(From a May 23, 2009 post, “Slackoisie-Fest: Fighting Loserism“)
Ben Franklin, Tom Edison and Clarence Darrow root for Greenfield in Doers’ Heaven.
–Holden Oliver (2009)
Listen, you creeps, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the filth and the crap. Here is a man who stood up.
–Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)
Fighting Wankers at Work. Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice rails, too often alone, against The Slackoisie: our Cliff Notes kids, workplace weenies, and new Maynard G. Krebses with a straight-faced argument on the right to be barely adequate at work. This is Gen-Y. You were born after 1978. You demand–with no real bargaining power–that employers buy into “work-life balance”. You want a family-life “lifestyle”. You call yourself Super-Daddy. Or Concerned Humanist. Or Non-Selfish Sensitive New Age Person. You want The Life–but without The Responsibility.
Some trendy if wimpy U.S. employers are increasingly buying into this. But sometimes “different” is plain bad. Different-ness need not always be accommodated, coddled or worshiped.
Enemy of Looters: Scott Greenfield (photo taken pre-industrial accident)