What happened to personal responsibility?

And what did that sign say???

 

This forum is "Report A BAD Trucking Company Here".

What company is the OP reporting on?

 

Whats worse is watching people diss trucking companies they have never even worked for, only read about!

 

Just messing with ya. He most have posted it in the wrong place. It happens. Someone pointed it out already.

 

The sign said long haired freaky people need not apply.

 

I would say it is under the correct category.
A vast majority of the "BAD Company" posts you see here aren't really "BAD" companies, just driver's who didn't do their homework. They went in looking for Gold and found squat. Or, they don't follow company policies and then complain about the money they don't get.
Are there "BAD" companies out there, You bet.
If more people looked at the companies further than what some recruiter feed them, they wouldn't hire on with them. Then the companies would either go out of business or improve their policies.

 

You know what I can't understand is, for as many guns and gun owners there are down there, why aren't we hearing of more drivers going postal on these bad companies.... bunch of slackers...

Now that would be what you'd say, taking personal responsibility.

 

I blame parents not disciplining their children....and George Bush! What? Everyone else blames him for everything else wrong with this country!

 

I AGREE WITH U.

 

I can just imagine Roman Slaveholders preaching personal responsibility to eager slaves. I just can hear them extolling virtues of learning the system and working together as a owner-slave team for a better future and shaming evils of Spartacus rebellion that fuels a class war started by the lazy slaves who didn't learn to work the system offering unlimited opportunities (for the right&responsible people, naturally). Keep in mind that (unlike American black slaves) a Roman slave indeed could become a free man, get his own slaves, and get very wealthy. From historical accounts, later Roman Empire offered greater "chances" for social mobility to its slaves than the chances offered by the proverbial land of opportunity to its lower classes (including truck drivers) today. The only difference, Roman aristocrats failed to see the great potential of the language of "personal responsibility" for the social control. They mastered "divide and conquer" though. "Luckily" American ruling class mastered both the art of "divide and conquer" and the art of ruling by using the language of "opportunity" and "personal responsibility".

I wrote all of the above to ask the simple questions.

1) If every Roman slave would have become "personally responsible" and accountable for his own actions, would this remarkable transformation have terminated Roman slavery at a spot? Nope.

2) If every Covenant, PTL, CR England, Prime, etc. wage slave (sorry, truck driver) could become "personally responsible" connoisseur of inner company' workings, would it mean overnight tripling of the wages, home time, insurance coverage? You are not laughing yet?

The problem with "personally responsible" crowd - you don't see life/society/economy as a system, all you can see a trough full of swill in front of you, and you make a run for it. You get there first (allegedly), oblivious to the less lucky (and much more numerous) losers you trampled (directly or indirectly) on the way there and you gulp as much of swill as you can before preaching the virtues of "personal responsibility" to the ones who couldn't get close to the trough. Look at me, you say, it could be you if you played your card right. Yup, he could get to the trough first, but you and him could not be at the trough together. That's NOT how "free" market systems operate. Just think, if there are no desperate people one paycheck from starvation, who would do 80% of the jobs out there?

Losers are a must for the system to operate, and "personal responsibility" is not a part of an equation. Worker's "aristocracy" is the legacy of the first sweatshops in England. Owners figured out fast that if they treat all the workers like animal crap, that could flame into a big trouble sooner or later. BUT, if owners "designated" a chosen group (no matter how small) of better compensated workers, proverbial "opportunity" to join the upper caste would calm things down. Instead of uniting (that's commie, I know) workers would have cut each other throats to join upper worker' caste (and blame themselves for the failure). Divide and conquer. Classic. It's nice to see that American owning class learns from history while dumbed down, isolated and pussified wage fodder just blame itself and runs for the trough. Those who make it preach the virtues of "personal responsibility" to those who didn't. Ingenious social control scheme. Everyone is his own jailer, there is no need for KGB.