• PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    My grandfather tells me stories about how the factory he worked for, they would just straight-up take a half-day off on Fridays to drink with the manager on a picnic bench. Don’t imagine that was common, per se, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a corporation that wouldn’t sniff that out today and crush it for the sake of ‘productivity’. The increased influence and omniscience of the investor class, even over the capitalism-happy 60s and 70s, is… stark.

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      1 year ago

      My last job had worldwide virtual happy hours on Fridays. It was a Fortune 100 company very much beholden to investors