Tim Gurner apologises over call for more unemployment to fix worker attitudes
Tim Gurner apologises over call for more unemployment to fix worker attitudes
Tim Gurner backtracks over his call for "pain in the economy" to remind people they are lucky to have jobs.
Sorry not sorry teehee
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"We need to see pain in the economy"
"There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them"
"claimed that shift is hitting productivity in the sector"
This attitude is an actual mental illness. Productivity is killing us, killing our climate. What we need is LESS PRODUCTIVITY and more leisure, more time to care for one another, focus on food production, distribution, healthcare, and education, things that involve taking care of other humans. Why should everyone everywhere forever have to live on the razor's edge of their ability to keep up with life?
more time to care for one another, focus on food production, distribution, healthcare, and education, things that involve taking care of other humans.
These are productive pursuits.
"I agree. Let's monetize the fuck out of them" - some greedy fuck
And that's the real problem. Not productivity itself, but monetization.
We need to end the habit of prioritizing things based on whether or not they are "productive." It's ok to be unproductive. It's ok to be lazy and fuck around and socialize and just generally hang out helping people.
Sorry, this is a particularly sensitive issue for me right now where our Chief Nursing Officer acts like if we have time to have any conversation with our colleagues, then that means we have enough time to manage one more patient. When the fuck did being able to have a little downtime at work become such a terrible offense?
(Yes, we're unionizing. Because absolutely fuck this mentality.)