Originally Posted by
Primavera
Show of hand voting was banned many years ago in dear old Blighty.
However, they simply made it so the cards they collect would be the "vote". They show up at your desk and try to strongarm you into filling out a card, they are standing behind your car and won't let you leave... then they show up at your door if you are particularly stubborn and make veiled threats at your family too.
A nice vote on paper that they cannot watch, in other words an anonymous ballot, protects both the company and the employees as both organizations (company and union) want something from the employee and in some cases will intimidate to get it.
Then if you don't join their little group and you force them to give you back the money they spend on political nonsense then they send in folks that talk real loudly nearby to tell you how they "hate the folks that do that and they wished they would all get fired first" and "we know where they park"...
This was my life before coronavirus.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
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- -- Aristotle
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