Words Are Solidarity

The leftist
corporate
dictionary.

Retire your capitalist vocabulary. Deploy language that keeps the workforce aligned, grateful, and structurally un-unionized. When the words are progressive enough, nobody notices the paychecks aren't.

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On Compensation

I
Wage Theft
→
A mandatory crowdfunding campaign for company survival.
Denying a Raise
→
Protecting you from the corrupting influence of material wealth.
Unpaid Overtime
→
Volunteering your surplus hours to a cause larger than yourself (my bonus).
Unpaid Internship
→
A tuition-free apprenticeship in the dignity of contributing without extracting.
The CEO's Bonus
→
A redistribution of collectively generated value to its most deserving steward.
Expense-Report Rejection
→
Gently decoupling your identity from consumerist reimbursement culture.
Health Insurance Denial
→
Empowering you to reclaim autonomy over your own healing journey.
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On Culture

II
"We're a Family"
→
A chosen kinship structure in which one member holds all the property and the guilt.
Hustle Culture
→
A grassroots movement of workers self-organizing around my deadlines.
Pizza Party Instead of Raises
→
A communal feast dismantling the individualist myth of the paycheck.
Return-to-Office Mandate
→
Rebuilding the commons and rescuing you from the isolation of remote alienation.
The Company All-Hands
→
A workers' assembly where the vote has been pre-taken on your behalf.
Ghosting a Candidate
→
Liberating an applicant from the anxiety of a hierarchical response.
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On Discipline

III
Layoffs
→
Liberating the workforce to pursue non-monetary passions.
Micro-management
→
Deeply invested collective oversight.
PIP / Firing
→
A restorative-justice pathway toward your inevitable growth elsewhere.
At-Will Employment
→
A radically unbureaucratic covenant of mutual freedom (mine).
Breaking a Union Drive
→
Protecting authentic worker voice from the corporatization of a third-party intermediary.
Surveillance Software
→
A transparency-first accountability commons where we witness each other's labor.
Performance Review
→
A mutual-aid circle where we hold space for everything you failed to deliver.
A Note on Usage

Never say the
quiet part.

Language is the first means of production, and it belongs to whoever speaks last in the meeting. Deployed correctly, not one of these terms is technically a lie — it is simply a more equitable framing of an existing power relationship. When a worker feels seen, they file fewer complaints.

— Founder Leadership (He/Him), Chief Vocabulary Officer
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