thirtyknives:manhattanrf:jaylacucu:unashamedly-enthusiastic:loveiseldritch: papprekakinga: Always re
thirtyknives:manhattanrf:jaylacucu:unashamedly-enthusiastic:loveiseldritch: papprekakinga: Always reblog As a former zookeeper we would hear this a lot. “If you don’t study hard you’ll end up cleaning poop for a living.” It’s the one time we’re allowed to go off on the visitors. I once heard my boss rant for five minutes at a lady, in front of her kids, about how he had a Master’s degree, how people literally worked there for free, and how dare she judge people without bothering to know anything about them. Later that day his boss came by and said, roughly, “She told us what happened. Thanks for not throwing anything this time.” I can count on one hand the amount of times I have gone off on people, but employment snobbery gives me the rage. I was showing the new kid how to use the fry scoop at McDonald’s “.. like this, and then just sort of hold it perpendicular and give it one tap..”And the new kid sniggered “isn’t perpendicular a bit of a big word for McDonald’s?”Something in me was just so annoyed by this 16yr old who was learning to work right next to me and somehow felt above us? Fuck that shit. I pointed at the people just on the floor and went off, “she’s a 4th year law student, she’s the primary career for her terminally ill daughter, he raises 100,000 for charity every year, she manages 3 stores and more than £16mil in turnover a year. What the fuck do you do?” He just sort of mumbled “I didn’t know”“you shouldn’t have to know, you’re not better than us. So. You tap it once and then move it here to release…” “I didn’t know.”“You shouldn’t have to know,” yes to all this because workers can be educated and intelligent, but also, even if workers are formally uneducated or dont know big words that doesnt mean they arent equally deserving of respect I have been careful to tell my kids, emphatically, that without the garbage collectors we’d be up to our elbows in garbage. They do important work. The person who cooked your lunch? They fed you, they do important work. The guy that treats the sewerage, that keeps our water clean, they do important work.The do the most important work. The fundamental work. The work without which there is no other work. -- source link
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