Employment

Yet again I’ve had to explain to an employee that a company is not a representative democracy.

In the latter model, we elect representatives to ‘lead’ us by creating laws that we must comply with. Other than that we can do what we like on a daily basis.

In a company, we accept the leaders that are in place when we sign on and, within the constraints of common law, we do what they say.

If we don’t like what we’ve been asked to do then our recourse is to leave.

We don’t get to randomly do what we want.

Nor do we get to develop the rules that we have to comply with, unless asked.

And we don’t get to elect our leadership.

In fact employment, in political terms, is like a country with undemocratic totalitarianism but with completely porous borders so one can leave whenever one wishes.