John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, recently posted the following on Facebook:
I was sitting in a Wendy’s one day and the manager was interviewing a young man who had applied for a job. She asked him, “What special qualities do you have that would make you an exceptional member of the Wendy’s team?”A reluctant preference for performing low paid repetitive tasks under pressure over facing outright destitution? That would probably be the wrong answer.
Of course, schools and other social institutions never teach you this–nor for that matter do many so-called Marxists it seems since they rarely try to discuss such obvious experiences of members of the working class with workers and how degrading it is to appear to be interested in being hired for a particular employer whereas the reality is the need to be hired at all.
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