After years of owning and running a private medical primary care practice I took on a side job 6 hours a week, as a Chief Medical Officer of a local nuclear power plant. That is where I quickly learned what it means to tow the corporate line. I was hired just after the plant had a 2 million hour of no on-the-job-accident celebration. A very big affair to which I was invited. Lots of awards, tables of food, and dignitaries. Two weeks into the job I examined an injured worker, who could barely walk and he was in moderate pain. I sent him home with followup and filled out the requisite worker’s injury forms as not able to work until improved. Within 30 minutes the head of the plant was at my door yelling WTF, this was not acceptable. The lightbulb went off in my head as I reviewed previous significantly injured worker’s cases with the nursing staff. Of course bonus pay was involved with the no injury record in the departments. Most significantly injured personnel were brought back to the plant by a co-worker for 30 minutes or so daily, allowed to sit in a chair and sign in, then escorted by car back home. Voila, no on the job injuries and the monies kept flowing. The injured workers went along with this scheme as not to disappoint his or her team.
This is what Caitlin refers to as everyone knows exactly what they are supposed to do without being told to do so. I didn’t last too long in that corporate world of deceit. Even when I thought I was advocating for my patient, I realized who was the boss and who set the rules.
Wow. I have seen some corruption around worker safety but this is unbelievable. Well... Rhetorically unbelievable, that is. Given what I've personally witnessed it's definitely not literally unbelievable.
The only place I think you're not correct is that the workers went along with it, "not to disappoint his or her team." I'd say they went along with it because they absolutely knew that trying to fight it would accomplish nothing other than costing them their job, income, home, family, and everything else they had worked for, including the future lives of their children, and that the system would continue on without pause after rolling over and destroying their life exactly as it had before they tried to speak up about the corruption.
I can tell you that I live in complete poverty because I saw what happened in the world and refused to participate. I worked for a quite influential accounting and consulting firm in a pretty low position but the higher-ups had actually marked me for future promotion because they thought I was a sociopath and would happily be a part of the machine in exchange for prestige and wealth. I saw and heard things that I found profoundly disturbing as I was raised with some pretty solid moral and ethical values. Mostly in the realm of what has been called, "affluenza."
I could tell you some stories about sociopaths mistaking me for, "one of us," and the things I have learned from those experiences that would horrify you. They really are a sort of different species that just looks like the rest of us.
After years of owning and running a private medical primary care practice I took on a side job 6 hours a week, as a Chief Medical Officer of a local nuclear power plant. That is where I quickly learned what it means to tow the corporate line. I was hired just after the plant had a 2 million hour of no on-the-job-accident celebration. A very big affair to which I was invited. Lots of awards, tables of food, and dignitaries. Two weeks into the job I examined an injured worker, who could barely walk and he was in moderate pain. I sent him home with followup and filled out the requisite worker’s injury forms as not able to work until improved. Within 30 minutes the head of the plant was at my door yelling WTF, this was not acceptable. The lightbulb went off in my head as I reviewed previous significantly injured worker’s cases with the nursing staff. Of course bonus pay was involved with the no injury record in the departments. Most significantly injured personnel were brought back to the plant by a co-worker for 30 minutes or so daily, allowed to sit in a chair and sign in, then escorted by car back home. Voila, no on the job injuries and the monies kept flowing. The injured workers went along with this scheme as not to disappoint his or her team.
This is what Caitlin refers to as everyone knows exactly what they are supposed to do without being told to do so. I didn’t last too long in that corporate world of deceit. Even when I thought I was advocating for my patient, I realized who was the boss and who set the rules.
Wow. I have seen some corruption around worker safety but this is unbelievable. Well... Rhetorically unbelievable, that is. Given what I've personally witnessed it's definitely not literally unbelievable.
The only place I think you're not correct is that the workers went along with it, "not to disappoint his or her team." I'd say they went along with it because they absolutely knew that trying to fight it would accomplish nothing other than costing them their job, income, home, family, and everything else they had worked for, including the future lives of their children, and that the system would continue on without pause after rolling over and destroying their life exactly as it had before they tried to speak up about the corruption.
I can tell you that I live in complete poverty because I saw what happened in the world and refused to participate. I worked for a quite influential accounting and consulting firm in a pretty low position but the higher-ups had actually marked me for future promotion because they thought I was a sociopath and would happily be a part of the machine in exchange for prestige and wealth. I saw and heard things that I found profoundly disturbing as I was raised with some pretty solid moral and ethical values. Mostly in the realm of what has been called, "affluenza."
I could tell you some stories about sociopaths mistaking me for, "one of us," and the things I have learned from those experiences that would horrify you. They really are a sort of different species that just looks like the rest of us.