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A petty thing to bring up, like a scab would.
Your hostile antagonistic rant makes me doubt that you'd change your attitude for a 25% raise*. Seems like you're just really angry in general and I doubt if I'd even want to work around you anyway so I agree you should stay at home.
I'm extremely antagonistic, yes, especially toward scab motherfuckers that have helped get us into the housing crisis, healthcare crisis, and climate crisis. You're also right that I spit at a 25% raise, 40% motherfucker and then I stop using such harsh words.
Does not equal
I think you're gonna be a toxic person no matter what and I wouldn't want you anywhere near my team with your attitude anyway. Stay the fuck at home.
Scabs can fuck off, and you sound awfully scabby there like you’ve licked a lot of boots to get where you are….
Then please, pretty please, stay the fuck at home too. I knew a bunch of people preferred WFH for practical reasons and to avoid commuting but holy fucking shit I never knew there were so many straight up toxic maliciously antisocial people out there who need three weeks to prepare for any kind of human interaction even if it's just "hey jim take a look at this once in a lifetime situation most people will never see outside of a textbook." This place is horrific, I'm blocking this community and might leave lemmy entirely, holy shit.
You better block a lot more than Lemmy. The workforce is sick of executive boots stomping on our necks. There are good employers out there, I acknowledge that, but they're the exception not the rule from the way corporate America functions. To me they seem as rare as drops of water in the Sahara. Until employers start giving some dignity back to the worker en masse, expect things to get a lot more hostile.
For now it's just nasty language, soon it's going to be molotovs and worse. Eat the rich.
You're in dire need of a xanax. Blocking you and this awful place, what a bunch of lunatics, goddamn.
Lol, tell the UAW strikers they all just need a xanax. It's nothing to be upset about, just their livelihoods and futures are at stake. If only we had xanax back in 1937, or after the Pinkertons shot and killed people for picketing.
Where's the block button again? Oh there it is.
Your point is completely moot unless they talk like this at work, and you'd be surprised how well the angriest and unhappiest employees can fake everything being okay. It's an expectation when you're hired after all -- do whatever management says with a smile. Well, you'll get a smile, but you aren't going to control the thoughts behind it.
Besides, I don't terribly like the idea of being paid to comply and fall in line like a good little drone. I value my self worth and dignity at better than a +25% raise. You should too.
Otherwise, I'll give you +27% to apologize to everyone you've insulted and then put a sock in it.
They probably aren't walking around dropping F bombs everywhere but attitude problems like this tend to stand out in my experience.