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Our Greatest Loss
How common sense has been taken away
Most people who go to work on a regular basis know things are different. The workplace has changed across many industries in the past two decades.
Every year, the employee handbooks of many companies add more procedures for dealing with workplace behavior than would ever have been conceived fifty years ago.
Back then people would actually go to work — Not just attend their employment.
If a guy didn’t do his job or kept screwing it up and/or getting hurt, they’d just fire him. Today, that same employee is protected by laws and entities that have a side effect. They make exception for for worker deficiencies.
A system of warnings and chances are engaged to help salvage the employee and protect the worker’s rights.
At face value, these can be a good thing for the workplace. Before these safeties existed — workplace conditions were rougher than most people could handle and in certain industries were downright deadly.
This was obviously well before the creation of federal entities like OSHA, The Department of Labor and Industry and The EEOC.
These organizations had the specific role of protecting the worker without the bias of…
