Every Job Fits This Description:
Stressful Jobs That Pay Badly
Pages upon pages of advice. Is there a problem here?
Wear Blue Tinted Glasses:
Japanese rail operators have installed blue lights at stations across the capital in a bid to deter passengers from killing themselves by jumping in front of trains
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Mean Cats On Acid
The American worker is bored to tears. Toiling in gossip-y little hell holes they turn on each other for entertainment.
The idealized vision of the "worker" still exists in some people's minds. People to take over the means of production and be the building blocks of a new society is their vision. It's sad, really, because the ones in America doing the heavy lifting are browbeaten, scared, spineless and conditioned to be a slave. They don't share the same vision and aren't going to sacrifice a thing for their betterment. This extreme miscalculation of the body leave the left-wing self-appointed leaders of the spontaneous revolution bitter, broken and frustrated.
They are still touting the picket line as a useful tactic. They still spend time printing fliers to hand out at the plant gate, except there are no plant gates anymore. Or spending an inordinate amount of time typing diatribes and manifestos to spam list serves and e-mailboxes, all totally unreadable. The solutions offered by these so-called revolutionaries seem like another, worse hell than the one we are in now, the slave mentality doesn't change, the machine needs cogs.
Good hearted people enter this quagmire and their spirits get crushed. The victories declared to be won are hollow, the crass manipulation of workers continues and they have to return to the fellow workers they are fighting for and be considered foolish. Along the line they discover there are no labor laws for protection, the organizations existing to protect them are simple rackets, and this world doesn't care for people who care. It's lonely and they don't fit in.
I spent the day watching television yesterday, all day. I saw several different commercials selling medication to treat depression. I saw an add stating 1 in 6 Americans suffer mental illness. Of course, throughout the football games, Cialis and Viagra ads for erectile dysfunction along with large RAM pick up trucks were for sale. This country is terribly mentally ill and we treat it as a means to profit.
The "workers" of this country are not going to advance in a uniformed cause until the "workers" of this country openly deal with their own mental problems. The mis-leaders of their organizations, instead of joining with management to terrorize their members by considering them numbers and threatening layoffs better recognize the humanity they are responsible for. It is not a business, a labor union is a force for social good. They should be holding classes on stress management, relaxation techniques, drug and alcohol counseling and showing a growing concern for their members' mental health. Teach people how to work together with interpersonal relationship seminars. Show them how to be compassionate to offset the greed that drives them now. Build a worker with the best qualities of humanity. Only then will the idealized Worker show forth.
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