A new study from Bond University says almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways. From Bad Bosses Get Promoted.
Even the BBC is asking what is going on with America’s economic policy by the article question The end of the American dream?
The AFL-CIO is having a My Bad Boss Contest Here is just one story:
My boss knowingly hired my stalker
Stalked at Work, MaineMy boss made me wait on a dangerous stalker and then knowingly hired him to bus tables on my shift. It happened about 13 years ago, when I was waitressing full-time at a well-known national chain. Working conditions were pretty terrible, but I was struggling to support myself and needed the job
From Fast Company’s Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
This view is supported by research by psychologists Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon at the University of Surrey, who interviewed and gave personality tests to 39 high-level British executives and compared their profiles with those of criminals and psychiatric patients. The executives were even more likely to be superficially charming, egocentric, insincere, and manipulative, and just as likely to be grandiose, exploitative, and lacking in empathy. Board and Fritzon concluded that the businesspeople they studied might be called “successful psychopaths.”
Now, let’s look at some economic data.
Here we see jobs that are the engine of the middle class, those requiring college education, are down by 1.1% and 0.8%.
Source: EPI, jobs August 2007
Source: EPI, Change in Economic Distribution, 2005
Source: EPI, Income Inequality, August 2007
Now let’s talk PIE a favorite snack on Dailykos.
From EPI’s Who’s Grabbing All the New Pie?
the bottom 90% of households experienced a 4.2% decline in their market-based incomes1 (see the March 28, 2007 Snapshot), representing a loss of $1,293 per household on average from 2001 to 2005 (the latest year data is available). Had income growth been shared equally during this recovery, the bottom 90% would have been $2,071 better off than they actually were in 2005 (with a $778 income gain, instead of a loss)
Source EPI
So, with bad bosses, executive psychopaths and sociopathic corporations doing everything in their power to labor arbitrage Americans, Subprime Mortgages (and Prime too!) collapsing and working America is simply getting squeezed, isn’t it about time to demand strong economic policy change, especially for election 2008?
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