds of workers and is something that I don't think any organiser or unionist has successfully cracked yet