Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/04/stoughton.html
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“Presentations”. They’re called “presentations”, PowerPoint is the product. A presentation is the product of using the product - PowerPoint.
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Who would have thought such a thing would happen in a company founded by a Nazi sympathizer?
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Locked in a rüm at Ikea? Did no-one have the master key?
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That’s what you got out of this?
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We can’t blame the Nazis. This is a venerable American tradition.
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Stoughton IKEA is the worst. Every time there’s some interesting IKEA promotion going on, you always see the line in fine print: “Not available at Stoughton, MA location.”
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Q-tips must really get you going.
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I just had a student say in class that they got that treatment when he started a new job at lowes… they all do this bullshit.
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Yeah, what was I supposed to get out of this? Making employees watch anti-union propaganda isn’t exactly news. Wal-Mart made me watch a similar video in the 1980s.
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Did they lock the door from the outside and tell you they’d terminate your employment if you didn’t attend the screenings?
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I doubt they locked the door, but it was mandatory if I wanted to keep my job.
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I have heard exactly the same story about Target. Somewhere there is a very successful management consultant who is quite sure American workers aren’t bright enough to ask, “why do they have to work so hard to force this idea upon us?”
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If the PP presentation was anything like what I’ve been subjected to at work, the trapped crowd would have been unconscious by the third slide.
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I wonder if Lowes, Target, et al, have ever considered that such presentations – especially if mandatory – could infuriate and inspire some workers to consider unionizing when they wouldn’t have otherwise.
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I dunno. Probably not. The guy who mentioned it didn’t seem too impressed by the tactic (and we were talking about Huey Long and Eugene Debs today… so unions and wealth redistribution).
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I guess I was projecting. I know that I would get spitting-mad if I had been subjected to this kind of stuff.
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Oh, if that were also me, I’d be mad too. I would guess in some cases it might, but I don’t know for sure is all I mean.
Also, forgive me, as I’m full of ennui, and it’s not quite wine-o-clock.
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Then BBS is not doing its job.
Hey! BBS! Do your job!
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