• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    Unfortunately, the work culture here is so ass-backwards that would get you in trouble. The whole “if you have time to lean you have time to clean/ I’m not paying you to stand around” exploitative nonsense. You must look busy and act like you are doing work at every possible second for the boss’s pleasure, less they feel they aren’t getting a return on their “investment”.

    It comes from an old school “Protestant work ethic” which has been a pervasive sickness in American culture since its foundations.

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        1 day ago

        How is it American exceptionalism?

        How am I trying to say the US is unique or exceptional? I’m not claiming it is the only country with toxic, cultural workplace traditions nor that our traditions have influenced those of other nations. I’m just giving an answer to a publicly asked question from my perspective, which so happens to be American.

        You’re free and welcome to do the same if you so wish. No one is stopping you.

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          How is it American exceptionalism?

          Try looking up the term, hotshot.

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            1 day ago

            American exceptionalism is the theory that the United States is unique and has a special role in the world due to its history and ideals of democracy, liberty, and self-government. It suggests the U.S. is different from, and often superior to, other nations, and has a unique mission to spread its values globally.

            Take your own advice, “hotshot”.

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              22 hours ago

              You believe exploiting laborers is a thing Americans invented:

              The whole “if you have time to lean you have time to clean/ I’m not paying you to stand around” exploitative nonsense. […] It comes from an old school “Protestant work ethic” which has been a pervasive sickness in American culture since its foundations.

              It is some of the most obvious American exceptionalism I’ve seen lately. Read the definition, hot shot. You naively believe that this “work culture” of pushing workers is something American or something new.

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                21 hours ago

                Cool story bro, but I never claimed that it did. I said that as an example of what I was talking about plus the cultural history for why it exists as it does in America, not as a claim that Americans invented it.

                Learn to fucking read.