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If you're a line worker businesses, managers, and executives are not your friends. That might seem controversial to some, but to me it's just the pecking order.
by kodah 4y ago
If you're a line worker businesses, managers, and executives are not your friends. That might seem controversial to some, but to me it's just the pecking order. Executives usually take home large sums from these businesses for very little personal risk. Meanwhile, line workers are the ones that produce the product that earns them large sums in bonuses while sacrificing their time, energy, and often personal well-being. We move to new, expensive cities for these people. We work weekends for them. We work nights for them. As long as executives are perceived as different from employees in all the wrong ways beatings will continue and morale will not improve.
- tschellenbach 4y agoThat's a very negative take on life. As a startup founder I pay myself less than our team members and work very long hours. (130 person company atm)
- ilovetux 4y agoAwesome! Keep that going.
- effingwewt 4y agoIt's not negative, it's a perfect description of reality. You are an outlier- the exception, not the rule.
- kodah 4y agoThen this message is probably not for you. In regards to my own experience at startups, I've never met a selfish founder (not to say they don't exist). I'm specifically talking about established companies. Something happens to an exec (typically) when they move from close proximity startup world to ruling a fiefdom.