I’ve always been of a mind that the real reason is the one they’ll never admit: it makes a liar out of their self-aggrandizement. It has to really hurt the ego to see all the work still getting done, or even [gasp] more work getting done the less they are involving themselves in other people’s tasks.
Either that, or is simply way less satisfying to those sociopathic fucks when they can’t see the fear in their peons’ eyes as they crack the whip. When your wage slave is only a tiny moving picture on your screen and they can turn you off with a press of a button it’s way harder to exert your authority over them and make them miserable (because you don’t pay them to be happy and satisfied after all!)…
I’ve always been of a mind that the real reason is the one they’ll never admit: it makes a liar out of their self-aggrandizement. It has to really hurt the ego to see all the work still getting done, or even [gasp] more work getting done the less they are involving themselves in other people’s tasks.
Yeah, it is, and always has been about control.
Either that, or is simply way less satisfying to those sociopathic fucks when they can’t see the fear in their peons’ eyes as they crack the whip. When your wage slave is only a tiny moving picture on your screen and they can turn you off with a press of a button it’s way harder to exert your authority over them and make them miserable (because you don’t pay them to be happy and satisfied after all!)…