Employer Decorum gets a D.

So a friend over the weekend suggested that blogging may be a quick way to create a discipline. I like the idea of being able to just speak my mind without the stiffness of public societal doctrine.

I had a boss come into my office where I supervised. "Statuegal, you can't say stuff like that, we'll be sued! I have to write you up for disciplinary reasons." My quick response made him hurry back to his lawyer. "Sure, you do that. But, I'm not signing it and by even asking me to be something other than honest takes away my 5th amendment right. You put that in my file and I'll sue you." Now, I may not be a model employee. I clock in on time, early, ready to go. I get the job you require of me completed and with satisfaction. I just will do this without you blocking amendment rights. Slowly, but surely over the years Political Correctness has eroded my beliefs in my constitutional rights. How to fight back against oppression during a recession? BLOG. So I write.

There are so many injustices because of the few rotten apples, so much so it becomes like algebra! Remember? What you do to one side, you must also for the other. I don't know if I can live happily like that. It strips me of artistic license. Dear Reader, don't worry you won't find my naked butt jumping around in a water fountain to protest this issue. Indecency would be more than a stretch if I were ever found guilty of this crime. See! Common sense dictates that I don't do this. Common sense is what we should rule by not by idiocy and doctrines. By the way, you can probably guess I wasn't given a write up. Actually, I was given a raise! I think that George Castanza of Seinfeld said it right. I'll do everything the opposite. It can't hurt!

Employee rights are falling so short by my personal standards. Every legal loophole that is enforced is abused and battered. Uneducated employees by state human recourses don't even know how to work a system. Corporations are genius about it. They can screw an employee six ways from Sunday with a grin and one legal loophole. There are of course several. For instance, there is nothing from stopping a boss for employing somebody that is ill equipped for a position. They hire them and find out their skill set is not really what they were looking for in an employee. So they put this person on a Personal Performance Plan with weekly updates. Now, this employee knows that in the end they lose thier position if goals are not met or exceeded. Now this employee may have a disease. They may not be able to physically hold up to standards where great stress is applied. During the course of 3-6 weeks the bosses embarrass, humiliate, and overstep authorities held by this position. The whole office knows this employee can't stand up to snuff. They are ostrasized. They are spoken down to. Human Resourses continues it's stance on pressure and write ups. The employee under mental duress is taken multiple times to the hospital. Anxiety attacks are the cause of illness. What can this employee do? Run to find another job before the doctors note no longer protects her ability to get a check. Who made the mistake? My opinion is that the Employer is in the wrong. They should offer to cut the employee with a years pay and bonus. That employee didn't really fail. They were told incorrectly about what these standards would be and that had the knowledge been applied prior to the offer of employment; it would have been turned down. HERE IS THE LEGAL LOOPHOLE. Equal Employment Opportunity. This does NOT protect the employed but the employer. Here is an exerpt from the EEOC.gov site:


Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination;
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older;
Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments;
Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; and
the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

You may say that this case falls under the Title 1 and 5 of the disabilities act of 1990...you're wrong. Nothing prohibits specific programing and planning of an exit of an employee even in the case of being prohibited by physical deformity or illness. All that this entitles is that the employer must show that they are doing all in their power to assist (like buying a wrist pad for those with carpul tunnel) a person with handicap accessability to complete the functions of thier job. The more successful a business the more it ignores what got them there. Their people.

What I hate in employers:

*Uniforms- You may like that everyone looks the same I don't. Here is why. You walk into a Fast food joint and are greated with a created greeting that is meant to imply they are happy to see you, but just by enunciating or sounding distracted an employee upsets a patron. (God forbid!) You leave and continue to grumble about this "rude" employee. But you're so angered at the time by their attitude you forget thier name. Now you must remember who you think you saw. Nothing about this employee may stand out. "Look for the heavy set one with an attitude and a stain on the left side of uniformed shirt that looks a little like Elvis, and you'll be quick to find the one that offended me. Who knows if the right employee is ever written up, but somebody will.

24 Hour a Day 365 days a year Open for business businesses- This type of business is essentially corporate greed. I can't stand those companies that just work people like drones. They pay the impovrished to stay away from thier families and take advantage of those without education. They just suck....oh yea I'm talking to you 24/Hour Cashing Sites!

Companies that celebrate diversity- How much can you celebrate? Well you can party to a "thank god you're out of the closet!" day, a "hey you were born with an ethnicity that has pigmentation" day. You can celebrate "Hey you have a disability" Day, The list goes on and on. We get it. Not everyone is white, straight, republican, conservatives; however that day is NOT celebrated as it's assumed it's celebrated daily....ummm isn't that discrimination at it's most abundant? You're a Sneech without a Star! Let it be known that the largest Majority is Latino...not Anglo American/ Caucasian. Where are MY minority benefits peeps!

The human drone company- For a 30% increase in pay you can do the same job with less customer service and work as a nocturnal Drone. Your workload is increased with your pay and your bathroom time is counted to the millisecond that you pee...god forbid it's longer than 5 minutes..even if you're pregnant. You'll SO be on that Personal Performance Plan; just you wait! I've worked several of these jobs...sometimes they're the only ones that hire. You clock in at 10 pm and work till 6 cleaning up oil spills with sawdust, cleaning bathrooms, mopping floors, stocking shelves, etc. These are the jobs where tenure is most abundant. You have to wait for somebody to die or be caught in a sexually charged atmosphere with another employee to get a position better than the one you currently are employed at.

There should be an Employee Rights that have punch. The one that is currently in place is a pathetic joke and and is more geared to hurt employee morale and meant to enslave. What amuses me is that all of these things have happened to me or I've witnessed it in my 15+ years of employment. You think that small business would be hurt by being told they have to give employees health benefits...how about what it would cost to treat them with the respect you demand of your place of employment? My guess is Employers can't afford to respect us. We don't demand it, so it's assumed we're happy with it. I'm not. Who's with me?