I am placing this here as I believe this has a philosophical context…
as I have mentioned, once or twice before, I work in a shitty
big box retail corporation… lately they have taken to selling
hunger bags, this is about the 10 or 12 year of selling hunger bags…
and the bags are supposed to go to food shelters to feed the hungry…
and I have no problem with that…
but, and this is important and why I am writing this, that this corporation
has taken selling hunger bags as the end all, be all of its existence…
I have someone, if not the assistant manager, the front end manager,
telling me, and everyone at the front end, to sell hunger bags,
every 9 minutes, no lie, regards of whether I am engaged with a customer,
or not, they will interrupt me to tell me to sell hunger bags…
and the reason they offer to me why I must do so is to avoid being
written up and being fired…and that is their sole justification
for selling these hunger bags… it isn’t to feed the hungry, but the true
justification which is the store manager gets a bonus based upon how
many bags are sold and the district manager gets a bonus and the regional
manager gets a bonus…and that is why they are doing the hard sell to us…
because my corporation makes big profits on the sale of these hunger bags…
but they cannot offer to me a single positive reason to sell these bags…
I am told to upsell the bags or get written up and be fired…
this constant, (and frankly abusive telling about selling hunger bags)
has gotten to me to the point, where I am actively looking for another job…
in fact, I called in sick today, so I can begin the search…and I have tomorrow off
in which I shall post my resume… (which I can’t find right now, so waiting for the wife
to get home to get my resume) I am tired of my big box corporation using me
to make bonuses for the managers and those of us who actually do the work,
get threatened with being fired every single day, no joke… I am tired of that
shit…
as to the reasons, I shall give to leaving my job will be lies and none-truths
because no one wants to hear the truth… you have to lie to get hired in
a job, any job…
if my big box corporation would at least tell me the truth, you are upselling these
hunger bags so the managers will get a bonus, I may not like it, but at least
its the truth… and I would actually consider staying because they at least told
the truth… instead of lying like they always do…
if they would give me one even one positive reason for staying I would,
because I fucking hate looking for a new job, it sucks in every way possible,
but right now, I only work as a means, not as an end… I work to make
the mangers a bonus, not to help feed the hungry, because the corporation
couldn’t give a shit about the hungry… they are just a “means” to
bigger profits which is about bigger bonuses… whither I live or die,
is completely irrelevant to the corporation… I only exists to make them
profits, and that is the only reason, I exists in their eyes…
but I hold that I have greater value then just the making of profits…
and I hold that all people have a greater value then just the making of
profits and bonuses… we have inherent value because we are human beings,
and we are alive… that is enough to justify our existence… we don’t need
to be “Productive” citizens or create profits to justify our existence…
we have value beyond the creation of profits or bonuses…
the philosophical question here is this, what value does a human being have?
how do we “justify” our existence? The common American refrain is that
existence is found through work…through the creation of profits and
bonuses…that alone justifies my existence in life…
but I hold I have value outside of and beyond the creation of profits and bonuses…
the only justification I need for my existence is my existence
and no other/more justification is needed
why do you exist?
and do you need to justify that existence for any reason?
Kropotkin