Thursday 9 April 2009

Crazy Cat Lady Firing Squad

Just read on the Guardian that the people in the US who created 'Big Brother USA' have a new show lined up with what I can only describe as a horrible premise:

Small companies who have been hit hard by the current financial situation and need to 'downsize' will take all the employees who are potentially 'downsized', allow them to see how much each of their salaries, and let it become a popular vote as to who stays and who goes.

One of the companies involved (I forget if it was an executive producer from the show or one of the 'small companies') said that it was a good idea, because (and I paraphrase) 'He's been in charge of a company before, and it is a sad thing to fire people, so this is a good thing.'

This is truly sad.

IF YOU CAN'T FIRE PEOPLE BECAUSE IT BOTHERS YOU, YOU EITHER KEEP THEM WORKING IN THE COMPANY OR YOU FIRE YOURSELF.

It's called 'management'. That's why they pay you far more than the other people in the company (and if you're the owner, why and how you make a profit).

Let's take the authority and responsibility of management completely out of their hands.

Yes, let us do that.

Because it's not like they are already seen as 'incompetent'.

No, not one bit.

Modern culture done nothing more than praise the resolve of management, specially in these hard times (can't detect the sarcasm?)

Let us turn employment decisions into a popularity contest, devoid of things such as:

-Work Ethic
-Qualifications

Or being that one guy or gal that does more work than three of the other colleagues, but simply fails to 'click' socially with the rest of the group.

I wonder if humanity realises how fast (thing speeding bullet speed here. Or Maximum Warp, or Ludicrous Speed) we're heading into a 1984 style of world (I prefer the 'Running Man' comparison, but only because it was an 'Ahnohld' film), and we just do what sheep usually do:

Be docile and simply accept it as entertainment.

SAY NO!, DAMN IT!

Have we lost any and all sense of decency, of compassion for our fellow humans?

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