Naive, I am

 
At university when I studied Business Management,
I learnt the business structures,
processes and procedures to empower employees
to keep them happy and motivated to produce their best work.
 
We undertook case studies,
also live simulations
and thesis placements in real businesses
in order to practice and develop our skills.
 
After graduation
I was happy
that the knowledge and skills
I had learnt
proved to be accurate and fruitful
to both the employers and my career.
 
Time has moved on
and in todays Australian workplace
tertiary qualifications and experience
are far less favored than trade (vendor) qualifications.
 
So for example,
an employee with an IT degree
has less chance of gettng a job
than say someone with a microsoft or cisco certificate.
That is just the reality of the modern Australian job market.
 
Unfortunately that same corporate attitude
has managed to permeate down through its management structure
expressing itself as the diametrically opposite business processes,
procedures, attitudes and practice
that I was first taught at university.
 
I recently had a conversation with a fellow employee
who had won a court case
against this employer
for a very similar issue that had recently occurred to me:
as documented in my prior journal entries.
 
This conversation revealed what I had only just come to suspect.
But, it is far worse than I had previously imagined.
 
I am so naive.
 
The corporate structures that are supposed to support and help the employee
have instead, unbeknowst to the employee,
been covertly co-opted to control and disenfranchise employees.
 
The workplace has become a paradise of indentured servitude.
 
No more empowering the employee.
No more positive motivation.
 
All the corporate structures meant to help the employee
have instead become covert channels to subdue and subjugate.
 
So you ask, what do I mean by this?
 
It turns out that the free counseling,
OH&S support and all conversations with HR
are in fact the sources of intelligence
that the employer uses in court against you.
 
All those parties ensure that the documentation
of all your contact with them
is attenuated in such a way
as to make you
seem to be the perfidious cause of the issue
and not the victim.
 
Even the independent workplace employee support person
is on the committee that covers up and manages employee issues.
 
The entire employee support system has been parasitised.
 
I cannot express how disappointed I am
to learn at how corrupt
the Human Resources and Business Management fields
have become in this workplace.
 
HR staff even get promotions based on subjugations;
although I am sure they call it something more politically correct.
 
I have been so naive.