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So, I work for a company at an airport that is soon to go on strike, and whilst looking at the opinions of others in the comments section, I feel compelled to respond, as a person who has knowledge of the situation. I want to tell them that the strike action doesn't feel political, that we've been bumped down to the lowest paying company in doing what we do, that our management received big bonuses, whilst we receive nothing and our pay-rise offer won't even match inflation, at a time when prices are spiralling upwards, travel goes up, food, rent, council tax, fuel, energy etc. I'd like to post that I think that the workers have the right to go on strike, but I don't want to ruffle managements feathers (as I believe that if I'm unhappy with my job, I'd rather find another), so I probably won't. I also believe that my company started to struggle before the pandemic began, due to other companies taking major flights.
However, I want to do this anonymously and not under my real name, which is proving to be something of a roadblock. I want to do this anonymously because I don't want to be singled out by management or accused of gross misconduct for bringing the company into disrepute.
In addition, I have posted a lot of personal, often embarrassing things here in the Mayberry, for therapeutic reasons mainly. I post things here that I wouldn't tell anybody else in the real world and I'm either laughed at for it, or I receive good advice or at least comforting replies. There is something freeing about being completely honest on here, and even though trolling dickheads should be held to account and put off, it isn't worth sacrificing the freedom that posting anonymously brings.
Or maybe it's deliberate? Maybe the powers that be do not want people being honest? Maybe it's a form of censorship for everybody but the financially unconnected, the brave and the foolish?
I'll post another thing anonymously. I believe that life for the working class where I am is going to become a hell of a lot harder, whilst empathy for people like us will continue to dwindle into nothing. I intend to make 2022 a better year for myself, and that will require a lot of change, but I am unsure whether or not it'll bring me any happiness or even dignity and respect. I consider the pre-pandemic era to be something of an invisible line, before and after, the year before the pandemic representing the end of something of a golden era, whilst we are now about to spiral into decreased quality of living and lack of freedom for most of us. I have lost a lot of my life due to fear and anxiety, yet I genuinely do fear for the future.
However, I want to do this anonymously and not under my real name, which is proving to be something of a roadblock. I want to do this anonymously because I don't want to be singled out by management or accused of gross misconduct for bringing the company into disrepute.
In addition, I have posted a lot of personal, often embarrassing things here in the Mayberry, for therapeutic reasons mainly. I post things here that I wouldn't tell anybody else in the real world and I'm either laughed at for it, or I receive good advice or at least comforting replies. There is something freeing about being completely honest on here, and even though trolling dickheads should be held to account and put off, it isn't worth sacrificing the freedom that posting anonymously brings.
Or maybe it's deliberate? Maybe the powers that be do not want people being honest? Maybe it's a form of censorship for everybody but the financially unconnected, the brave and the foolish?
I'll post another thing anonymously. I believe that life for the working class where I am is going to become a hell of a lot harder, whilst empathy for people like us will continue to dwindle into nothing. I intend to make 2022 a better year for myself, and that will require a lot of change, but I am unsure whether or not it'll bring me any happiness or even dignity and respect. I consider the pre-pandemic era to be something of an invisible line, before and after, the year before the pandemic representing the end of something of a golden era, whilst we are now about to spiral into decreased quality of living and lack of freedom for most of us. I have lost a lot of my life due to fear and anxiety, yet I genuinely do fear for the future.
