The Modern Organization

        This meme communicates a message using humour: for a culture that places such high value in democracy, our workplaces are rarely democratic. The interests of the organization as a whole, and its members are typically subordinate to the interests of those who have corporate stakes in the organization. This includes owners, investors, and CEO's who all profit from their ownership and financial stake in the business, without having to contribute the real, boots on the ground labour.

        I can attest to this firsthand, from my experience working for Maple Leaf. I know so many people who contributed thousands of hours and years of their lives to benefit those who had an ownership stake in the company. When its vaccine mandate rolled out from a corporate office in Hamilton and Toronto, so many essential workers lost their jobs and livelihoods. Were the employees consulted and did they decide as a whole that this was what their company stood for? No. It was a hierarchical, tyrannical decision from people who had often never met the workers they were discarding like machines.