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> Ultimately, your relationship with your employer is adversarial. Don't forget that. That is a sad way to live.
by mechanical_bear 4y ago
> Ultimately, your relationship with your employer is adversarial. Don't forget that.
That is a sad way to live.
- cuteboy19 4y agoThe correct word is transactional. Employee/employer relationship is the same as buyer/seller relationship. Do you declare war every time you go to buy a load of bread? Of course not. You negotiate a price both of you are comfortable with. Of course when you have an hammer (and sickle) everything starts to look like a nail
- moate 4y agoAdversarial: involving or characterized by conflict or opposition. Nope, this is correct language. Your company wants to buy labor for the lowest possible cost to them. You want to be paid the highest possible wage. You are in conflict, direct opposition. A negotiation, by its nature, is a way of resolving conflict. War would be another. But the fact that unionists and socialists remove the social niceties and get down to brass tacks doesn't change the nature of the labor market. When you have a hammer and sickle, everything looks like the class war, because it is to us.
- cuteboy19 4y agoA negotiation need not be adversarial. See my example of buying bread.
- MathMonkeyMan 4y agoWith employment, you're negotiating the means to buy anything.