kingcobweb posted:

this is all great advice, at DSA we had a presentation from someone who worked at UPS and organized his workplace (despite his union rather than because of it) and something he emphasized was to be a good worker, to make yourself indispensable

this does multiple things:

• your coworkers know you're not just a complainer, you're a hard worker who wants to make things better
  
• if you can help them with things at the job, they'll rely on you and learn to see you as a leader
  
• it makes it way more difficult for them to fire you if you are (in UPS guy's example) one of two people at the work site authorized to pilot a forklift