Your Boss!!

[The Children of the Revolution]

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There has been much wrangling on "Che-Lives" about the definitions of "Bourgeois" and the like. My "boss", when I&#39;m not at University this is, has the power to hire new staff and fire current staff. Myself included. But he is a "wage slave" himself amd cannot set wages or anything...

Anyhow, my question is this: is your boss exploiting you? Are you mistreated at work? Are you overworked? Do you like or get on with your boss?

My immediate "boss" is a great guy. He earns more than us (the "workers") yes, he gets a shiny managers uniform... But he buys the drinks down the pub and everyone gets on with him. He&#39;s not intentionally exploitative.

However, the "area manager" is an asshole.

And the "regional manager" is even worse.

The "third in command" of the company, (read: vice-vice-chairman) who we were "priviledged" to recieve a visit from, was death incarnate. From this I infer that the more "bourgeois" one gets, (please don&#39;t attack the terminology here...) the more arrogant and oppressive and greedy one becomes.

Anyone have similar experiences?

[Al Creed]

The more indirect the management, the less caring they are.

Your immediate boss is nice to you, because, really, he works under the same conditions as you do (or so it may seem...does he?), so he can relate to you guys, and respects you.

Your other bosses, the ones who you do not directly work for, only see you as a paystub, and not aperson, so you are dehumanized in their minds, thus the shabby treatment.

I used to work for Costco WHoleslae, and for the most part, the floor managers were nice people (except one who was obsessed with what angle the garbage cans pointed to). Yet, when it came to THEIR bosses, they were far worse. One booked me to work a 8 hour shit, collecting buggies on the parking lot (my job), where I spent 5 hours cleaning the lot MYSELF (trust me, It&#39;s damn near impossible to collect them yourself with 5 hours to do it in).

I dunno, I could be wrong.

[hazard]

my boss is refusing to give me my cash money for work shoes I am entitled to in my collective agreement

I will post my emails with him if he doesn&#39;t watch it

[Saint-Just]

I think thats true. Those higher up have a greater responsibility as to the money that is being spent and tend to treat those at the bottom worse.

[SittingBull47]

I was fired for messing around, the claims were so outrageously exagerrated that he accused me of trying to hurt someone with a line of dental floss 4 feet off the ground....anyway....

He asks around, he has goodies that run register up front spy on us guys/girls in the back, and if we say anything bad about him or the management he&#39;ll know.

One of the managers sexually harrasses a few of the girls, lightly. They don&#39;t like it but they don&#39;t stick up for themselves

The store sells expired products and the like for a price that isn&#39;t that cheap...

The manager (i call him the fascist) refused to put my poster on the store bulletin bored. It was a poster to make my charity organization known. It is to get the word out about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and how poor/destitute they are. It was never put up, even though there was TONS of room. Instead, I see the space taking up by advertisements for mennonite churches and those little pamphlets that preach protestantism and badmouth everything else.

It&#39;s all a real slap in the face, so I&#39;m glad i&#39;m not apart of that little "regime".

[STI]

One of the managers sexually harrasses a few of the girls, lightly. They don&#39;t like it but they don&#39;t stick up for themselves

Why don&#39;t you talk to the girls about it and encourage them to tell somebody who can help them (a labour lawyer, for example)? If nothing else, let somebody know on your own.

[Felicia]

My old boss was just as much an oppressed worker as I was.