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My guess is they assume, mostly correctly, that their viewpoint will be ignored. Even if their boss takes them seriously, somewhere between them and whoever can
by andrewflnr 5y ago
My guess is they assume, mostly correctly, that their viewpoint will be ignored. Even if their boss takes them seriously, somewhere between them and whoever can make useful decisions will decide that some dock workers opinion can't be worth more than all the reports and data they themselves are working with... or something like that. So making a stink about it is a lot of effort and emotional labor for almost no upside and non-negligible chance of punishment. Why bother?
- tomp 5y agoI don't think that the "low-level" workers' viewpoints are accidentally ignored, it's far more likely that the decision-makers at the top actively don't want change. The upside? Minimal (for them personally.. huge for the country). The downside? Anything "bad" happens, they're fired or worse (e.g. a stack of containers collapses, killing someone). Very asymmetric returns. On the other hand, Twitter publicity both forces them to do something (bad press if they don't), and also excuses them in case anything goes wrong ("well I thought it was a bad idea but they pressured me to do it"). CYA in action.
- geysersam 5y agoBecause if enough people do it, that might make a difference.