Nonsense At Work

In the land of the free, workers are not:

In the land of the free, workers too often are not.  Even the Department of Labor knows this, hence their new campaign called ‘We Can Help’.

The problem is that abused workers are the ones least likely to ask for help.  Let me remind you why not.

Workers are at the lowest output producing level.  At this basic level, they are mere commodities – plentiful, cheap, inter-changeable and disposable.  When there is more work, more workers are hired; when there is less work, workers are discarded until the number of workers matches the work to be done.

In other words, a worker is perceived as a cost and not as an asset.  And we all know that a cost is a ‘bad’ thing which must be minimized.

Before you blame this on capitalism and not on the evil with us, let me remind you of a Polish proverb:  Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com

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