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What else should it be? Do you believe that your company is like “your family”? Your coworkers or especially your manager are “your friends”? Why else do you
by scarface_74 2y ago
What else should it be? Do you believe that your company is like “your family”? Your coworkers or especially your manager are “your friends”?
Why else do you go to work?
- ryandrake 2y agoI don't believe my office is my family, but I expect to at least be treated with a baseline level of decency, civility, dignity, respect, and kindness, which are non-monetary and (by my reading of your post) unnecessary in your office full of Vulcans. The fact that these things are seen as optional and unimportant explains a lot of what's happened to public discourse.
- scarface_74 2y agoWas it indecent for Google to lay someone off, remove all access and give him 16 weeks of severance + two additional weeks for each year of service?
- ryandrake 2y agoI didn't say anything about Google.
- scarface_74 2y agoThe submitted article was about Google…
- grudg3 2y agoYou're taking "Human resources" a bit too literally.
- scarface_74 2y agoWe are resources. The one Big Tech company I have worked for has 1.556 million employees. What else was I besides a “resource”?
- int_19h 2y agoIt's not a binary between "we are family" and "we are resources", it's a spectrum. In your case, yes, you were absolutely a resource. This is exactly why companies of that size simply shouldn't exist - because they cannot not treat their employees as resources, with all the inhumanity this implies.
- scarface_74 2y agoYes because a small company could deliver a national same day shipping infrastructure and worldwide network of cloud servers including its own undersead cables. And again, work is a transaction. I’m perfectly fine with being treated as a resource when I was getting a quarter million a year and working remotely…
- int_19h 2y agoI'm okay with not having same day shipping if this means that companies don't have to treat their employees like dirt. But, more importantly, a company that large is simply too much concentrated economic power (which then translates to political power). Even if it was all just robots, I'd still say no. Our political system is in shambles in large part because of these kinds of entities.
- scarface_74 2y agoSo exactly what “power” does Amazon have over your life? Our politics is in shambles because of religious nutcases, anti science, anti intellectuals, who are afraid of the country becoming majority-minority and straight out racism and bitterness. Amazon has nothing to do with that.
- int_19h 2y agoYou can literally just punch "Amazon lobbying" into Google and get pages of results.