http://nickcohen.net/2009/02/17/the-cult-of-the-supreme-leader/ Journalism from London. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nickcohen.net/2009/02/17/the-cult-of-the-supreme-leader/#comment-520 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:30:30 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=429#comment-520 Quite right. Every workplace in Britain (and for all I know elsewhere too) is run by people who are entitled to lots of money (because of their status) and to the unquestioning obedience of their minions (because they like bossing people around). They can do this because people continue to put up with it, usually because they have borrowed too much money to buy a house in a horrible place they don’t want to live in but feel they have to because it’s so convenient for the horrible workplace. And of course you must never leave the workplace before 8 p.m. because the horrible shit-head and your scabby colleagues might not like it. They don’t need to. I had a job once, but don’t want another one, and neither of my sons ever want to have one. None of us need this crap.

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/02/17/the-cult-of-the-supreme-leader/#comment-516 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:54:46 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=429#comment-516 [...] Nick Cohen: Writing from London wrote an interesting post today on The Cult of the Supreme LeaderHere’s a quick excerptTo varying degrees we all join a cult when we go to work. Even if we do not have to worship our bosses, we habitually wear an eager smiley face and applaud their ideas as strategies of genius. After 25 years in the London workplace, I can say with confidence that if you erupt into derisive laughter when they are talking or become so infuriated by their rank stupidity that you are overcome with an overwhelming desire to smack them, you will be fired. Not the smallest of the casualties of [...]

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