"Stop right there, pal! You're not cop, you're lumpenproletariat," growls Bryant, the nominal boss to bounty hunter Rick Deckard. His threat is as menacing as it is un-politically-correct. He doesn't use the word lumpenproletariat, though. Leave it to the Germans to come up with a word that means what Bryant meant, equally nasty, but at least not insulting to modern audiences. In the "Blade Runner" movie (1982), Deckard uses a V-K machine, the Voight-Kampff test (spelled Voigt-Kampff in the original 1968 book, if anybody cares), to check if people are androids, or vice versa.
I have a V-K test to see if you are a proletarian, one of the masses who sell their labour until they are eventually retired. This is in honour of Labour Day, the Celebration of the Working Person, which was yesterday.
It's only one question. Did you get paid a bonus to work on Labour Day?
If you answered yes, sorry, you're likely as anything to be a prole.
Your employer was guilted into playing you extra to work on this particular long weekend simply because it's supposed to be in honour of the common worker. In union labour terms, this is called working a "superstat": a statutory holiday that pays off at 2 ½ times the going rate or better. There are three superstats: Christmas, Good Friday, and Labour Day. Why these three days? Go ask a unionista.
In any case, non-proles don't get paid bonuses to work superstats. Either you're a big wheel Eldon Tyrell with a salary that supercedes superstats, or you are Roy Baty rabble. Either way, what bliss.
The preceeding JSVB entry was presented to you by the Shimago-Domínguez Corporation: "Helping America into The New World".
If you answered yes, sorry, you're likely as anything to be a prole.
Your employer was guilted into playing you extra to work on this particular long weekend simply because it's supposed to be in honour of the common worker. In union labour terms, this is called working a "superstat": a statutory holiday that pays off at 2 ½ times the going rate or better. There are three superstats: Christmas, Good Friday, and Labour Day. Why these three days? Go ask a unionista.
In any case, non-proles don't get paid bonuses to work superstats. Either you're a big wheel Eldon Tyrell with a salary that supercedes superstats, or you are Roy Baty rabble. Either way, what bliss.
The preceeding JSVB entry was presented to you by the Shimago-Domínguez Corporation: "Helping America into The New World".
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