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Re:How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers C... by acheron on Monday September 02, 2013 @06:43PM (#6317625)
> What you're describing would likely earn you enmity or a very antagonistic working relationship with your coworkers.

I.e., the old crabs in a bucket story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

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Re:How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers C... by fnordfnordfnord on Monday September 02, 2013 @07:10PM (#6317726)
Thank you for that link, I had never heard it referred to as Crab Mentality. Note I wasn't describing my own life philosophy, but rather my observations.
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