Why deal with a boss when you can go it alone?
February 14th 2011 08:45
No question, companies of mass employment can be tough cookies when it comes to work of some permanence.
There is a general lack of empathy amongst those up high, whereby they figure there is always someone better out there looking for the work. This raises some key questions - Why would they be looking for work, How can the work attract them when the job is being done with some competence by someone of (ahem) lower capabilities?
The big one, in my view, is as follows: What time, resources and company-specific experience is being wasted on staff turnover?
In a previous position with a large-scale corporation, I had a healthy and positive work relationship with the executive who had the power to shut down the entire branch I was working at, in the event things became financially unstable. And when that event happened, the only side of him showing was saying, "Do I know you? How is it that I'm paying you to work here right now?"
Within approximately 15 minutes, me and the rest of the branch had been given two months. Some were offered other positions, while the bottom feeders were left with the memory - oh sorry, I mean experience.
I recently saw an Italian film from a couple of years ago, The 1000-Euro Generation, which described what it was like to live hand-to-mouth from your employer. It was accurate in describing the pros and cons, the edgy lifestyle that appeals to the younger generation and the interminable fear that it could all go up in smoke very soon.
Our careers used to be alot more stable, sometime around the later half of the 1900's, and it would be nice to think that as the young get older there becomes a more apparent option of permanent employment. This movie was basically saying that for many of us. employment actually becomes more unstable as the years roll by.
And that point is a massive pimple on the face of society today. Are we expected to simply get a taste of the workforce and use what knowledge gathered in our lives to start something to provide self-sufficiency? Running a successful business need not be congratulated, surviving being run to the ground and keeping a cool head should be.
There is a general lack of empathy amongst those up high, whereby they figure there is always someone better out there looking for the work. This raises some key questions - Why would they be looking for work, How can the work attract them when the job is being done with some competence by someone of (ahem) lower capabilities?
The big one, in my view, is as follows: What time, resources and company-specific experience is being wasted on staff turnover?
In a previous position with a large-scale corporation, I had a healthy and positive work relationship with the executive who had the power to shut down the entire branch I was working at, in the event things became financially unstable. And when that event happened, the only side of him showing was saying, "Do I know you? How is it that I'm paying you to work here right now?"
Within approximately 15 minutes, me and the rest of the branch had been given two months. Some were offered other positions, while the bottom feeders were left with the memory - oh sorry, I mean experience.
I recently saw an Italian film from a couple of years ago, The 1000-Euro Generation, which described what it was like to live hand-to-mouth from your employer. It was accurate in describing the pros and cons, the edgy lifestyle that appeals to the younger generation and the interminable fear that it could all go up in smoke very soon.
Our careers used to be alot more stable, sometime around the later half of the 1900's, and it would be nice to think that as the young get older there becomes a more apparent option of permanent employment. This movie was basically saying that for many of us. employment actually becomes more unstable as the years roll by.
And that point is a massive pimple on the face of society today. Are we expected to simply get a taste of the workforce and use what knowledge gathered in our lives to start something to provide self-sufficiency? Running a successful business need not be congratulated, surviving being run to the ground and keeping a cool head should be.
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Comment by James Rickard
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All in all, although things are shaky, I still feel better that I did. Yeah, I could be bankrupt this time next year and I'm too old to start over with a career but, nothing ventured--nothing gained! Gotta do it!
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