Sweat Shops

Plenty of companies are accused by disgruntled employees of being sweat shops. That’s it, though. Few tend to elaborate on the accusation, leaving it to us, the regular people, to speculate on what they mean. 

To me, a sweat shop has always conjured up the image of a local market, not unlike common stores selling in useful and pointless wares. By that logic, sweat shops would sell actual sweat. And why not? Since inspirational quoters and diligent workers are always pushing the importance of perspiration, they never thought to specify whose perspiration exactly. Exactly. It can come from anywhere. If you’ll take someone’s unsolicited advice, why not their bottled sweat? Those who leave something to be desired in the ambition department are often hoping and praying a little genius rubs off on them. Here you have it, a real way for something to rub off on it. 

 

The thing is, how can a place be a sweat shop as well as focusing on some other industry, creative or otherwise? Seems like a lot. There are methods to create more sweat, in lieu of pituitary control. For instance, a faulty boiler, in capable of regulating a hospitable environment sure makes for a sweaty workplace. It’s the selling in the shop that sends many to the lavatory to expel any outdated notions of propriety and good sense.

 

But this could be the result of an imagination left to run wild and free, through wooded areas and protected nature preserves. Still, sweating it out is the reason the Finns swear by saunas and Texans swear at barbecues.

 

That said, you’re much better off working somewhere that gives you chills.