Where Did That Zone Go?
Ok, I apologize. I ranted about things not Tuesday Morning and people were insulted. I realize that some of the info I posted here was not directly related to Tuesday Morning but I wanted to show a bigger picture here but no one is interested in that bigger picture. The post before this one hits it right on the head but it's now too late to change anything. Corporations are funding our government, who in turn is passing legislation to benefit those corporations. Where in the world do you think this 'Workmans Comp gauntlet from hell' came from. Legislation being passed to benefit corporations. Been refused unemployment. Same answer...special interest legislation. Been bullied at work...you guessed it...we're sleeping but corporations are right there with money for their favorite "law makers". There is not one piece of legislation in America that addresses how that CEO, COO, or whatever initials they go by treats you in their daily pursuit of all things money. They can bully you until you run in tears with no legal consequences. Now some are going to say, well, isn't that what it's all about...making money? Yes, but not at the expense of the planet or the people on that planet.
Back to Tuesday Morning...Larry the Zone was caught hiding things from corporate so was terminated. Actually I think the word 'scapegoat' can be inserted here but I regress. He was as unethical as all the top few, but he got caught because the top few do not trust anyone. Sheri has been under M. Marchetti tutelage so she's a bitch from the start. More fear and intimidation to a store near you.
So, some of you don't want to hear the advice given here...get out while you can. The big picture was presented here to show just how futile your attempts at changing Tuesday Morning Corp are. You voiced your opinion and what happened. Tuesday Morning came out with markdowns from hell. As for the Saturday Greencard, it was inevitable...most customers complained that they couldn't be there for Tuesday Greencard because they had to work. The June Saturday Greencard is an experiment that will assuredly become the norm if the numbers are what they expect.
I posted the contact info for the union. Store managers are excluded from joining the union if they have the ability to hire and fire, which corporate has taken away from you all. It will take just one store to have the guts to call (keeping a very low profile while doing so) and arrange a meeting to see what's offered. If you are waiting for me it will be a long wait because I don't work for Tuesday Morning any longer. I give advice, I pass on news, and I make my little digs at the inane bullshit going on around America, but above all else I am a cheerleader for us working stiffs who are being taken for a ride. I will state this once more then go away....this is way bigger than Workmans Comp at Tuesday Morning, it is about laws being passed to screw all of you out of your HARD EARNED money.
PS: Is that kiosk computer still kicking out applicants if they can't lift fifty pounds. That is proof that you are being abused. OSHA states that if a carton is forty pounds that two people are required to lift and/or move it. When is the last time you had enough people to do just that...never, you say?
posted by Ed @ 12:04 PM
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Something that I found interesting:
I only took some of the more interesting:
Trumpeter (1996)
ISSN: 0832-6193
Creating Ecosophical Change?
Michael Caley
Trumpeter
MICHAEL CALEY is a freelance educational consultant who lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
1. The Profit Imperative. Profit is the ultimate measure of all corporate decisions. It takes precedence over community well-being, worker health, public health, peace, environmental preservation, or national security."
3. Competition & Aggression. "On the one hand, corporations require a high degree of cooperation within management. On the other hand, they place every person in management in fierce competition with each other. ... Corporate (or athletic) ideology holds that competition improves worker incentive and corporate performance, and therefore benefits society. Our society has accepted this premise utterly. Unfortunately, however, it also surfaces in personal relationships. Living by standards of competition and aggression on the job, human beings have few avenues to express softer, more personal feelings. ... such contrary standards on the job and at home can lead to a kind of schizophrenia that often plays out in busted relationships."
4. Amorality. "Not being human, not having feelings, corporations do not have morals or altruistic goals. So decisions that may be antithetical to community goals or environmental health are made without suffering misgivings. In fact, corporate executives praise `nonemotionality' as a basis for `objective' decisions. ... when corporations say `we care`, it is almost always in response to the widespread perception that they do not care. And they don't. How could they? Corporations do not have feelings or morals. All acts are in the service of profit."
5. Hierarchy. "Corporate law requires that corporations be structured into classes of superiors and subordinates within a centralized pyramidal structure: chairman, directors, CEO, vice presidents, division managers, and so on. The efficiency of this hierarchical form, which also characterizes the military, the government, and most institutions in our society, is rarely questioned. ... That effective, non-hierarchical modes of organization exist on the planet, and have been successful for millennia, is barely known by most Americans."
6. Quantification, Linearity & Segmentation. "Corporations require that subjective information be translated into objective form, i.e. numbers. This excludes from the decision-making process all values that do not so translate. The subjective or spiritual aspects of forests, for example, cannot be translated, and so do not enter corporate equations. ... When corporations are asked to clean up their smokestack emissions, they lobby to relax the new standard, to contain costs. The result is that a predictable number of people are expected to become sick and die. The operative corporate standard is not `as safe as humanly possible' but rather, `as safe as possible commensurate with maintaining acceptable profit'."
7. Dehumanization. "If the environment and the community are objectified by corporations, with all decisions measured against public relations or profit standards, so is the employee objectified and dehumanized. Corporations make a conscious effort to depersonalize. ... In the great majority of corporations, employees are viewed as ciphers, as cogs in the wheel, replaceable by others or by machines."
8. Exploitation. "All corporate profit is obtained by a simple formula: Profit equals the difference between the amount paid to an employee and the economic value of the employee's output, and/or the difference between the amount paid for raw materials used in production (including costs of processing) and the ultimate sales price of the processed raw materials. Karl Marx was right: a worker is not compensated for the full value of his or her labour; neither is the raw material supplier. The owners of capital skim off part of the value as profit. Profit is based on underpayment. ... Profit is based on paying less than actual value for workers and resources. This is called exploitation."
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