Bacon:
: So most employers expect you to exhibit and maintain a tasteful appearance...and several expect you to piss in a bottle. This doesn't mean the U.S. Constitution is dying! The above has been going on for many years, and during that same time it's been understood that the workplace is not a 100% democracy. Everett Citizen:
The workplace is not even 1% democracy. You cannot have democracy by degrees. You either have it, or you don't. As it stands now, you have a priveledged class who does no work, and a huge class (that YOU are in) that does ALL of the work. There are layers of workers who are offered trinkets and favors for controlling the lowest levels of workers. I am for democracy in the workplace. I do not believe workers should produce for idlers.
Bacon:
You have to be willing to compromise just a bit. The people to be mad at for the enactment of the get-tough zero-tolerance policies are the ones who have used drugs and booze on the premises, the disgruntled employees who have committed violent incedents, and those who have stolen and/or embezzled funds from the firms. These people, although only a small percentage of the population, are the ones who have contributed to the current revisions of the handbooks at many of the corporations.
Everett Citizen:
When a workplace belongs to the people who work there, there is LESS disgruntledness, LESS stealing, LESS irresponsibility, because everyone has a stake in it. Who would steal from themselves or their brothers and sisters? People do all of those things you describe for a variety of reasons, amongst which are resentment toward an unfair elite, hunger from starvation wages, addiction (a medical problem that should be treated as such). To unquestioningly accept that we must do as the "employer" says is to accept second class citizenship.
"Fire the Boss" indeed!
Mike, The Everett Citizen
