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Unit 11/Post 11: Are organizations sites of oppression?

An organization is a group of two or more people that work together toward achieving a common purpose. Organizations are corporations and the serviced industry. Organizations also include non-profit companies such as schools, governments, churches, small businesses, etc. Critical approaches categorize organizations as “sites of domination” (Miller 116). In every organization there is always one group who is negatively affected or marginalized by the politics and structures that the company operates. 

This cartoon represents how some people shut their mouths because they might be experiencing financial instability, so they accept maltreatment from their employers and however are in a higher position than them to keep that job. From personal experience, I work in a retail store, and the way that cashiers are maltreated by managers is insane. Sometimes, cashiers have to work 12-hour shifts, they don’t have a stool or anything in which they can rest a little bit while the store is not busy. Also, when customers maltreat cashiers, the managers always talk badly in front of the customers because “customers are always right” even though most of the time it is the customer’s fault. The more humiliating thing is that when the customer leaves the store, the managers like to joke about that moment and tell cashiers “Don’t pay those customers no mind, you know that we cannot lose our customers and they are always right.” In my mind, it is like: so you can’t lose a customer but you will feel very good about losing a great employee. Unfortunately, some people have to accept those humiliations because otherwise they could lose their jobs, and losing their jobs also means losing control of the economy. 

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