"We have grown up with the belief that control, consistency, and predictability are essential. We have separated managing the work from doing the work. We have created a class system inside our institutions. There is a management calss and an employee or worker class. The management class enjoys privileges and preogatives and is taught management skills. The worker class has fewer privileges and prerogatives and is taught operational or basic skills. The fundamental beliefs we have about how to run organizations and organize work aren't working."
- Peter Block
I'm working two retail jobs over the break from school.
More to come on this social experiment into the depths of hell, where, apparently, they've been all out of "holiday spirit" for decades.
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Having worked in retail hell myself, I can't wait to read ALL about it!! Blogging will be good venting, I bet ;-).
GREAT QUOTE!
i have to say, i don't miss the holiday season in retail hell one bit. of course, i worked at a bar and grill in a major shopping district, but over the ten years that i was there - i can attest to how nasty the general public gets this time of year. i came home in tears most nights after being treated horribly during my shift by those proclaiming to be in the holiday spirit. it was awful. just awful.
i hope your season isn't!!!
Ho ho ho... This is a dismal way to live, but oh so real...
Ugh. I used to be in retail. The holidays spent in such an arena did suck all the joy right out of me. Hang tough.
I heard a comment by a PR person in retail that actually said it was easier to train MONKEYS than people. Asshole.
Yikes my dear. Two retail jobs and study too - looks like you got Bush-whacked.
Get into IT - shit loads of money, little responsibility and then you can save souls on a one-by one basis.
This is going to be good... I can't wait to hear your experience.
Crazy traffic at the malls in Dallas.
I just hope you emerge alive from "the other side!!"
You must read Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. She's pretty radically liberal, and there are several stances she takes in the book I don't agree with, but I think she's dead on about working class America.
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