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Well described, analyzed, told.
Reading of inconvenience allowed to ferment into struggle is an exercise in compassion. Resentment, anger, disgust for privileged "struggles" only compound the problem across many circumstances.
"High-stress, emergency situations" are relative. In the bigger picture, frontline workers delivering the groceries - not those…
The most common gig worker was an Uber driver. Refused employment, they accepted the hyped position of an “independent freelancer.” This was just temporary, I often heard. Like cab…
Another dilemma: Reporting, speaking up, taking the career risk to create internal change and then exposing punishment or lack of response when it fails can suppress female hiring.
For the typical 1:4 ratio’d tech company, male-dominated leadership looks at this scenario as a major risk to themselves, their reputation, and…
All the “busyness” and “no time” to care — is this not the greatest gaslight of them all? As millions of unsupported, under-valued, unemployed, near-homeless, and homeless Americans…
The IWW picture at the start triggered some multi-generational union defense in me, reaching deep, back to the days of Kay Kluz and the Pittsburgh Steelworkers. I thought of the old telling of my grandfather “the only reason you didn’t wear a hat is because you couldn’t afford one.” Union men and women fought to wear hats. The picture also made me…
Asick kind of pride developed for me in my quest to make my insomnia a superpower. In those hours where others “had” to sleep, the night was mine, finally. The entertaining, the social leadership and responsibility, all faded to silence and a new world unfolded.
Two years in the metropolises of southeast Asia shifted my perspective on driving and being a driver. Endless traffic jams and the refusal to sit in traffic led me to depend solely on travel by rail or foot. Scooter-taxis were exceedingly crazy to experience, yet offered a way to let someone else cut through the stopped cars and defeat the jams.