TBH I get what you are saying about unions. They are hard to do right. The problem is that without them we’re pretty much cooked. It’s not even management in most cases, but the owners.
At one company, I contributed to cancer research, we were saving actual people. But the owners decided that selling the whole thing to the Americans who can put it into their ponzi scheme of health insurance makes more money. That’s because the average American pays 50x as much for this particular service than an EU citizen.
The people who were contracting and were thus not covered by the union were immediately canned. The rest we could fight and get a dignified way to leave for.
And I was one of their hard working people. I got one particular process that took days down to taking minutes. And not even for the money, but for the satisfaction of getting shit done. Someone from the new owners who probably didn’t even know what we were doing was trying to outsource everything to India, so everything we did went in the trash.
And this was one of my better jobs. I’ve had way worse. And I’m not the kind of person to wallow in my shit either, so I went and got therapy and changed careers so let’s see how that works out.
But going back to the original argument, I know a ton of people who would make something nice for the sake of it, like the GoldenEye devs. They are usually on the younger side, they usually get punished for it, and they usually end up needing and usually not getting therapy. Workers in general get absolutely no input into their work by policy.
They are usually on the younger side, they usually get punished for it, and they usually end up needing and usually not getting therapy.
Nailed it. Public library here. I would often notice patterns with hangups where people didn’t understand the procedures, for example taking an accessibility seat when they didn’t require it, because it wasn’t clearly marked. So I’d make nice clear signs for such things that solved the problem, and I’d get punished.
I would try to take pride in my work, I wanted to share specific knowledge I knew in workshops. I was told “That’s not your role, go back where you belong.”
And then they wanted to have talks with me like “It seems like you’re not happy to be here.” Wow, no shit?
Retail job before that, a district manager visits and notices a simple sorting mechanism I designed for getting small products out from awkwardly deep shelves using ribbons to pull the stack forward.
“What is this?” She asks. I proudly begin to explain.
“Oh you misunderstand. . .” She cuts me off with utmost disrespect. ". . .I don’t care. " And demands it be done some other way.
I was too young and desperate to send an effective message by simply leaving and never coming back.
The days of meritocracy or rewarding “out of the box thinking” or hard work are statistically dead. Unions at least have a chance of putting these egomaniacal choads in their place.
TBH I get what you are saying about unions. They are hard to do right. The problem is that without them we’re pretty much cooked. It’s not even management in most cases, but the owners.
At one company, I contributed to cancer research, we were saving actual people. But the owners decided that selling the whole thing to the Americans who can put it into their ponzi scheme of health insurance makes more money. That’s because the average American pays 50x as much for this particular service than an EU citizen.
The people who were contracting and were thus not covered by the union were immediately canned. The rest we could fight and get a dignified way to leave for.
And I was one of their hard working people. I got one particular process that took days down to taking minutes. And not even for the money, but for the satisfaction of getting shit done. Someone from the new owners who probably didn’t even know what we were doing was trying to outsource everything to India, so everything we did went in the trash.
And this was one of my better jobs. I’ve had way worse. And I’m not the kind of person to wallow in my shit either, so I went and got therapy and changed careers so let’s see how that works out.
But going back to the original argument, I know a ton of people who would make something nice for the sake of it, like the GoldenEye devs. They are usually on the younger side, they usually get punished for it, and they usually end up needing and usually not getting therapy. Workers in general get absolutely no input into their work by policy.
Nailed it. Public library here. I would often notice patterns with hangups where people didn’t understand the procedures, for example taking an accessibility seat when they didn’t require it, because it wasn’t clearly marked. So I’d make nice clear signs for such things that solved the problem, and I’d get punished.
I would try to take pride in my work, I wanted to share specific knowledge I knew in workshops. I was told “That’s not your role, go back where you belong.”
And then they wanted to have talks with me like “It seems like you’re not happy to be here.” Wow, no shit?
Retail job before that, a district manager visits and notices a simple sorting mechanism I designed for getting small products out from awkwardly deep shelves using ribbons to pull the stack forward.
“What is this?” She asks. I proudly begin to explain.
“Oh you misunderstand. . .” She cuts me off with utmost disrespect. ". . .I don’t care. " And demands it be done some other way.
I was too young and desperate to send an effective message by simply leaving and never coming back.
The days of meritocracy or rewarding “out of the box thinking” or hard work are statistically dead. Unions at least have a chance of putting these egomaniacal choads in their place.