• @qarbone@lemmy.world
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    242 days ago

    I don’t presume you’ve checked the accumulated downvotes but

    Mcdonalds burger flipper level reasoning

    stinks pretty badly of classist ideology. Paired with a comment that seems more in-tune with the needs of the company than the employee, it does not paint you in a good light.

    I understand the comment is speaking from the capitalist’s side but you don’t have to wear the suit so naturally. Historians won’t be putting on red belly shirts and sticking their heads in honey jars to give talks about Xi Jinpeng in the future.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      -152 days ago

      I don’t care about downvotes. Imagine posting something and looking at the downvotes and thinking “oh golly gosh people don’t like my opinion”.

      I also don’t care whether you think my comment “paints me in a good light”, or that I sound like a capitalist.

      Lemmy users skew pretty hard towards young progressive anti-everything users that pick up these little factoids like “HR is there to protect the company” and rely on them as a prism through which to interpret the world.

      No one who has ever interacted with HR thinks that they are fairy god-mother types you can snitch to and they’ll fire your boss, but they’re part of the context in which most people will spend their entire working lives, and people who understand how to navigate them will do better than those who do not.

      I’ll admit that the “burger flipper level reasoning” is gratuitous. I flipped burgers (but not for macdonalds) 20 years ago. I guess it is classist, but younger me absolutely falls into the “class” that I’m making fun of.

      You’re also welcome to frame me as capitalist because we all are and sadly it’s naive to think you can be anything else. I voted for our socialist party in the recent Australian election. They won the election in a landslide, and while they have some “socialist” policies I suffer no illusions that I continue to reside in a capitalist reality.

      • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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        92 days ago

        Please spare me your strongman, “sticks and stones may break my bones” schtick. I’m not talking about soft shit like that.

        I was addressing you from the standpoint of workshopping potential reasons why your attempt at persuasion was facing pushback (in the form of downvotes). My expectation was that, if you wanted to persuade people to adopt your method of HR interaction, you should package it in a palatable way. You seem to subscribe to the “shit yourself in public, stomp around aggressively, and then try convince people by saying do ya get it yet? you smellin' what I'm steppin' in?” school of communication.

        One thing I will agree with you about is that I was imprecise with my words. I’ve used money, so I am a capitalist. Guess I’ll die. I meant, and should have said, you seem pro-capitalist. But, as we’ve already established, you’re uninterested in looking good.

        • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          -22 days ago

          I’m not trying to persuade anyone, I’m just calling out idiocy as I see it.

          That said, I notice my comments have provoked some discussion about what HR does.

      • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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        02 days ago

        It’s rare I see someone I can block so readily. But even a cursory glance at your profile says we don’t get along.