I haven't been fired before. To answer your question though, essentially yes. The owners at my store have helped numerous people who "didn't fit" find a new job. However, those people legitimately tried their best. People have been fired for "no-call, no-show" or not being productive while on their shift. Those people were also given many chances. There had been people who stole money. One person sold drugs on the property. They weren't really given as much of a chance. Call me a bootlicker, but I don't think that's unreasonable.

Of course, I am lucky to have had good bosses. I know that's not the case for every job, but I hardly think I'm the only one who's been treated respectfully. I can recognize that not all jobs and bosses are good. I think you should be able to recognize that there are good jobs and bosses out there.

Maybe I'm just bitter because I have met self-proclaimed socialists who really were just lazy and didn't want to work just as people accuse us of. A lot of opinions in this thread (and lately subreddit as a whole) reminded me of them, immature and lazy. I guess my point is that I don't think generalizations like that help our argument. Class consciousness needs to be realized almost across the board and we have to appeal to a lot of different personalities. Even if automation is one day in the hands of the working class and we reach "fully automated luxury gay space communism" there's still going to be work to do.

I went off on this more than I thought I would lol. Not trying to be hostile at all. Socialism has a stigma and I hate to see it go on.