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You’re a rockstar and should join our team. We’re looking for amazing talent.

What no we can’t pay much but you’d be a rockstar!!

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You are gonna be exploited like rockstars are exploited by record companies!

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they said they want a rockstar but can’t tolerate my alcoholism smh 🤦

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“Oh sweet you’re looking for a rockstar? Great” I say as I get out my baggie and start laying lines on the conference table in the interview room. “When can I start”

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my guess is the glorification of big money hollywood makes HR people want to pretend to be talent agents instead of just (probably underpaid) cogs hiring other underpaid cogs using deceptive methods

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At my workplace (and a few other places I’ve worked) workers are called “resources” and it makes me want to pull my hair out every time I hear it

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Calling workers resources or talent satisfies the same purpose, which is to dehumanize workers and remove the expectation of necessarily receiving benefits (at my workplace, contractors are referred to as resources).

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My favorite part is when they call them resources, but then when I suggest that the reason they can t get workers is because of basic supply and demand (basically, you gotta pay more) suddenly all kinds of justifications come up.

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because the real commodity under capitalism isn’t labor, it is labor power: the capacity to produce, the latent possibility :curious-marx:

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W*rkers

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I prefer the term, ‘person of no means’

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Talent of the world unite

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