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NORTH CITY BUS ARMATURE EMPLOYEES
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SOME FOOL ON A HIGH HORSE
People need a sense of identity. This can apply even when the identity is not such a good one. I worked at numerous shit jobs over the years, The pay was low and the benefits were poor. Of course, they were just pass throughs for me, It was a means to survive for a few months or a year or so. But the employees often took on a sense of identity even if it was a poor one. When things went wrong, they would exclaim, “Normal people wouldn’t put up with this shit but we’re North City Bus Armature employees.” There was a sense of identity even in working a shit job. People need that sense of belonging and sometimes it comes even when it’s a shit job. Hey, I can’t be a rock star or an NBA star but I’m a North City Bus Armature employee and that is my sense of identity.
Sense of belonging
we identify poorly
deluding ourselves
into a sense of import
even under great abuse
