Ricochet1a
Well-Known Member
These people bragging about how they don't eat any of the food at the free BBQs FedEx gives them sounds like angry people in general to me.
When I was working on Fred's plantation (Express), many of us constantly asked, "Are you going to eat the hamburger?".
This was as much of a rhetorical question, as it was a question of where one's priorities lay.
See, for those of us who knew we were getting screwed, refusing to eat the hamburger was a very small, insignificant, yet nevertheless important sign that we weren't going to rollover and partake of the handouts, while we were getting screwed in the much larger picture (no pay progression, deteriorating work conditions, retirement plan being gutted). It was insignificant, but symbolic in that we WEREN'T going to put on a smiley face and chow down the hamburger, while there were larger issues which were being totally ignored by Express - due to their paying a hell of a lot more for filet mignon for highly placed lobbyist and politicos.
A futile gesture, yes. But it allowed us to keep some dignity, when we were being screwed.
I never ate the hamburger after my first year of Express. By the time I left, very few ate the hamburger, and management had to resort to requiring employees to attend their little BBQ sessions. Even then, most of us made a point of bringing our own bag of chips and soda. It sent a very clear and unmistakable message - we couldn't be bought for a damn hamburger every once and awhile. Futile, yes, but we were able to keep just a little bit of our dignity in the process.
Don't eat the hamburger Fred offers up.....