Daryl Basarab

The classic quote about GWB is that the American people would rather someone be strong and wrong than wobbly but correct.
And I see that a lot in corporate America. Some big shot tough guy comes in and demands other people get fired and gets his way. And the guy turns out to be a flaming idiot, making scapegoats out of people who have background issues but are good day to day working employees.

This is not directed to my current employer.

If employers stopped trying to dig so much into peoples’ backgrounds, it would be a win for workers, because a person who is being mistreated could say they’re going to find a new job and the threat would be credible.

But with our overactive tech and HR society, that’s a conspiracy against workers.

What Harvey Weinstein did was possible because of people who think others can’t go anywhere else. we need to change that. Workers need to have options. Even people who are politically active and involved in politics.

Technology has been used to create a collusion agreement to look for reasons to prevent people from making the lateral moves they need to both be paid and treated correctly. It has to stop. The Unabomber predicted this dead on, that Technology would be abused instead of used.

Just like Andrew Yang’s thing is automation and Bernie’s thing is the trickle up economics, my “thing” is going to be thought policing. We’re seeing a rising trend of employers looking to prove how righteous they are by policing the private opinions of employees.

California and New York have laws to deal with thought policing. California defends “legal, off the job activities” from termination re employment. New York defends “political ideology.” Pennsylvania, and then USA, should have both of these laws with me playing a role in the movement.

Your jurisdiction to monitor employees should end at the office, except in cases of illegality, direct slander to the brand name or use of poor language that is directly done in the name of the brand name (for instance using the n word and then having it reflect back on the brand).

The truth is that processes and policies don’t make a good programmer. Red tape terms like waterfall and agile don’t make a good programmer. A good programmer comes to you, you don’t make a good programmer.

I think this hurts the egos of some people. The fact that the “coach” can only guide, he can’t essentially program the programmer and therefore has to step down off the block he stands on and give credit to someone else.  This is especially true with the older baby boomer generation, which is known for being selfish.

What’s happening to music today, with the decline of the more musically skilled musician and rise of the boy band / girl band / pop stuff, is also happening in other forms of work. The technically skilled person is being moved out of the way for the person who brown noses.

I agree with the observation that when it comes to oppressed people, when they’re told that things will get better, but they just have to wait, it usually never happens. It doesn’t happen until people say they aren’t going to take it anymore and they basically declare war.

And it’s about class this time, not race.

If you asked the average person “Is life fair” they would likely concede “no.” But I feel that many people don’t deeply in their bones realize that life isn’t fair and sort of just say the slogan.

Especially people who have just graduated from college, who have had a gravy train baby boomer career with no injustices done to them or no real road blocks or who are conceited.

You have to be willing to fight against a world that isn’t on your side. That’s the harsh reality. You can’t expect people to be in your corner and you have to expect that people will do things to hold you down.

There’s no evidence that I use my employers as a platform to advance my politics. It’s a complete lie. And a form of reverse political discrimination, where I’m the one keeping my politics out of the office and others are the ones who can’t keep it out.

This is just calling a spade a spade. I’ve done nothing but shown up to the office to work and if you asked THE RIGHT people that would be verified.

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Join this cause if you believe employers are reverse discriminating against whites (and other Americans) in tech.

This is concerted activity and it puts me in a protected category. Be aware that it as illegal to fire me for this as it is to fire me for being a different religion or a different race. Be aware that nation wide, concerted labor activity is protected. Political activity is protected in California and New York.

I want to work either with or for someone who is anti-establishment and knows what it’s like to be screwed. I don’t want to work with people who have just road a gravy train their whole life with no struggle. Someone who gets that asking people why they aren’t making this much money, why this or that job ended involuntarily, why this or that didn’t work, is a lot like asking a professional wrestler why he lost yesterday. (answer, it was scripted).