• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Included during covid?

      Because being told to vaccinate is not a good thing to rebel against.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      “problem with authority” is just What authorities say when what they mean is “constantly questions our reasons and doesn’t just immediately do what we SAY exactly as we MEAN it like a good little puppet beloved citizen”

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        Not always. When I was a restaurant manager, I had a couple employees where I would patiently explain why we need to do something a particular way (usually for health and safety reasons), and they would deliberately do it a different way because they just “want to do it that way.”

        No, Chelsea, dumping a half-full soda somebody handed you into the ice you use for putting in customer drinks is not okay, get the fuck out of drive through, grab a bucket, and start emptying that ice out and cleaning/sanitizing the space. I swear to god if you complain about it, when you just put one employee out of action for the next half (let’s be honest, full) hour as well as making drive-thru have to go up front to make drinks in the middle of the dinner rush I will fire you on the spot.

        Some people have a “problem with authority” because they are belligerent idiots.

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
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      It makes me a more principled person and independent thinker, I’m not sure it’s always made my life better or easier. My problems with authority have definitely gotten me let go. Twice. And I think I did the right thing, calling out unethical behaviour or refusing to mislead people, but I do think I’ve suffered for it to be honest. And the other side? Little to none!

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Exactly. I have a fixed and entirely self serving belief that without difficult people, society would collapse.

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          ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’