07 March 2011

If You Want to Go Postal at Work, Follow the Example of the Indians

And I mean East Indians, not American Indians.

You see, they don't go after their cow-orkers, they go after their boss, as in this case where they fired a member of senior management:
Indian police have detained two people after an angry mob of sacked steel workers burned to death a senior executive.

After learning they were laid off, about a dozen workers attacked a 4x4 vehicle carrying Radhey Shyam Roy as he was leaving the factory in eastern Orissa state on Thursday.

They doused it with petrol and set it ablaze, said police Superintendent Ajay Kumar Sarangi.
Needless to say, I do not endors violence against employers, even senior managers, but the fear of such violence does appear to be the only way to restrain their behavior, given that the moneyed class is pretty much above the law in most of the world, including the good old USA.

H/t JR at Stellar Parthenon.

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