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The Batlord · 07-24-2019, 12:15 PM

I don't think anybody's truly raking elph over the coals, it's just banter, except for the bleach thing if he knows the bums will eat it anyway. And I'd rather be the underling than be a manager when I know that rising through the ranks of a corporation means ever increasing fealty to corporate mentality. I'm not going to let some scumbag boss dictate how I treat "underlings", and the higher you rise the more you have to. I've seen too many bosses let their company pay rent to stake a claim in their brain.

OccultHawk · 07-24-2019, 12:18 PM

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That's fair enough. I'm not arguing against individuality completely.

I'm just saying I guess I think taking some stands against the system based on some moral is a pointless fight.

Like the fact elph got criticized for ruining some candy and having an underling do some dirty work
That's just the nature of the beast when you are a store manager at some corperation. What's the better option... Being the underling who gets paid less so someone else can step in and do what you weren't willing to? Nothing changes there except your status. The same outcome occurs.

I'm not completely amoral either I guess I just have less morals.

So far you’ve just cocooned yourself in the status quo. Unfortunately for you embracing the world isn’t a lifeline.

~~jwb~~ · 07-24-2019, 12:20 PM

I don't think it's just the boss that dictates it. It's a pragmatic result of any heirarchical structure. If there wasn't menial **** and dirty work to be done then underlings would be out if a job.

~~jwb~~ · 07-24-2019, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

So far you’ve just cocooned yourself in the status quo. Unfortunately for you embracing the world isn’t a lifeline.

do you have a job? Do you pay taxes? How exactly are you outside the status quo. You said you live as if you can't be governed. Give me an example of how you are less governed than I am by the same exact existing authority.

OccultHawk · 07-24-2019, 12:34 PM

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do you have a job? Do you pay taxes? How exactly are you outside the status quo. You said you live as if you can't be governed. Give me an example of how you are less governed than I am by the same exact existing authority.

I’d rather talk about your failure and how you think buying in and the old college try is going to take the noose of your past off your neck. It isn’t.

~~jwb~~ · 07-24-2019, 12:41 PM

I know you would rather talk about me. You would rather try to use information I've offered up willingly to try to insult me. While you hide in the shadows.

But my only stance on the old college try is that my choices got me where I am, in part. So hopefully making better choices will improve my situation.

I've said it before and I'll say it again .. I'm not saying the system is great. I don't have that much control over the system though. I do have control over what I choose to do. The fact that you would malign this basic, common sense stance would be surprising, except we've already established you're a bitter old man with nothing to live for who just wants to wreak havoc in the society you think screwed you over.

The Batlord · 07-24-2019, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

I don't think it's just the boss that dictates it. It's a pragmatic result of any heirarchical structure. If there wasn't menial **** and dirty work to be done then underlings would be out if a job.

Yeah that's why it's so insidious. A CEO can't afford to deal with the bottom rung as if they're people so they have to exist merely as numbers on graphs and reports, dehumanizing anyone below a certain level of their awareness, and anyone below hoping move up that ladder have to internalize to greater and greater degrees the idea that employees below them are numbers and not people and therefore disposable. I'm not willing to adopt that mentality.

I don't particularly care for most people but that doesn't mean I'm a sociopath who doesn't care how my actions affect them. My misanthropy softens with proximity and duration to others and while I still have little desire to be around them for long periods of time or learn the details of their lives it still bothered the hell out of me when my co-worker who'd had a c-section had to go back to work after like a week off. How much more emotionally dead would I have to become to be that guy who enforced that?

Lucem Ferre · 07-24-2019, 12:49 PM

We're not delusional, most of us know that we act contradictory to our morals and are parts of the problem. We just refuse to let go of our morals because nothing changes if you accept everything as is. They really just like to take the piss out of elph though, that's really all this is.

Honestly, most supervisor positions are completely unnecessary and are exploited by people that look to abuse their power. I've turned down a promotion to be supervisor and the raise it came with because of my morals before. It made a huge difference on my conscious and possibly prevented a good coworker from quitting. It's kind of a pick your battles when you can situation though. WWWP's solution is much smarter, but I'm just angry because I know how often good food gets wasted. Not even at elph, most of us would have done the same thing.

OccultHawk · 07-24-2019, 12:53 PM

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But my only stance on the old college try is that my choices got me where I am

Yep

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hopefully making better choices will improve my situation

It won’t.

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I know you would rather talk about me

You threw shade right off the bat. Throwing insults and puffing out your chest because at 31 you’ve finally reached the bottom tier.

Lucem Ferre · 07-24-2019, 12:55 PM

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You threw shade right off the bat. Throwing insults and puffing out your chest because at 31 you’ve finally reached the bottom tier.

Aren't you part of the problem by considering him 'bottom tier' or am I wrong in assuming you were against hierarchies?

07-24-2019, 12:20 PM	#63103 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I don't think it's just the boss that dictates it. It's a pragmatic result of any heirarchical structure. If there wasn't menial **** and dirty work to be done then underlings would be out if a job.

07-24-2019, 12:41 PM	#63106 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I know you would rather talk about me. You would rather try to use information I've offered up willingly to try to insult me. While you hide in the shadows. But my only stance on the old college try is that my choices got me where I am, in part. So hopefully making better choices will improve my situation. I've said it before and I'll say it again .. I'm not saying the system is great. I don't have that much control over the system though. I do have control over what I choose to do. The fact that you would malign this basic, common sense stance would be surprising, except we've already established you're a bitter old man with nothing to live for who just wants to wreak havoc in the society you think screwed you over.