How many corporations are anti-family?

[Deja Q]

Like the food industry. They sell happy meals and other items focused for kids and at ludicrously high prices, knowing the kids will terrorize the parents with "I want this!" "Give me that!" "Wah wah wah!" "I'll hate you forever if I can't have it!" and other Reagan-era comments. And we all know that the parents could easily cook something HEALTHY instead. Those "kids meals" are all sugar and fat anyway. Can you spell "obese"?

Also notice the toy industry. Considering how long it is before the child, due to basic inquisitive nature, will eventually dump the expensive toy for a string of paper clips glued to a pencil...

And note how many are tied into those childrens' "educational" programs... Gee, if they renamed the show from "Sesame Street" to "Elmo's World", do you think anybody would notice?!

[havocmom]

1. Easier to count the ones that are not anti family

Companies seem to be demanding such slavish devotion that workers have nada left for family. Have you seen the frozen PB&J sandwhiches? Have you seen peanut butter slices or in a tube so the wee ones too young to wield a table knife or too small to wrap their tiny hands around a jar lid can feed themselves? And pudding in a squeeze tube! No need to take the time to teach the little chaps how to use a spoon.

Only a nation way too busy would have products such as those.

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. Disney

is the worst, and it has been degradeing for years

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Anti everything personal...consider this...My mother-in-law

a graphic designer who recently lost her "real" job, currently works as a saleswoman at a major jewelry store(no names, but it's Hesslop's). She is 60 and has a heart condition (heart attack 3 years ago). She was not feeling well the other day so she called in to say so after she had gotten ready for work. Company policy? If you are going to take ANY time off, you MUST give three days advanced notice and get your shift covered or it's grounds for immediate dismissal...Hello? She needs to let them know 3 days in advance if she feels a heart attack or flu coming on. Freaking ridiculous these corporations are...all of them.

[Gman]

3. Because of the profit motive,

corporations are, by definition, anti-family.

[Interrobang]

4. I agree with the other posters.

All corporations are anti-family. They want you to treat the corporation as your primary loyalty object. You're not really allowed to have a life anymore. Boss wants you to work late, but you want to go home and do your own stuff? Whoops, too bad, you lose. Even small businesses are like that. The only family my ex-boss really gives a damn about is his own family. He's still taking money out of the company, but he laid me off, and when one of the other workers, one of the programmers, had to take some time off to deal with her kids, he told her she "owed him some hours" and made her come in on Saturday.

(Ever notice the mentality they train computer programmers into these days? They *expect* to have to work 60-70 hour weeks, and they make the rest of us look bad -- especially in small companies where the difference is really obvious. They also train programmers to be virulently anti-union, for the most part, so no chance of rectifying that exploitation problem they have anytime soon. If you don't believe me, go on over to Slashdot and see how long it is before some rabid Libertarian Randroid jumps all over *you* for being a tyrant of the majority or something. )

[SmileyBoy]

5. GE is the ultimate megalith, evil-conglomerate cartel menace.

I've been boycotting them all my life. They're the antichrist, IMO.

[leftyandproud]

7. no!

who do you think you will be hurting buddy?
my uncle worked for GE for 30 years...WELL above minimum wage, now living off a fat 60,000 pension.

BTW, he was an ASSEMBLY WORKER...one of the people on the line...manual labor. They pay great benefits and employ 300,000 people, who will be the first ones hurt by any boycott.

no offense, but your corporate hatred is going too far. You need to learn about specific companies before you boycott them.