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Hi-tech Work Places no Better than Factories?
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tasty bit of truth.
Again, a Sociology Professor has found out what we all know. He wistfully comments on the state of geekdom in the modern corporation:
"They face the lonely insecurity of the individual entrepreneur in a marketplace and culture that stresses, with macho imagery from war and sports, that they are ultimately alone"
and adds that...
"For many this may be the shape of work in the 21st century."
You want to start a union? I mean how much is your boss making at your expense even if he did start the company long before you joined up?"
I hate you all! Why can't I stop coming here? The party line makes me want to vomit. FUCK.
Looking from here in Europe, US workers appear to be trussed and blinded by the american dream as upheld by US corporatism.
That and the whole population almost genetically raised to consume, makes you guys look pretty lame.
When are you going to get a clue ?
Thanks, dickhead.
Hopefully, we can offshore YOUR fucking job, too, and then I assume you'll continue feeling so goddamn superior. How long did YOU go to school to do your job? I went for a four years, and I only just recently paid off the loans. A freaking car dealer could do your job, so don't get so high on your horse, there pal.
Some patriot you are. Selling out your countrymen. Nice job. If we move all of technology and engineering offshore, what do you think America will have left? Shareholders and CEOs? There won't be any real industries left. And it will be thanks to jackasses like YOU.
Your writing is so mediocre that I wasn't able to read past the first paragraph.
By the standard of common sense of a non-partisan human being. There are different forms of work and accompanying difficulty. There is VERY little that a CEO does that could actually be considered mentally or physically challenging in their day-to-day when compared to real physical or mental labor. About the most strenuous thing they have to deal with occasionaly is public appearances and meetings with boards. The way I see it, the janitor should be paid at least what UNIX admin makes because both jobs are pretty much in the business of cleaning up the shit that their users input into the systems. -1 Troll +1 Funny
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So uh Enron is just good business and GE made most of it's money from the production and sale of goods last year.
You're a doofus to think the middle-class Asians don't value Auto, Ship-building, Steel and Construction unions. They don't exist to slow work down.
In Asia, they don't have teacher's or doctor's unions yet but they are coming since the pay of teachers in these countries are falling behind the rate of inflation and their social value is being chipped away at.
If you were in Korea, Indonesia or Taiwan in the 1960's/1970's would you be with the slightly communist but pro-middle class unions or the anti-democratic military goons. You couldn't stand on your own. You would have to bribe somebody.