It’s an old joke from the Soviet Union, and in a very real way, it explains much of what brought down the USSR.<\/p>\n
Well, the good folks at The New York Times<\/i> have found a study showing that, after decades of MBA driven management by intimidation, a majority of American workers actually loathe their employers<\/a>:<\/p>\n I thought of this black mark on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 while reading an exhaustive and depressing new study of the American workplace done by the Gallup organization. Among the 100 million people in this country who hold full-time jobs, about 70 percent of them either hate going to work or have mentally checked out to the point of costing their companies money \u2014 \u201croaming the halls spreading discontent,\u201d as Gallup reported. Only 30 percent of workers are \u201cengaged and inspired\u201d at work.<\/span>
<\/span> At first glance, this sad survey is further proof of two truisms. One, the timeless line from Thoreau that \u201cthe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.\u201d The other, less known, came from Homer Simpson by way of fatherly advice, after being asked about a labor dispute by his daughter Lisa. \u201cIf you don\u2019t like your job,\u201d he said, \u201cyou don\u2019t strike, you just go in there every day and do it really half-assed. That\u2019s the American way.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n