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It's fine if you want to do the bare minimum just to get by...but you have no right to complain about your job then.
originally posted by: BlueMule
It's fine if you want to do the bare minimum just to get by...but you have no right to complain about your job then.
By the same token, it's fine if you want to pay the bare minimum but you have no right to complain about your lazy employees.
originally posted by: James1982
I appreciate the replies guys but you really aren't addressing the topic.
Why is it OK for an employer to do the bare minimum, but not the employee?
^^That's this thread distilled down for anyone confused. I'd appreciate it if we could stay on topic.
originally posted by: James1982
I appreciate the replies guys but you really aren't addressing the topic.
Why is it OK for an employer to do the bare minimum, but not the employee?
originally posted by: Aazadan
Pay is irrelevant. Either you have a good work ethic or you don't.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: James1982
Why is it OK for an employer to do the bare minimum, but not the employee?
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It's a contract. A company is hiring you for an agreed upon compensation and package of benefits in exchange for an agreed upon level of effort. The door is always open for the employee to walk out of and seek a better offer, but that would take effort which a lazy employee probably has a serious lack of. So long as the company is compensating the employee at the mutually agreed upon rate, the company is upholding their end of the contract. If, however, the employee fails to put forth the agreed upon level of effort and workmanship, they are in breach of the contract and can justifiably be impacted by the consequences.
originally posted by: James1982
Working labor jobs my whole life until recently, not once was level of effort ever discussed during the interview or mentioned on the paperwork.
originally posted by: Cancerwarrior
It sounds like you have never had the oppurtunity of working a job like this. Otherwise you would see just how relevant pay is.
When I was paid like I was a valued employee, thats when I acted like one. When I was treated like a lazy fieldhand, thats when I acted like one.
OK, now I know you have never done factory work. Every product that comes out of it is the same regardless of how well I pulled my lever or operated my machine that day.
I'll explain this one more time to you. There is this thing called money. If I did not need it to live in this world, I would never work for another one of these co**sucking companies ever again. And neither would anybody else.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
At one point in the US's history, "equality' related to opportunity, not possession/wealth. Yes, there are some very wealthy people who are given greater opportunity. But there is still plenty of meat on that bone for a stepper with a brain.
originally posted by: James1982
Employment, for most people, is not a choice. If they don't work, they don't eat, they have no roof over their head. When you are basically forced to be employed in order to live (a rather new and western point of view) it changes things.