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So if you are a 'lefty' you need to stay a 'worker' ?
It was much more openly political in the NHS when I worked there as you'd expect but in a private company, far less so...It's a shame that - we need more politicking in the workplace - I couldn't work anywhere where we could only talk about certain things. I'm finding it difficult to imagine how you can avoid talking about it.
Depends if you believe going to work and getting a supervisory job/moving up the career ladder to improve your family's lot is by definition hypocritical or bettering oneself doesn't it really
C'mon... one of the good things about Urban is it's diversity. Or are you suggesting that before joining Urban there needs to be a political leanings questionnaire to make sure everyone's the "right" sort of poster ? And has the "right" sort of opinions ?
Wonder how many members there'd be then ? LOL (And anyhow - this is the employment forum innit for employment questions ?)
So if you are a 'lefty' you need to stay a 'worker' ?
It's called individualistic, corporate-ladderclimbing embourgification. Top those who wish to follow such a path I say this: go ahead by all means - but don't try and kid yourself or others that you are still "one of us". You've taken on a role that you know involves hringing, firing and dislipining "uppity" workwers onbehalf of the capitalist employer. Your loyalty is now to "them" and not "us". You can't face both ways at once.
Yes - it is possible to be a two-faced hypocrite who advocates left-causes like workers rights at the same time as sacking and disciplining them for being uppity and disrespectful to their betters in the workplace itself.
So if you are a 'lefty' you need to stay a 'worker' ?
I would say so - how can you be a boss and yet on the side of the workers?
Can 'uppity' in some cases also mean those who don't honour their contract in some way? Therefore are not doing their job.
Can 'uppity' in some cases also mean those who don't honour their contract in some way? Therefore are not doing their job.
numbers is a freeper who is pretending to be a left winger in order to troll as one to discredit left wing thinking...
That's the bosses side of the argument and they have no trouble being heard. I don't see it as the role of a socialist to aid it.
Ooops well, that's a goodly chunk of the workforce then including Nurses (matrons), Doctors, consultants etc etc & a goodly chunk of the folks I know from the council estats where I was born, all up agin the wallIt's called individualistic, corporate-ladderclimbing embourgification. Top those who wish to follow such a path I say this: go ahead by all means - but don't try and kid yourself or others that you are still "one of us". You've taken on a role that you know involves hringing, firing and dislipining "uppity" workwers onbehalf of the capitalist employer. Your loyalty is now to "them" and not "us". You can't face both ways at once.
I would say so - how can you be a boss and yet on the side of the workers?
Ooops well, that's a goodly chunk of the workforce then
Depends if there have to be automatically "sides" or if you want to work as a "team" - where I am - if we don't work as a team, the company don't get contracts and we are all out of jobs potentially - so it's a good incentive to work togetherI would say so - how can you be a boss and yet on the side of the workers?
Substantiate that or retract, please.
Or perhaps people want to get on and improve things for themselves ?There's a lot of truth that the ruling class has followed a policy of obsenely swelling the ranks of the boss-classes over the last 30 years in order to break down solidarity bewtween workers. Solidarity is hard to foster when you have workplaces where everyoen is someone else's boss.
The point is to fight to change this - not pretend it doesn't matter and pretend these embourgified types still solidarise with "their staff" regardless.
Would like to know how Poster thinks of a small shopkeeper employing someone part time to help them out or any other small business.. enemy of the worker? Always???
Good example also re: higher up nurses or teachers. People who aren't in 'business' to make money anyhow.
Or perhaps people want to get on and improve things for themselves ?
everythign you have ever posted on employment rights or left wign thinking is evidence enough of some one who doens't understand the prinicpals or indeed have any practical mehtod of implamenting it.
you reacitonary deleberate knee jerk posting style and your entire repitioure of usless catch phrase poltics.
All buuilt and designed as a freeper troll....
as i have said before Got your number freeper boy...
and let's face it no one but no one thinks you are a credible source of radical or left wing poltics you are jsut here to attempt to misdirect and turn people off left wing poltics with your constant embittered moaning...
even if you are not then you antics are such a good aprody of this that it achives the same ends.
so either you are a freeper troll or doing such a plausable impression of one as makes no difference...
QED
That's a good point and I'd say that the former are the old, "classic" petit-bourgeoise whilst the latter are the "new" petit-bourgeioise. In my experience, anyway, it's the corporate-ladderclimbers in the second category who are the nastiest to those beneath them inthe heirarchy. Others' experience may be different, though.
So the corner shop who employs someone part time to stack the shelves is 'corporate ladder climbing'?
Or just needs a bit of a hand because they are up at about 5am and don't close till 10pm?
Nurses and teachers are corporate ladder climbers?? I doubt most of them think of themselves as any other than a nurse or teacher to tell you the truth.
So, basically, nothing at all. And you, of course, are the Great Arbiter of what is "correct" or acceptable leftwing thought.
No, those are the old "classic" petit-bourgoeise. They don't really have a corporate ladder to climb - unless thei rbusiness expands dramticallly.
With them (and others who fall within what I call the "new petit-bourgeoisie") it depends on if they start trying to climb the corporate ladder within their employers and become responsble for hiring, firing and disciplining workers. it's at that point that a line is crossed, imo.
But it's the much reviled human nature to do itThis sort of individual advancement is at the expense of collective solidarity and accross-the-board improvements for all. It becomes an alternative to solidarity.