Jack Saturday

Monday, July 08, 2013

Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1005-1007

 Manufacturing Gains Strength, but Hiring in Sector Stays Weak


By REUTERS
Headline
NYT
Published: July 1, 2013







Most [people] have the ridiculous notion that anything they do which produces an income is work — and that anything they do outside ‘working’ hours is play. There is no logic to that.
    …
Your life is too short and too valuable to fritter away in work.

    If you don’t get out now, you may end up like the frog that is placed in a pot of fresh water on the stove. As the temperature is gradually increased, the frog feels restless and uncomfortable, but not uncomfortable enough to jump out. Without being aware that a chance is taking place, he is gradually lulled into unconsciousness.

    Much the same thing happens when you take a person and put him in a job which he does not like. He gets irritable in his groove. His duties soon become a monotonous routine that slowly dulls his senses. As I walk into offices, through factories and stores, I often find myself looking into the expressionless faces of people going through mechanical motions. They are people whose minds are stunned and slowly dying.
Lewis Hyde
[thanks to Maria Popova]
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A survey by Ipsos Reid revealed that one in three working Canadians felt that “delivering results in their organization was more important than doing the right thing.” Furthermore, 22% of respondents said they felt they had to compromise their personal ethics to keep their job.
...
According to the survey, ethical breakdowns in the workplace vary.  For example, 28% of respondents said they have seen the misuse of company property; 25% said they saw harm to employees; 17% said they’ve witnessed violations of privacy; 17% involved fraud; 13% witnessed conflicts of interest; 9% knew about bribery or corruption; 12% observed environmental violations and 11% reported they had knowledge of sketchy financial reporting.
Canadians see misconduct in workplace, but few are reported: study
Theresa Tedesco
Financial Post

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1 Comments:

  • Jack, thought you might get something out of this post from Gawker about yet more horror stories from the workers at Wal-Mart:
    http://gawker.com/and-now-a-few-more-stories-from-wal-mart-employees-721527870

    By Anonymous Markus, at 10:24 AM  

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