The labor librarian
Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, and not fit for human consumption.
- Absolutely devastating news. Fobazi fundamentally changed librarianship for the better and her loss will be felt so deeply. Sending love to her family and loved ones.
- Higher ed can never be the radical leftist institutions that so much of us want (and many in the conservative sphere think we already are) as long as we are dependent on donations from our wealthiest alumni to survive.
- Tense night in the group chat
- Today I spent 20 minutes teaching one of my students how to call in sick. By which I mean, teaching him his rights in regards to using his sick time. He said “so my boss is teaching me how to lie to bosses?” When I say I teach job skills, this is probably not what people think of.
- I told him that, unless his employer requires a doctor’s note, it is none of their business why he’s using his sick time and all he needs to say is “I’m calling in sick today.” And I cautioned him that there are lots of bosses out there who would deny his sick time if they knew he wasn’t sick
- He said “but you told me that’s time I earned and I get to use it however I want” and I said “and it absolutely is, but that’s not a shared consensus among most bosses.”
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View full threadGood luck out there, shitty bosses. I’m raising the next generation of workers who will unionize against you.
- I have not seen nearly enough statements like this. @wxxirochester.bsky.social
- Imagine saying the words “I’m in the arts. I’m not here to speak on politics” as if art has ever done anything else.
- A student in class asked me how books ended up on the bestseller lists, and when I responded “often by having their publisher buy thousands of copies to inflate sales as a marketing tactic” they were SHOOK
