Cat HicksI can't tell you all what to do with this whole thing you've built here but I CAN teach you to understand it and in my experience that really defangs it
Cat HicksKnowledge workers having a good time and treating each other kindly and being inclusive about the future is actually so profoundly terrifying to the machine that they have to construct the most elaborate mental prison possible to convince you you can't be that way
Cat HicksThey are working against your own psychology but they're doing a good job at it! They're exploiting the parts of you that respond to threat, and they're dangling always conditional belonging in front of you to convince you that you have to cling to groups and leaders and Technical Superstars that you secretly hate looking up to. The only way past this is seeing through it.
Jenniferplusplus@grimalkina@mastodon.social They are so afraid of us, and I wish I could get more of my peers to recognize the power in that
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Indeed
Irenes (many)@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social oh definitely. executives are scared of even the tiniest hint of labor solidarity, for example.
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Scott Francis@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social doing what I can in all my interactions to prioritize and model valuing mental health (telling people โplease do not work on this today, you're supposed to be on PTOโ, โit's ok you missed that recurring sync call because you were taking a walk and getting your head togetherโ, "please go ahead and log off for the weekend, this will be here when you get backโ, โif you're going to take PTO I expect to not hear from you at all until you're backโ, etc.).
The systems in which we operate, and the outcomes they optimize for, incentivize all the wrong behaviors, and it's very pernicious.
Irenes (many)@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social agreed. we also do stuff like that ("please don't respond until Monday, you should have boundaries", etc)
Scott Francis@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social doing what I can in all my interactions to prioritize and model valuing mental health (telling people โplease do not work on this today, you're supposed to be on PTOโ, โit's ok you missed that recurring sync call because you were taking a walk and getting your head togetherโ, "please go ahead and log off for the weekend, this will be here when you get backโ, โif you're going to take PTO I expect to not hear from you at all until you're backโ, etc.).
The systems in which we operate, and the outcomes they optimize for, incentivize all the wrong behaviors, and it's very pernicious.
Irenes (many)@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social agreed. we also do stuff like that ("please don't respond until Monday, you should have boundaries", etc)
Irenes (many)@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social agreed. we also do stuff like that ("please don't respond until Monday, you should have boundaries", etc)
Irenes (many)@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social agreed. we also do stuff like that ("please don't respond until Monday, you should have boundaries", etc)