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Give us a reason to care. It's that simple.
by zwnow 11mo ago
Give us a reason to care. It's that simple.
- bpt3 11mo agoThe reasons to care are personal pride in the quality of your work, understanding that your lack of effort has a negative impact on your colleagues, and your continued employment. And if you hate your job, but are completely unable to find alternative employment (which is what you should do if you hate your job), you probably should reconsider how much you hate your job.
- Noaidi 11mo agoAh, noble poverty! Be grateful to tha masta' for providing you the scraps he can provide! Your paycheck is the beautiful work you produce for tha masta'! Seriously, pay people what they are worth and they will care. It is not that hard.
- bpt3 11mo agoThe vast majority of people significantly overestimate their worth, yet people with your attitude seem to believe it only exists with respect to highly compensated employees. I agree with your second sentence, but it's harder than it should be due to what I said above.
- zwnow 11mo agoPride in the quality of my work is a phrase to make one feel bad about themselves. I take pride in my hobbies and in my hobby projects. I take pride in my family and friends. I do not take pride in being exploited for my work so some higher up can buy a new car every year.
- bpt3 11mo agoAnd again, someone comes and makes a comment that proves my point. Unless you are working in very unusual (and illegal in the developed world) circumstances, you are not being exploited in any real sense.
- youoy 11mo agoIn the end this depends on your definition of "fair". What percentage of your generated production do you think is fair for the company to take? 95%? 50%? 10%?
- bpt3 11mo agoThat depends on the value of your generated production, among many other things, and ultimately isn't the right question to ask. Can an employee obtain better employment terms elsewhere (which is a complex concept to define in itself)? If so, they are underpaid, if not, they aren't.
- youoy 11mo agoYou were talking about exploitation. Using the fact that the employee cannot obtain a better employment elsewhere to extract as much of the production or value from the employee smells a lot like exploitation to me.
- bpt3 11mo agoIf an employer offers an employee $100 per hour, and the next best offer that employee can obtain elsewhere is $90 for an otherwise equivalent job, should the employee take that job for granted? Is the employer exploiting them with their pay rate?
- youoy 11mo agoThat would be the case in an idealized world. As with everything this depends on the circumstances and the economic activity of where the person is living in. I guess that with the north american eyes it is the employee's fault if the employee cannot find some other job since the only constraint for doing it is the personal drive. But there are other economical/educational constraints that don't allow people to have the necessary mobility for your example to be efficient and accurate.
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- nkrisc 11mo agoGot any recipes for delicious meals I can make with my pride? I take pride in the stuff I enjoy doing. A job is just a paycheck because I need it.
- bpt3 11mo agoI find it hard to believe you actually read my comment before demonstrating you are probably one of the people I'm talking about at the end of it. At no point did I state or imply that workers should be working solely or even primarily for anything other than money. But if you can't be bothered to take pride in the work you're being paid to do, you shouldn't be paid to do it for long.
- nkrisc 11mo agoI will do my job as well as necessary to keep it in order to keep receiving money. If I could find a job that pays well and made me happier I would.
- bpt3 11mo agoIf you can't find a better job, you should probably appreciate the one you have and not try to skate by with the bare minimum, if for no other reason than you're likely to miscalculate at some point.
- rmah 11mo agoI believe that seeking external validation, inspiration and/or reason is not robust and a path to unhappiness. IMO, it's better if the reasons for you to care come from within.
- zwnow 11mo agoI dont pay my bills from reasons within.