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Yeah they're literally paying you money so they don't have to.

hinkley 1y ago
Maybe this opinion would have more weight if you didn't use a throwaway account to post it.
mrbungie 1y ago
Not to invoke a true scotsman fallacy, but most knowledge/white-collar workers I know aspire to be more than just being a cog on a payroll.
jodrellblank 1y ago
Maybe this opinion would have more weight if you respected that humans are not perfectly spherical massless money sinks.
hexage1814 1y ago
It oftentimes feels like you are paid way less than you actually gave to the company – assuming you actually worked hard and cared. In my country it's like "Well, the company broke all records of profit, we earned 500 million dollars more than last years. Here, have this box of chocolate as a gift. Keep the good work guys"
- saulpw 1y ago
  This is why workers are "losers" according to the Gervais Principle. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
awesome_dude 1y ago
No. They are profiting from your labour, and returning a smaller portion of that profit to you. Your work creates the profit that your salary comes from, the employer takes a cut of that and gives you what they deem they can get away with.
RobRivera 1y ago
I missed this clause in checks notes Literally my entire career.
NegativeK 1y ago
That, at best, is dehumanizing the employer. There is no corporate structure that exists without humans making the decisions at some point in the chain. The decisions might be abstracted or broken into small chunks, but it's still humans at the bottom. And humans that replace caring with money are assholes.
atoav 1y ago
No, they are giving you a tiny fraction of the cake you earn them. The fact is that you are there to make them money.
- throwmeaway222 1y ago
  I guarantee you, if you were running the company you work at, there might be a few here and there that you truly care about, but the vast majority of your workers are workers.

Maybe this opinion would have more weight if you didn't use a throwaway account to post it.

Not to invoke a true scotsman fallacy, but most knowledge/white-collar workers I know aspire to be more than just being a cog on a payroll.

jodrellblank 1y ago

Maybe this opinion would have more weight if you respected that humans are not perfectly spherical massless money sinks.

hexage1814 1y ago

It oftentimes feels like you are paid way less than you actually gave to the company – assuming you actually worked hard and cared. In my country it's like "Well, the company broke all records of profit, we earned 500 million dollars more than last years. Here, have this box of chocolate as a gift. Keep the good work guys"

saulpw 1y ago
This is why workers are "losers" according to the Gervais Principle. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

awesome_dude 1y ago

No. They are profiting from your labour, and returning a smaller portion of that profit to you. Your work creates the profit that your salary comes from, the employer takes a cut of that and gives you what they deem they can get away with.

RobRivera 1y ago

I missed this clause in checks notes Literally my entire career.

NegativeK 1y ago

That, at best, is dehumanizing the employer. There is no corporate structure that exists without humans making the decisions at some point in the chain. The decisions might be abstracted or broken into small chunks, but it's still humans at the bottom. And humans that replace caring with money are assholes.

atoav 1y ago

No, they are giving you a tiny fraction of the cake you earn them. The fact is that you are there to make them money.

throwmeaway222 1y ago
I guarantee you, if you were running the company you work at, there might be a few here and there that you truly care about, but the vast majority of your workers are workers.