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> Perhaps, perhaps not, but it could well be _intended_ to humiliate
> workers. It has at least a slight resemblance to the technique a steel
> plant back in the '30s used for hiring 20 new workers. A manager stood
> on a ladder behind the barbed wire topped gate, beyond which were
> several hundred job applicants. He tossed out 20 brand new quarters. The
> 20 who won the scramble won the jobs. That has always been a favorite
> sport of ruling classes and their lackeys -- get the peons fighting
> among themselves. Example: cops picking up a gang member and leaving him
> off at night in the territory of a rival gang. And the lowliest lackeys
> will play the game. Supervisors in the Post Office are paid very badly
> and overworked. The only real reward the job offers is the opportunity
> to engage in various forms of torture. Many of them love to get the
> people they 'supervise' at each others' throats.
>
> Carrol
>