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Friday, November 7, 2014

Against the Cowardice of the Corporate World

The modern workaday world is preoccupied, above all other concerns, with the avoidance of conflict, particularly violent conflict.  And I can certainly understand where they're coming from on that; I don't want there to be a great deal of bloodshed and havoc in my day-to-day life either.  But look at the alternative that we have been offered...the hiring process is increasingly done through a series of double-blind third-party contacts, and information is withheld whenever it might be slightly dangerous to admit the plain truth.  As a result, there is no accountability for anything, and the economy spirals ever downward, leaving legions of people unemployed or underemployed, unable to even guess what they're doing wrong in job interviews because they never receive any feedback, as the hiring manager doesn't want to risk upsetting them and possibly causing them to lash out.  Anyone who is perceived as a potential risk is simply shunned, because everyone is terrified of setting them off; rather than take even the tiniest chance of them going postal, society has agreed to give them an extremely high probability of becoming homeless and slowly starving to death.  Would it really be THAT bad to let someone get angry instead, yell and curse and scream, maybe throw a few things or break some furniture?  Even if they wreak violence, even if they kill a few people or blow up a small building - are they not still doing FAR less damage than the system designed to prevent them?  How many buildings worth of people die on the city streets during each harsh winter?  How many people are bottling their rage up inside, then taking it out on anyone who's vulnerable?  Why can't the hiring managers of corporate America just "man up" and take a punch on the chin every once in a while, rather than hiding behind a system that slowly strangles half the population of the entire country?

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