LJ Content Strike

[pecunium]

I am not, as a rule, fond of one-day strikes. So I don't buy gas on Thursday.... big whoop. I need gas to get around, and there's nothing much I can do about it (I can, sort of, get by on bio-diesel, if I make use of the truck, and all the attendant hassles thereto). A boycott is different (if we all refused to buy gasoline from Exxon and Shell for the next year, then they might feel the pinch, and so decide that the margin of profit ought to remain the same, but I digress).

elfwreck does a good job of explaining why, on Friday, March 21, this space is taking part in the LiveJournal Content Strike, Friday, March 21, midnight to midnight GMT and will have

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Also of import (and no small part of why I'm taking part, and posting about it; a boycott's not a boycot if no one tells the company why they aren't giving them custom) is this interview with the head of SUP, which shows he has an apalling contempt for us, the people who are making money for his company.

I'm tempted to say this boycott ought to last for more than one day, just to drive the point home.

Don't watch this space

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It looks (though it will pain my Russian friends to see me say so) not atypical of the Russian "boss". He is in charge, and that's the way it is. If you don't like it, good luck finding a boss who thinks in the manner you would like.

TK

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just a typical manifestation of the Russian notions of a service industry?

At the Tel Aviv Municipal Library (staffed and run by some of the million and a half Russian emigres who had arrived in Palestine/Israel after 1989) one had to stand in three separate lines for every visit - one for dropping off books, one for handing them in to be checked out, and one for picking them up after they'd been checked out to you. It certainly explained bread lines! The feeling one was given by the librarians was that they would only provide the service if they felt like it, and that you, patron of the library, were somehow disturbing them in their work, and could be dispensed with.

Similar attitudes prevailed in other service industries - unless and until one was defined as within the service provider's inner circle. At that point (and thereafter) there were no boundaries whatsoever - they'd give you the shirt off their backs, the last sip of their tea, the last bit of their cookie. And expect the same from you.

Anyhow, condescending to one's patrons seems quite Russian.