I've possibly mentioned it here a time or two before, I hav moderate emphysema, and moderate asthma. As such I am in the elevated risk group so I get vaccinated when needed.
Yesterday was a couple of vaccinations, pneumonia, flu, COVID booster and second round of hep A/B vaccine (occupational exposure hazard of plumbing).
This morning I was handing over my doctors excuse. Typically I don't give information when I visit a doctor- here's my excuse go fuck yourself please. For some reason I told the office manager why I went - vaccinations, blood work, and a referral for my twice yearly endoscopy.
You'd have though I told her I kick puppies and steal old folks disability checks, the fucking look she gave me.
She started out with this 'have you done your research...' bullshit, so I asked her why her medical degrees weren't hanging up if she knew better than medical professionals and left for my first service call. Then, I got to listen to my 17 year old apprentice (the owners dipshit son) explain to me how I really need to do some research and I'd probably change my opinion because I'm smart and I just need to be shown the right info, and that the other guys at the shop agreed about vaccinations. He then tried explaining to me that his grandpa who died last year of complications from esophageal cancer was really complications from the covid booster two years later.
Told him I'm dropping him with his daddy because we can't justify the labor for an apprentice and a plumber for the service calls I had lined up today.
Ain't fucking doing it anymore. I'm sixteen hours into overtime already and I'm paid double time so I'm not fucking this week up. I will finish my week at one shop and I will have another job by Friday this week if worse comes to it.
I'm not arguing with assholes anymore in the year of our lord twenty twenty five.
How was y'all's day?
100%. I felt like I understood that before, but seeing it in person really made me get it. It ranges from people who are reactionaries except for being pro-union, to people who constantly talk shit about the union even though they're dues-paying members. I guess it's all really just different levels of self-justification from people who are just in it for the better pay and benefits. I really need to go back and read Settlers all the way through lol
I've been plumbing a long fucking time and I have never met a more generally CHUD-like group of people who are disturbingly anti-union.
I mean it's almost like tradesmen are good with their hands but don't possess much in the way of critical thought or solidarity for their fellow working class.
I told someone 'show a little solidarity' a month or two back when it was a management vs one of my coworkers and the guy responded with 'fuck that'
It's honestly disappointing. I enjoy what I do, but I would never associate with the majority of the people I work with outside of work. I have met some good people though. I know at least two other communists, including one I met through organizing before I even started the job, as well as several other leftists of different kinds. but for every one of them there's 100 chuds. I've been to meetings where I'm talking to a communist, and someone with a three percenter decal on their truck drives by to park in the same lot
Nah it’s all like that. Most tradies are shit people (just like office folks and the rest of humanity) that just happen to have a little more work ethic, skill, and the intelligence to use them.
I support the highest paid union in my district, higher than teamsters, longshoremen, and stevedores, and for every 3 earnest good folk, there’s 10 asshole drama queen privileged trouble causing Trump supporting losers.
People with active restraining orders from their baby momma, that get apprentices horrifically injured and weasel out of accountability, waste hours making the office explain that their own fuckups are in fact not according to company and union procedure, fuck an entire job site by running new mechanics out of town that were just trying to put down roots (in the same union), etc.
They’re just people. And this is why a vanguard is needed to educate them. Frankly some of the rhetoric I see makes me wonder how looped in to reality some folks are, as if these people that struggle against their own interests would ever spontaneously assist the glorious revolution.