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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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5 years, 5 months ago

the managers told me to put mustard on it

That puts me in good company. According to a 2015 survey of thousands of US fast-food workers by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, 79 percent had been burned on the job in the previous year—most more than once. And not everyone got off as easily as I did.

“My managers kept…

—p.292 On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane Part Three: McDonald’s (237) by Emily Guendelsberger
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5 years, 5 months ago

cutting someone’s hours is a common punishment

I don’t know if it’s crazy-guy germs or just bad luck, but a couple of days later I come down with a nasty cold/flu and have to call out of a few shifts. Candela is less than pleased, but because this is San Francisco, I can call out sick without fear of losing my job. If I’d been working there a l…

—p.287 Part Three: McDonald’s (237) by Emily Guendelsberger
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5 years, 5 months ago

the expectation that the world should be better

The whisper comes from whatever it is inside me that gets angry when things are unfair, and thinks it’s possible to change things for the better. It’s what briefly hijacked my body to scream “HEY, FUCK YOU, LADY!” It’s the part of me that likes to help people, and can be hurt by them. It’s what mak…

—p.284 Part Three: McDonald’s (237) by Emily Guendelsberger
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5 years, 5 months ago

just remove predictability and control from their lives

[...] There’s actually lots of ways to “infect” a rat with depression, though some are more efficient than others. A frequently cited 1992 paper reviewing the best methods concludes that you don’t actually want to traumatize or terrify your rats, like Selye accidentally did. The closest approximati…

—p.281 Part Three: McDonald’s (237) by Emily Guendelsberger
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caring makes you vulnerable

[...] After Mustard Lady, some part of me finally accepts that you need walls between you and the customers to survive here, and I start building them. I still do everything I’m supposed to, of course. I just… stop caring. Caring makes you vulnerable.

It’s actually hard to break the habit at fir…

—p.279 Part Three: McDonald’s (237) by Emily Guendelsberger