Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca’s leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro’s revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party’s long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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If you’ve ever said “being on time is about respect, if people are late it’s because they don’t respect your time” you’re an ableist piece of shit and should stop speaking in public
Go fuuuuuuck yourself. First of all it’s incredibly fucking narcissistic to think “You’re late, this must be a deliberate choice to spite me” chill the fuck out. Grow up and attempt empathy.
Why on earth would you think I’m doing this on purpose? I stress so much about being on time when it matters and still mess it up. I can be completely ready 10 minutes before we have to leave and I’ll somehow get distracted with two minutes left and be 5 minutes late. I can’t judge how long things will take, I’ve tried adding 50% onto whatever my initial guess is and still come up short half the time and am way over the other half.
And then I see people say “How do these people even keep jobs? Clearly you are capable of being on time when you care, otherwise you’d get fired” which is a hell of a claim. There are lots of jobs where being late really isn’t an issue. I work in a lab and I mostly just show up when I want, no one’s checking over my shoulder. But also, people with ADHD get fired for being late all the time. People with ADHD are over twice as likely to be unemployed. It’s a huge disability rights issue, and while it is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act there’s basically no enforcement of that.
If people are late, try calming the fuck down about it. It has nothing to do with you. Check your phone, read a book. If you have a friend who’s chronically late, tell them 6:30 if you want to meet at 7. If you’re a manager, schedule with an appropriate amount of over-coverage. If one person being late or calling out causes any problems with scheduling, you’ve already fucked up and should’ve been scheduling more people. People call out, people are late, you need to be prepared for that.
Also it’s
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But in the case that you do actually show up at 6:30, then I look like an absolute ass. If you are chronically late and you agree to meet at a certain time, how about you plan to be there early instead? If you plan to meet at 6:30, you can plan to arrive at 6:15. If it’s okay for other people to wait for you, why wouldn’t it be okay for you to wait instead? You can check your phone and read a book while you wait. Sounds like everyone should be happy.
I say this as someone who was chronically late for years. I have to put everything I need in my car hours before I plan to leave because otherwise I would forget. I have to set 2 alarms on my phone to remind me when to leave. Sometimes I’m still late, but it’s always within 5 minutes. I do all this because my friends shouldn’t be inconvenienced for something that’s my responsibility to plan around. Fuck your boss though, who gives a shit about being on time for work.