Blue-collar new norm America: Dadio's handy manual to break workers' spirit - The 15 month employee longevity rubric

Dadio has embarked on his literary war plan, "Operation: Lame Employer Shouldn't Piss off a Guy who Buys Ink by the Barrel."   

One of my lame new norm America employers has totally broken my spirit.  They don't care about their employees, make no bones about lack of empathy for said employees, and basically celebrate their own bad behavior.  It's all so necessary for a new-norm America.  

It's the Governor Scott Walker, Congressman Paul Ryan, Senator Ron Johnson, and Gubernatorial Candidate Mary Burke, quad-fecta new-norm Wisconsin Soviet-esque work scheme. 

In the interest of disclosure, ol' Dadio is in no way a flaming union Democrat.  Just the contrary fair reader. If anything at all, Dadio is a flaming free spirit Libertarian.  A political and philosophical bent more often associated with Republicans.  

Like I say, "Shouldn't have pissed me off."  Bad behavior is bad behavior. 

The new norm now not-so-new-norm part-time, non-benefited, work place does not function well if an employee stays longer than 15 months.  It is at 15 months that the employer has the dilemma of trying to justify not even a nickle pay increase.  The, too-busy-with-new-productions excuse for no breaks or no lunch times, no longer holds water by the 15 month mark.  

With the realization of no hope, employees too dumb or desperate to flee before 15 months begin to reciprocate with minimum wage work out-put.

A truly disturbing trend is all too familiar. Seeing a couple young workers come through now and then that actually have a spirited outlook is not disturbing. But, over and over again, seeing their faces drain of hope by the end of the first week, is unnerving.  

The employer has little tricks to nudge these stubborn and desperate workers out: They will tinker with work hours like a dope dealer trimming shards off a brick of has```hish with a razor blade; they will harass employees if they see them by the vending machines, if there are even any vending facilities at all; they will keep the employees standing throughout an entire 11 hour shift; they will forbid employees from bringing food or liquid to the work station, yet not let them go on break; they will forbid lunch and say it is just the nature of the business; they will complain if the employee goes to the restroom; they may confiscate work locker space; they will schedule the employee seven days a week, but only totaling 25 hours, and thereby wrecking the whole week for little pay; they will administer rules on a Seventh-Grade rubric as in requiring only baby-bottles allowed for drinking water; they will not call low-level supervisors, "supervisors," but rather "operators," thereby obfuscating responsibility; management will never have an information meeting; they will not fix broken work tools like jacks thereby making workers struggle with heavy production material; yet, high-paid mechanics who are pals of management will wander around with no tools and grins on their faces with the blessings of said management; the same management will hire their children, pals, and relatives, and promote them over you; and, said management will come out to the production floor now and then, grinning, telling stories, move a product a bit, and vanish back into the office bunker.

But, the aforementioned management will never discuss the reality of the desperate situation.

Once the realization of no-hope is absolute, the employee will start missing days, coming in late, stop pitching in, and probably start voicing discontent. Good workers are transformed into bad workers; and, management will pounce on the paradox. It is only a matter of time before said employee vanishes. 

These jobs and employers lean on the excuse that these types of jobs are just temporary. They say,  "People move on as they move up."  But, there is no moving up in the new America.  Many people, especially older people have to work these types of jobs for years.

Employers know workers have become conditioned to except this abysmal life.  Many workers enter their 30s and have never had a real full-time job.  New convoluted norms and mores (culture) blame the workers for their failure.  It is a dandy strategy. 

If you see yourself in the above essay, slip on the glass slipper, it will probably fit. But, your prince will never show up.

People who shower before work in lieu of after work have no idea what I am talking about. What side do you fall on?