"Let's talk personal vs professional life in the modern era" Fri Mar-13-15 08:11 AM by imcvspl
I'm not talking sell out/ya soul type shit but more on the practical. Like maybe you won't retweet your homeboy from college's PC tweet because you know he also got them NSFW joints. Or perhaps you won't even touch anything about what's going on in palestine cause i mean you work in NYC and you never fucking know.
I mean we all come here for a reason right? And yo... mofo's be googling ya name. Do not believe they don't (word to Buddy G).
I can laugh about this shit now, but I once went on an interview where they told me to bring in my laptop to show off my work. I was already working at the time so didn't really have time to prepare. Get there and plug my 15" into their HDTV monitor. and so you know resolution is much wider and shit. I'm showing my shit but nothing is in full screen so my desktop is partially exposed. Tucked away in the corner of my desktop is a PDF of GregTate's digital magazine "COON BIDNESS"
Just saying how much do your boss/co-workers know about who you really are, and when you spend majority of your time with them how much of who you really are becomes what you project to them.
Real talk godbless OKP!!
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
2. "I make it a point to not add co-workers on Facebook." In response to Reply # 0
I don't even follow my own company. I keep Facebook as a spot where I can crack jokes with my friends, discuss political/social issues and generally pop off without a filter.
My co-workers don't need to know about a lot of that stuff. And I wouldn't want someone that's higher up on the totem pole whose views are very different from mine to let that affect how they treat me at work.
7. "Generation thing IMHO" In response to Reply # 0
Most of the folks I know and work with (except for that stint in Corporate America) have known me before social media blew up.
They know me in real life as a sarcastic, heathen, pro Black anti racism pro Detroit number crunching genius who loves Prince. So if they were to ever "find" my internet hangouts they wouldnt be shocked.
10. "I keep all of my Internet stuff fairly PC" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-13-15 09:02 AM by 8-bit
No slurs, no pron, no name-calling, etc. Maybe a few off-color jokes that are clearly off-color jokes.
Been this way from the start for me tho. My parents taught me not to act a fool in public at an early age. I don't even have any online dating profiles because I don't want my face coming up on that shit (not that I'd use those anyway).
blackrussian Member since Oct 17th 2010 6498 posts
Fri Mar-13-15 09:05 AM
11. "i don't add classmates/colleagues on fb" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-13-15 09:06 AM by blackrussian
in fact, i just tell them that i'm not on fb, although i'm really on there under a modification of my name.
i love twitter but i can't be as open on there as i once was, now that i've made some professional connections through it & some big-name academics and orgs in my field have started to follow me. i'm also slightly paranoid about people stealing ideas so i don't really outline some of my thoughts on there like i used to.
i don't mind socialising with colleagues or other professionals in the field as it's usually at events that i would want to attend anyway, but gotta be careful with the free booze & cautious with what i say.
13. "This is basically the reason why I stay on OKP." In response to Reply # 0
I use OKP like other people use facebook because the wild and rachet shit I want to talk about online I can't talk about on facebook between having to many professional friends (not co-workers but professional acquaintances I went to school with) and I have all my parents friends from the small town I grew up in (basically every single person from my town is a facebook friend).
The funny thing is that I don't think my co-workers know me at all. I've gotten a couple of times over the years from co-workers ("you aren't really black"). They just have no clue what my life looks like when I leave this office.
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When I first joined Facebook, I tried to joke with a few people that I know personally, and was really dismayed when they just didn't get what I was saying. Jokes weren't recognized as jokes, folks being dense-as-hell, etc. These were people that know me IRL, so I figured that people that don't know me would get me completely wrong. I knew then that OKP was the only space I had to be "myself" on the Internet (even though I still hold back a lot of things... some things are best said with the accompanying non-verbals.)
17. "The dual personality (not code switching)" In response to Reply # 13
is what gets me. One protecting the other. People that only know you in a certain context. And the more you become committed to that context the more dominant it becomes. In essence being paid to sacrifice a portion of yourself.
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
14. "I'm under the impression that we live in immoral capitalist slavery" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-13-15 09:28 AM by initiationofplato
When you really break it down, the way of Western life leads to nothing but disease and ruin. Human beings are more fragile than we care to admit.
Let's look at the numbers. You have to work 8 hours minimum per day, plus an average of 1.5 hours travel time. That's 9.5 hours during the day that you are being forced to do something you wouldn't given the choice not to.
Most people drug themselves with sugar and caffeine to get through the day, which seems to be a struggle for most, and drink themselves stupid on the weekend to let loose, and rinse/repeat. What kind of toll do you think this takes on the human mind and body? It is destroying our organs at a rapid pace, we are over stimulated, and over medicated, simply to keep up with the demands of this immoral capitalist shit hole.
Throw in family and food prep, you are left with an hour a day to do what you want to do to develop your humanity and soul.
There are 365 days in a year and we typically work 5 days a week. Which means that we work for an average of 250 days per year.
365 days in a year -> 250 working days (Where you have almost no time to do anything else but work)
19. "start/join a unionized field to minimize petty shit" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-13-15 12:19 PM by rawsouthpaw
that cramps your right to expression/speech. i'm so glad that applies to me as a unionized public worker (but it of course doesn't fully insulate me) AND that some clown comic with my same name recently became famous. now i get fanboys calling my house once in the while though.
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