Hello

Borders has recently set up here in Aotearoa by opening the country's
largest book retail outlet. Happily, someone leaked their management
training manual and a local watchdog group published an expose in their
magazine. The manual contained a section on how managers could recognise the
red peril amongst their employees - gasp... union organisation! Three or
four staff members huddled together conspiratorially... looking
self-conscious... awkwardly changing their topic of conversation at the
approach of the ever-vigilant manager or M-flunky... such are the signs of
socialist activity. Beware too of interaction between staff members who
would not normally be of the 'type' to mix, or out of hours staff
socialising that excluded loyal employees. The manual also outlined why
Borders had no need for unions - because they were a good and caring
employer, of course. Go figure. There was more besides - eleven 'signs' in
all, I think. I'm not the only one who'll not donate a brass razoo to their
sad little organisation.

b

bruce sandford
Hamilton 2001
Aotearoa - New Zealand

ICQ: 20816964

"It is the belief that power corrupts, and that people become irresponsible
in
their exercise  of it, that forms the basis for much of their [anarchists]
criticism of political authority and centralised power. Power must be
dispersed
they say, not so much because everyone is always good, but because when
power is
concentrated some people tend to become extremely evil." - John Clark, The
Anarchist Moment