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6/22/2025, 7:16:41 PM
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Well they don't want to have arguments about what's in the job description when they just need a little thing done. Like if you're a cashier and someone drops some trash near the register, are you not obligated to pick it up because you're not a janitor? Does the boss have to call in the nighttime janitor or do it himself? Does he have to get into an argument about your role right then and there?
But of course the "common courtesy" usually only goes one way. The boss wants to be able to make you temporarily into a janitor if convenient, he wants you to just be chill about that, just let it slide. But if your kid is sick or whatever and you don't have PTO to cover it, the boss isn't going to be chill about that. Suddenly you're back to business, red in tooth and claw, just two rational individuals trying to screw each other over, except he has all the cards.
The reason they do all this fake shit with the job descriptions and the dance parties is that they're trying to cover up the real nature of the relationship, which is exploiter vs exploited. The only reason the Walton family is worth $430billion is that they employ 2.2 million people at mostly shit wages and siphon the rest of the money up to themselves and the shareholders. It's not actually a nice relationship, it is a boss who demands and a worker who complies, or else. So they make pretend the relationship is nice when convenient and turn the screws when convenient.
If the manager and the cashier were more like a crew that served together, and the cashier had some real monetary investment in the company as a whole, there wouldn't need to be a discussion about the job description, the cashier would just be invested enough to do what it takes to make the place a success. But that would mean the shareholders couldn't get as much in rent.
Well they don't want to have arguments about what's in the job description when they just need a little thing done. Like if you're a cashier and someone drops some trash near the register, are you not obligated to pick it up because you're not a janitor? Does the boss have to call in the nighttime janitor or do it himself? Does he have to get into an argument about your role right then and there?
But of course the "common courtesy" usually only goes one way. The boss wants to be able to make you temporarily into a janitor if convenient, he wants you to just be chill about that, just let it slide. But if your kid is sick or whatever and you don't have PTO to cover it, the boss isn't going to be chill about that. Suddenly you're back to business, red in tooth and claw, just two rational individuals trying to screw each other over, except he has all the cards.
The reason they do all this fake shit with the job descriptions and the dance parties is that they're trying to cover up the real nature of the relationship, which is exploiter vs exploited. The only reason the Walton family is worth $430billion is that they employ 2.2 million people at mostly shit wages and siphon the rest of the money up to themselves and the shareholders. It's not actually a nice relationship, it is a boss who demands and a worker who complies, or else. So they make pretend the relationship is nice when convenient and turn the screws when convenient.
If the manager and the cashier were more like a crew that served together, and the cashier had some real monetary investment in the company as a whole, there wouldn't need to be a discussion about the job description, the cashier would just be invested enough to do what it takes to make the place a success. But that would mean the shareholders couldn't get as much in rent.
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