The main problem with sorting “essential/nonessential” is; how do you convince anybody to work if you eliminate all “nonessential” jobs?

This is how I feel about being an essential worker:

I mean, I was thinking more of the various places where I’ve had to work overtime to write up a bunch of reports for an administrator who got paid 3x as much as I did, but also clearly never did anything with the reports. (And whose entire job was making sure other people wrote reports that they just... filed?)

We’ve flipped the compensation/necessity scale

There definitely seems to be a dichotomy between people who had time to have these grand epiphanies about work and people who have just had to buckle down and log more hours at the grocery store (or wherever) because all their coworkers are falling sick.

There is work that needs to get done, but frequently the work that actually needs to get done isn’t the work that’s well compensated. We’ve flipped the compensation/necessity scale, which leaves the people doing important work poorly compensated and burnt out.

This mindset is so insidious - “be grateful we bestow employment upon you” and the weird sense of loyalty to a singular company (is this regional? This ‘anti job-hopper’ thing is a fairly common mindset in the midwest).

My dad worked for one company essentially his whole life and retired with a pension. Both of those things are inconceivable these days. He could NOT understand my life when I was a freelancer (“so... you don’t have a job?” “yes, I do, I actually have 4 of them...”) or my job hopping (“if you had stayed at XYZ, you’d…

I was raised to believe that if you weren’t in school or at work, you were lazy. My parents (Depression-era, born and raised in poverty) never took sick leave even when they were sick. I was in the hospital as a kid, and they still went to work. They missed every school play, recital, spelling bee, science, fair,…

I’ll be that asshole: a lot of the work you described and workers you interviewed seem to be too many degrees of separation from the essential products.

Very true. It reminds me of the US veteran Black doctor who was thrown under the bus when he derided politicians and spoke up for health care workers suffering because of the lack of direction from hospitals administrators and got “suspended”. This is simply profits over people. 

Hospital administrators are rarely on the same team as the physicians. You will note that this man is an MBA, and not an MD, and his focus is more likely to be on synergy and other business bullshit rather than providing actual care to people

How many times have we heard that from bigots, that they felt “intimidated” or “scared” by the people they are victimising? It is just another bullshit piece of blame evading by bigots when they are caught doing the nasty to someone. Like a Karen bursting into tears when the cops slap the bracelets on them.

Yep, and he did what it takes to preserve the hospital. If I recall, the doctors and possibly the nurses don’t always work for the hospital. So by throwing them under the bus, they can claim no fault. Total bitch move though/

Hooo boy, where to start...

Yes his message does not sound the way he thinks it sounds at all. It comes across as victim blaming. How dare she advocate for herself to be treated equally. 

Not only did Dennis Murphy throw his own staff under the bus and accused them of being too “intimidated” to save a life, he made the entire hospital look incompetent and racist.
He’s the president and CEO of IU health systems.
He’s not a leader, he’s a punk ass slimy bitch too worried about litigation versus admitting…

As I mentioned to another commenter, I think maybe I’m just a little sensitive to the whole Cruise craziness thing and that his rant was really all about him and not the crew.

I hear you and appreciate the background you provide.

Whatever Cruise’s intentions were with his screaming fit, nothing he does— good or bad — changes the fact that he is a main player in the cult/pyramid scheme bullshit abuse-factory called scientology. He supports hideous, sick systemic cruelty, and he does everything in his power to hide its crimes from the public. He…