I can remember it clearly. I was gathering all of my employment forms from every where I had worked so that I could do my tax return. Then, I just happened to notice that I had several employment statements, not just several but eleven employment tax statements. I had worked for eleven employers that year in addition to having two businesses of my own.
It was then that I like went through this transformation; sorta like that guy in American Werewolf in London. Only, instead of growing hair and turning to a wolf, I grew arrogant and vicious and turned into a Ho (a Ho is defined at TEMPCITY.NET as someone with multiple sources of income).
It occurred to me that with eleven employers, I didn't have to be nice to anyone of them. I could actually tell five employers to go to hell (or, my preference "KISS MY BLACK *SS) and still have six other employers to do with as I wished. I could tell that psychotic bitch at Employer 6 that, in fact, she was a psychotic bitch. I could walk into Employer 10 and, if anyone looked at me the wrong way, I could say "Later Aholes". I was like liberated.
Like Martin Luther King, I too had a dream. Only instead of seeing all of mankind together in love and harmony, I saw the world of transnational corporations as rich bitches that God put on the earth so that I could screw them for fun and profit.
Now when someone threatens to call my employer or to get me fired, I just laugh and give them Employer 7's telephone number. Now, I have no fear of photos of me naked in Central Park ending up on the internet. What do I care, I have eleven employers, I'm like invincible.
By admin (admin) on Thursday, August 7, 2003 - 2:13 am: Edit Post
The Employee As Predator
The United States is the only major industrialized county in which the majority of the workforce is at-will. In other words, in almost every major industrialized country except for the US, employers cannot just fire workers at any time for any reason.
I deeply suspect that had there been no Blacks in the United States, at-will employment would have been done away with in the United States a long time ago.
When Congress was debating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a lot of Congressmen voiced their concern that Blacks could use the Civil Rights Act to beat employers over the head. And I suspect that whenever the question of preserving employment at-will comes up, Blacks are always on the minds of the Congressmen who want to preserve employers right to fire workers at any time for any reason (i.e. preserve employment at-will).
In effect, the majority of the American population has no legal right to continued employment because Congress wanted to (and still wants to) keep Blacks down.
Now, I personally think that the reason why most Whites have not campaigned against employment at-will is because most Whites think that they are better off than Blacks.
The majority of the US workforce is temp and it appears that the White Temps feel that they are better off than the Black Temps are.
As more and more workers realize what employment at-will really means, then (in my view) there will be more and more workers who will come to the conclusion that their personal agendas are far more important that the agendas of their employers of the moment.
As more and more workers become aware of what employment at-will means, it is logical to assume that there will be more and more Predatory Employees who are in the workforce, not with some fantasy of having one beloved employer until they retire, but, with the determined desire to further their own personal agendas and wealth.
Christopher Paige is a fictional character in the Tempcity ™ webzine which is presented to show Corporate America how such a Predatory Worker could function in the workforce.
The question Corporate America must now consider is, "Are the benefits of preserving employment at-will greater than the liabilities associated with having a workplace full of predatory employees".
