John Galt

[nitro]

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" - Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

What I find interesting is, that corporations CEOs love their goddess and live their lives by her principles. But then, when you work in these heartless dysfucntional places called the corporation, these very CEOs want you to be "team players", etc, because it is good for the bottom line by which THEY get measured. The whole notion that you work for someone else CONTRADICTS the very principle by which Ayn Rand espouses, and yet CEOs are parasitic on their employees.

Is there an inherent contradiction between the way these people live their lives, and the way they want you to live yours?

 

[PieterSteidelmayer]

Is there an inherent contradiction between the way these people live their lives, and the way they want you to live yours?

None. My rules for me - my rules for you : Doesn't need to be the same set of rules. There may be a difference of opinion and even a cry of hypocrisy, but it's not a contradiction.

My rules for me - your rules for you. There aren't too many Libertarians running companies or any organisations. Not for long anyhow.

We need psychopaths running commerce and government or nothing would ever get done. Oh wait, we need them for commerce anyway.

 

[DZ954]

My last job working for a big corporation was the worst I was ever treated.

I can't say the name of the company because they do have a reputation management department and I have seen a lot of people fired simple for mentioning them on FB and even unknown sites. They will track you down. Besides that they threatened felony charges against me if I ever mentioned them anywhere.

It was a construction job working 12 1/2 hours a day in the southern summer sun. This is the BS we had to deal with to get in.

• Everyday you need to recite that you are part of the family. I am a blah blah blah.....
  
• How much of a team player you are and how grateful you are to have great co-workers. And you were required thank your co-workers on paper for doing a great job.
  
• To get in you needed to pass a drug test.
  
• You needed to sign a agreement that you could never sue the company or be a part of a class action lawsuit.
  
• You must pass a Federal background check with no speeding tickets. The funny part is some departments don't even speak English and they have been caught with hundreds of illegal workers.
  
• Pass a physical including a hernia test.

To get fired all it takes is:

• Having a cell phone on you, in your lunch box or anywhere on the property.
  
• Be a minute late.
  
• Sit just for a minute even if you need to, to do your job.
  
• This is the new job market and you need to submit to managements demands because they know there are people waiting to take your job. This was a billion dollar project.

Finally when I quite I had to be searched for anything related to the company and then escorted out.

What I have learned is management is full of corporate thugs that have no rules or work ethics. They are simply parasites that hate the middle class and use them any way they like. If they had the same rules they would be out raged. That is why it is in their best interest to destroy the middle class.

 

[hoodooman]

Chief Engineer at the Douglas Aircraft Company told me: "If you do anymore work without my permission, I will fire you".

I guess I just didn't fit in with his incompetence.

 

[kut2k2]

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" - Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

What I find interesting is, that corporations CEOs love their goddess and live their lives by her principles. But then, when you work in these heartless dysfucntional places called the corporation, these very CEOs want you to be "team players", etc, because it is good for the bottom line by which THEY get measured. The whole notion that you work for someone else CONTRADICTS the very principle by which Ayn Rand espouses, and yet CEOs are parasitic on their employees.

Is there an inherent contradiction between the way these people live their lives, and the way they want you to live yours?

Corporatist assholes live for their contradictions. Here's a big one: they argue that corporations are persons and should have civil rights just like real people. BUT they also want to be able to buy and sell one another (corporations, I mean). So ... "give us human rights but we reserve the right to treat each other like property."

Typical sociopathic asswipes: "I want it every which way so long as I always benefit."

 

[Gringo]

Corporatist assholes live for their contradictions. Here's a big one: they argue that corporations are persons and should have civil rights just like real people. BUT they also want to be able to buy and sell one another (corporations, I mean). So ... "give us human rights but we reserve the right to treat each other like property."

Nice one.

Gringo