I can not get over how harsh the world of business is now a days. When they want an employee they drag their feet and make the potential employee wait and suffer until they finally get around and make a decision. Finally when they are hired there is limited new employee orientation and limited training on how to do the job.
Then people are told to fight it out for turf and the office politics gets so hot and heavy that you can cut the tension in the office with a knife. The employees who do not survive are cast aside and fired without warning, due process, or any humanity at all.
Is it as harsh where you work? How are people fired who do not full fill managements expectations? Are they given every opportunity to improve, guidence and mentoring, or at the first sign of trouble let go and sent packing?
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1 noybw
Around here, a person’s job is “eliminated” so that that person can be permanently laid off (that person’s job is “redistributed” among the other employes). At least this way, the laid off person can get unemployment insurance.
At my previous employer, the predatory manager would take her time (about 6 months) and manufacture a “disciplinary record” for the targeted employee and fire that person “for cause”.
I watched her fire 4 of my coworkers in that way. Thankfully, I started working on a new job the day this shark came to work and was able to escape her jaws.
I heard that she was later escorted off the premises for asking for the CEO’s job when he got the axe.
Karma…isn’t it great?
2 saharaaj
when hiring employee they will paint rosy picture of corporate governanace and ethics
and once hired the employee he realises the reality
but once he has changed 2/3 jobs he knows what to expect
3 littlelady2340
Employees are “components of production” in the machinery of the employer’s enterprise, the lowest as valuable and easily replaced as a screw in a machine.
If the machine is small or refined, such as a small specialty business, the employee is valuable because he/she has been trained and/or has special talent and MAY be treated well, according to the personality of the owner.
Again there are humane owners who do value the people contributing to their business, and do maintain a fair work environment, but that is only at their preferrance.
Employees represent “overhead”, a cost of doing business, so the fewer and least paid, the more financially successful the enterprise.
The larger the company, the more removed are managers and supervisors from the benefits of ownership and are fighting for their own security. Specially when times are bad.
Then there is human psychology. People are demeaned. humiliated and angered when treated as cogs rather than humans. Thus they fight for personhood, recognition, turf. Someone’s loss is someone else’s gain, specially of ego gratification.
There as elsewhere in nature, it’s survival of the fittest in that particular environment.
Yes, the world of employment is generally quite harsh, hence labor movements, unions, strikes, etc. The only differnces are that some companies are interested in maintaining a show of humanity and will attempt to ameliorate the scene. As long as it does not interfere with the bottom line.
4 ~girlfriday~
Mediocre is the norm here and no one expects anything better. . .most people got hired for WHO they know instead of WHAT they know. And people who should be fired or at least reprimanded, are simply ignored. It’s really sad and depressing. . .