On Narcissistic Dictators -- Goverment and Corporate

Dictators are often paradoxical, hypocritcial people -- actually all personality types are often paradoxical, hypocritical people. But we will talk about dictators here for a moment.

1. The most rebellious, anarchists are often covert dictators -- or overt dictators once they seize power. Their hate of dictators seems to be at least partly a jealousy, envy thing. In the end, it is they who want to be the dictator.

2. Dictatorial leaders often say that they hate being around 'weak, yes-people' yet they will often kill, maim, jail, and/or torture those who disagree with them. In the business world they will simply fire the serious disagreeers and especially the 'employee rights social activists'.

3. Dialectical-democratic leaders seek to negotiate win-win resolutions with their employee-workers.

4. Unilateral, dictatorial leaders seek to squash and intimidate their employee-workers.

5. In a corporate sea of narcissistic, unilateral, dictatorial businesses, governments and labour boards do precious little to protect the rights of employees and control the use and abuse of power by dictatorial corporate leaders.

6. Is it any wonder employees usually have to resort to looking for 'unions' to protect them from narcissistic, abusive corporate leaders. The problem is that union leaders are often just as narcissistic and abusive. But they are the best of two evil worlds.

7. But even getting to a union is very tricky business for most un-unionized companies. Companies will often seek to fire the 'union-activist-ring-leaders' of a company before they grab a good hold of a union with serious power. The labour board or government is usually no where around when this happens -- or looks the other way.

8. I've seen what can happen in a company that has two sets of employees -- unionized and non-unioned -- during a period of downsizing. The non-unionized workers usually get obliterated while the unionized workers remain solidly protected from firings and drops in pay. The drops in pay wouldn't seem so bad if everyone was taking the same kind of hit. But most businesses are run by narcissistic leaders -- not fair ones. Here's what often happens. The top managers fire -- or 'downsize'/eliminate many of the 'mid-manager positionss'. The mid-maanagers may fire many of the regular workers. The workers who are left over have to do twice as much work -- with no extra pay. The mid-managers left over have to do twice as much work -- with or without no extra pay. The top managers will then give themselves all 'fat raises' for all the money they saved the company and the fact that they all now have 'extra responsibilities'. This is the law of the jungle -- I mean -- the law of 'corporate downsizing'.

Cheers everone! Take your demotion, your extra work-load -- and put on a 'happy corporate face for company and your top company leaders' Be happy -- they could have fired you -- unless you were protected by a union -- and/or some sort of government 'equal rights/affirmative action' program.

dgb, July 9th, 2008.