🚀 go-pugleaf

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Dale Worley guesses (guessing is the essence of internet
communication):
> My guess would be that it is beneficial to the company to have workers
> be afraid.
Seems to me that it would not be beneficial.  Fear and the high stress
and anxiety ridden environment engendered by fear should lead to a
significant underutilization of the workforce skills, not to mention
the detrimental effect on safety and health of the worker.  Fear might
also increase impetus for employee theft and deception leading to
failure of equipment and facility operations which would also be a
loss, possibly catastrophic.

> ...any technique which makes workers work harder and keeps down wage
> demands is going to be important for the survival of the company.
If your company is focused on survival and not working on growth and
improvement it is just a matter of time, anyway, IMHO.

> Or it just might be that being a low-skill manufacturing worker these
> days intrinsically induces fear, and the company doesn't have much to
> do with it.
Yes, and no.  But since your .sig from "Bloom County" states: "I HATE
revolutionary jargon."  I will try not to be such a beecho about it.

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