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oneirophreniaThe National Labor Relations Board has ruled it's lawful for employers to ban "fraternization" between employees while they're on the clock OR OFF THE CLOCK.
Seriously...this country is groing more and more fucked every day.
I can and will grant employers the right to disallow employee "fraternizing" during work hours in the interest of, say, increasing productivity by forbidding unauthorized communication among the proles. It's not something I would personally ever stand for as an employee--anyone tried to enforce said rules with me, I'd tell them to suck my dick and quit on the spot--nor something I as an employer would even contemplate...but I can see how such rulings would be beneficial to slavedrivin' organizations such as call centers and the like. What productivity an employer wants to do on his/her/its own premises during scheduled work hours is prettymuch up to the employer alone--within a certain amount of basic reasonability, of course, and outlawing "fraternization" strains the boundaries but does not ultimately break them.
Who the FUCK got the bright idea, however, to encourage the NLRB to give the thumbs-up to employers demanding what their employees can do WHEN THEY'RE NOT EVEN AT WORK? If Cal U or Penn State or any-fucking-body ever tries to pressure me or decide for me what I can do when I'm not at work, they will find themselves a new teacher/ad designer/whatever, and may also find themselves facing a lawsuit...which will apparently fail, based on these new NLRB bullshit guidelines, but I guarantee that I will make the process hell on earth for them regardless.
This shit smacks of the mining patch days, when the bastard company men used to hold my grandfather and his ancestors to a state of virtual slavery to the "company store" and attempted (though they failed at virtually every turn) to absolutely control the lives of their workers. If you think my Croat/Slovene ass will settle for those conditions again, you've got a serious public ass-beating coming to you.
Seriously...this country is groing more and more fucked every day.
I can and will grant employers the right to disallow employee "fraternizing" during work hours in the interest of, say, increasing productivity by forbidding unauthorized communication among the proles. It's not something I would personally ever stand for as an employee--anyone tried to enforce said rules with me, I'd tell them to suck my dick and quit on the spot--nor something I as an employer would even contemplate...but I can see how such rulings would be beneficial to slavedrivin' organizations such as call centers and the like. What productivity an employer wants to do on his/her/its own premises during scheduled work hours is prettymuch up to the employer alone--within a certain amount of basic reasonability, of course, and outlawing "fraternization" strains the boundaries but does not ultimately break them.
Who the FUCK got the bright idea, however, to encourage the NLRB to give the thumbs-up to employers demanding what their employees can do WHEN THEY'RE NOT EVEN AT WORK? If Cal U or Penn State or any-fucking-body ever tries to pressure me or decide for me what I can do when I'm not at work, they will find themselves a new teacher/ad designer/whatever, and may also find themselves facing a lawsuit...which will apparently fail, based on these new NLRB bullshit guidelines, but I guarantee that I will make the process hell on earth for them regardless.
This shit smacks of the mining patch days, when the bastard company men used to hold my grandfather and his ancestors to a state of virtual slavery to the "company store" and attempted (though they failed at virtually every turn) to absolutely control the lives of their workers. If you think my Croat/Slovene ass will settle for those conditions again, you've got a serious public ass-beating coming to you.
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Date: 2005-08-04 02:44 pm (UTC)usually the term 'fraternization' is the labor codeword for banging a coworker, specifically within your chain of command. (up or down the heirarchy, rather than laterally) But this seems to be openly expanding the definition.
NLRB is supposed to be Pro Union... this is very puzzling.
I hope it gets struck down somehow.