Happening right now in Belgium: employees locked the CEO in his office and won’t let him out until he is transparent about their severance pay.

6 comments

1. Pro tip: don’t do this

2. Good precedent for when I want to take one of my employees hostage in case they dont bring a sick note.

3. Based.

   Works in france.

4. This is not a kidnapping. It’s a special babysitting operation.

5. People seem to have forgotten that unions, as a representative and administrative entity, basically came about so workers would have somewhere to turn to for their grievances.

   A way to minimize the power difference between boss and worker, making it so the boss had to take the complaints and questions of the workers seriously instead of exploiting them.

   Centuries before this, stuff of this caliber, and worse, used to be a lot more common, just not something you’d really hear about.

   The point is: there is a power imbalance between boss and worker. The impact on workers could send them into poverty and criminality, robbing them of their ability to lead their own life, while the CEO walks off, not caring one bit. Money’s in the pocket, fuck everyone else.

   As an action of people who see their life potentially falling apart, I get why they felt the need to do this. Not much else left to lose.

   Not that the rich care…

6. very cool