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This is definitely a cultural and social class thing. Poorer and/or more rural areas of the US are like this too. When I worked blue collar jobs you could com

This is definitely a cultural and social class thing. Poorer and/or more rural areas of the US are like this too. When I worked blue collar jobs you could complain about stuff to the people around you, coworkers would post gripes about stuff on social media and it was fine. Now working in a higher class white collar workplace I would never do that.

AnimalMuppet 8y ago
As a blue-collar worker, you could complain to the people around you... but your boss probably couldn't. As you move into management or into the white-collar world (either one), you can still complain, but your complaining will be taken more seriously, so you can't just blow of steam any longer. You have to complain, quietly (and rarely), to the people who can actually change things, and preferably with both a reason for them to make the change, and a suggestion of how to do so. It's a cultural shift.
PavlovsCat 8y ago
> WALLACE: What do you mean by "the marketing orientation," Dr. Fromm? > FROMM: I mean by that, that our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something. Now, this is not so true for the manual worker. The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. But, what you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions. -- Erich Fromm, http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/fromm_erich_t.html http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/from...

AnimalMuppet 8y ago

As a blue-collar worker, you could complain to the people around you... but your boss probably couldn't. As you move into management or into the white-collar world (either one), you can still complain, but your complaining will be taken more seriously, so you can't just blow of steam any longer. You have to complain, quietly (and rarely), to the people who can actually change things, and preferably with both a reason for them to make the change, and a suggestion of how to do so. It's a cultural shift.

PavlovsCat 8y ago

> WALLACE: What do you mean by "the marketing orientation," Dr. Fromm? > FROMM: I mean by that, that our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something. Now, this is not so true for the manual worker. The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. But, what you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions. -- Erich Fromm, http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/fromm_erich_t.html http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/from...