How corporations really feel about us.

[SmileyRose]

Kudos to Orrex, who posted this in this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4519971


CEOs and executived in general are considered assets.

Assembly line workers and employees in general are considered liabilities.

No cost is too great in support of an asset, and no expense is acceptable in support of a liability.








This is so well put that IMHO it deserved it's own thread.

[zanne]

1. And, of course, the workers are being blamed for belonging to unions.

You knew this would happen; " the unions are the problem"! The USA Today article Orrex links to is the perfect example of this investor-class theory. They won't be blaming the health insurance companies for grossly inflating the cost of covering health care or blame the pharmaceutical companies for charging $100 for a $10 prescription. No, it's got to be the workers;when people can no longer afford to survive, it isn't "only business" any more; it's greed, corruption and indifference to human suffering. I'm just so tired of these pigs getting away with, if not murder, manslaughter.
I hope and pray that Obama will turn the subject away from blaming the workers to putting the blame where it belongs. Then maybe, just maybe, we'll see the beginning of some sensible reform.

[eilen]

3. In the hospitals, it is the nurses

that are costing them so much money. Sigh. Good nurses make or break a hospital. When the federal government comes to inspect, the administration woos us, drills us, trains us, makes promises. When we pass with flying colors, it is short staffing all over again.

[lpbk2713]

2. I think that is enscribed at the bottom of every MBA diploma.

It must be, they all seem to think that way.

[baldguy]

4. How corporations really feel about us.

[catzies]

8. Wow. That is a very powerful cartoon. Where did you get it?

It looks like a New Yorker cover. Was it?

[baldguy]

11. I found it on Pixdaus

http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=37261

He's a Russian political cartoonist named Denis Lopatin.

[nichomachus]

5. We used to be "personnel"

Then, we became resources -- "human resources," but resources just the same -- like steel, lumber, widgets -- all things to be bought and sold, stockpiled when times are good, and to be discarded when no longer convenient to the balance sheet.

[SmileyRose]

6. Wow that really hits home.

you know even middle managers can relate to that.

[demodonkey]

7. CEOs = Assets? Don't you mean AssHOLES?? nt

[Hidden Stillness]

9. It Becomes Clearer All the Time

The clues and the evidence for this thing are all over the place, more and more all the time. CEOs and other executives "must" be paid huge, exhorbitant salaries, bonuses, stock options, etc., etc.--even when they drive the corporation into bankruptcy or insolvency--because "we have to attract the best people," but actual working employees are paid minimal, poverty-level wages and no benefits, and if they don't like it, they can go to another corporation where they do the same. Corporations compete with other corporations for asshole executives; employees compete with other employees for jobs anywhere, of any kind.

Corporations would rather pay millions of dollars to legislators, lobbying to keep the minimum wage supressed, rather than just paying a smaller amount to increase their employees' pay at all. Insurance corporations have huge staffs of lawyers whose only job is to find any premise, however flimsy, to deny a claim. They spend more money researching how to deny claims, and fighting lawsuits over denied claims, than they do just paying the damned covered claims. One Canadian woman, I heard on a CBC news story, went from the office of a multiple-doctors'-practice, doing paperwork and handling insurance claims, from a practice in Canada, to the U.S., where she moved. She told that in the Canadian office, there were two people doing the paperwork; in the American office--same number of patients--there were thirty!

Corporations now make more money by fucking around with the amount of money they have--investing, and re-investing; speculating, and re-speculating--than they do by doing anything constructive--like making something!--and getting a payment for it. On and on and on it goes; first it flips one way, if it is them; then it flips suddenly the opposite way, because it is now us. Corporate capitalism has been the overriding threat to democracy and civilization for a couple of hundred years now, and yet again, they have gotten control of the whole system, as during the Gilded Age. This is going to be a very hard time.

[Odin2005]

10. We are simply "human resources" to them.

Capitalism dehumanizes workers into just another resource to exploit.