There was a time, prior to the Reaganomics Jack Welch Wall Street takeover, where many companies subscribed to the 123 rule: customers first, employees second, investors third, because when customers and employees are happy, the profit comes, as they’re the ones that generate it.
That meant security, promotions, real pensions, benefits, a sense of partnership in the work being done and, in this case, EMPLOYEE BUY IN.
now it’s investors 1,2, and only. That’s why service sucks when you’re a customer, and why most correctly treat their employer as an adversary. When employees are treated as disposable drains on company time, nickeled and dimed and underpaid at every step, threatened, scolded, and basically given zero respect, you have to be a sucker to care about your employer’s needs.
When your employer has a problem and you aren’t on the clock, not your fucking problem. Your employer has a problem outside of your job description’s scope, also not your fucking problem.
The workers didn’t set these terms, yet the owners and their blindly devoted bootlickers seem outraged when we recognize them and respond appropriately, as if it’s a personal affront when you don’t just take the abuse with a smile, falsely conflating being a doormat and a mark with being a “responsible adult.”
If you start a business and you cannot make money paying a fair wage and making a work environment people want to be in you shouldn’t have a business.
Easy for me to say, right, why don’t I go out and try?
I don’t have to. I watched my dad run a small business over the last 25 years. People don’t leave, they retire. People are treated with respect and paid fairly for the work they do. Bonuses are given when sales are exceptional. People are told to go to their kids soccer game, it’s more important to be there than at work, we will cover you.
Are people still unhappy with the idea of having a job? Yeah I think that’s pretty universal. But the culture they have makes it a lot better than many alternatives, and it turns out you can make enough money to be doing well and still pay your people well if your business is sound.
There was a time, prior to the Reaganomics Jack Welch Wall Street takeover, where many companies subscribed to the 123 rule: customers first, employees second, investors third, because when customers and employees are happy, the profit comes, as they’re the ones that generate it.
That meant security, promotions, real pensions, benefits, a sense of partnership in the work being done and, in this case, EMPLOYEE BUY IN.
now it’s investors 1,2, and only. That’s why service sucks when you’re a customer, and why most correctly treat their employer as an adversary. When employees are treated as disposable drains on company time, nickeled and dimed and underpaid at every step, threatened, scolded, and basically given zero respect, you have to be a sucker to care about your employer’s needs.
When your employer has a problem and you aren’t on the clock, not your fucking problem. Your employer has a problem outside of your job description’s scope, also not your fucking problem.
The workers didn’t set these terms, yet the owners and their blindly devoted bootlickers seem outraged when we recognize them and respond appropriately, as if it’s a personal affront when you don’t just take the abuse with a smile, falsely conflating being a doormat and a mark with being a “responsible adult.”
LOUDER, for the parasite-class business owners and their bootlickers in the back.
Obviously you’re including say billionaires
But would you believe this about a small family who starts a co-op?
Just curious, and my mouth tastes like tea not boots ;)
If you start a business and you cannot make money paying a fair wage and making a work environment people want to be in you shouldn’t have a business.
Easy for me to say, right, why don’t I go out and try?
I don’t have to. I watched my dad run a small business over the last 25 years. People don’t leave, they retire. People are treated with respect and paid fairly for the work they do. Bonuses are given when sales are exceptional. People are told to go to their kids soccer game, it’s more important to be there than at work, we will cover you.
Are people still unhappy with the idea of having a job? Yeah I think that’s pretty universal. But the culture they have makes it a lot better than many alternatives, and it turns out you can make enough money to be doing well and still pay your people well if your business is sound.