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First time laborer Benjamin Galvin ‘26 reported his student job working the John Hay Library front desk has allowed him to really relate to the plight of the blue collar man.
“It’s amazing how much more perspective a person can gain from working long, grueling days in these bottom of the barrel jobs,” said Galvin while writing an essay throughout the entirety of his two hour shift. “The Man really tries to keep you down, but I just keep doing my job, keeping my head low, and staying out of trouble the best I can.”
“I know now what it’s like to be a cog in Corporate’s labor machine, doing the work no one else will do,” said Galvin, listening to a podcast as he scans in books from the check-in bin. “I already feel the callouses hardening on my aching hands with every book I reshelve.”
“I might as well be punching my time card in a line of my fellow men heading into the Plant,” continued Galvin, logging three shifts more than he actually worked in his self-reported WorkDay hours. “For every document I photocopy, I am reminded of the systems that keep hardworking blue collar men like me from ever leaving this deadbeat library and moving up in the world.”
At press time, Galvin formed a one-person picket line outside the Hay, spitting on the scab workers breaking his strike.
