In a just society (which ours isn't), all workplaces would be unionised as a matter of law. And the power of bosses and unions would be mediated by some kind of outside agency.
In post-Thatcher Britain the power has swung back so far in favour of the bosses, we're close to replicating the insanity of Victorian workplaces, where the employee was more or less owned by the company, a commodity to be used and abused as the company saw fit.
And what do people do about it? Meet in the kitchen or by the water fountain at work and agree how unfair everything is. Then insert their tongue into the manager's rectal passage the moment he or she or it walks in.
Why?
Because they are scared.
Because they feel the odds are stacked against them (which they are).
Because they have a puritanical addiction to suffering.
Because they have been rendered too fucking stupid by the education system to understand exactly what's going on or how to fix it.
Education needs to go back to philosophy--psychology--sociology--religious studies--the literary classics--language!--and eschew all this vocational bollocks. You can't send the man out into the world before you have made the man.
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