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Thread #133328 Message #3025204
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
06-Nov-10 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Do the Con-dems want 'hire & fire' back?
Subject: RE: BS: Do the Con-dems want 'hire & fire' back?
"Lizzie. Your experiences are not nice, but neither is your slur on all and every employer. Especially as at one end the public sector invents policies every day in order to get a piece of perspex for being a good employer, (ok, hitting the target whilst missing the point...) and at the other end, even benevolent megalomaniacs start out meaning well.....
Tell you what, I like many could rattle on about the antics of some employees, never mind employers. Sadly, on two occasions, my sacking of people has included involving the police, one occasion ending in a custodial sentence. "
Again, please read my first post, where I said that I KNOW there are *good* employers out there, but trust me, there are many many bad ones around at present. It's a sign of the times, people don't care about each other any longer...
Today I worked my final day in a place where, trust me, the management are shite. The job before that was the same. I rang them up and told them how low staff moral was, but they didn't care, just kept piling on the pressure to meet the 'targets' no matter that were very few customers coming in, in the first place.
Many employers these days do not want to listen to their employees, to the ones 'on the ground'...It's simply a case of 'Do as we tell you!" and that's how it goes..
I have, in the past, a long while back now, actually slept on a settee in Harley Street, during Underground Strikes, so that I was there for the patients in the morning, because the doctors I worked for showed me great loyalty, which I repaid many times over...They didn't know I did that until later, by the way, else they would have offered me a place to stay over in their London own houses..I also decorated their consulting room for them when they both went away on holiday, as I was bored, was up to date with all my work and thought the decorater who quoted for it was ripping them off hand over fist..So I did it myself..and they thanked me for it...They used to tell me to find out what the 'going rate for medical secretaries/PAs was in Harley St. then add a couple of thousand more on top, for a pay rise...so *that* is why they got such loyalty from me, that and the fact they were really decent fellas too...
But no, today's employers, in the main, care little about their staff...All that I have written above is true and can be checked, should anyone not believe me. It's a sorry state of affairs indeed...
And how many miserly employers are going to be jumping on the bandwagon now, paying even less, making up this and that, crying wolf, just so they can siphon off yet more profits whilst keeping their 'workers' in even more poverty?
We have stopped caring, Wil, and that's that...
And replacing people with machines is plain stupid, because from an employer's point of view, he may be saved the hassle of dealing with people, may even make more items, costing him less, making him more profit, but the more you do it, the less people you create who've got any money to buy your robot made product in the first place...
I have no time for most employers these days..they're mean and pennypinching and they do NOT value their staff...
Geez, if I had my own company, my staff would become share in the profits of it. I'd treat them damn well, have a great staff room for them, provide tea, coffee and biccies etc., pictures on the wall, a great place to relax...and I'd ASK them if they'd put all hands on deck at Christmas, not DEMAND. And..I'd make damn sure I thanked them too, giving them great Christmas Bonuses..
I can remember once, as a customer, standing in Somerfields, as was, waiting to pay for my groceries, and hearing how that company had stopped paying their staff ANY Christmas bonus...whilst expecting them all to work longer hours, anti-social hours over Christmas, to rake in the profits...
Scrooge is alive and well and living in The Boardroom of many companies...
And Tiny Tim has many descendants who are being treated in the same way...
Bring on The Ghost of Corporate Christmas Present and get him to introduce The Corporate Bastards to The Ghost of Christmas Future...one filled with heart, compassion and a great deal of thought for others...
A Corporate Christmas Carol