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10 Jul 2015, 10:32 am

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/ ... ity-policy

"A study of those who were targets of incivility found one-quarter admitted they took out their frustrations on customers. Dowden said they tend to be less committed, engaged and satisfied with the job and become a “flight risk.” The highly conscientious — usually the high performers who want to do a good job — are affected the most."



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10 Jul 2015, 3:51 pm

And then there is the vicious cycle of bad pay, random work schedule, low morale, poor customer service, and bosses who don't want to pay well, don't care if your schedule wrecks your life, hate your attitude . . .



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11 Jul 2015, 1:50 am

for the 99%, work more often than not, is some variation of hell.



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11 Jul 2015, 2:21 am

blauSamstag wrote:
bosses who don't want to pay well, don't care if your schedule wrecks your life,


They don't need to. They don't have an obligation to hire anybody, so, if the employee is so upset, they should go away and find something better. If they can't, then their current job, far from wrecking their life, is enabling them not to starve, so they should be very grateful. Not everyone is so fortunate.


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11 Jul 2015, 2:28 am

the way things are set up, the powers that be hold the very real threat of permanent homelessness and oblivion over the heads of the 99%, that is the single reason why nothing is done about the homeless in this nation, they serve as the stick, while the lexus automobiles and la dolce vita are held as the carrot, designed to keep us pachyderms [GOP or not] pulling those logs along. so long as we collectively keep our noses to the grindstone, they pay us just enough to survive, just enough [with the aid of payday lenders] to barely keep a roof over our heads and keep starvation at bay, enslaved to the system but not able to surmount it. the morlocks got us eloi right where they want us and they will only tighten the screws further until they get their infernal robots on line to make us fleshbags obsolescent once and for all. then we will be food for worms.



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11 Jul 2015, 3:02 am

That's a poëtic way to say the world is massively overpopulated. A much smaller population, comprising only business owners and the employees they actually need to keep their lives going, would be able to live a peaceful and fulfilling life. The rest of us are simply not needed, and have been kept artificially alive ultimately so politicians can justify their positions.

By the way, remember the Morlocks were descended from the working class, and the Eloi, from the privileged classes, not the other way round.


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11 Jul 2015, 3:05 am

Spiderpig wrote:
That's a poëtic way to say the world is massively overpopulated. A much smaller population, comprising only business owners and the employees they actually need to keep their lives going, would be able to live a peaceful and fulfilling life. The rest of us are simply not needed, and have been kept artificially alive ultimately so politicians can justify their positions. By the way, remember the Morlocks were descended from the working class, and the Eloi, from the privileged classes, not the other way round.

thank you for the morlock/eloi info :idea: but what you described sounds like a return to the days of kings, feudal lords and peasants. I can see that happening after everything blows up.



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11 Jul 2015, 5:11 am

auntblabby wrote:
thank you for the morlock/eloi info :idea:


It's not just a matter of names. The irony of the novel is that, although descended from the working class, the Morlocks were the ones farming the Eloi, not vice-versa.


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11 Jul 2015, 5:17 am

Spiderpig wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
thank you for the morlock/eloi info :idea:


It's not just a matter of names. The irony of the novel is that, although descended from the working class, the Morlocks were the ones farming the Eloi, not vice-versa.

that says something very dark about human nature.



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14 Jul 2015, 1:17 am

The word is incivility. The other one is rising.

It seems to me that poor spelling is also 'risig'. There is a feature here that allows one to go back and correct mistakes after one has already posted whatever it was that one wanted to say. I would suggest that more people here acquaint themselves with this feature. It's there for a reason.



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14 Jul 2015, 10:04 am

auntblabby wrote:
for the 99%, work more often than not, is some variation of hell.


More like 60%. Someone told me there is a theory someone devised that 4 out of 10 people need to be satisfied for the system to work, which would explain the upper middle class in a capitalist system. Now if that ratio moves too much, its conflict. :twisted:



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14 Jul 2015, 10:27 am

auntblabby wrote:
the way things are set up, the powers that be hold the very real threat of permanent homelessness and oblivion over the heads of the 99%, that is the single reason why nothing is done about the homeless in this nation, they serve as the stick, while the lexus automobiles and la dolce vita are held as the carrot, designed to keep us pachyderms [GOP or not] pulling those logs along. so long as we collectively keep our noses to the grindstone, they pay us just enough to survive, just enough [with the aid of payday lenders] to barely keep a roof over our heads and keep starvation at bay, enslaved to the system but not able to surmount it. the morlocks got us eloi right where they want us and they will only tighten the screws further until they get their infernal robots on line to make us fleshbags obsolescent once and for all. then we will be food for worms.


The late Charles Bukowski had said something to the extent of: I'm expected to have to get up at six in the morning, and drive through heavy traffic so I can make someone else rich, and be happy about it.


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14 Jul 2015, 1:59 pm


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15 Jul 2015, 1:49 pm

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