• cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    The government is legally authorized to separate you from your possessions, your freedom, and even your life in extremis. Your boss can’t do any of that and if they try the government should stop them.

    there was just a work email put out where I work about how employees shouldn’t be going to the bathroom super often and if they are in the bathroom they should only be doing bathroom things.

    I can’t report them for that but it is fucking extreme and dehumanizing. To be policed in the bathroom. Because company time is more important than bodily functions. Or whatever other reason someone might be in the bathroom.

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      1 year ago

      I get this sucks but you can quit your job and walk away from your employer, theoretically.

      If the government decides to separate you from your possessions, your freedom, or your life, you can’t walk away from it and find a new government.

      Your boss and your government are just totally different.

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        1 year ago

        I get this sucks but you can quit your job and walk away from your employer, theoretically.

        Yeah and be homeless.

        And I don’t participate in government shit unless I have to like taxes cause they’ll come for me if I don’t pay for them kind of thing.

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          1 year ago

          I mean that’s the difference right there, right? If you quit your job, you’re homeless. If you don’t pay taxes, you’re arrested.

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            1 year ago

            Homelessness is almost always illegal either directly or indirectly through loitering laws, hostile architecture, bans against begging etc… Also, they almost always have zero protection from criminal behaviour directed at them (from either other citizens or the police themselves). Thinking there is legal room for being homeless is a pretty ignorant take no matter where you are from.