Recently, I watched a news report out of the U.S. about a woman, Denise Prudhomme, who died at her cubicle at work, and her body sat there for four days before anyone checked in on her. When her boss didn’t get a response to an email, they finally went to check on her and found her dead. The only statement given by their company was that they were “saddened” and that there was “counseling available” for those that needed it. No explanation into how her body was allowed to remain for four days before anyone checked in on her.
It brought me back to two years ago, when a teenage girl, Riley Whitelaw, was killed at the Walgreens she worked at by an obsessed older coworker she had complained to management about for over a year before he finally murdered her. This girl couldn’t be kept safe at her own place of work. Her body was only found because her manager noticed she was late from her break.
There are countless stories like this everywhere. The bosses are extremely negligent, and tragedy falls onto the workers. They will briefly and hypocritically “mourn” the loss of their wage-slave before immediately replacing them. Our lives as workers only matter to the ruling class because we make all of their profit, but that doesn’t mean they have to treat us with dignity or respect. And so they don’t.
So the bosses won’t give us dignity or respect, and that’s fine. We will overthrow their rotten system, that treats humans worse than cattle, and erect a new one in its place.
