Another brick in the wall

We don't need no education 

We don't need no thought control  

Those who read all my posts knows that I'm in a job quest. Which is actually pretty easy in Paris. If you have papers. Of course, I don't. I still need a work permit, even if my country is an EU member now. But that's not the subject of this post. 

At the moment you could see me anywhere in the Paris region with a handful of CVs that I distribute all over the place. And I am having job interviews from time to time. Quite often actually. 

From small corner shops to big multinational companies. And those big companies are today's subject. 

Yesterday I had a job interview in an American fast food chain. I won't name names, but I'll tell you that they serve Mexican food. 

Well it wasn't really an interview as it was a school class. We were somewhere between 20 and 30 to listen their bullshit for about half an hour. 

First they told us that only the best of the best could work there. 

Yeah, you have to be a rocket scientist to chop onion and wash the dishes... 

Then they talked about all the usual crap like a big happy family, how their workers should feel like home and treat the restaurant as they own. Not just come to work, do the job, take the money and go home.

WTF?! I mean, WTF!? 

Well, guess what? That is exactly what I am gonna do (or not, whatever). I don't need another home. I don't need another family. I don't need more friends. I just need a job. A place to come to, do whatever the hell I have to do, take the money and go home. 

And that just because I can't get my money for nothing and my chicks for free. Not because I love to work and earn a shitload of money to some prick.

There was much more corporate bullshit you can here from all the little managers and directors of all those big multinational companies. You probably know what I mean. 

Because it's the same story everywhere. And the same profile of the managers / team leaders. 

Young people with a little working (and life) experience, usually not the brightest of all so they could be easily brainwashed. And brainwashed they are! 

They really believe in all the things they say, they are not aware that those aren't they words. They were programmed to say them. To think them. Even to mean them... 

It goes so far that some of them will consume only their company's products. Try to persuade their friends and families to do the same. Even if the others have better and cheaper products. And that would be almost fine if those were really their companies. But they're not. They're just companies they work for. And they cannot see that difference. Not anymore.

So, even if they are all the same, they'll think they are unique. They'll even brag about it. 

I have worked in quite a few of those companies so I can tell you they are not unique. They are not special. They are nothing more but another brick in the wall...