No. They’re pointing out that hard work doesn’t make you exceptional, doesn’t get you rewarded and doesn’t get you ahead.
Since you apparently haven’t actually been working for the past fifteen years, the social contract has been almost entirely broken. Busting your arse gets you the same pay as the dude who takes four hour smoke breaks and a shittier quality of life due to stress.
Workers are just refusing to be exploited
Yeah there may be some smaller companies that recognise and recompense great work, but they are the exception, not the rule. And they are increasingly unicorns.
Retired a few back but keep in touch with the higher ups as well. You’re completely wrong with that statement. Many people get rewarded for hard work. But in order to get rewarded, do you have to be the one that is seriously helping the company. If you’re talking about the bottom of the worker pile then you have to do something to stand out. In my case I started off building on the factory line. Saw what they ran for computer systems. Trained myself at my own expense to learn them and ingrain to myself Socially with the people that ran them. Hard work isn’t just the physical part. It’s also the mental part and most importantly the social part. So much of business is social and if they don’t know who you are they’ll never know the hard work you’re doing or how beneficial you are to the company. If you are, that is.
Perfect example of the defeatist attitude. Btw it’s not an ancient system. Didn’t even exist in my grandparents time. Neither did the concept of a weekend.
You guys are the majority now. Make the changes you want.
Those 2 generations fight to get that. I remember cars being burned and flipped during strikes when I was young. This generation needs to do the same. Now when people go on strike everybody hates on them. Our grandparents put their lives on the line to get pensions, weekend, overtime pay etc etc. People now are letting it all slip away. Time to stop blaming the ones that got it and start blaming the ones letting it go.
I’m actually still in the workforce, so I’m gonna go ahead and consider myself to be a bit more of an authority as to what’s going on than you are, seeing as you’ve just admitted you’re divorced from the working reality.
This thread is literally full of people telling you how they have brought value - in some cases, immense, company-saving value - and not been recompensed. I very freely admitted there were some companies that did still value workers. I also said they are no longer the norm. This is a continuation of a trend that started in the 90’s when outsourcing started chewing on the arses of the white collar workers, workforces became seen as dispensable and replaceable and it has sharply increased with the sociopathy of MBAs who can’t see any further than their own personal golden parachutes.
You gained your leg up in within a business framework that no longer exists. Demanding that workers continue to play by rules their employers ignore is lunacy.
No. They’re pointing out that hard work doesn’t make you exceptional, doesn’t get you rewarded and doesn’t get you ahead.
Since you apparently haven’t actually been working for the past fifteen years, the social contract has been almost entirely broken. Busting your arse gets you the same pay as the dude who takes four hour smoke breaks and a shittier quality of life due to stress.
Workers are just refusing to be exploited
Yeah there may be some smaller companies that recognise and recompense great work, but they are the exception, not the rule. And they are increasingly unicorns.
Retired a few back but keep in touch with the higher ups as well. You’re completely wrong with that statement. Many people get rewarded for hard work. But in order to get rewarded, do you have to be the one that is seriously helping the company. If you’re talking about the bottom of the worker pile then you have to do something to stand out. In my case I started off building on the factory line. Saw what they ran for computer systems. Trained myself at my own expense to learn them and ingrain to myself Socially with the people that ran them. Hard work isn’t just the physical part. It’s also the mental part and most importantly the social part. So much of business is social and if they don’t know who you are they’ll never know the hard work you’re doing or how beneficial you are to the company. If you are, that is.
If you did this today it would not work. Thats the expirence that we are living. Glad it worked for you 40yrs ago, we want the same treatment.
Woah retirement? What’s that? Oh right, this ancient system none of us will ever get to enjoy.
Perfect example of the defeatist attitude. Btw it’s not an ancient system. Didn’t even exist in my grandparents time. Neither did the concept of a weekend.
You guys are the majority now. Make the changes you want.
Congrats on being one of 2 generations who got to benefit off of that before it got fucked for us.
Those 2 generations fight to get that. I remember cars being burned and flipped during strikes when I was young. This generation needs to do the same. Now when people go on strike everybody hates on them. Our grandparents put their lives on the line to get pensions, weekend, overtime pay etc etc. People now are letting it all slip away. Time to stop blaming the ones that got it and start blaming the ones letting it go.
Nope.
I’m actually still in the workforce, so I’m gonna go ahead and consider myself to be a bit more of an authority as to what’s going on than you are, seeing as you’ve just admitted you’re divorced from the working reality.
This thread is literally full of people telling you how they have brought value - in some cases, immense, company-saving value - and not been recompensed. I very freely admitted there were some companies that did still value workers. I also said they are no longer the norm. This is a continuation of a trend that started in the 90’s when outsourcing started chewing on the arses of the white collar workers, workforces became seen as dispensable and replaceable and it has sharply increased with the sociopathy of MBAs who can’t see any further than their own personal golden parachutes.
You gained your leg up in within a business framework that no longer exists. Demanding that workers continue to play by rules their employers ignore is lunacy.
Stop spreading propaganda. No one is wasting their precious calories, helping someone else get richer.
The benefits and pay would have to be very VERY good.