disney,bryman

[Madeleine Maudlin]

I don't know what a Bryman is, or what McDonald's or Cherry Coke has to do
with V., and come to think of it, glancing (I first spelled that
galvanating, no doubt a more fun word to glom to) back down here, I don't
know what emotional labor is, in fact I doubt that exists anywhere but in
academics' pinheads, such as Ritzer, for whom I'd be richer, no doubt, if I
had a gleem to McTheories.  Those who work at the corporations who have the
biggest, "most-human" image, like Disney, or McRibMe, are not the people
who live their company, who become bi-pedal burgers or four-wheeled
Roadsters kitchening into their gleaming surfacewares, it's the higher
levels of the Service Americas, the banks, etc., those Fucknuts of Oz, who
transform into entities of *the corp*, the people who hand their children
company IDs and bring them in for brain scanning with glee, they're the
ploughshares of the They, not the bulleted miners of South African
countries, who's only emotion involved is clocking in then clocking out.
All the particles of all the sands of the beach couldn't fill up the eager
emotional spaces of the Cro-Magnon of the executive suites who gaze out
high windows and gleen more glomming.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:46 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> P writes about labor; in Bryman, and in several other studies of the
> disney, the mcdonalds, isation of society, the use of mediated labor
> is discussed, this includes the use of emotional labor (Fordisms,
> McJobs, see Ritzer, and the scripting of labor, an idea we see exposed
> in V., and in the novels after V., the idea that a worker can be
> trained to internalize and present a corporate image and thus think
> and feel about him or her self, if only while engaged with a customer
> or when on the job, but as the job, the McJob is expanded to the
> Disney Land or Oz or Our Land, this land is my land and your land and
> it is a small world after all...we have not only the exploitation of
> emotional labor, but the shrinking of the free spaces, free times, in
> other words, the space and time and the mind, thoughts, are occupied
> with work, the disney corp & co. is mining our hearts for gold; we
> work, like machines, producing data, so turn off the compturer,
> un-plug, disconnect those cables, over turn the tables...and go to the
> beach.
>
> chow,
>
> Ali
>
> see, also rsa on youtube, smile or die, Barbara Ehrenreich
>
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