The workplace, especially in countries like America or India, is often fraught with perils for a worker who does not stand up for himself or herself—and also workers who do. Exploitation is frequently an integral, intentional part of the social construct of business operations, from undercompensation to unpaid labor to gratuitous verbal belittling. Oh, some of the people practicing it or benefiting from exploitation might not think it is irrational or unjust or dehumanizing, but they intentionally do things that objectively are exploitative independent of whether morality exists. They are simply classist, egoistic, and often quite hypocritical, such as by making lower-level workers commute to a physical office while the managers and executives laze around remotely. In other words, the philosophies of business held to by such figures are thoroughly irrationalistic. Disregard for logical truths and moral obligations for the sake of subjective gratification, assumptions about the nature of reality, and selfish gain is inherently irrational! Since so many people will likely face employers who do not know or care about these things, it is vital to protect oneself in the workplace when it is achievable.
The very technology so much of business now depends upon can be wielded for these ends, for starters. If you get fired and the company leadership needs to hide evidence of their stupidity, incompetence, or malice, they can delete or prevent you from accessing messages sent over company-related platforms. There are thankfully simple ways to proactively work around this. On your own personal device, not a work phone or computer, take screenshots of relevant messages on third-party applications or websites like Microsoft Teams; BCC your personal email address when emailing payroll about errors, your manager about contradictory or otherwise asinine expectations, and so on. If an employer or a manager verbally makes a particularly stupid or harmful comment or gives irrational instructions, there is always the option, though it might stir up strife, of sending them an email to "confirm" their stances or key policies for future reference, with one's own personal email address blindly copied.
If they reply to yield or recant, then it is documented, and even if they do not reply, there is still documentation. The company can absolutely lie about records they say they do not have, delete emails from their workplace server, and revoke your access to third party platforms provided by the organization, but this does not impact anything you took personal screenshots of, forwarded to yourself, or blind carbon copied yourself on. Thus, you can retain evidence of employer demands and assertions in written form. This does not mean they will admit to anything they truly have said (this does not logically follow, and I have experienced this treatment from an employer firsthand), but it does allow the employee to keep track of the evidence regardless.
More than quietly ensuring you have written or visual evidence of certain statements, there are ways to express defiance or manipulation as an employee without getting fired. And if your employer is in spite of their stupidity too shy or non-confrontational to fiercely argue with you or fire you, take advantage of this, which is not the same as taking advantage of them in sense of Biblically mistreating them! The same is applicable if they genuinely need you due to how crucial your role is or how crucial you are in the role. You can rely on the relative security provided by their unwillingness to fire you or their need to keep you as a worker by becoming more bold or aggressive in your firmness. This enables you to exhibit a greater degree of ferocity or rigidness without as much risk of losing the job. Just remember that there is no such thing as absolutely certain job security because, for one reason or another, there is no logical necessity in you maintaining your job for another moment.
The reluctant employer's personality could change or they could do something uncharacteristic by terminating your employment unexpectedly, but at least you will have done what you could to enjoy yourself more or push back against their delusions of they do end up firing you. It is just that some employers might be reluctant to outright fire workers because they do not want to pay unemployment, and so they instead might try to increase the employee's workplace pressure until they resign of their own volition. Without being irrational or evil, one can likewise lash out at them, except not for fallacious or emotionalistic reasons, and toy with them. Whether it is because they do not want to pay unemployment or are not assertive enough to fire you (however stupid it might be to do so on any given level), they might simply put up with it, and you can indulge in some individualistic expression as you manipulate or mock them more openly.
Thankfully, there are various effective ways to protect yourself or even combatively respond to irrationalistic employers in a self-benefitting, empowering, sadistic manner—without incurring as much risk as some might think. It is possible to utilize the likes of technology and verbal forcefulness, without ever believing in anything erroneous or fallacious or acting immorally, to serve one's own interests rather than just an employer's and to direct harshness towards the (probably) many irrational people in the workplace. Make yourself a valuable worker to enrich yourself and your family or to give yourself more flexibility in overtly denouncing stupidity in any form it comes in. All the obstacles in the workplace and in American culture to accumulating wealth nonsinfully do not have to stop you from figuratively striking at stupid coworkers or "superiors" and enjoying the manipulation of ideologically lesser people.
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