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silveradeptEver walk down (or up) a set of stairs in the dark, or with a full armload of things, and step off the last stair, onto the ground, expecting one more stair? It's very disconcerting. You're certain there was one more stair there, you planned for the being one more stair there, and yet, no stair. Most people can relate to this idea in their lives - planning for a disaster and having it all go quite well, instead. It can make someone feel a bit foolish that they were worried about certain variables and they didn't come into play.
Other people looking at it from the outside might comment about the ridiculousness of the situation, because they could see the want of a stair there, and yet it seemed like someone assumed the was. He's the thing, though. Most people who expect the extra stair usually do so because they've tripped over it more than a few times. The person who is a great worker, but never seems to speak up,and wise ideas always are more popular when someone in Management parrots them? They've hit at least once missing stair, and probably the one called Patriarchy. The missing stair is pretty insidious when it's going to affect someone with regard to their job - it's not possible to watch it for it all the time, especially if you've been dealt a manager that deals in caprice and hearsay. Those people who are forever worried about getting in trouble have probably had the missing stair put in front of them for them to trip, and/or yanked or from under them for them to trip. Creativity suffers in that kind of environment.
If only there were ways of protecting people from those kinds of shenanigans that were easy to deploy and that could swiftly gather the evidence needed to prove the malfeasance. Like a collective group of workers that kept an eye out for each other. And laws that didn't permit employers to fire someone for any reason at all, including the paper-thin disguises that often appeared as proxies for more substantive issues.
If only.
Other people looking at it from the outside might comment about the ridiculousness of the situation, because they could see the want of a stair there, and yet it seemed like someone assumed the was. He's the thing, though. Most people who expect the extra stair usually do so because they've tripped over it more than a few times. The person who is a great worker, but never seems to speak up,and wise ideas always are more popular when someone in Management parrots them? They've hit at least once missing stair, and probably the one called Patriarchy. The missing stair is pretty insidious when it's going to affect someone with regard to their job - it's not possible to watch it for it all the time, especially if you've been dealt a manager that deals in caprice and hearsay. Those people who are forever worried about getting in trouble have probably had the missing stair put in front of them for them to trip, and/or yanked or from under them for them to trip. Creativity suffers in that kind of environment.
If only there were ways of protecting people from those kinds of shenanigans that were easy to deploy and that could swiftly gather the evidence needed to prove the malfeasance. Like a collective group of workers that kept an eye out for each other. And laws that didn't permit employers to fire someone for any reason at all, including the paper-thin disguises that often appeared as proxies for more substantive issues.
If only.
