Let's look at popular television. By far, the ones with the buzz in the lunchroom are the ones based on a panel judges - American Idol, Top Chef, Project Runway - and the resulting insults delivered to a hard working contestant. Can anyone identify the Stockholm Syndrome at play?
The Syndrome is the kidnapped siding with the kidnappers. Has anyone ever been standing in front the Bosses' desk getting a reprimand? Can you see yourself standing over a hot stove, creating a perfect souffle with the result of being insulted by the supervisor and his two ass kissers? Why is Simon even in your living room?
How about thinking the douchbag Don Trump is just funny as hell when he says, "You're fired" to an aspiring ass kisser. Isn't that entertainment?
Survivor is certainly an analogy for the workplace. Striving together, sometimes even saving each others' lives, in heated competition with the Other... and you conspire to lay off one of your own. How about that show where the contestants live in an environment with no privacy, constantly surveilled, and monitored? Sound like work?
Leave work at work when you go home. Then turn off the television because all you will see there is reinforcement of the cutthroat corporate world you spend most of your waking moments in. Hard work is never rewarded, only judged, insulted and ridiculed... and your fellow workers will laugh their asses off. Then slap a phony smile on, slide your security badge and hide for another eight hours until the comfort of home (or sleeping place, a better description) can keep out the pain.
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