> ---> Dennis, I know you have done pretty good so far > what jobs are > concerned, but I don't think you can really judge on > what really can go down > unless you have experienced it firsthand. The thing > they did to me at my > first job in the bank was so horrible that I would > go to court over it now. > Unfortunately it was my first job and I had no > experience whatsoever. I did > my job well, but was exploited and if that weren't > enough I got f***ed even > worse after a bit more than a month at work. My > first boss had my driving > around the city to post his publicity. I had to do > this with my own car > after working hours. He put in the stamps it would > normally take for those > things to get posted as expenses. He threatened me > to let go of my vacation > period. He had me cleaning the floor after closing > hours etc. And then some > more really bad stuff happened to me resulting in > being unemployed for more > than a week while actually being at work, resulting > in having to switch to > another office, resulting in a reduced paycheck, > resulting in a forced > course of insurances, resulting in shame, disbelief > and a world crushing > down on a guy who only had worked for about a month. > My first boss and the > one from the other office had figured out this whole > scheme even before > employing me. I was heading towards a major > depression when I saw the chance > to get out. I did in a flash.
And this stuff happens to soooo many people too... Everyone has a bad experience like this... Some people work like this day to day and get paid a pitance for it and they don't have a choice because money makes the world go round and the more they can crush out of you the better... People don't matter... I did systems anaylsis last year and the description of this kind of behaviour we used was the use of "a hard systems methodology in a soft systems environment". Basically, many big companies don't give a sh*t about employees feelings. They aren't valued assets, they are resources and they are expendable... despite the fact that job satisfaction improves employee productivity... This brings me to the Anticapitalist Mayday things that went on around the world and the riots in Quebec and Seattle. People are sick of it... And people have the power to change things... Leads onto the Ur vs Sony thing... It's all interrelated. There's no doubt companies like Ford have put the US and Japan and countries in Europe ahead financially... but the US etc, don't need MORE money... When there are still, in the year 2001, third world countries and poverty and starvation, even in the UK and US. It used to be survival of the richest but people are tired of this sh*t. Things have to change... it's up to us... Nick:) ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
