Your Opinion, Please (H2O Man Survey #24)

[H2O Man]

59. Great answer!

Man, oh man, after a particularly bad day, reading your message just put me in the very best of moods! Thank you so much!

In other contexts -- from farms to factories, carpentry to social work -- I've seen exactly what you are describing, in the sense of the "workplace" robbing a person of their self-respect. For example, at a factory I was once employed at, management KNEW that every young man they "elevated" to the most honorable of positions, foreman, would soon buy the new car, take out a loan for some home-improvement or another, and on and on. These guys (a very few women were made foremen), mortgaged their lives.

So when a supervisor said, "Jump," they jumped. They came to believe that they couldn't say no. And it may seem that a factory doesn't include a great deal of ethical/moral issues, but they sure as hell can. Especially, perhaps, because it was part of the military-industrial complex. But it damages people, and intentionally destroys marriages. (People having "affairs" at work are always willing to spend a lot of over-time at their job site.)

In Native American/ legal work, I remember a state worker who wanted to hang with the Iroquois. But when push come to shove, he lied for the security of his job. He betrayed us on an important case in court. And I remember, at one meeting, him bragging about the private school he was sending his offspring to.

In my mind, my wonderful Friend, that is a character defect. Not that I don't have my own. But I really have never fully understood the love of money.