Hmm I wonder why. Could it be because we can’t fucking afford anything?! Could it be because wealth inequality has been at a high that we’ve never seen before? Could it be because our world is slowly dying and nobody seems to care? Could it be because literal Nazis are roaming the streets and nothing is being done about it?
No, it’s the infrequency of pizza parties and taco Tuesdays.
Let’s see… rent or ping-pong…
3 slices of pizza, or a wage increase which which I can afford many more pizzas?
I’m pretty sure that’s a real question
I’m gonna have to say you’re both right.
Y’all are getting pizza? We only get coffee and water in our break room. $1B company mind you.
Well u wouldnt want to cut into your bosses yacht money would you?
For me, in addition to all those other things, it’s that even most “good” companies are abusive, so there’s no escape. It’s just “how much abuse are you willing to put up with to work here?”, rather than “this place isn’t abusive”, and I can’t do that roulette anymore.
I’m taking some time off to reassess everything. Maybe in 6 months of absolutely minimal living (to coast on savings) I’ll feel better about it, but with the way things are racing downhill and picking up speed, I’m not optimistic.
It’s assholes companies trying to force people in the office like cattle.
Not sure the feral nazi population has really changed from last year.
Idk… I mean sure, the price of literally everything is outpacing my stagnant income, and my benefits are increasingly shit… But there’s a banner outside the parking lot I’m not allowed to use (admins only!) that says “Heroes work here!”
Ya hear that?! I’m a fuckin hero, y’all!! I can’t not be motivated now!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go shed a single tear while eating a meal of white rice. Again. With some soy sauce packets I stole from the cafeteria.
A FUCKING HERO!
Seriously. What is this propagandist bullshit? Fucking sorry excuse for “journalism”, Bloomberg. Blame the prols? Is that it? Push us to judge each other, to shame our fellow replaceables until what? We roll out the guillotine again? I’m here for it.
I’ll even paint mine up so it says “Heroes work here!” right up at the top, so everyone knows who’s pulling the ripcord. How about that?
What is this propagandist bullshit? Fucking sorry excuse for “journalism”, Bloomberg.
It’s literally named after a billionaire. What did you expect?
Ach. You’re so right. 😅🤦🏼♂️ How soon we (I) forget.
Why are you stealing soy sauce from the cafeteria? That’s not ok
Why in fuck would I want to go to work?
You mean you are not motivated to make rich people even richer? Shame.
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Well colour me shocked. You mean nobody feels particularly motivated on a burning planet where we can’t afford anything? Jeez someone order a pizza.
Hypothetically speaking: if I could afford a pizza what toppings would you want on it?
Pepperone, onions and next month’s rent
I’d like vegan cheese, kind of a white mushroom pizza with lots of herbs
That sounds bomb, now I want pizza
I am vegan, we have this AMAZING vegan pizza place in town that does this pizza. Stunning!
Hawaiian style
TERRORIST!
Naw, terrorists put jalapeños on their Hawaiian pizza. This is just a normal pizza lover.
I put pineapple, onion, and black olive (replaces the meat, salt for salt) and it’s bomb.
Umm maybe bomb is the wrong word here…. 😅
I’ve been on the pineapple and black olive train for years and everyone looks at me like I’m nuts. It’s so good though!
Mmmm spicy sweet salty delicious psychological warfare.
Jalapeno, bacon, & pineapple is literally the best pizza.
Yes.
😂 I love how much the votes on this answer have been swinging. It was clearly meant to be funny but the visceral reaction to the morality of “pineapple on pizza” is hilarious.
Give me some spicy pepperoni, sliced sausage, basil, and maybe some fresh chopped garlic.
Forcing folk back into the office is pretty darn unpopular. If I was part of the group required to return to the office I would also be pretty damn unproductive and pissed as well.
I work a hybrid schedule and am always far less productive at the office than at home. Not even by choice, the environment is just less conducive to my being able to work comfortably.
Can’t shit on the bosses desk if you aren’t at the office. :)
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The crazy thing is that there are multiple businesses that do this as a service.
Motivated employees get taken advantage of with more work with no pay raises. These workers have finally learned and reduced their production to be even with those around them.
P.S. If this is you, like it was me, learn entrepreneurship. The harder you work, the more success you have.
The world needs more than entrepreneurs though and those people deserve a living wage.
I agree with you.
Is it really “learn entrepreneurship,” or is it actually “have capital”
Just become a landlord, idiot. :-P
The key is to have enough to fail. That’s why you see successful house flippers or whatever who started out with money. They may have started 2 or 3 businesses before they found what worked.
If you start out with only enough money for one business or house, you will be struggling for a long time because you have to make it work to survive. You have no money to expand if it’s a good idea and no money to quit and start over.
The best thing to start with is luck. Second best is enough money, so you can try several times.
When I started, I setup hosting and created 100 websites selling other people’s products. It was like $50/mo to do it. There’s ways to start a business without capital.
These days I would do TikTok videos selling other peoples products. No hosting needed
The harder you work, the more success you have.
I mean if your definition of success is being rewarded with more work with no pay raise then sure, but that’s just not true anymore. People used to believe that and they got taken advantage of, and you even addressed this in the first part of your comment. The real lesson needs to come from the top down. If you want your employees to work harder, pay them more.
You missed a part of the comment you are replying to. tygr said “The harder you work, the more success you have.” in relation to the previous sentence about changing from wage slave to entrepreneur.
Okay, Tom Peters.
What’s great about this headline is how timeless it is.
Executives are constantly sucking up all the profits for themselves and putting more workload on everyone else. Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that corporate executives are robbing them blind.
Exactly this. I’m tired AF.
I’ve noticed this trend at several of my businesses. It’s impossible to find good help, I even offer all sorts of fun perks like themed thursdays where everybody has to dress up to match whatever theme I pick and whoever does it best gets a Starbucks gift card. Whenever it’s somebody’s birthday that person brings in pizza for everybody to share.
I think the pandemic and government hand outs have made people extra lazy, even more than they were before.
Have you considered pressuring your employees into donating to a charity of your choice with part of their paycheck? My job does that. It’s wonderful to add another charitable contribution to the list of things I spend my meager paycheck on, really helps me feel fulfilled. Maybe this is what your workplace is missing.
And, it’s like you’re crowdfunding your own corporate PR! Win-win for everyone!
That’s not a bad idea. Then once I’ve gotten the employees to donate a certain amount like $5,000 I can deliver it to the charity myself in the form of a big cardboard check, and do a photo op and put it in the company newsletter so everybody knows how good I am.
lmao
screams internally
Wtf, that sounds horrible, most of people want to be paid more for their work so they can live fulfilling lives, not have part of their paycheck taken away from them. Just pay your employees more, whether through capital or shares of the company. That’s what motivates people.
It’s wonderful to add another charitable contribution to the list of things I spend my meager paycheck on
AH, united Jeans-day-for-donators strikes again.
Not sure if this is sarcasm but I’m pretty sure I’m only motivated by a good raise and not cheesy “company culture”. Especially since the price everything is up so much, a 25$ gift card which pays for maybe 1.94 cups of coffee is not going to make a difference
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Right. Only squeaky wheels get greased. If you don’t actively bitch and moan or threaten to leave, your company will never give you more because they assume you’re happy.
Mine gave me what appeared to be a fairly sizeable performance bump, percentage-wise, at the beginning of the calendar year.
But when I calculated it out in comparison to all the other increases they’d given me, accounted for inflation as measured by CPI, and excluded the amounts given in “class-wide” salary adjustments, the dollar amount was really put into perspective.
Per their own HR policy, an individuals position within their defined salary band is determined by their skill/merit achievements relative to the job position. Because a class wide salary adjustment also redefines the salary band, and I have a habit of snapshotting the salary bands every few months, I was able to prove with numbers that A) they’d only ever actually given me one “merit increase” that matched the words they use in my review to an actual, measurable, “skill increase” as measured by an individual’s position in the salary band.
And because the others had been so poor, using their own HR policy, they were effectively stating that I was only 2-3% better at my job than when they hired me 4+ years ago. Which was impossible, because if it were true, why would they have me actively mentoring individuals more highly paid but in the same band as myself?
It was compelling enough that they offered me an in-department “promotion” to the next grade and it came with one of two new roles, which I was allowed to trial and choose between. HR had previously squashed the grade increase two times over the previous two years, saying I didn’t have enough experience, despite pushback from the three levels of management over me. (Our HR is like comic book villain levels of sanctimonious overpowered karens left to their own devices, and are actively holding the whole company back.)
Because I was able to use their own language to state, “either I’m good enough to do the X,Y,Z you currently have me doing and therefore deserve more; or I’m not and therefore should not be responsible for the things I do for the team and will essentially ‘behave my class’ and stop doing them,” I forced their hand.
If you don’t actively bitch and moan or threaten to leave,
Fuck that. I left.
You can’t threaten unless you’re willing. And once you threaten, you’re next on the replacement list. You may as well pick your last day so it’s a surprise to them and not you.
Found a better job and didn’t RTO to a place turned toxic by a FIN coup and the monkey management it installed.
Good chuckle at the “Starbucks gift card”. I haven’t had a good manager that gave those out. Almost a perfect signal for bad management. “oh thanks… You paid Starbucks for me. How special”
The whole gift card market probably consists of: scammers ; bad management; lazy parents.
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I implore you to look into the benefits of paying people more for their work, not only does it improve the lives of your workers to be able to not just have a living wage, but a wage they can thrive on. Even the US department of Economy points to raising of wages as a benefit not just to the workers but also to the companies in increased productivity and satisfaction from workers.
I like to pick my own shitty clothes and dinner, at least then it isn’t rubbed in my face.
Shitty gimmick accounts should remain on Reddit.
I kind of agree
Waaaah people are putting content on a website waaaaaaaaah
Leave it to the “BuisnessMan” to only understand what the business needs and not its people lmao.
“I make enough money to do the things that make me happy but when I offer fun dress up day instead for people they don’t wanna work for me”
People don’t want to work… for you
That’s a parody account making fun of conservatives.
How do you know? The line between parody and disguising as parody/a joke are veeeery thin
It feels like we’re just a dot in a complex scatterplot, the way statistics can measure and index an employee’s motivation. Maybe they can even use the same math to measure your own motivation. Imagine getting fired because you “lacked motivation” according to a computer. Maybe that’s not how we should cooperate as a species.
“Our systems noticed you only smiled 35% of your time at this job over the last month. Your pay will be docked accordingly.”
“I literally smiled all day!”
“Yes, but the computer felt it was forced.”
I used to think doxking your pay was fake until it happened to my coworker. His car broke down and he missed his first day ever. The coal mine cut his pay by 3 dollars.
He still spends all of his time starting fights with the union people and removed about how they protect the lazy.
If something would make someone money, that thing has happened, full stop. That is sadly our reality, and it will stay that way while greed is seen as an acceptable driver of behavior.
My workplace recently showed us the results from our yearly survey…
If it wasn’t anonymous (which frankly it might not be) they literally have that information for us, but from self report. They called out that company wide (under 200 total employees) there are 10 people actively disengaged (I’m one of them) and a third of the company is barely engaged.
The sad thing is everyone spent the rest of that day talking about how much it sucks that so many people are disengaged, and how those people must not understand how great it is, like it was scandalous to not love working here.
Funny I know of a survey like that but for a company of only about 50 and it was 55% of the company was disengaged and they had an emergency meeting to cover the sadness facing their employees. Bragged about management until one of them said they were in the disengaged group
Since then an entire location was shut down and all employees fired there and 3 aupervisors have quit.
Still plenty of conversation on the sadness of company work but in whispers and private conversation
No fucking shit. Maybe if they were to bring back the lube when they fuck our asses we might be less bitter
Why aren’t the peasants working themselves to death for scraps anymore!?!?
Why doesn’t anyone see how much the CEO needs his second yatch, and won’t you think of the poor investors? NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK
Businesses that are projecting growth, but are in cost saving mode, had layoffs, sub inflation raises, and hiring freezes aren’t exactly doing much to drive morale.
Plus requiring people to come back to the office to justify their real estate leases.
And micromanagement positions
Id be more motivated if i could see a doctor.
you should see an optometrist about that
They could, but they need to see a podiatrist before they can go anywhere, and insurance doesn’t cover house calls.
yeah, because they’re working harder for less… the fuck do you expect…
