Workers reject only bad bosses, and criticism implies an ideal of impartiality.

Evidence

Three-quarters also considered the behaviour of their immediate boss correct; for most of those questioned, bosses further up the ladder belonged to a different world. The Institute’s assistants concluded from the group discussions that workers `do not reject their bosses as such, but they do reject bad bosses. Criticism therefore at the same time offers an image of a good boss in outline: he should above all be impartial, he should acknowledge good work, maintain good manners, and try to keep up a certain amount of personal contact.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 509

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Feeds the published piece on complaint as coded demand — worker grievances here sketch the positive standard the complainer is implicitly invoking.
• XREF: connects to: Workers reject bad bosses while desiring to be treated as human beings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2071
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Workers reject bad bosses while desiring to be treated as human beings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2071