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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