Do you like your co-workers?

[Os Cangaceiros]

Well, do ya?

In my occupation, my co-workers usually change yearly, and most of the time I only work with one or two other people. My co-worker this year is cool, though, and we get along well...we've been working together for the last few years. He's from Cuba, so we talk about that sometimes, as in "How the fuck did you find out about here?"

[Il Medico]

I like a number of my co-workers. I have known some them since I was 12. They all used to work under my Dad before he got laid off. They are all Characters to say the least, but some of the subs (not actually contracted to the route) are dicks. I am personally friends with Eli, Luda, Joe, Jim, Manny, Kathy, Jeff, and Wallie.

[dogfooddi]

best coworkers i ever had were when i worked at this middle eastern restaurant. one girl who was also a stripper at the time took me under her wing and was my coke fairy. one lived on my couch for a month and did all my housechores. i had contests with the busboys over who would eat the grossest thing out of the buspan. then i got scarlet fever. oops. we pretty much rode bikes everywhere and got into all sorts of trouble all the time. it was a blast. i miss those days.

everywhere else i've ever worked just kind of made me realize that life gets shitty sooner or later. at my grocery store gig the managers were the fattest meanest *****es ever. one didn't realize she was pregnant until she was 6 months in. how about that? i attribute it to them looking at young cashiers and realizing how much potential they have to live an exciting life and being bitter that they, instead of finishing school, they get knocked up and get stuck in the shithole.

it was fun being a video clerk though.

never work at a restaurant owned by cambodians. they're all psycho for the most part and dealing with the khmer rouge has only embittered them toward the harshness of life, no compassion was derived whatsoever.

has anyone ever noticed that filipinos assimilate to whatever culture they're in whereas japanese, chinese, koreans, etc. all still have their own thing going on? typical of archipelagos enduring centuries of colonization.

[Dr Mindbender]

Most of them, but for the most part i keep myself to myself to avoid the minefield of cringeworthy sexist and racist attitudes.

[Bilan]

Yeah, I do. There's the odd person who is an abhorrent twat, but most people are awesome, and we have a lot of fun - parties, film nights, and that sort of thing. It's good.

[Devrim]

Of the two other people who work for the same company as me in this city( I work for a subcontactor which is based in a different city and doesn't have much work in ours) one is a guy who I organized a strike with at my last workplace, and one is a woman who is a left communist militant. I get on well with both of them.
It is not actually as cool as it sounds. She does a different job to us, and I never see her at work, and I occasionally bump into him having a cigarette break.
Devrim

[Jimmie Higgins]

I don't have any radical co-workers that I know of but many of my co-workers are immigrants and marched on immigrant rights marches!

Once in a while someone says a sexist joke or something, but the strangest thing about being radical in a non-union workplace where I can only be "out" about my politics on a one-on-one basis (i.e. it has to come naturally out of conversation and trust rather than just being able to broadcast my political ideas) is how even basic working class consciousness comes to people as such a revelation.

It was just announced that we will not get a raise this year (the last one was over a year ago and only 30 cents!) and my co-workers say - "well what are you going to do, it's a rescission". Yet everyone knows that profits are up by 1.5x from last year and have been rising rapidly for the last 3 years. The basic concept that those profits come from our combined effort really alludes them and when I explain it, it's like I am saying that the earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around.

I'm not much on faith, but I do have faith that this will change as people see strikes begin to win again and working class and union consciousness returns, but it's amazing how successfully the ruling class has convinced people that they are autonomous and unconnected little actors.

[Le Libérer]

I get along with everyone at the tattoo shop I work at, except my boss who is my son, we butt heads occasionally, then I have to remind myself hes my boss not my kid while there. Everyone else is really cool, tho the piercer/co- owner complains most the time, and the rest of us kinda quietly back away when he gets into with the other co-owner my son.

But yeah, it sucks when tha man is your kid.