First, obviously, I do not condone harassment of any sort and I have no clue as to the mental state of the Minnesota dude.
However, as a 40-hour-a-week cube-dweller myself and a veteran of the corporate mental torture, subservience, doubletalk and sheer relentless mindfuck that the dwindling middle-class of America have increasingly been required to adhere to and subject themselves to just to keep a crappy job, since Saint Ronnie Reagan - I can perfectly understand how a suicide in a parking lot could result from such an unproven allegation. It's tough to be a real person nowadays, and "faults" are corporately unacceptable.
The Corporation and its Ethics Code is God and Sees and Judges All.
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Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. Monday at 3? Sounds good. Sounds good.
I'm telling your supervisor.
Bang bang, you're dead. Sounds good! Have a wonderful afternoohoon!
In response to the Guantanamo suicides, the authorities responded with comments like "this was asymmetrical warfare against the US" and "this was a good PR stunt for Al Qaeda".
I cannot believe these spokesmen actually believed what they were saying. They must have been told what to say because surely no intelligent person could spontaneously spout such utter garbage.
Must have been a Compulsory Voice Conference I suppose. Call me to reschedule. 3.30? Sounds good.
I would contend that all four suicides were caused by the cessation of hope.
And the cessation of hope was caused by the poisonous current American policy and culture. Increasingly, I am seeing the duplicity, doublespeak, avoidance, grift and corruption demonstrated by the Bush administration, reflected in cubelife. The Guantanamo detainees have been denied representation, charges, communication with their families and any hope of release. Plus infliction of solitude, torture, and God knows what else.
In Cubelife, if you can get away with it, do so. If you can blame someone else, do so. Ever more complex rules and regulations and indoctrinations decreed from the Global Management require ever more complex evasions and excuses - else principled rebellion, necessarily secretive and subversive - in order to remain human and assert individuality. Humans repressed naturally react this way.
Nowadays, if you make a mistake, like spontaneously complimenting a co-worker's breasts or flying off to Afghanistan to fight for what you think is a worthy cause, be prepared to be frogmarched to despair, hopelessness and oblivion.
The difference between a Cuban compound and a Minneapolis parking lot is rapidly becoming a mere matter of geography. Welcome to the Global Suicide Corporate Economy Drive. Save on health benefits now! Join NAFTA! Now expanded to the Middle East for your benefit!
We are approaching the apocalypse, the sameness that defines hell on Earth, created by the New US Imperialism and false moral/christian hubris and tragically propped up - against their real interests - by the horrendous ignorance of the cannon-fodder who keep voting them into power.
Time to choose. Time to get involved.
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