Monday, December 12, 2005

Angry young men

Normally I'm pretty good at avoiding the hectoring activists that loiter around campus trying to secure easily-duped but well-meaning students for their cause. I think that comes from having done my degree at the arse-end of Thatcherite Britain, students were a lot angrier then in my opinion. Today though, I made the mistake of being distracted on the thoroughfare outside the student's building, and was collared by someone wanting me to boycott Del Tacos. I have no problem boycotting Del Tacos since the 'food' there is unrelentingly wretched, all soggy tortillas and sorry lettuce, but I was curious to know why he wanted me to.

'They exploit their workers! Sometimes they have to work up to 10-12 hours a day!' (Note the exclamation marks, he really was terribly excited about this).
'That's my normal working day. You'll have to do better than that to impress me'
'Well, their workers are paid a pittance'.
'Still not good enough, keep going'
'These people have no future, all they have to look forward to is years of mindless drudgery'
'So what your saying is that we should boycott Del Tacos because they treat their staff like the University treats PhD students?'
'Ummmm.....'

He should have tried hanging around the law school. They at least pretend to have a social conscience before they sell their souls to the corporate demons.

1 Comments:

Blogger Captain Fastrousers said...

Thanks for that link, 2nd of the mushroom clouds. I used to have beard growing contests with my friend Justin, until he got an aggravated hernia in his chin trying to shore up a particularly flimsy patch of bumfluff.

He now looks like a cross between Prince and Kirk Douglas.

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