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Yes. Heaven forfend staff should behave in a way potentially inimical to the interests of management, instead of the other way around.
by aaronem 11y ago
Yes. Heaven forfend staff should behave in a way potentially inimical to the interests of management, instead of the other way around.
- deadmik3 11y agoStaff works for management. While it's nice to have times where the management "works for" their employees, the whole point is that management is supposed to be happy.
- aaronem 11y agoStaff being subordinate to management in an organizational sense is one thing. Staff members being forbidden even to approach anything, which might grow into a discussion of how and where management's interests are actively inimical to their own, is quite another. You're making the best arguments for unionization I've heard in the tech industry for quite a long time.
- nathan_long 11y ago> the whole point is that management is supposed to be happy What? Workers sell their labor to a company for a price. The whole point of any transaction is to satisfy both parties. Sharing market information is something that both buyers and sellers do. Why do you think this should be unilateral?
- pjc50 11y agoPresumably he believes that managers are there to expropriate the surplus happiness of the workforce. It's not alienation of your labour until you're feeling properly alienated. /s
- jessaustin 11y agoDon't conflate management with the company's owners, whose happiness is the actual goal. (Granted, sometimes these are the same people, wearing different hats.) As anyone who has worked in private industry can tell you, management often acts in its own interests, even when those interests conflict with those of both employees and owners.
- oh_sigh 11y agoNo, staff and management work for the shareholders, essentially