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Tired and Leaving
@mindspring.com
| Welcome to the US: Get Down on your Knees or Die!
Corporations don't give a damn about the people who depend on them for services and employment, because the people who own and manage them don't care. This stuff about liability concerns is just a convenient premise to hide those individuals lack of human decency. And employees who blindly follow orders are just as responsible.
I've paid some pretty heavy personal and professional prices for speaking out about bad and dishonest practices. And I am a mild-mannered, polite Canadian "guest" who came to live and work in the US 4 years ago.
None of this is terribly surprising. I've worked as a Senior Engineer for a couple of big US tech companies. After my experience here, I'm actively looking to go back to Canada or possibly the EU. Sure, the money is better in the US, but it's just not worth it. The unpleasant attitudes and behaviour of most managers and many of my co-workers still shocks me. Aggressive, cowardly, undermining and back-stabbing, selfish, racist & bigoted, greedy, uncaring, arrogant, and often stupid and incompetent. Am I describing your so-called president or the country as a whole?? Well, you decide. In my view, though, the current devolution of the US into a war-mongering corporate police state is directly connected to the abusive, bullying behaviour of so many individuals. It's all connected. You do see that, don't you?
The little day to day choices of indivduals add up to what we call "society" and all those other concepts. Institutions are made up of people.
If you can accept my critique and do a little soul-searching, there's still hope. If not, well...you know how it goes. "We were just following orders" didn't work for the Germans in the 1930's and 1940's and I doubt it's going to work too well this time around.
A little courage goes long way. | |
mitska
join:2001-12-25
Sarasota, FL
 ·Comcast
| Well, I have traveled around the world a few times in my work, and I would say to "tired and leaving" just this, I have found wherever I go, people are basically the same. They love their families and wish to be healthy and safe.
However, aside from these normal "just plain folks", there are ALWAYS assholes, period no exceptions. Ironically both my best friend and one of the worst assholes I ever worked with are both Canadian. Go figure. All I'm saying is that it seems like you are judging the USA based on seeing an extremely limited variety of people. | |
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