Weekly Meetings, Money Memes and Self-Censoring

Ugghhhhhhhhh.

My department consists of three people and our boss, who doesn’t actually do what we do, but manages like…three to five different departments that are all considered “centralized services” but require completely different skill sets.

We also all work in completely different locations and I’ve only met my boss in person, my other two coworkers I’ve only Skyped and phoned and emailed with.

So we have these weekly meetings to touch base and discuss issues and check in on projects and stuff that could generally be done in casual conversations but, because reasons, requires weekly meetings.

Did I mention that these are Skype meetings? They are.

So.

To be clear, that’s an hour long, video imaging required, screen sharing meeting once a week, ya’ll.

Anyway.

To “make things fun” we’re having themes, and are required to upload memes in keeping with the theme of the week. Since it’s a pay week, the theme is money.

Now. I’m, at my heart, an socialist anti-capitalist queermo who believes in universal basic income, the redistribution of wealth, and, just generally, the idea that people deserve some basic dignity and access to education for simply being alive. I know most of these values are unrealistic for a million and three reasons that, if I had the time, wherewithal, motivation, and attention span, I could…