[lbo-talk] Today's straw bosses

[Jim Devine]

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> > It wasn't just the incessant whiners, or the obvious apple-polishers, or
> > having to cover up for the occasional bad staffer that drove her nuts, she
> > says. In particular, it was the hiring. "Does it sound awful to say there
> > are just a lot of dumb people out there?" she asks. "Like the girl who
> > interviewed for a sales job and ate a piece of licorice on the way in and
> > spent the interview picking it from her teeth."

On 7/28/05, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Not too sound too much like Woj, but man, that's a fucking pathetic
> commentary on U. S. culture: "dumb" means that you don't follow
> arbitrary social rules about how to act around a potential boss.
> Apparently intelligence is--obedience to authority?

if one's goal is to get a job, isn't it irrational, i.e.,
self-defeating, to undermine your own efforts by not obeying the
authority figure who might hire you?

It's true that, objectively speaking, the authority figure likely
doesn't deserve any authority. However, real-world people who are
trying to survive, pay the bills, etc., have to follow the rules as
their handed down, not as they might exist in an ideal world.
-- 
Jim Devine
"History is not statistically significant" -- Lucien Foldes & Pauline Watson.