Rule of Acquisition 48: The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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And not to overlook #211: Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success... don't hesitate to step on them.
As family, we have to know how to sacrifice for the greater good, the growth of family.
Probably because just like they abuse their family members, they abuse you. That's my 0.02.
Calling them 'family', doesn't make them family.
They'll call employees 'yer lordship' if it'd save them 2 cents.
This is 100% true. At my last position, they hired a head winemaker at a cheaper than market rate. He had accepted because they let him choose his own title... Wine Overlord.
anything to avoid paying you a living wage.
"Talk rather than pay" came with MBA-style management in the 1980s along with thing like calling employees "human resources".
There was a period not that long ago when this kind of stuff was very visible as ridiculously over-inflated job titles (but not pay) in Tech Companies and I did know quite a lot of people when I was in Startups who had job titles which were way above their actual responsabilities or simply ridiculous (whilst I, as a freelancer, just got paid very well and didn't really had a job title).
Obviously here we know its bullshit. But I'm willing to be that a lot of us have worked in places like that before. There is usually some people that work there not doing so well, poor or depressed or both and more, with reasoning that this is not the best place to work but there kinda looking out for me. People with thoughts that I don't know where else to go, I have no skills,