Everyone is on their phone all the time while on break, usually in isolation. Like, a vast majority, and this holds true across sectors.
Being relateable and “making sense” is good advice. But ultimately, everyone is a lot more atomized these days than even 6 or 7 years ago, which is the last time Brace worked a regular job. And atomization plus mediation of everything through huge tech platforms takes a toll on everyone’s mental health. Everyone knows the world is fucked up, and the adage “makes sense” that it is unbecoming to be well adjusted to a corrupted world.
You break down this barrier by organising a work group trip to get local food during lunch, even if it’s just a quick drive to the supermarket where people buy sandwiches or whatever.
It gets some of them out, in your vehicle, and communally doing something together, usually sitting and eating together where you get chance to build some connections and then work from there.
If groups that already do that exist, get into them and see what’s up too.
I’ve tried this approach word for word at work last year and the management forced us to have lunch separately at several different times to prevent any sort of organizing
Perfect example of why trying to pin the lack or failure of organizing on idiosyncrasy is specious. Organization is hard because it’s constantly being thwarted by people in positions of power. It’s not because there aren’t enough sociable people. The issue isn’t whether organizing is a social endeavor or if we have enough sociable people, it’s how do we become successful in spite of obstruction. That’s a much harder question for an entertainer/podcaster/youtuber to answer as a neat soundbite.
Yeah I can only speak from a european experience unfortunately. Driving a group 2 minutes around the corner to get food outside of work is just incredibly easy to start building a group with.
Compared to getting lunch out of a vending machine, the food options are ambrosia. Usually I buy soup in a bread bowl which costs me maybe $5-6. The stuff from the deli, especially with the employee discount, is remarkably cheap. The payoff for a heist like that would not be all that large.
That said, my workplace is in a business district, where fast food options cost twice what my in-store lunch does, and restaurants cost 3-4x that base amount.
There’s at least one coworker who is caught in a debt cycle and only ever gets PBJs and such in the break room; I want to start making big batches of curries especially for her.
Everyone is on their phone all the time while on break, usually in isolation. Like, a vast majority, and this holds true across sectors.
Being relateable and “making sense” is good advice. But ultimately, everyone is a lot more atomized these days than even 6 or 7 years ago, which is the last time Brace worked a regular job. And atomization plus mediation of everything through huge tech platforms takes a toll on everyone’s mental health. Everyone knows the world is fucked up, and the adage “makes sense” that it is unbecoming to be well adjusted to a corrupted world.
You break down this barrier by organising a work group trip to get local food during lunch, even if it’s just a quick drive to the supermarket where people buy sandwiches or whatever.
It gets some of them out, in your vehicle, and communally doing something together, usually sitting and eating together where you get chance to build some connections and then work from there.
If groups that already do that exist, get into them and see what’s up too.
Build a gang
I’ve tried this approach word for word at work last year and the management forced us to have lunch separately at several different times to prevent any sort of organizing
Wow what the fuck
Perfect example of why trying to pin the lack or failure of organizing on idiosyncrasy is specious. Organization is hard because it’s constantly being thwarted by people in positions of power. It’s not because there aren’t enough sociable people. The issue isn’t whether organizing is a social endeavor or if we have enough sociable people, it’s how do we become successful in spite of obstruction. That’s a much harder question for an entertainer/podcaster/youtuber to answer as a neat soundbite.
This is how you know it works.
The “get food” strat hasnt been possible for me (or healthy for anyone) for more than half a decade now lol
Yeah I can only speak from a european experience unfortunately. Driving a group 2 minutes around the corner to get food outside of work is just incredibly easy to start building a group with.
Covid doesnt stop at europe’s border (to be clear, i am talking about covid, not driving distances lmfao)
That’s the plan, tbh. Probably with big batch homemade stuff though.
But ma’am, I work in the supermarket
Heist time!
Compared to getting lunch out of a vending machine, the food options are ambrosia. Usually I buy soup in a bread bowl which costs me maybe $5-6. The stuff from the deli, especially with the employee discount, is remarkably cheap. The payoff for a heist like that would not be all that large.
That said, my workplace is in a business district, where fast food options cost twice what my in-store lunch does, and restaurants cost 3-4x that base amount.
There’s at least one coworker who is caught in a debt cycle and only ever gets PBJs and such in the break room; I want to start making big batches of curries especially for her.
Nobody every wants to Heist anymore.
Not for that kind of payoff they don’t.