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There are proper channels for affecting change internally at a company. It's clear that these channels are working to some degree since an internal faction just
by tengbretson 7y ago
There are proper channels for affecting change internally at a company. It's clear that these channels are working to some degree since an internal faction just pressured the company into adopting an aggressive climate pledge.
My sympathies end when you get exactly what you were asking for from your employer in a negotiation and you continue bad mouth them to the press.
- uoaei 7y agoThis is the "you may only effect change if it's pre-approved" argument. Appeals to authority all the way down.
- tengbretson 7y agoNot at all. This is the "adhere to the agreed upon decorum of negotiation or get treated like the child you seem so keen to act like" argument.
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- uoaei 7y agoThe concept of "decorum" has historically been used as suppression from above of deviations from the status quo. Particularly to shut up women's movements, branding them as "hysterical" and "bitchy".
- deogeo 7y agoAnd corporations are those who decide what the "agreed upon decorum" is.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoRight, that's part of working in a large organization. Sometimes the rest of the organization doesn't want to do what you'd prefer, and you need to either disagree and commit or disagree and leave. The idea that you have to get your way, that any strategy becomes appropriate and justified if you haven't yet achieved the changes you want, is incredibly toxic.
- uoaei 7y agoThe rest of the organization, comprised almost entirely of workers, has almost no say in what is written in the "explicit company policy", so I don't see how your point is relevant.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoI don't agree. Company policies are definitely influenced, although not fully determined, by what employees think the company policies ought to be.
- uoaei 7y agoIn an era where everyone must earn wages to survive, employees sign on to companies' terms. Not so much the other way around, unless you're counting empty platitudes. If US history is any indication, the only way to reverse this trend is to enact laws protecting laborers.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoIs it not toxic to allow a company to treat workers in the way that some firms do? Is it not toxic to defer to a corporation's actions over that of citizens? It feels like the word "toxic" is used in this context to whitewash degenerate status quo corporate behavior as acceptable. Sometimes, any strategy does become appropriate and justified if you haven't yet achieved the changes you want, depending on the issue at hand. At some point, being reasonable may no longer be an effective strategy.
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