Hierarchy. It’s made up. In our collective heads. The origins of hierarchy were before logic. Humans are social creatures. The hierarchy we now pretend is real, isn’t real. It’s enforced hierarchy by us collectively. Too many people work jobs where they understand and obey the hierarchy. After obeying it long enough, they cling to it. If they make it up the hierarchy they think they earned it.

The assumption about a manager is that they somehow contribute more, and so the deserve more. They are the decision makers and they hold responsibility. But from the worker point of view, they actually do less work and they are actually less responsible. We’ve penciled in a job for management that didn’t exist and now we’ve all forgotten it didn’t exist. Seems as if management is needed, expected.

The lowest on the totem pole, are those who actually do the work.

What would the world be like without management? What would your job be like without management?

Climb the ladder and you’ll notice yourself getting further and further away from the actual work, and richer and richer while you do it. Richer should be because you contribute more, hold more value, need more, but when we think about how waiters would still be waiters without managers, a house can be built without one person being responsible, and without one person being the decision maker.

Maybe its just me, I think the group as a whole can get things done. If all the people want to build a house and they get together, they can make decisions together. Without management. And who is to say that if one person stands forward with a good decision, that that means they are the only people in the group who can make decisions about everything. We work this way because it is easiest for us to fall back to. ‘Who made the decision last time’ then they make the decision this time.

This is where Tribal work environments really set a standard of excellence that no hierarchy can achieve. I don’t only want to be apart of a workforce where I am an equal, I want to work with people who see themselves as my equal too. I don’t want to bring the top down to my level, I want to bring the lowest level, up to the top.

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Too many younger people come into my work environment and think they are too good to work there. They long for a better job and consider themselves more equal than the rest of us. I certainly agree they deserve a better place to work, they deserve better, just like all the other people I work with. All of the old Filipino people I work with deserve better. Everyone deserves better. It isn’t for a lack of trying, because most of the Filipinos worked their asses off to travel half way around the world to get to this job. They are probably the richer lucky ones too.

Speaking of Luck… Luck should be in the constitution somewhere. All men are created equally (except some are luckier).

Everyone I work with, deserves better, and some of them think they got better than what they were getting, so they work hard, knowing that they might lose it. I’m just happy this job has kept me from having to go into the military.

I’m going to attempt to start a tribally run company.