Tweet of the night:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

1. so poignant. "Lovely" man indeed.

[Throck]

2. Management treats our blue collars like crap.

[applegrove]

4. I've seen that treatment in some businesses. I hate that. It is almost like

they want to keep low wage workers back on their heels while they kiss butt to the ones at higher pay, across the board. Is the theory that keeping someone insecure keeps them working for shit pay?. Most of my employers were not like this. But in business, you find it more often. I think they must learn it in MBA school. F*** them.

[ancianita]

19. Oh, they do. Hierarchy is the foundation of all dominance/submission power in business, religion,

society, maintained through daily practice of valid-/invalidations through micro-aggressions/ignoring, win-lose, either-or, good-bad, deserving-undeserving valuations.

You mention the MBA system. There, hierarchy's already assumed. The decision to treat others like a click above trainable animals is a tough system to get rid of, because managers know that most grownups have been trained to obey through childhood, and so are to be "managed" in thought and deed, away from their salary considerations.

Try to get rid of it, and dominators/power use the win-lose tool of last resort, force.

Which is more moral -- law, or legal hierarchy or legal order.

[Phoenix61]

3. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever pointless. nt

[Biophilic]

5. This! nt

[malaise]

14. THIS n/t

[Clash City Rocker]

6. Good rule of thumb, be kind to the people of lowest stature at your company

They’re usually the people who do the most work, and they can help you in ways you don’t always expect. Receptionists, secretaries, janitors, etc. are a lot more valuable than most people realize. Beyond that, of course, they’re people and deserve to be treated like people.

[LakeArenal]

28. For what you do to the least of these, you do unto me.

So saith the Dude.....

[rickyhall]

7. I always make a point of talking to people nobody else talks to. I've done that since grade school.

[Susan Calvin]

20. My mother made me make a point of that. nt

[xxqqqzme]

25. My granddaughter always

talked to the guys stocking the grocery shelves.
More often than not the person would look shocked when they realized she was talking to them.

[Turbineguy]

8. I told our Janitor at my school

he was one of the reasons I liked working there. I noticed that the other instructors seem to ignore him.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Corporate world is brutal.

[SheilaAnn]

10. One of the many, many reasons I loved Obama was how he treated everyone he met and worked with.

Remember his fisting with the janitor in the WH. That was not for the camera either, it appeared to me as if it was a regular thing. If it were not for these hard working people we would not have gotten through the pandemic, of that I'm sure.

[applegrove]

11. We are nowhere if we don't know we are all together.

[Tommymac]

21. Prez Joe is cut from the same cloth.

Look at how has treated the conductors on the Amtrac.

How he goes out of his way to talk to the 'little person'.

How he treated the young lad with the speech impediment last year.

How he mourned with all of US on Inauguration Day instead of going to parties.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Nice post. We need way more of this

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Thanks, lovely story. America need much more of this.

KY..........

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Another nice story

[applegrove]

16. Sweet:

[KT2000]

17. Yes!!

We should always remember the essential workers in our lives.

[MustLoveBeagles]

18. K&R

[mopinko]

22. i made a lifelong friend by treating the new manager at my fave restaurant

like a human being. he is black, and it wasnt going well w the customers.
i was participating in an event there, and my car got towed. in fact, it wasnt even my car, it was a loaner from my mechanic.
i was upset, but i didnt take it out on him, or try to push him around.

he did what he could and i got my car back. didnt know til a lot later how much that bit of respect meant to him. it was the first encounter w a pissed off customer where he felt that his skin color didnt matter.

[Woodwizard]

23. At my last company

I was the designer and prototype builder for an upscale furniture company for 14 years they used a computer swipe system to time tasks. It actually makes sense, we could schedule our production runs knowing how long it takes to make each part. But like everything it can be weaponized.

People on the floor were pushed on speeding production times, I was not production but it bothered me a lot, the last straw was when management put in a swipe for production workers going to the bathroom I left shortly after and went on my own, that was 17 years ago I loved the context of my job just not the Idiots running the show. They went out of business 4 years after I left, I was not at all surprised.

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.

A nice, warm feeling for a Sunday morning that will go well with LOLcats.

[Random Boomer]

26. My wife goes out of her way...

to thank blue-collar workers for their efforts. She comes from a blue-collar family, so she knows how hard they work.

In summer, she'll take bottles of water out to the garbage collectors and we tip them generously every Christmas. But I think it's the fact that she sees them as people, treats them with respect, that matter far more than the money.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

27. I tip people at fast food restaurants including the drive through.

They work just as hard as people in other restaurants. The sad thing is them being surprised. I loath that some restaurants made it so you can't tip if you are paying with a card. I hear some bullshit about it is because they make $15 an hour now.

[Mopar151]

29. A good janitor is a major QOL issue in most companies.

The "good janitors" are usually interesting folks, and are good information sources.