groveling for dollars

today i saw a co-worker - a grown man beg, plead, and grovel for the right to keep his job. he and i had committed a minor fuckup for which we certainly deserved a verbal reprimand, but, as usual a verbal reprimand wasn't enough and soon become an absurd and humiliating exercise in top-down managerial flagellation. i've been through this many times before and in many different settings from the insane regimented world of the army, to the hallowed halls of academia, but i'm not sure i've ever seen people seem to take so much pleasure in making other feel stupid, weak and small as i have here, and i'm frankly sick to fucking death over it. what is it that drives people to act this way? why such smug, arrogant and condescending bullshit from such pathetically shallow and haughty motherfuckers? fuck these people. there was a time when i would beg and plead to keep a piece of shit job, but not anymore. i'm done groveling and would rather be broke and homeless than eating shit from the hands of these thankless fucks.