A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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Do these adequately and I will provide labor in due proportion. Otherwise, fuck off.
Loyalty. What a fucking joke.
You know what loyalty gets ya ? Exploited.
No company cares if you can eat or afford rent. Their bottom line is where everything stops. End of story.
I've watched my parents and other generations put in 50 years and get a pin when they leave.
Fuck your loyalty. Job hop often and keep moving forward. If you don't you basically take a pay every year. No company is matching inflation.
Fuck em. They lose no sleep. Neither should you.
Leave emotion at the door. Work is brutal
I really don't understand why we should feel loyalty to a company. They treat workers as resources to be exploited. And sometimes they call them family, only to kick them out when they need higher profits. Lols.
Companies used to offer pensions to employees, and time served meant a better reward for retirement. The pension idea eroded over the years but the mindset remained.
It even goes beyond just that companies used to be about creating value for customers but with all the mergers and what I like to call finance fuckery like airlines being more banks that happen to own planes.
Companies selling things at a lost to drive out competitors and their revenue mostly comes from investors waiting for the company becomes a defacto monopoly and they then can raise prices that blow up the stock. Offload successful business with so much debt that they close at no fault of their own.
Not just that... The world around the worker changed in other significant ways. Thirty years ago you were off the clock you were virtually inexcessable. Damn near nobody had cell phones so there was no panicked call to come back as you are on your drive home. Jobs that had pagers were basically the sort that were life or death and everything else could wait. It was perfectly normal for a call to go to an answering machine because the assumption was "what can you do, they probably are out somewhere."
The expectations of productivity gains made by making the worker accessible at all hours, calling them in for mandatory shifts last second at any moment or to answer job related questions on demand as a feature of employment takes a fucking toll. Jobs, even ones at the rock bottom don't have natural boundries anymore. The corporate culture has infringed on and destroyed free time because young people are expected to be plugged in where older gens are cut some slack. Just not really understanding your phone and having the assumed habit of leaving it at home is an unwitting defense mechanism that does not extend to the young. In my industry not answering your electronic tether is a cardinal sin. I couldn't leave this thing at home if I wanted to.
GenX doesn't give a fuck about loyalty either, and hasn't since the 80s.