Delayed Flight # 7

It is no longer enough to be an employee.
We are living in a time where company policies and procedures are being forced to replace our own morals and values, to adopt a corporate culture from a particular brand name that has the philosophical significance of generalized personalization we feel speaks to us and only us.
Our new religious faith in retail.
With jobs I have had in the past, I was always told that when I was on the clock, it was my duty to follow company policy at all times. When I was on break, I still have a moral responsibility to represent the company I work for if I decide not to eat in the break room and venture outside the walls of office parks and store front animations.
The hold on my life slowly slipping away.
I have realized through experience when trouble arises from a company mishap, you, the employee, should apologize to the consumers for the mistakes made, not the company. The only time executives will get involved is when the problem goes beyond the consumer and is attacked by government subcommittees, non-profit groups, or investigative journalism.
On my last flight when the rest of the passengers were stuck on the tarmac for an hour, waiting to get clearance from the tower to leave, it was the airline stewardess that apologized for the delay, not on behalf of the airline, but found it to be ethically sound to apologize as if she was the cause of the problem.
Employees take all the heat when sins are made, but your corporate god, draped in its symbol of perfection, will take all the glory when the company makes quarterly profits or serves a cause that the nation deems worthy of public notice during the wake of a natural disaster.
We are no longer individuals that are identified by our own beliefs, but subjects that are categorized by our job titles.
Understand unions are disappearing. The right for individual self is becoming obsolete as factories are being shutdown for cheaper labor in third world countries, making the retail stores our new industrial unit without the same balance between employer and employee.
We are at the helms of our demigods. We are at the mercy of the willful tyrants of executives and boards of directors that look down on us as used automobiles that can always be replaced.
Soon we will speak sentences that will be endorsed by our brand names.
Soon we will wage war, not against countries, but against competitive companies that will not merge with us when our gods feel consistency is more important than another company slashing prices.
Automobiles will resemble the outer exterior of race cars covered in logos.
Middle class homes will be splattered with advertisements of brand name entities.
Our neighborhoods will resemble amusement parks.
The entire world will soon be dominated by a hidden religion that has a far greater influence than all religions put together--the holy empire of consumerism, the savior of all our needs and wants that is able to give it to us now.
Money is power, and we as individuals have none.