Reply #39: Well... anyone who wrote a dissertation [View All]

[LanternWaste]

Well... anyone who wrote a dissertation has a little more upstairs than I do (college drop out here). :)

This is my perspective-- I simply sell my labor to the highest bidder.

"anyone who is laboring all day every day with no intellectual input to the process, no creativity, all just carrying out the orders of others is a "slave""

Sounds like the housework I do every night... :rofl:


No-- I'm not being snarky. I just don't think I'm a slave...and having read quite a bit on the subject of the history of unions and labor-management relations, I not only don't think I'm a slave, I take a minimal exception to being called one as it's a choice I make (I'm sure we all take a bit of exception when our choices are denigrated, yes?).

Having said that (and I guess my actual point), it's my opinion that calling a cube-rat a slave (even a lower management cube-rat like myself) does, to an extent minimize actual slavery in much the same way that calling a merely uncomfortable situation a 'holocaust' minimizes the wholesale slaughter that happened in Europe '36-'45.

But you seem to know what you're about, and that's a pretty good thing. I'm absolutely not taking (or attempting to cause) offense. :hi: