How to keep someone with you forever.

[ironphoenix]

So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even.

A thought-provoking article from issendai. Am I putting up with this? Am I doing this to someone else, or contributing to an environment that does it to people?

Comments

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Holy cow this looks familiar.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Hopefully only from a wurk perspective, at least.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately not :(

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Aye, it does indeed sound familiar. At the same time, a system that keeps you interested and motivated is still better then one that crushes your soul.

I would rather be over-tired, over-stressed and over-committed for a good cause then under-committed, apathetic and slogging away at a useless task.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough many bad jobs manage to mix the worst qualities of both. "Keep on doing this useless task or the world will end!"

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I went from "count chairs or you loose your job" to "fight the uphill loosing battle to save the world"

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Imagine working for a company that is fighting the uphill battle to save the world, and your job is to count the chairs, which for some reason you don't understand is *really important* to the survival of the company.

Luckily I've never had that particular horrible combination.

[iclysdale.livejournal.com]

There are days that is terrifyingly like my professional career.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

A system that subverts one's desire to do helpful, useful things to serve its own ends without regard to the greater good is, I think, evil.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The grey area is where it subverts ones desires to do helpful, useful ends specifically to serve the greater good.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be better if people went in with their eyes open and made their own choices consciously and deliberately?

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Certainly; I wish I worked in a world where such was possible. Tis the peril of following the whims of politicians.

[shyska.livejournal.com]

Omg, it's like a how-to-be-Bob-in-a-relationship guide. Not that I'm scarred or bitter or anything, it just amazes me how very familiar scanning the subtitles felt.