Union Busting
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@tiny-ivy A disturbingly accurate depiction of the problems with corporate America. While I have never been a fan of the, building fucking, you did an excellent job!
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@olo
I know. Not subtle!“I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.” - Garth Merenghi
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@tiny-ivy lol I totally didn’t get it.
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@mrgoblinging7 Thank you! That’s so sweet!
(Pardon the following rant.)
This was inspired by a lot.Elon Musk’s twitter shenanigans, the massive media consolidation in the USA that got worse after '96 that effed up the whole industry, a certain reviled media mogul whose name is a lot like Durmoch, and the unionizing that has been happening in US media organizations in the last 5 or so years.
The story also came from an awkward lunchtime conversation I had lately where I found myself talking to two CEO’s, when I thought I was just sitting down to eat pizza and chat with some new employees whom I didn’t recognize yet. (They were wearing jeans and t-shirts, they were stealth! I thought they were just tech guys!) Turns out one of them was the CEO of a company my company had just bought, and my company’s woman CEO came over to join us all. And there I was. Surrounded by people whose lives I couldn’t possibly relate to.
They were friendly enough, but I was so uncomfortable, I made up an excuse about being busy and left before I even finished eating.
I couldn’t stop wondering if the executives were even the same species as me - their financial power was so extreme compared to mine. They could solve any little financial issue I had with a metaphorical flick of a finger. I wondered if they felt a disconnect back towards me - but from the more-powerful side. Was my positioning them as economic giants just in my head? Or was I also a poverty-stricken insect to their view? -
@tiny-ivy Haha I love these social power things in stories. E.g. the poor being shrunk or the rich being giants.
Honestly I doubt they thought about this at all, but it’s hot to think they would
Imagine three immense CEO faces looking down at a whole office of 1 inch workers at minuscule desks, trying to pretend like the enormous breath isn’t washing all the papers away. -
@tiny-ivy I lost my job three months into COVID, and I’ve been temping and interviewing ever since. Eerily like contracting a shrinking plague.
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@olo Ohhh that’s so cute little one. Makes big, bad Amy just want to pick you up and lick you all over and maybe licks lips…
Social power stories are so hot
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@sloppy_amy “Robert Durmoch” is based somewhat on the IRL guy Rupert Murdoch. Robert is a little younger, more charismatic, chubbier, and more American, but what they have in common is their name and their impact on the industry.
(Political opinions coming up, I will not debate this topic with anyone if you disagree with the following statements, If you are irritated by left wing stuff, scroll past this.)
Rupert Murdoch is a (now much older) Australian billionaire in charge of NewsCorp. They own Fox News and many other media outlets around the world including Wall Street Journal and some influential British newspapers. He doesn’t just own news organizations to make money, which is the normal thing in the industry. He’s unique because he also uses his news orgs as mouthpieces to spread his right wing views.
He has been personally responsible for what used to be thought of as extreme, fringe right-wing views being pushed into the mainstream, such as conspiracy theories about COVID, masking, vaccines, and BLM, and, earlier, Obama’s birth certificate. He’s also largely responsible for the increasing mistrust in the news media, since his news sources are more concerned with expressing right wing opinions, and entertaining sensationalism, than in anything like media ethics or factual accuracy.
He actually is responsible for memos that go out to Fox News and his thousands of affiliate stations telling them to approach news stories with specific opinionated talking points. His stations have been sued for lying on the news, and their excuse back in court was that nobody should expect his station “Fox News” to be reporting news, everyone knows that they are just entertainment.
He’s personally eroded journalism in a way that it can probably not recover from until the end of the current informational dark ages. -
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@olo Ooph, I’m so sorry. It’s so shitty to be stuck like that. I hope you find a better long-term fit soon!
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@olo The term Human Resources has always made me tingly
If your HR person giggles when you say it out loud, run! -
@tiny-ivy Thanks. In fact, I got an offer of a permanent position on Thursday. Soon I’ll be back in the office and keeping shrunken co-workers in my drawers again.
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