Originally posted by Parallax You just prefer not to work.
While Elwood here phrases it in terms of the poor, disadvantaged, white male Republican potentially being 'discriminated against,' *gasp* ...I think we can see where the *real* likelihood of that happening is. Especially given how the Republicans are disproportionately represented among people with the *money,* who like Das Boot, apparently think profit justifies *any* intrusion or breach of what maybe ought to be ethics.
Frankly, if I were hiring employees, someone espousing an ideology like that, someone who might treat co-workers like that, someone who might think their own profit and self-righteousness would justify doing unethical things to *me* probably wouldn't be my first choice to hire, either.
Meanwhile, of course, the taint of *having ever been poor, or sick, or homeless,* is something that *conservative* ideology claims means you're someone of low character. You know, mocking someone while they're half-crippled isn't a way to get honest and high-functioning employees. Sure, maybe I could secure a job if I lied a lot about it, ...might even last a week or two if the timing was right with my health. But then I'd be among those people who 'didn't work out,' right? With attitudes like that, and trust me, from experience, I'd have every incentive to lie like a *rug.*
They've actually been woefully-abused on at least one occasion, (a whole story, there) but having some kind of principles about the truth does not serve to one's advantage from the other end of the equation.
Das boot accuses most of the workforce of: "holding tight to the values of not giving a shit about anything."
Ever wonder why that *is?* When management doesn't seem to return the sentiment even if you do?
It's beyond me how people can treat people so *cynically,* as 'human resources' that they have some 'God-given' right to exploit, pry into the personal lives of, blame for their own screwups, try and coerce religiously and socially, stand there and call a lot of people inherently unequal and even use that money to oppose their civil rights.... Set up an atmosphere where the Company wants to use your paycheck to control time they don't even pay you for?
Then expect in return perfect trust, great loyalty, and some kind of wonder-working Herculean efforts for the company? You want people who have the lowest real wages in a long time, whose health care you oppose, not to mention the social safety net they might need if they stick their neck out where a company snooper can see, never mind on the job... To be what. Enthusiastic?
Is that realistic?
Of course, if you treat people this way, they end up seeing cynicism, deceit, secrecy, and CYA as a survival skill, the company as an adversarial exploiter, treat the bosses as people who cannot be trusted, who are looking for anything they might get on you as an excuse to can you, treat the work as some kind of *sentence...*
Yeah, people resent that.
What do you expect.
If *management* treats people as though all that matters is the bottom line and that that justifies doing all the things they're terrified of 'the gummint' doing to *them,* ...Why should the employees be any different? It's what you want, isn't it? For people to be in it for themselves and all about money? Where's this 'incentive' you claim is all there is to people? Maybe you convinced them you're right on that score. Heck of a time to get indignant about it *now,* I say.
Last edited by Ratmagiclady; 02-23-2010 at 09:01 AM.