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The whole definition of a regular joe employee is that they are working under a coercion hierarchy. There are no negotiations, either you got luck shifted into
by beefnugs 1y ago
The whole definition of a regular joe employee is that they are working under a coercion hierarchy. There are no negotiations, either you got luck shifted into a shitrole or they go onto the next 20 options.
The only way this will ever move in the direction of the employee is if some drastic change happens where more independence and negotiation is an ongoing part of employment. Unless things are so open to negotiation that someone can go "hey i am a little burned out, but I don't want to hurt the company how about this year i work 50% for 60% compensation" And there is meaningful negotiation without immediate threats of replacement.
- pie_flavor 1y agoAs carefully described in the article, this is totally not true, and the employer works double-time to create the perception that it is true, because it means they can get away with underpaying the gullible. They make a face like you don't have leverage because they don't want you to know about the leverage you actually do have; the sunk cost is opaque to you and they have no reason to make it any less so.