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3 days agoNo Working Team Quite Compares to an All-Women Barista Crew
A brief period as a barista at Waterstones Piccadilly was both challenging and rewarding, highlighting the importance of teamwork in customer service.
For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the 'neutral' worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real.
Julie felt dissatisfied with her work achievements despite her intelligence and qualifications. She avoided promotions, reinforcing her negative self-beliefs about competence and intelligence.