Huge conglomerates like Target, Costco, Office Max, Blockbuster, and Home Depot are taking over every corner of America. They move in to towns, level low-income neighborhoods, bust labor unions, destroy small businesses, and exploit their employees. The more powerful chain conglomerates become, the less power the individual has. Corporate practices deprive the worker of a sense of collective spirit. Basic individual needs are all that is important to the worker.
Simple survival is the goal, keeping the job day to day.
There are few hopes for growth or promotion of any kind. Clerical workers are predominantly women, people of color, and representatives of other disempowered populations. Heterosexual white males are few and far between in the clerical workforce. Clerical workers frequently hold the lowest paying jobs with the least benefits, yet they are the people with whom we often get frustrated in our interactions. People frequently experience frustration when dealing with workers in any number of situations, renting a video, buying a book, or eating at a restaurant.