"kool-aid" term?
11-17-2007 | 05:46 PM
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"kool-aid" term?
I'm just curious, as a new guy, where the term "Drinking the company's Kool-Aid" came from. As I understand it, it refers to believing everything the company management tells you, instead of what the union says. Just curious as to the history, did the management used to serve Kool-aid or something during negotiations?
11-19-2007 | 08:43 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
It is from Jonestown. A cult that committed mass suicide by mixing poison with kool-aid. Brain washing and even "rehearsed" suicides led most to believe this was another practice and not the real thing. Drinking the kool aid is used when you will believe anything you are told without question.
It is from Jonestown. A cult that committed mass suicide by mixing poison with kool-aid. Brain washing and even "rehearsed" suicides led most to believe this was another practice and not the real thing. Drinking the kool aid is used when you will believe anything you are told without question.
11-27-2007 | 10:09 AM
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Appreciate the info, I was wondering too but my assumptions were way off. Terrible what happend to the folks in Jonestown and to the reporters that were murdered at the airport while trying to leave just prior to the mass suicide.
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