An edict from Her Majesty: Yahoo's CEO betrays her womanhood and workers of both genders

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28. One demented business school cliché piled 'pon the last

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how our kids are being taught to relate to their peers: the master owns the house and does what he/she wants; the workers are likely dead weight to be trimmed in order to reach "goals;" workers can and should be prodded under surveillance - a close observation - and their lives can be trifled with if they don't meet "expectations." If all of this sounds like a perfectly reasonable way to organize relationships in society, and it always was and always will be like this everywhere, then, well, that's the force of capitalist hegemony.

What I particularly like in this case is the baldness of the presentation. This is the way the capitalist class and their management flunkies talk among themselves - when workers aren't listening. This is the way they talk in the actual business school classes. Usually, when they "tailor" that "message" for workers, they include a lot of nonsense about "empowerment" and "partnership," and "co-development" and "enabling people to reach their full potential," and "developing lean, efficient organizations by strengthening effective relationships," and similar bullshit of this kind. To just say outright Master does What She Wants, and Fuck Anybody Who Can't Keep Up is very much a no-no in general company, and shows the poster to be a poor study in these sorts of things.