In the UK, we do it with a brick thrown through a boss's window. In France, they do it with a key that locks a boss into his office. And in the US, they do it by lampooning their bosses on Twitter.

Workers of the world are uniting, not so much to lose their chains but to get back at their bosses. Anti-boss rage is more in vogue than it has ever been in my lifetime and I find I'm watching the petulant display with alternate surges of glee and discomfort. The rage itself seems fair enough; the problem is the choice of outlets, some of which are more appealing than others.

The British way of chucking bricks through windows is the least attractive of the lot. Ugly, thuggish and illegal, it is also counter-productive. Sir Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, was one of the most reviled men in the country until some idiot lobbed a brick though the sitting room window of his Edinburgh home, thus making the disgraced banker almost popular again.