The days are long but the decades are short

Re:The days are long but the decades are short by VLM on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @05:44PM (#9455321)

As a contrarian view, I kinda like the strict schedule. Lets face it, you're going to have to suffer thru primate dominance rituals. This particular dominance ritual is well understood and easily worked around and isn't all that painful and usually isn't very punishing. What I'm getting at is the alternatives for the boss to throw some weight around and show who's boss are generally worse than a mere schedule.

"Oh, so that's your game. Well, I know it, can play it, can play it well. Bring it on."

Of all the situations to invoke the famous quote "Thank you Sir may I have another" I feel the best with a simple schedule.

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Re:The days are long but the decades are short by fu9ar on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @05:53PM (#9455355)

Calling an Industrial Age invention a primate dominance ritual is insane.

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Re:The days are long but the decades are short by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @07:16PM (#9455674)

I don't think that's the parents meaning.

There always have been and will be dominance rituals. Some would have been physical fights, but in modern office culture punching subordinates is seen as unacceptable - but some people still need some dominance rituals - and picking a fight over "do as I tell you and turn up on time, thus demonstrating I am the dominant one" is pretty tame stuff compared to a silver back ripping your ear off.

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Re:The days are long but the decades are short by fu9ar on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:10PM (#9456021)

Making the argument that those two behaviors, management insisting on punctuality and violent bodily mutilation, are commensurable is the exact kind of insane thinking that I am criticizing.

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Re:The days are long but the decades are short by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @12:27AM (#9456480)

It's the motivation that is the same. If you haven't seen it in action you're either very lucky, or not very observant.

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Re:The days are long but the decades are short by spectralnischay on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:38AM (#9456623)

Yes, but going back to the parent's point, while you may think it's instinctive to have a dominance trait, the "come on time" rule is only there probably because the manager's superordinate instilled it in him. I guarantee you we are not going back to our primate roots when we wake up and get to office, and OP might be thinking this in too much of a literal sense.

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Re:The days are long but the decades are short by fu9ar on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:04PM (#9463110)

No. It's not the same motivation. Human hierarchical social behavior is not the same as other primates. It's much more complicated and in most human situations social status is based on a constellation of intangibles rather than who can literally rip the other's face off.

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