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Janitor works quietly in the background making the world around them slightly better whilst getting paid about as little as legally possible.
CEOs loudly ruin the world around them whilst making more than 100x what the janitor makes (and that’s just their salary)
I certainly know who I’d want rid of.
I feel like 100x is way way lowballing that CEO.
Try to have the company run for a week without the janitor and 1 week without the CEO, and everybody would tell you who’s doing the most important job.
Know you meant this as rhetorical, but I can speak from my own experience.
Our janitor went on leave for a week without replacement, I can sure tell you I missed them by the end of that week.
Meanwhile in an old SME job, our CEO left for an entire fortnight to some corporate BS, and genuinely the only tell was the managers being more friendly and relaxed.
It’d be fun to actually have a study to point to. Feels like the type of thing people cloud try.
I think it would be difficult to do it in good faith because the CEOs can subtlely fuck with the results on both ends. Like order other non-janitors to pick up some of the more urgent cleaning/maintenance work to make them seem less important (or maybe offer secret bonuses to people to “just clean up because they like to be helpful” or something). Also order their own subordinates to do crazy (but reversible) things while the CEO is away.
The same thing I’d expect them to do for experiments with alternate economic systems, sabotage the shit out of it so they can say “see, this won’t work!”
We should make a public holiday, “guillotine a CEO day”, and each year, the public chooses their least favorite CEO, and they get guillotined.
Need a full March Madness style bracket. Musk is a clear front runner, but Zuck could give him a run for his money. Any of the Ellisons could be a dark horse.
The entire Ellison family is made up of wildcards. The Sackler family is full of heavyweights too
Had me thinking hypotheticals, that (even before jumping to executions) if there was just an ancient Greek style 10-year ostracism and/or seizure of property that people vote on, it might compel CEOs to start behaving more in the public interest.
But the cynic in me can’t help but feel that it would more likely lead to the CEOs who control the media getting to collectively determine who gets to be that year’s fall guy, running non-stop hit pieces on them while covering up their own misdeeds.
Yeah… the thing about actually implementing something like this is you actually need to seize power first because obviously the ruling class isn’t going to just go along with their own torment. And if you’ve already seized power, you can skip the games and straight up take all their money and spend it on public goods.
Every year, take the 500 wealthiest people and…
You can tell a lot about someone by how they treat people that work the lower wage occupations.
Cashiers, entry level customer service or other entry level desk jobs, entry level blue collar work. All of those people are hard working members of society who contribute so much despite how little they get paid in return and I don’t want anything to do with anyone who doesn’t treat them with respect and kindness.
Security is like this. I work unarmed security, and people will sometimes treat me like a sentient security camera. I am a person, I promise.
Sending hugs!
Can you give some examples of interactions that you would prefer to happen, and what would initiate those interactions? I typically avoid interacting with security. When I was working retail, people would attempt to strike up a conversation to distract me while their accomplice was waiting to steal stuff. So I feel like if I walked over to them for no reason then they’d actually be more stressed out.
These interactions aren’t in a retail setting, and the company I work for has never sent me to a retail setting, thankfully. One of them involves sitting at the front of a building that has a bunch of businesses in it and the other one I am at the front desk of a data center. A lot of times when you work security you’re basically a receptionist that goes on hourly patrols.
I recently had a woman try to secretly film me because I was browsing Lemmy at work. I looked up almost immediately because I have peripheral vision and saw her doing so. She panicked and quickly shut the door she had opened a crack to spy on me. The fact that I looked up immediately when she was being weird proved I was being attentive. I’m only ever on my phone when there’s no one around.
Shortly after that they updated the site orders to say you can’t be on personal electronic devices. You’re expected to sit in an empty room for 7 out of the 8 hours of this shift and stare at the fuckin wall, apparently.
At the data center people will bang on the window if you don’t buzz them in within 5 seconds of them getting to the front door. I’ve politely asked them to give me some time to notice them before they scare the shit out of me by banging on the glass. It’s like being a fish in an aquarium. One guy didn’t even respond to my request, he just rolled his eyes then walked away, then called my company to complain. I am no longer allowed to ask people to stop hitting the glass.
All this shit is dehumanizing. It’s like they don’t really want humans to be security guards, they want robots and had to settle for me.
Thanks for letting me rant a bit : )
I guess they’ll be waiting even longer for you to get the door then?
That does sound pretty hard to deal with. Hopefully a better opportunity will present itself to you sooner than later. Are you allowed to listen to music, audiobooks, podcasts or such, maybe with a single earbud? Some YTers like Technology Connections make videos that can be listened to without looking at the screen. VAS Aviation is another one.
When I’m out riding my bike (usually later, to beat the heat) there are a few commercial buildings I pass by that are under construction. And there are people sitting alone in vehicles all night keeping an eye on things (probably to prevent copper theft, homeless trashing it, etc). I’ve often wondered if they’re bored out of their minds and would appreciate conversation, but I’ve never stopped just in case it alarms them.
there are people sitting alone in vehicles all night keeping an eye on things (probably to prevent copper theft, homeless trashing it, etc). I’ve often wondered if they’re bored out of their minds and would appreciate conversation, but I’ve never stopped just in case it alarms them.
Can confirm, those jobs will slowly eat away at your soul. At first it’s easy money, but I noticed after a while my mental health was really going downhill. So glad I don’t do those kind of jobs any more, podcasts only help so much lol
I still maintain that everyone should have to do one year of retail work, kind of like national service. People who have worked retail are almost always nice to other retail workers because they know the kind of shit they have to deal with every day.
I sometimes felt that people working retail could kill one customer each year. Every now and then would just be someone so infuriating and stupid that I could not believe it. For example, a woman angrily complaining that her steak had pink in it when she ordered it medium.
Janitors clean up everyone’s shit.
CEOs make shit for everyone.
I actually respect the Janitor though, I’d never treat them equally
That’s a horrible thing to wish for a janitor
On the other hand, when we elect to hunt down ICE and bring them to justice the way we did Nazis complicit in the Holocaust, I anticipate the custodial service that cleaned their bathrooms and offices will not be excluded.
i would guillotine both. im fair that way.
Bullshit. The moment that janitor went Luigi, you’d totally rescind that position. Meanwhile, the CEOs are denying claims for their subscriber’s health, which may be killing regular folk.
You clearly dont know me
