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This is an image the business works to maintain: Your manager is there to help you and make you feel like you belong so you don't leave, but the things that act
by happytoexplain 2y ago
This is an image the business works to maintain: Your manager is there to help you and make you feel like you belong so you don't leave, but the things that actually matter (pay) are untouchable algorithms defined by the faceless machine above. It's one of the ways modern businesses (at least in the US) have inched the shared rewards of capitalism away from the employee (and inched the shared pain of negative economic trends toward the employee) over decades.
- ffsm8 2y agoIt's also almost always a lie. Most managers have a budget. They just don't want to spend it on you.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoIt even gets inched away from the customer. Problem with a service? The only people you have access to are support staff who can't really do anything beyond minor changes. So many business to customer interactions happens only between people who have no ability to change the situation either way. Big businesses have nearly entirely isolated the capital owners (and upper management) from the goings of the business itself.