“It’s just been a slow come up to this point. Black Panther is huge, and while we celebrate, I think it’s very important to emphasize that we also need more powerful positions behind the scenes. We need more executives, showrunners, writers, directors, getting our Black women in there, specifically. When I say Black women, I mean our brown-skinned Black women, because colorism has become an issue as well, and we need to tackle all of these things. I just think it’s very important for us to represent the world how we see it.”
Amazon is the fucking evil megacorporation from every near-future cyberpunk story they have warehouses full of wage slaves that can’t even take a piss or fall behind their ridiculous expectations without getting fired on the spot while their CEO is nearing trillionare status day by day while quite literally making local governments pay them to determine which city they install their next slave warehouse in and now their wiretap HAL 9000 bots that are in millions of houses all over the country are doing evil laughs and reading off names of cemeteries and funeral homes completely unprompted I know anger at amazon in general is very outrage-of-the-day basic entry level american leftist reaction but Jesus fucking Christ people
Another thing that just fucking rankles me about amazon is they offer 2 day shipping, then hand the job off to the United States postal service to complete the delivery, overloading their work force and underpaying the carriers to boot.
USPS gets paid per package delivered fee, which is flat, and Amazon does not have to submit to a weight limit for packages, unlike every other shipper.
USPS gets the raw end of the deal and bozo is a billionaire
? I mean I hate Amazon but I use Priority Mail flat rate boxes to ship my heavy Etsy items for a reason. If it fits, it ships, regardless of weight or destination, domestic, in 2 days. They don’t have weight limits.
I’m assuming you mean Amazon gets a different set of rates for that but I can’t find it. My Google skills must be lacking tonight.
amazon gives USPS a flat rate per package, regardless of size, or weight of said package. while USPS flat rate boxes only come in set sizes.
Thank you! I couldn’t find it via Google and I appreciate you explaining it to me.
And yeah, I knew about the Sunday deliveries.
yeah the way that usps has decided to handle this is a nightmare, in my area at least they’re hiring a TON of non-union workers, which means
1: paid less
2: worse hours (often more than 8 hours a day, and when i went to the interview one of the postmasters- thinking he was bragging about his best assistant carrier- said something like “one of my guys just did 29 days in a row without a day off”)
3: no/minimal vacation- NO work flexibility, like the impression i got at the interview was “dont ask for a day off because you might get fired”
4: its one of those jobs where you think you’re going home at 530 and then at 515 they ask you to do one more route and all of a sudden you’re there until 8
5: on call just in case a union carrier has to take a day off or cannot complete a route (due mostly to being too old to do that job but unable to retire yet)
6: the carrier assistants are also the ones who get to work sundays because, i quote, “we cant do that to the union guys”
7: if i remember right you get laid off after a year and have to reapply??? its something like that. and then on your second year THEN you can pay for your own healthcare through the company.
anyway the biggest thing i took away from my time on the dock at USPS and my application to be a carrier is that the non-union USPS workers and the amazon warehouse workers should ABSOLUTELY go on strike together and not return to work until workers at both companies are treated well.
So I’m a phlebotomist. And sometimes, I work at a site that is directly adjacent to an endocrinologist. Which means I see and take blood from a lot of folks that are trans, or nonbinary, or gender nonconforming.
Do you have any fucking idea how easy it is, in customer-service speak, to respect someone’s gender?
I mean, I’ve had super awkward situations where I have to say things like ‘I’m sorry, that name isn’t coming up in our system. Is there another name…“ And without fail they provide their deadname and I plug it in and I say ‘Ok, that came up, do you want me to fix that in our system?” And they say ‘Yes’ and then I ADD IT AS A SYNOMYMOUS NAME. Same as I would for someone recently married or divorced. The end.
I have never experienced a situation in which I have felt motivated to ask someone’s pronouns.
I have had situations in which I have thought to myself ‘I have no idea if this person is ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ and instead have gone ‘Next patient please?’ or ‘I can help who’s next’ or ‘I can help you now’ while looking directly at them.
I have had situations where I’ve gone ‘I’m like 90% certain that I’ve been given a record with this person’s deadname because this name does not match at all the gender presentation of the person I’m looking at’ And I say ‘Ok, can you spell your last name for me? Ok, spell your first name? And your date of birth?’
and then I quietly write ‘preferred name [the name they just spelled] on the top of thier record.
THIS IS NOT HARD.
And if this is not hard for me, as a person working in medicine who has to make certain that the person I’m talking to is the same person on the medical record that I’m looking up, how much easier must it be for, say, a barista who doesn’t give half a fuck who you are? I’ve BEEN a barista in the past. If a Barista is asking your pronouns, that person is an asshole.
International Working Women’s Day was started by the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a wave of spontaneous strikes by first- and second-generation Jewish, Russian, and Italian immigrant teenage girls (as in like, they were 16 years old) in the textile mills of New York City. This was the “Uprising of 20,000” and was one of the most infectious displays of labor militancy in the 20th century. A couple years later Clara Zeitkin, a German Marxist who would be arrested several times for helping to incite the 1919 communist revolution in Germany, brought it to the floor of the Second International and the first Women’s Day celebrations in Europe were held by communist parties and communist women.
This isn’t even like “oh yeah well maybe it kinda had the phrase ‘working women’ in there originally.” It was started by socialists to commemorate daring strike actions led by newly-immigrated teenage girls and then formalized by the international communist movement. Fuck the UN’s tepid IWD celebrations.
^^^ +10,000 for the Historical Background Commentary!
This just reminds me of the college history class I took that emphasized that even as far back as the pre-industrial period, when women were organizing for their rights, that different groups of women disputed what women’s rights (in life, in work, in everything) really meant and who they really represented. The working woman, the middle-class woman, or the rich/high society woman, all have different ideas on what “rights” they have and need.
break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared
fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)
blunette is not a thing
new speaker, new paragraph. please.
“said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it
use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.
if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read
follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs
your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it
funeral-biscuit 