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Vive La Loafing!
theodp writes "Bonjour Paresse, an anti-corporation slacker manifesto whose title translates as 'Hello Laziness,' has become a national best seller in France and made a countercultural heroine of its author, who encourages workers to adopt her strategy of calculated loafing in response to dimming prospects of success for rank-and-file employees. Could a translation find a Silicon Valley audience?"
When the annual review comes up the people that take pride or work hard will move ahead.
You obviously don't work in the United States. It is not like that here. The people who work hard stay in their same position, because they are good at it.
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You're absolutely right. Your problems with workman's comp is all the justification needed for that woman not to clean up her spilled mess.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
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This is really in reply to a lot of the other replies this will no doubt engender.
/.'er is by the far the best educated / most efficient / most dedicated / hardest working / most intelligent person they have ever known or worked with and yet all of them have noticed that other people ( usually there bosses or ungrateful co workers ) have somehow overlooked this consumate perfection and not provided the rewards which the hapless /. 'er so obviously deserves.
Is there a term for the phenomenon I have noticed on Slashdot whereby every
I don't even know why I'm bothering to respond. I guess I have too much time.
The "fact" that it's rare for an employee to not be a mindless drone working at the same task is true. What you miss is the fact that those drones are the people we refer to as blue-collar workers. I don't care if your brother is a geneticist for the CDC doing research on HIV transmission rates for people who have sex with infected monkeys. If someone has a job in which they do the same mindless task over and over again and can be easily replaced they are blue collar. It might be a nylon collar instead of a cotton one. Or maybe even polyester or rayon. But dammit it's a freaking blue collar. And no, it isn't cyan.
Unions, on the other hand, are gigolos. Their job is to pimp their members to special interests under the guise of "fairness" and "equality." They just want to keep their positions of power. Take away their whores and suddenly they aren't as big on the street as they used to be.
I'm not even going to talk about the amoral artificial persons comment.
The hallmark of corporate america is a bunch of whiney-ass lazy drones complaining because their jobs are being outsourced while refusing to work for Wal-Mart on the same day countless entrepreneuers work thier asses off to make a buck fixing your car, putting a roof on your house, and supplying your local pizza shop with bread.
If you aren't willing to either work your ass off at your mindless job or do something to improve your skills then STFU and stop sucking your union boss's dick.