Comments by steviegb

Between the long-term downward trend in real wages for most workers and service providers, and a long and brutal recession with not much improvement in sight, a whole lot of people across the employment spectrum - from IT specialists to strippers to freakin’ librarians and elementary school teachers (believe me, I know) - are under immense pressure at work right now to do things and submit to changes that they might not have submitted to otherwise, just to forestall losing their jobs or seeing any more of their wages or income cut. I try not to judge the ones who say, “I’ll do what I need to do,” and I also try not to judge the ones who say, “Fuck no, that’s not for me.”