Comments on: Corporations are people who can be very twisted http://www.workplacebullying.org/2010/02/05/corporate-psychopathy/ Work Shouldn't Hurt! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dr. Gary Namie http://www.workplacebullying.org/2010/02/05/corporate-psychopathy/#comment-1641 Dr. Gary Namie Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:42:16 +0000 http://www.workplacebullying.org/?p=2064#comment-1641 Jay, That's another American myth that is irreversible because of repetition throughout the years. It was a sentence in the head note to the Santa Clara case and not in the Supreme Court decision. But the guy died and it became legend and precedent. Corporations are chartered by states. Unlike people, when they misbehave, the state could end their existence. Read Thom Hartmann's book "Unequal Protection" for the full story on the fabricated idea that corporations are people. GN Jay, That’s another American myth that is irreversible because of repetition throughout the years. It was a sentence in the head note to the Santa Clara case and not in the Supreme Court decision. But the guy died and it became legend and precedent. Corporations are chartered by states. Unlike people, when they misbehave, the state could end their existence. Read Thom Hartmann’s book “Unequal Protection” for the full story on the fabricated idea that corporations are people. GN

]]> By: Dr. Gary Namie http://www.workplacebullying.org/2010/02/05/corporate-psychopathy/#comment-1640 Dr. Gary Namie Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:38:15 +0000 http://www.workplacebullying.org/?p=2064#comment-1640 Jay, Most of the countries with anti-bullying regulations have embedded them in their Occupational Health and Safety codes. Violations allow work stoppage in some places. However, they remain toothless because few fines are levied or they are too small to deter misconduct. Our own OSHA fines for death by accident is less than $10,000 (I think). GN Jay, Most of the countries with anti-bullying regulations have embedded them in their Occupational Health and Safety codes. Violations allow work stoppage in some places. However, they remain toothless because few fines are levied or they are too small to deter misconduct. Our own OSHA fines for death by accident is less than $10,000 (I think). GN

]]> By: Jay Jacobus http://www.workplacebullying.org/2010/02/05/corporate-psychopathy/#comment-1636 Jay Jacobus Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:35:05 +0000 http://www.workplacebullying.org/?p=2064#comment-1636 Corporations have incredible number of regulations to deal with. OSHA, WC, FDA, UL, ISO 9000, etc. They have these requirements because they won't voluntarily adopt procedures that make themselves good corporations. I for one do not like regulations. They add cost and use time. Even so, corporations are not good corporations with regard to constructive work environments. Do we form regulations to tell managers, supervisors and executives how to behave toward their employees? The answer is "YES" if they don't voluntarily adopt sensible non-bullying practices. We could make a minimal requirements on how to behave. Requirements that would prevent people from becoming targets. These requirements could be new requirements or they could be added to the OSHA requirements. Does anyone have comments? Jay Corporations have incredible number of regulations to deal with. OSHA, WC, FDA, UL, ISO 9000, etc.

They have these requirements because they won’t voluntarily adopt procedures that make themselves good corporations.

I for one do not like regulations. They add cost and use time. Even so, corporations are not good corporations with regard to constructive work environments. Do we form regulations to tell managers, supervisors and executives how to behave toward their employees?

The answer is “YES” if they don’t voluntarily adopt sensible non-bullying practices.

We could make a minimal requirements on how to behave. Requirements that would prevent people from becoming targets.

These requirements could be new requirements or they could be added to the OSHA requirements.

Does anyone have comments?

Jay

]]> By: Jay Jacobus http://www.workplacebullying.org/2010/02/05/corporate-psychopathy/#comment-1633 Jay Jacobus Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:35:57 +0000 http://www.workplacebullying.org/?p=2064#comment-1633 Hi, I already knew that the supreme court had ruled that corporations are people. What I don't know is how society would be different if they weren't deemed to be people. Can anyone enlighten me? Jay Hi,

I already knew that the supreme court had ruled that corporations are people.

What I don’t know is how society would be different if they weren’t deemed to be people.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Jay

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