In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. Clarke" > posted on
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:59:18 -0400 the following:

> On 4/19/2010 4:58 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> > In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted
> > on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:04 -0400 the following:
> >
> > > On 4/19/2010 10:01 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > > > In >,
> > > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Usually a motivating boss made me mad and made me want to go
> > > > > home, just because, by being the boss, he felt like he needed to
> > > > > come by and tell me what to do, even though I already had it in
> > > > > my mental plan for the day.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like you had serious communication problems.
> > >
> > > First, he doesn't understand the concept of "motivating boss" and
> > > confuses it with "micromanaging boss".
> >
> > I don't think I've ever had a motivating boss. What do they do?
>
> Make you want to work.

I already wanted to work. I didn't need any extra motivation. That's why
someone who thought I needed to be motivated made me sick. For example,
when I worked for Wal-Mart, the management found it necessary to engage us
all in some dreadful experience called "The Wal-Mart Cheer". It wasn't
something you could just refrain from doing out of your own sense of
dignity. It was mandatory. If you were seen not expressing the Wal-Mart
Cheer, you risked being written up by management. Whatever made the
managers of those places think that we need to be humiliated by being
forced to dance like puppets just to keep our jobs? That didn't make me
want to work. It made me want to throw up and go home, or do anything but
continue to stand there and look like an idiot just to keep my job. I
felt like I was dressed in tights and a tutu, and expected to dance like a
ballerina just to keep from being fired.

And yet... those jobs still need to be done by someone. Is it okay that
the many hundreds of thousands of workers expected to do the Wal-Mart
Cheer every morning are humiliated by their confinement to a job, just
because they haven't learned how to be an accountant or a doctor?

Damaeus
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