BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoWhoever invented the eight hour five day work week is Satan.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up11.04K
arrow-up11.04KimageWhoever invented the eight hour five day work week is Satan.lemmy.worldBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-squareBombastionlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoI was actively taught in high school that “unions were nice, but not necessary any more, they get in the way of all our very cool free trade!” Obviously, my thinking on that has changed a whole lot, but both my partner and I got fed that kind of rhetoric straight out of text books.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoI’m guessing teacher unions weren’t a thing where you were raised.
I was actively taught in high school that “unions were nice, but not necessary any more, they get in the way of all our very cool free trade!”
Obviously, my thinking on that has changed a whole lot, but both my partner and I got fed that kind of rhetoric straight out of text books.
I’m guessing teacher unions weren’t a thing where you were raised.