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a thread for salting, becoming a salt




You just went from working a solid career-type job to working retail or fast food again? Become a salt. Recession compression creates ideal salting conditions–downward mobility, employer arrogance, worker bitterness. Embed without announcing. Become dependable, a communist should be the hardest working man in the shop, stay observant, find the cracks, then slow corrosive. Learn the workplace rhythms, identify informal leaders, exploit management contradictions. Never preach–weaponize the material conditions and shared misery. Reinforce that exploitation isn't personal, it's structural. Organize under cover of small talk. Normalize resistance. You're not radical–you're just the one who says what everyone’s already thinking.

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https://industrialworker.org/salt-is-back-on-the-table/
For those unfamiliar, salting is when workers seek employment for the purposes of kick-starting an organizing campaign, or to assist an organizing campaign already in motion. Salting can come in a variety of various strategies, depending on what organizing looks like in a specific shop or what the conditions are like in a specific industry.


https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-salting-organizing-tactic

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>>994
Not to sound mean but too many people always assume that homeless people were innocent victims of betrayal by friends and family.
Truth is, a lot of them fucked up their own lives.
I talk to some and they had it better in their beginning than we would ever have in their whole lives.

>>973
Literally just conservative talking points. If we need people doing a job then it needs to be paid enough to live on. If you disagree, you want people doing necessary work to have unlivable conditions.

>>1032
But why should we have so many people making a livelihood in service jobs like that while more essential jobs like nursing, manufacturing, construction, trucking, etc are left lacking in manpower?

What would be some crucial jobs to salt? I fucking hate my current job.

>>1064
The ones that are important to salt are often dogshit



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you ever wondered how do giant cranes suddenly get built overnight and you never notice them appearing until they're in place?
anyway making a new general for work in here, thread for all work Know-how, share all the unkown skills you know that are related to your work but most people don't know about/could use knowing

labour intensive work (how to hammer a nail, how to screw a bolt), shitty office work (how to multitask, how to avoid choking your boss, how to spread rumors about a cunt from Human Resources), food work (what we put in your sandwich behind the kitchen, how to mop the floor efficently, how to built tolerance against the smell of bathrooms) trades or STEM (how to argue online your profession is the best using mental gymansium) even sex work (how to suck cocks, how to fuck people in the ass, what to do when he's a shy virgin and he's annoying)

>inb4 i'm neet anti-worker

then share with us what you do to feel the best, how to tie a blanket around your shoulder like the pepe neet, how to get high at home no money paid, how to forge a katana, how to speedrun a game or a book, how to decorate your house in a way that don't make you feel like a miserable wagie
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Anybody do wastewater or drinking water? Or if not and you have a problem with your septic tank or whatever I will try to help. I used to feel like a loser when I was still a meritocratic lib starting out working in poo water but I love this shit now.

You know I was thinking, not only are we not salting workplaces, we're not even helping fellow leftists get jobs. I think that's the best mutual aid you can do is help get a fellow leftist a job or a better job. We should have networks getting our people into good gigs.

>>821
good idea. rightoids and stormfags do this all the time.

is it betraying humanity and earth, to seek employment in oil-offshore plants, or mining sectors, namely as specialised truck\crane operator, or, as any other sort of qualified technician?

>>1045
That's an individualist vision of the world. Capitalism won't survive because you go in the banking sector. Climate change won't get worse because you work for an oil company.
What matters is the action of collective subjects.



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I want do individual entrepreneurship playing music for money, what is the most effective instrument to get the most money in street busking *(without singing)?
I'm thinking accordion, bagpipes, guitar or violin.
>You are petite-bourgeoisie Hitler
Yes I am freikorps, I killed Rosa Luxemburg, I killed Karl Liebknecht, I was Hitler I killed myself.
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>>1041
They don't allow people to sit and its always schizophrenic managers or asshole colleagues. It's all too fast paced to be enjoyable.

>>1049
Fair point. But you get easy money and they always rehire

>>1050
They get actual chump change where I live, its so fucking miserable, the working conditions are awful and the pay is so shit its compareable to a street sweeper. I did 2 months at mcdonalds, NEVER AGAIN.

>>1051
This is why general schooling should be mainly vocational, especially in poor areas.
Once you graduate, you get free waivers to good colleges.

>>971
OP what is the point of this thread? Do you even play an instrument already lol? The best way to get a living as a musician and something even people who went to Berkely or Juliard do is to play weddings and etc. But like I just pointed out, these are top tier musicians working for basically chump change in the first place. You're not going to make a living busking especially if you're not already like some master musician.



 

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Nietzsche

Pain is not our enemy. Pain is a forge. It is in the fire of suffering that the raw metal of the self is shaped, sharpened, and refined. Nietzsche understood this deeply: pain is not merely to be endured — it is to be integrated, even chosen.

When suffering is uncontrolled, it breaks us. But when it is deliberately embraced, structured, and endured with discipline, it becomes a weapon. A form of inner architecture. The man who endures controlled pain becomes the master of the terrain — because he has already confronted the worst within himself.

And in this mastery lies true power:

The world can no longer surprise you, because you have chosen to confront discomfort before it chooses you.

But in today’s world, that power is rare. Frédéric Martel, in his critique of mainstream culture, reveals how global entertainment has become a system of soft domination — manufacturing consent, diluting thought, and replacing confrontation with distraction. Pleasure is mass-produced. Conflict is aestheticized. Pain is avoided at all costs.

In such a world, the people are not merely entertained — they are dulled, made passive, trained to reject anything that demands effort or tension.

This is where controlled discipline becomes the last bastion of freedom. It is resistance. It is the refusal to be softened into conformity. By embracing pain as a method — not a punishment — the disciplined individual creates a gap between himself and the system. A space of lucidity. Of sovereignty.
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cool self help

I’ll set that aside and return to my point: as Blaise Pascal showed with his notion of divertissement, people habitually flee from deeper questions by drowning themselves in endless distractions—but in our society, where distraction is commodified, Pascal’s diagnosis no longer helps us resist it. We can also invoke Kant’s critique of the heteronomy of thought, which warns that our minds too often submit to external pressures rather than exercise genuine, autonomous judgment.

Oh boy another machismo post that glorifies suffering and thinks any form of leisure/pleasure is "muh bad".

Suffering is universal. Suffering is easy.

People who wrote or believe shit like OP are often those who never actually had to suffer or they don't have any constructive form of work

>>1036
>Blaise Pascal showed with his notion of divertissement, people habitually flee from deeper questions by drowning themselves in endless distractions


If this were true, why do we have so many books, movies, audio logs, etc of religion, politics, and socio biological equality?

People are less educated about natural science and basic mechanics than they are about basic theology and politics.



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Neo-Job Finding Be like:
>High-Grandeur Doctorate Schaeffer Degree in Fancy-Schmancy
>5 years of experience in a similar field (optional, even though its not XD)
>Certificate of courses in Fancy-Schmancy levels AC30 (minimum)
>English certificates (even if you're proficient, cough up money for courses, useless lessons and taking tests for least a few months of your life)
>Driver's license (ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY)
>CV/portfolio
>Dicksucking loyalty to customers (you MVST be VERY SOCIAL AND LOVE ZE CUSTOMERS)
>Handling finances, personal information, anything that can get you sued for slight misconduct (YOU MVST BE GOOD AT QUICK MATHS)
>Computer proficiency (Expert at word, excel, foxit, WPS office, Abaqus FEA Software, Google Ads и Meta Ads Manager and all these awful program things with awful interfaces)
>Ability to stand and bend and crouch 12 hours (NO SITTING ALLOWED!)
>Flexible time (whenever you can have the bravery to BEG the manager for a DAY OFF so they can SIGH at you and treat you like THE FILTHY TRASH YOU ARE, LITTLE WAGIE, YOU MVST BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR COWORKERS WHO WILL HAVE TO WORK HARDER BECAUSE OF YOU, THINK ABOUT THE SHIFT SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE!)
>Able to take responsibility for projects worked under set deadlines and copes well working with short time frames;
>CV/portfolio
>Teambuilding events, be prepared to meet your dandruff coworkers off work
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>that one job thats perfect for you, 50 cities away
>CV/portfolio

Its so over

>>1053
Good job doing all that, too bad an algorithm filtered out your application (before it ever saw human eyes) because your last name starts with the letter J.
Oh, you got past the algorithm somehow? That's cute, the HR manager got bad vibes.
Survived the vibes? Time for 5 interviews in a row.
Just kidding, the job was never real, they were just pretending to be hiring to get tax cuts.

pay: $10.15/hr



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>Prices keep going up
>wages the same

wtf is this shit, how are retarded wagies putting up with this. All of these tariffs and inflation headlines are just an excuse for porky to keep raising prices and theyve been doing it nonstop. I can barely afford food now, nothin is less than 20$ at a store now. Is it ever gonna end or are people not realizing how much more the 'middle class' is being wagewhipped

>Prices keep going up
🤓 Ah, but prices are not active. Prices don't move, Prices are moved. People who set prices are making the decisions to raise them.
>how are retarded wagies putting up with this
I don't want to exaggerate the importance of this, but surely a part of it is talking about price changes like planets doing their thing in the sky :P



 

Should truckchuds just be replaced by AI driverless trucks? They voted for this
<when the """""union""""" rep says he isn't anti-corporation or whatever
How much more classcucked can you get?

union leaders today arent even proletarian themselves so this is not a surprise

>>998
>Should truckchuds just be replaced by AI driverless trucks?
Absolutely but so should all white collar and artist faggots. There is nothing worse in this world than wasted labor.

in latam truckers are vastly considered right wing traitors and tools of the bourgeois state, is this the same case in developed nations?

>>998
>it's another "these people in said blue collar profession don't deserve to exist because they don't share my leftist values" thread

>>1000
I only agree with the last sentence.
Wasted labor is a massive sink.
It's a shame people are too busy wringing their hands over bohemian recreational work being "ruined by AI".

Yes



 

A thread for resources on organizing.
>Guides
>Practical Tips for irl
>Old classics & newer stuff
Personal experience also very cool
</edu/?
Yeah, but this thread is ideally more specific and focused.

Anyway, add 'em if you got them.


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>>638
There is still much about physics we don't know about
We only just began discovery of the subatomic realm. And political/economic systems aren't even agreed upon by their mere definition.

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>>639
It’s true that there’s still much we don’t know about the subatomic world. But that uncertainty doesn’t disprove dialectical materialism. The real question isn’t whether science uncovers new phenomena—it’s whether those discoveries materially affect human productive activity and social relations.Take Carbon-14: its radioactive decay had no bearing on human life for most of history. It only became socially relevant once humans discovered it and integrated it into scientific labor—radiocarbon dating. It crossed from the natural domain into the social.Subatomic and quantum physics may eventually follow suit—quantum computing, for example, could restructure parts of our economy. But until such breakthroughs shape production, they remain at a level of existence detached from daily life. Dialectical materialism deals with the mutual development of humans and nature, mediated through labor—not abstract metaphysics.The claim that political and economic systems aren’t “agreed upon by definition” misses the point. Social systems aren’t sustained by philosophical consensus; they persist because humans build, participate in, and transform them through material activity. Whether or not we define them the same way, they exist—and we live in their consequences.

>>632
>I was looking more for suggestions outside of the legal field since the laws are different here
Ah, then just use IWW material to start with. It's easy, free, accessible, and plain language.

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Is it possible to organize a workplace with a lot of Trump supporters? Is it even worth it in that case?



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I used to think differently about service jobs for years as I wasn’t one of those “if it isn’t blue collar it isnt a real job” socialist nut heads, but my feelings for that idea has shifted towards it for different reasons.

I dont think a socialist movement is possible of servitude and service work is allowed to continue. It took ages to illegalize slavery and yet there is more of it than ever—mainly through the never ending flood of terrorist and kidnapping groups that make eradicating the problem fucking impossible without eradicating kidnapping.
Service work doesn’t fair much better as it is only barely above servitude and slavery in terms of dignity but falls back to that status if public services are ever bought out and stolen by private actors.
Outside of being undignified, these jobs just flat out and do not have to exist in a socialist society. They’re just bad jobs period and it would be better for everyone if they went away. No one really needs a consultant, housekeeper, motivator, receptionist, gig workers, restaurant service workers, or whatever other petty job that a person—a normal person—can do themselves without guidance.
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>>927
>Oh noooooooo a fucking meeting!!!!
>My cunt mother had the audacity to say to my face I should live on like three hours of sleep and be her personal uyghur every single day. Should've tooken a knife to her throat than and there. Just slit her throat and Livestream it for mother's day

Yes, I would literally kill and rape EVERYBODY if there was no consequences.
Hell, I'd do it anyway. Fuck your consequences. There's a mod right in front of you. Dox and kill him or you have NO LEGAL RECOURSE for me. NONE, you fucking cuck letting that pedo psycho just sit there banning and harassing us. That alone has given me all the legal privilege I need to do whatever I want whenever i want. I have legal authority to give people authority to shoot up schools. My entitlement supercedes the faggot president of the United States of Amerikkka

>>676
>>2289364
I am a waiter and in my country the restoration sector is very big, the biggest, but the workign conditions are one of the worst. The people in my trade are surprisingly lacking in class consciousness, i believe because a lot of them come from a somewhat lumpen background and because the majority of them, especially gen xers and millenials, are struggling in this shitty profession in the hope of one day opening their own little restaurant. The trade unions in this sector are thus one of the shittiest of the country. Some conditions as basic as having a 8 hour working day, continous shift, 40 hour work week, at least 2 consecutive free days… are almost never met. And yet they are so totally unconcsious. Comrades, what should i do? do i invest my time in entering the trade union and doing agitprop in this sector or should i move on and consider service labor a lost cause in itself?

>>1017
Trying to invest socialist zeitgeist in service jobs is ridiculous. Also, people are not really accepting of socialism anymore.

At best, the socialism they accept would be some liberal revisions

>>679
Back in ussr students, employees, neighbors, etc used to clean their schools, workplaces, neighborhoods themselves

It's not a big deal

>>1033
This.
It's unfortunate that people think cleaning public spaces is something for maids/reformed criminals.



 

How come nobody worries about tipping McDonalds workers?

Most McDonald's workers are teenagers so it would be kind of creepy to tip them…

I give them the tip of my dick if you know what I mean. But I ask their age first and check I.D. just in case they're underage. I'm no pedo

>>1024
>Tipping young workers is creepy

Jesus why do guys make everything into pedophilia?
That reeks more of insecurity on your part.



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