Re: Just whining... feel free to ignore!

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

What if you have a job that you can't leave and the work you
do turns your brains into cheese, the boss is a petty minded
bullying *** who makes everyone's life a total misery
such that everyone at work hates and fears him, there's no
talking between staff permitted at work, and so on?

Right now? Honestly?

Yes. It's been getting more common in recent years in the UK.

I'm amazed that people put up with it!

They need the money and there's often no way to stop it for all
that the law is supposed to provide protection against that sort of
thing - very often, the only solution is to claim constructive
dismissal at a tribunal, which is hard work - so hard it's almost
impossible to do without professional assistance so if you're not
in a union, you're screwed - not sure of success, if you fail
you'll be out of a job, and if you succeed you'll be out of a job.

Sounds terrible!! :o(

<shrug> It's the way of the world. It's New Labour policy to apply
more control to people, to firm up the grasp of wage slavery.

That's awful!

Well, yes, of course. That's the idea.

I reckon New Labour will be out next election. I think they've very
nearly lost already.

And then it'll be bloody Dave's lot. Oh god... Well, they can't be as
incompetent as the current lot, can they? Please god no...

But every damned government we'd had from the Second World War up
until Bliar took over operated a policy of improving social mobility
and slackening the shackles of wage slavery. All of 'em - Tory or
Labour, didn't matter, they all had the same idea: free the people!

It sounds like things have gone belly up since Blair was voted in! :o(

Haven't you noticed?

[snip]

What I object to about Bliar's lot is the vileness, the lies, the
hypocrisy, the way that they've reduced social mobility, increased
the power of central government, weakened the voice of the people
in keeping government under control, done a good job of reversing
the huge gains in freedom - mostly improved social mobility - that
all governments of all hues have been giving us since the second
world war. And Bliar comes along and puts us back to the 1930s...
Fucks up the NHS, fucks up education, fucks up everything he
touches. And he lies about it and believes his own lies.

Oh right :o(

Haven't you noticed?


I don't read newspapers and our TV is bust so I only know what is
happening from people online! :o/

You need to tune in to BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. Newspapers
and telly are no good for telling you what's going on in the world.

Private Eye has its uses.

Newspapers have recently turned into a sick joke if you ask me - the
tabloids went absurd years ago. The so-called serious papers have all
gone down the tubes, too.

Murdoch ruined the Times back in the 1980s. The Torygraph has recently
lost all its good staff and turned into a tits-and-ass Daily Mail-type
rag. I cannot express my loathing of what that Rusbridger creep has
done to the Grauniad, which used to be quite a good paper if you knew
its biases.

Which leaves us with the Independent - which, last time I looked, seemed
to have almost nothing in it; then Private Eye informed me about the
finanacial trouble it was in and how it could hardly afford any staff at
all. Ah!

(that ability to lie to yourself is one why we daren't have people
who obey the Pope running this country. You can't be a devout Roman
Catholic without having that ability and don't tell me I'm wrong half
my bloody family's RC. The nicer half, it must be said - but they're
terrible hypocrites at times and totally untrustworthy on *that*
level while being utterly reliable on *this* level. It's all rather
complex. But if you're RC, you know *exactly* what I mean, don't you?
Very kind and decent people, my RC relatives, and it comes in part
from the church.

Ah right! I know very little about Religion! Sorry!

The above has to do with the details of how it actually works in
practice. Never mind studying religion: this comes from a study of
people. In this particular case, people who follow one particular
religion in one particular part of one particular nation at one
particular time in history, so to speak.

It's starting to get beyond me now... sorry!

What I mean is: `I'm not talking about religion, I'm talking about a set
of people who are a set because of their religious affiliation'

[snip]

How long did it take for you to get round to doing that, though? YOu
put up with this violent physical abuse for weeks, yes? Outrageous!

only about a month :o/

You shouldn't have taken it for one bloody day!

[snip]

It depends how you define injury!

You were getting brain injuries - how else to explain the
headaches? That was seriously violent abuse and the perpetrator
should have been locked up for it.

She was the same age as me

Is that relevant?

It was the closest I've got to a friend over here that I haven't met
online!

A friend? Friend?!?!?!!!!

Not a friend. Really.

(Over here? Umm - is there something I don't know about?)

and everyone saw me as whinging about nothing
until I told the agency I couldn't work with her any more!

Ye gods. On the other hand, no-one's ever treated me that way. On
the other other hand, they wouldn't be inclined to try it. At least,
not more than once. I have a Paddington stare available when I need
it. It's ususually very effective.

I wish I could have done that!

Look into their eyes. Head level - not up or down. A calm expression.
Go into waiting mode. But `be there'. `Here I am - me, the human being
in front of you' is what you are saying with your look.

If you're pissed off, don't try to look pissed off. But if you *are*
pissed off, the tension will show in your face.

And that'll worry 'em. Just look at 'em.

Rowland.

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