10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who’ve Been Screwing You
by Scott ThillLink to article
This is an excerpt from an article on Alternet. Click on link to read entire piece.
“Tired of getting pushed around by faceless big business? Here are 10 ways to push back!
The New Year is nearly here, and so much has happened. Wait, what’s that? Nothing major at all has happened, you say? Oh right, we’ve been stuck in neutral since dumping the toxic trash of the Republican Bush administration and embracing Democratic promises of hope and change, neither of which have blossomed.
A year of our collective life has flown by and our global culture is still rife with schemers, screw jobs and sorry excuses for solutions. And we just sit back and take it, year after year. But no more. When you make that hefty list of New Year’s resolutions, drop some of these bombs. Then duck. You’ll get your change faster than you can say, “Teabag this!” …”
Tags: 10 ways to fight big business, corporate jackals, Democratic promises, Scott Thill
December 21st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I already do a number of these ways to push back and I applaud Thill for laying it all out. I have 2 points I’d like to make:
1) Some of us do need cars. I care give for my elderly mother and a car is a necessity to get her to the doctor (several times a week) and for emergencies. I also have a part time business as a petsitter and need transportation for the job. I drive a 1992 Chevy S10 pickup, which would be a gas guzzler if I didn’t keep it in prime condition. I also don’t drive that much. However, when the electric cars come on the market, I will be the first in line.
2) We have to give Obama some leeway here. There’s always a backlash after the first year: “Gee, everything isn’t wonderful yet” and “Wow! He made a mistake!” Bush burned everyone but his buddies during his 8-year dictatorship. Okay, Obama isn’t the Second Coming, but he is human and I expect that things will get better for us. I don’t expect perfection. Also, I am already an Independent, which wasn’t a party (I thought) until Joe Lieberman apparently became one… Now I’m not sure what to call myself but I know I want to distance myself from that a*%hole.
December 21st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Wendi, I agree that we need to give Obama some time. I’m sure he knew that politics/politicians are corrupt, but I bet he didn’t count on the absolute atrocity of the health care reform fiasco. He’s a smart guy with a good heart, but is stuck in the spiderweb of politics. We all need to keep speaking up — we can’t expect Obama to fix everything for us.
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
Do not expect much from Obama. He is not the great reformer that many people think he is.
Some of it is the fault of the voters. The voted for Obama, but Congress was by and large re-nominated and re-elected. Here in Massachusetts thousands voted for Obama and did not vote for any other office.
People are also trained to pick one of the major parties, so they know that people will simply toggle back and forth. They represent the same interests.
When I ran for US Senate in Massachusetts I was the only one mentioning protecting US jobs. I am still the only one mentioning that. Any system you can think of needs people working at good jobs to pay to keep it going.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am
Obama has a “good heart?” Tell that to the preborn children he can’t seem to find any respect for. Let’s see, he’s a man who can’t find anything wrong with partial-birth abortion…or anything right with laws that demand babies who survive abortions be guaranteed medical care. Some “good heart” there.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 am
Give Obama more time? You mean a year isn’t enough time to even get started?
Let me ask you this… if you got hired to a job, and a year later you still hadn’t gotten to the things that were in your job description i.e. the things you promised to do that got you the job in the first place…. how long do you think you would last?
The lies and deception are proof positive that again, America got suckered by the single-party pupeteers that run the ghastly specter of our Federal Government.
… and if you think “it can only get better”, boy have you got another thing coming!! It’s time to pull our heads out of where ever we have them stuck (in the sand, up our butt’s, at Walmart, etc) and figure it out QUICK!!
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Thanks for the tips. I will do my best to keep those tips in mind, I’m serious when I say so. I won’t give up TV anytime soon. I love my HBO..well CNN, even if they are as bad as Fox or say, the BBC. But not everything corporate or mainstream is necessarily bad either.
But wait, hold on a sec there, Thill, WHY is it that hardly anyone (besides a few like Barbara Erenrheich or David Cay Anderson)
discuss the obsurdity and criminality of the MINIMUM WAGE in this country?
Why haven’t more people including popular commentators/comedians like Colbert or John Stewart…those “lib Elitists” like Bill Mayer speak out more on this subject??
Why doesn’t that hipster/lib gossip blog like Gawker.com poke fun of the corruption of minimum wage in this country. Oh wait, they’re just another gossip blog.
And Bono and his ilk? Give me a break. ALL of these peeps are out of touch with respect to WAGES!!!
WE NEED TO FOCUS ON WAGES. Not just minimum wage being subpar either…but those who are in middle management and above, they too are obviously being shafted and yet have millions of responsibilities/liabilities…not to mention the unnecessary harassing pressure to “bring numbers up”.
Those who talk about poverty and wanting to make a difference like Bono or Bill Maher are too dumb and out of touch to realize themselves.
So yeah, obviously, there are liberal lazy narcissists as well ultra right wing ones.
Stop talking about Wall Street, Asshats. Greed is in everyone, definitely among Washington politicians, “liberal” celebs, Beck, and *including* the AVERAGE/POOR Americans.
Apathy and GREED has fueled poverty and subpar wages in this country. Yes, that is what I’M SAYING. I know this is nothing new to many of you.
Even the poor are a part of the silent majority (True, the poor are busy trying to survive – I’m one of them. BUT -BUT – I’ve spoken out, called the media over and over again…I’ve made blogs…even on corporate sites…I’m doing “something”, right?)
And…btw,
THERE IS WORK.
Maybe not the kind of work that you or I really want to do..especially since some of us have an MA in a completely different field (God dammit) . But I AM willing to clean toilets or pitch credit or customer service…FOR a HIGHER wage that is. Give me a higher wage, Washington and Corporate America. Give me a chance!
GIVE college grads a better chance too. We have student debt, you know.
My Soap Box (as if the stuff above isn’t ha ha):
I work for a major retail chain. I have a MA and I make 8.80 an hour. I live with and rent from a weird and disgusting male landlord who’s trying to date me, while going through my room…I’ve had to instill a video cam everytime I go somewhere.
And I’ll say this, by now I’ve called out some corporate jackals at my employment many times over (never released names, never told them myself)..I believe that by now some have found out what I’ve said.
And as good as my CS skills/credit prossessing skills have been and touted by managers at my employment…I will not be trasferring to anyother store anytime soon.
Hence, I’ve fought with corruption at my employment, and I believe I’ve already paid a price. I’ve tried to transfer to the NEast. My boss keeps saying (for months) he’s going to tranfer me, give me a great ref, that he will be letting one of his “best” go…all the while, the man is trying to fire me.
I might be crazy for spewing this info on here….but I’m TELLING you the truth. Don’t think I’m being so delusional about this as of yet. I may be dead in the water, dead woman walkiing (working), but – I still speak out..God bless my heart :).
FIGHT MINIMUM WAGE CORRUPTION!!
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Sorry I labeled myself anonymous but don’t like my comments being publicly available on Google; last commenter – it’s called living wage and some groups have been working on it for years. Oddly it does not seem well known. And forgive me, but no, I’m not motivated by greed; I’ve examined my inner feelings about money and wealth for years due to having relatives who became accidentally wealthy, and I do not accept the social dictum that wealth is the supreme good, nor that the wealthy are better human beings. That said, it’s easier to criticize wealth if you have it – then you’re not labeled as envious. Thanks for the Thill ideas! I live some, will share others.