YOUR BOSS IS A SCUM! New Survey says that SCUM BOSSES get PROMOTED...Digby explains

[KoKo]

Dickens' America in THIS POST ...where she talks about how bad off America is Under BushCo...where WORKERS ARE SERVANTS...and that having "Not a TEAM PLAYER" put on your Job Evaluation...DOOMS YOU TO FAILURE! New Study PROVES ...EVIL BOSSES GET PROMOTED..and Workers suffer from HEALTH PROBLEMS..because of their BOSS!

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INALIANABLE DREAM

by digby

For all those people living lives of quiet desperation in the corporate ghettos, this (via Perlstein) will come as no surprise:

How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released Friday.

In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.

"The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable -- remarkably disturbing," wrote the study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia.

Despite their success in the office, spiteful supervisors can cause serious malaise for their subordinates, the study suggested, citing nightmares, insomnia, depression and exhaustion as symptoms of serving a brutal boss.

The authors advocated immediate intervention by industry chiefs to stop fledgling office authoritarians from rising up the ranks.

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Hah. This kind of thing is a value in the business world, a sign of "toughness." A willingness to come through a torturous boot-camp still striving for success at all costs and then turn it on your underlings is what they call being a "team player."

This stuff is so far off the radar screen of discussions of what it is to work in America it's as if it's from a foreign planet. That study can really only be discussed in terms of whether it's really efficient for a business to operate with a bunch of depressed, traumatized employees, not whether it's morally decent to reward despicable behavior and treat your fellow humans like lackeys. The boss owns your ass and you do what the boss wants or you quit. If you can...

We talk a lot about "freedom" in America but it has a very restricted meaning in our culture. You can own a gun. But in a million subtle little ways, the average workers in this culture must subject themselves to daily humiliation and accept its soul deadening effect and they aren't even allowed to complain about it. What choice do most of us have? You have kids, you worry about being able to live like a human being when you are too old to work and your choices narrow anyway. The price you pay in America today for debt, error and risk is very high and getting higher. So you submit. And without the potential of losing employees due to bad treatment, no business feels any real obligation to treat them with respect. Why bother?

To me, it's all part of the Big Con, as Perlstein would say. The right makes a fetish out of freedom, but in practice they are institutionalizing a different kind of servitude through things like "bankruptcy reform" and union busting and privatization and vetoing of government guaranteed health care. Even this housing bust will no doubt turn out fine for wealthy lenders who will be able to declare corporate bankruptcy, while many ordinary people will not be allowed to walk away at all from their second mortgages or, in some states, their primary mortgage if they go bankrupt. Today, too many people become a prisoner of the American dream, completely trapped in jobs and careers that destroy their humanity and damage their psyches because the risks of doing anything unsafe in our "winner take all" society tie them in knots.

MUCH MORE...but scroll to find the ARTICLE TITLE..that I posted.....Digby doesn't seem to have links to individual posts:


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/ragged-nation-by-digby-im-sitting-in.html

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. In the U.S., this bully-dictatorial mentality has been idolized and made to seem "good" nt

[TahitiNut]

2. After 35 years in the "belly of the beast" (GM, Xerox, IBM, banking, etc.) ...

... I can assure you that Korporate Amerika has become immeasurably more corrupt and a breeding ground for petty autocrats. While such authoritarian organizations have an inherent tendancy to promote such sociopaths, the safeguards and consciousness have eroded monstrously. At one time, the majority of people in corporations actually practiced a meritocracy and egalitarian values ... recognizing the value of "promote from within" and operational experience. No longer. Executive management have become almost exclusively brokers ... pump and dump specialists who exploit anyone and anything for personal gain.

[KoKo]

4. How about not giving Pensions and throwing folks on the Street at 48 years old or just a little olde

when they can't get Medicare until they are 65 and they are forced to pay over$20,000 a year for health coverage when they are healthy but had a "couple of incidents" that put them on the "Risk Rolls" for those who are considered Losers! College and Graduate Degrees...but YOU ARE A LOSER. And what about those who don't even have those credentials to "question" their One HMO or Health Provider as to THEIR LEGITIMACY!

It's AWFUL OUT THERE...and my Dem/Liberal (supposedly) Congress Critter said FOUR YEARS AGO TO US in a MEETING..that when DEMS TOOK CONTROL OF HOUSE...FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS was all those DOWNSIZED AND OUTSOURCED FOLKS who were being DENIED HEALTH CARE...because they were TOO YOUNG FOR MEDICARE...didn't qualify for MEDICAID...and were CAUGHT IN LIMBO...when they COULDN'T FIND A JOB THAT WOULD GIVE THEM HEALTH CARE after they WERE DOWNSIZED IN THEIR LATE 40'S and it Took LONG AFTER COBRA for them to FIND ANYTHING...and THOSE JOBS DON'T GIVE ONE HEALTH CARE BENEFITS!

Talk about Doughnut Hole...What about those of us struggling to get to the AGE where we can get SOMETHING but until then we SCRAPE to get the $20,000 a YEAR to PAY FOR HEALTH CARE!!!!

Sorry to SHOUT...with SCREAMING CAPS...but WE WERE PROMISED OUR DEMS WERE "ON" THIS!

After they CAVED on GONZO SECURITY...How can ANY OF US HAVE FAITH that they AREN'T LIARS!!!!???

[Zensea]

3. Not my boss

but I work for a European company that has offices in the United States.
The benefits are all designed so that they can get Europeans to transfer over at times.
If they didn't design them that way people would just stay in the European offices most likely.

Oh and this is in the belly of the beast for sure.
The office I work at is in midtown Manhattan, New York and they have over 20 offices worldwide.
I'll refrain from naming the company.

[Trillo]

5. You mean this link

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/inalienable-dream-by-digby-for-all.html

The 'permalink' is at the bottom of each post's text.

[KoKo]

6. Link is dead...I'll go with original one in post and folks can "SCROLL DOWN!:

[Trillo]

7. If you're using windows,

mouse over the link, right click, and select "Copy link location" (or something similar if you have a later version than I have), then paste it where you want it.

If you only copy the text of the link by selecting the text then copy and paste, if the link is already posted here on DU and it's a long link (most are), it will be truncated or cut off.

I found the link on that site at the end of the article where the text reads: "digby 8/07/2007 01:25:00 PM".

[KoKo]

9. I use Windows...but Digby's site just doesn't have the "stuff" that allows linking...

and believe me, I've tried. :-(

[BlooInBloo]

8. Hm. It's not like Digby to misspell that grotesquely.

[KoKo]

10. Kick...this post might have gotten lost in "Link" Problems...just find it...it's a Great Read for

all of us who've seen Scum bosses promoted for lying, cheating, thieving....while we got demoted, downsized or outsourced.

Digby makes some excellent points...just scroll down to find the TITLE of the OP.

[live love laugh]

11. I'm currently suffering under a person like this. I found some info to cope

here. Hoping to get the hell away from this cunning tyrant as soon as possible.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2211244883274911625&hl=en

http://www.bullybusters.org/press/hrexec043007.html

http://www.bullybusters.org/press/politico030107.html