The Rumors You've Heard Are True
Which rumors, you ask? Why, those would be about the recent bad press Amazon has been getting.
You know about Amazon, don't you? It's that place online that is sucking the profit from every corner of our economy. Everyone complains out loud about Wal*Mart sucking profit; but that's because it pays and treats its employees so poorly. Amazon ( Read more... )
You know about Amazon, don't you? It's that place online that is sucking the profit from every corner of our economy. Everyone complains out loud about Wal*Mart sucking profit; but that's because it pays and treats its employees so poorly. Amazon ( Read more... )
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http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/11/22680645/in-her-own-words-the-political-beliefs-of-the-protester-who-interrupted-bernie-sanders
There's a lot more to address in your entry, but in the meantime, the above article - containing the words of Marissa Johnson, who was one of the leaders of that Black Lives Matter protest - is worth your attention.
The movement wasn't about trying to shut anyone down. The protestors were trying to bring attention to race matters, which most presidential candidates had either been silent about up until that point, or had dismissed by lumping them in with class matters and erasing the issue of racism entirely. It is true that Sanders had been working on developing a racial justice platform and hiring a press secretary (who is a black woman with involvement in racial justice movements) prior to his Seattle appearance, and ( ... )
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While I support the goal, I cannot endorse the means. I feel that way about many left-leaning causes and their "supporters", that word put in scare-quotes simply because the tactics they choose often galvanizes people against whatever cause they attempt to endorse.
This last was a great example. They derail his speaking engagement because they see a glimmer of support hope in Sanders? They leave the most openly racist candidates aloneCircular. Firing. Squad ( ... )
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. . . black people don't need to go on your timetable . . . .
I imagine if I were sitting in that rally crowd, having come to specifically to see Sanders and knowing full well that Sanders would only have a limited amount of time to speak before going to another rally at Hec Ed, the concept of a timetable interrupted would be first and foremost in my mind.
Most all of us have limited time. Most all of us follow a timetable. That is simply a fact of life that more people need to accept before doing [whatever].
And those who feel their cause-no matter how worthy it might be-is more important than my timetable might just have proven themselves (and, by sad extension, their cause) unworthy of my further attention.
Circular. Firing. Squad.
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out of curiosity, do we have examples of large corporate business who manage the final call-to-arms? i'm not certain google qualifies. or do you think that ultimately, the very largest businesses are intrinsically incapable of nurturing their employees and their communities?
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Nurturing companies? Are you sure that isn't an oxymoron?
More seriously, I don't know. For all of the gizmos and toys strewn about any given Google workplace, the employees put in the same ungodly hours as any other computer cube farm.
They do have a neat program there, though; people are required to spend 1/5 of their time working on something interesting and completely unrelated to their regular task. They get paid to blue sky some neat new bit of kit or whatever. Many of their products arose from this policy, so it might be working well.
Sadly, though, despite this, I doubt many companies are building community outside their walls. It simply isn't in their short-term financial interest to do so.
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