blackberrypie
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I WENT OFFLINE FOR A DAY
ONE DAY
AND THIS HAPPENS
...never again.
ONE DAY
AND THIS HAPPENS
...never again.
Ironic that she's only worried about stitches coming undone when its on her body, not when its the biggest complaint of her clothing brand x- Keeps complaining about her stitches opening. Keeps doing strenuous workouts while wearing compressive TALA clothing.
This bit…I still don’t understand her point?
Honestly! I can't get my head around her logic that buying a box of baubles is deemed too unsustainable but flying first class to Dubai for literally no purpose is justifiable ??If she wants to collect baubles over a period of time then that's fine, but if she brought some and reuses them year after year surely they aren't that bad?!
Skimmed the article and went straight to the comments - highlights include:it’s obvious that her book is not just for “young people” - it’s for (leaning upper, certainly not lower) middle class young people. Talking as if people work 24/7 and take jobs as Deliveroo/Uber drivers because they want to hustle...it’s because lots of young people have to if they want to afford to live, let alone have a basically acceptable quality of life. It’s also because it’s getting increasingly hard for us to get good jobs.
I really need to read the page she didn’t post, but with the “influencing/instagramming is hyper-fulfilling” thing, it feels like she’s trying to present the issue as actually being about Gen Z being innovative and finding cool new Instagram jobs, rather than exploitation in the structure of “conventional” jobs
“Instagramming” isn’t a reliable route out of conventional work as there is a huge glass ceiling for a lot of people. You need to have free time and financial security to start in influencing, which Grace seems to forget that a lot of people don’t have, even though she says that everyone is working 24/7. You need to be picked up by a bigger organisation usually, like Gleam or Love Island or Gymshark. You also need to be conventionally attractive and young, especially as a woman. It’s not an accessible escape from exploitative work structures and shouldn’t be presented as a viable alternative to them
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hey! thanks for bringing this up actually as I’ve been meaning to talk about it for a while. we’ve been trialling our tala/tkmaxx collaboration for a couple of weeks now - so exciting that so many of you have spotted it! I would like to point out that compared to Nike or Adidas we actually have a minimal amount of stock that gets sent to tkmaxx because so many of you are such loyal tala fans that you usually dont leave any for the rest of us I won’t go into the business details because it would bore you but please know that this collaboration has been hypercrafted for over an entire quarter - a LOT of effort has gone into this, even if it just appears that our overpriced, thread hanging leggings are just not selling as well as we’d hoped. Please remember that we produce under a SLOW FASHION concept which is why we chose tkmaxx as our newest collab partner as we’ve all visited an empty maxx one afternoon on the outskirts of an austerity ravaged ex industry town. Anyway, I’m off to celebrate my mum’s 60th. Such a shame that her Dad, close friend of Thatcher, couldn’t be here. Please don’t message me during this time as I am FINALLY having some well deserved time off!! I have begged my low income staff to scream at me if I make one more joke in our slack chat (they love it really ). Happy 2022 guysI don’t know if someone’s already posted but I cannot believe I saw Tala in TK Maxx Sutton the other day
Umm actually it was a very high 2:1 like basically a first and she was running 3 businesses and never went to uni so really she was the smartest person in her cohort.. let’s not downplay the achievements of strong women please internalised misogyny is not cute /j2.1 I believe
She’ll honestly say something like- people always try and catch me out but I actually set my clock to 1 hour 45 minutes fast to prepare my brain for the day and achieve more. You should all try it. I’m including it in my sequel book xProductivity quweeen getting up at 7.30 to do weights before work....except the clock says it's 9.15