faceless corporations and employees being seen as numbers rather than people

[Labrocca]

Nice little poem actually..thanks for posting.

[deepk]

Multinational companies employing thousands and thousands of people across the globe have lost their face. These corporation have become faceless creatures and their employees have been reduced to mere numbers by which other identify them.

Gone are the days when employees were known by their names rather then numbers. In this modern world a taxi driver pays a tribute to the dying companies who recognize their employees by name at Friction.tv (http://friction.tv/index.php?vid=92)

[speedracer]

faceless corporations and employees

What's a faceless employee look like?

[firefox]

Like those weird masked people in The Wall ;)

[politicalplatformshoes]

Multinational companies employing thousands and thousands of people across the globe have lost their face. These corporation have become faceless creatures and their employees have been reduced to mere numbers by which other identify them.

Gone are the days when employees were known by their names rather then numbers. In this modern world a taxi driver pays a tribute to the dying companies who recognize their employees by name at Friction.tv (http://friction.tv/index.php?vid=92)


Do you want to expand on that a bit maybe? Just a bit of a clinical approach. I was quite interested to take a look at this website for the opinions of our British cohorts- the US is seen as for or against in a passionate way, but we don't often hear what the British people get to say. I thought that this guy http://friction.tv/index.php?vid=78 was a good example.

[firefox]

Know what's really ironic? The SSN. The whole program was supposed to be only temporary, and the SSN was originally never to be used for ID purposes. Then Congress changed some banking laws...

[politicalplatformshoes]

whats the SSN? sorry, im from the UK!

[firefox]

Social(ist) Security Number. I'm sure there's something similar in the UK.

[nmspl]

That is the latest trend. Give every employee a number as in Jail barracks and you loose your identity in you organisation. Every move you make , every thing you do is tracked by this number. Your identity as a human is lost for ever.

[wonder cow]

What's a faceless employee look like?

Nobody knows.

[Professor]

What's a faceless employee look like?

Nobody knows.


LOL.

I think it's a problem. The less of a person someone is to you the more insignificant they are. It's easier to take away someone's pension or give crapper insurance to employee 2376 than Sue Smith, wife of Brad Smith. They have 3 children Janet 6, Sonny 4, and Connie 2.

[firefox]

That's very true. Perhaps the traditional hierarchical business model isn't working as well as it used to...

[deepk]

What's a faceless employee look like?

Nobody knows.


A number on an ID card hanging round the neck.

[Pookie]

Well, do what we did. Don't like being a faceless employee in a corporation? Start your own business and raise hell. We did! It works.
Purrs,

[Professor]

What's a faceless employee look like?

Nobody knows.


http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/Mere85/zombies.jpg

^^^^^
Lunch break at a Fortune 500 company.

[Sugar]

Well, do what we did. Don't like being a faceless employee in a corporation? Start your own business and raise hell. We did! It works.
Purrs,


Thats the best solution to this problem of being reduced to a mere number.

[Pookie]

It is, we thought. It works really, really well.
Only running computer parts all over town gets to be a pain in the butt!
LOL.
Yeeesh, we're getting there.
Purrs,

[bluchap]

Thats what you become in a multi-national hude corporation where numbers become more important than your faces.

[Pookie]

No, we're local and the dang problem is that most everyone come yelling because they would rather deal with a Mom & Pop rather than Dell or HP, and we are the lowest game in town. Everyone else charges $60 an hour or more with a service fee, we don't. We charge $35, phone support is free, no service charge and see, that is why we are so busy, we're saving lots of people money.
And that is the way it should be done, honestly.
Purrs,
Pookie

[deepk]

Pookie
why not give your cat a number.....

[Mayberry]

Start your own business and raise hell. We did! It works.
I'm tryin'!!!!! Wish I would have thought of it before we had kids though. Pretty hard to give up steady pay and benefits with two rug rats. And my chosen profession (addiction?:P) is pretty cyclical in nature, feast or famine, and dependent on the economy's good health. All in all a pretty scary limb to walk out on. But had I established myself 10 years ago......:rolleyes: