yeah, it's pretty stupid. the amount of control bosses exercise over our lives is perverse and far too much of my sanity is spent pretending to be grateful for their supposed magnanimity for not abusing me to the fullest extent allowed by the law/custom. some have absolutely no clue how much anxiety and animosity they casually generate by whimsically toying with people's real material needs.
i was listening to some left-academic pod about a history of violence in the workplace in the US, and apparently the level of violence in the US has not really changed much over the last hundred years. people used to totally bring guns to work and shoot up the place. but the difference between then and now is how it was directed. they used to shoot supervisors/managers, and take people in charge hostage. the animosity went up the ladder, as it was recognized the bosses were the source of tension. now it's turned outward, so when american's snap they shoot other workers over whatever some newsreader on the tv or the radio told them to get maddest about. it's so grim.
if the workers here ever recognized who their real enemies are and directed their rage and violence accordingly, it would be a feeding frenzy.
It always mystifies me when people shoot up their franchise or branch office or whatever instead of going to the corporate headquarters and putting bullets in the people responsible for their misery, but i guess no or negative class solidarity or :frothingfash: :brainworms: is the explanation after all.
yeah, it's pretty stupid. the amount of control bosses exercise over our lives is perverse and far too much of my sanity is spent pretending to be grateful for their supposed magnanimity for not abusing me to the fullest extent allowed by the law/custom. some have absolutely no clue how much anxiety and animosity they casually generate by whimsically toying with people's real material needs.
i was listening to some left-academic pod about a history of violence in the workplace in the US, and apparently the level of violence in the US has not really changed much over the last hundred years. people used to totally bring guns to work and shoot up the place. but the difference between then and now is how it was directed. they used to shoot supervisors/managers, and take people in charge hostage. the animosity went up the ladder, as it was recognized the bosses were the source of tension. now it's turned outward, so when american's snap they shoot other workers over whatever some newsreader on the tv or the radio told them to get maddest about. it's so grim.
if the workers here ever recognized who their real enemies are and directed their rage and violence accordingly, it would be a feeding frenzy.
It always mystifies me when people shoot up their franchise or branch office or whatever instead of going to the corporate headquarters and putting bullets in the people responsible for their misery, but i guess no or negative class solidarity or :frothingfash: :brainworms: is the explanation after all.