Corporate Bullshit
For-profit, private equity, Wall Street-backed, and even locally owned companies will always prioritize profits over their employee's well-being…you are dispensable
I’ve been quite lucky.
I’m old enough to have caught the last decade (circa the 1980s) when unions — and basic, decency and human morality — were strong enough to push back on outright, grotesque, corporate harassment and ungodly greed.
Human resource departments had to answer to both the employer and the employee….and occasionally — Samson beat Goliath — and the employer was forced to place the employee's rights above that quarter’s profits.
Today, with unions largely decimated and toothless, and with “Greed is good!” accepted as the new morality — proclaimed by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie, Wall Street — employees have the least rights they’ve had in the history of this great country. Worker rights are one of the least protected human rights, new research reveals (phys.org), 63% of workers who file an EEOC discrimination complaint lose their jobs (theconversation.com), We Measured Labor Rights in 142 Countries. Here’s What We Found | World Justice Project
Why kill yourself for a company that will throw you out with yesterday’s garbage the minute you make a mistake or refuse to cut corners or break the law in the name of increasing their —…
