tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post7720758189159152567..comments2023-10-04T03:26:03.232-04:00Comments on Chicken Soup for the Terrorist Soul: Chicken Soup with the Employer/Employee relationship...Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-64105853111502536472014-02-27T08:28:08.241-05:002014-02-27T08:28:08.241-05:00Thank you for the complement and the reading recom...Thank you for the complement and the reading recommendation. If you genuinely believe this weblog is "must read material" then I suggest that you recommend it to everyone on your e-mail list.<br /><br />Thank you.Fowl Ideashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-22808985944310685832014-02-27T06:12:19.096-05:002014-02-27T06:12:19.096-05:00Your work article, blogs I mean over all contents ...Your work article, blogs I mean over all contents is must read material.<br /><a href="http://apec-smesa.org/" rel="nofollow">Relationship Issues With Apec-Smesa</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-26164702404553921402013-12-21T09:55:29.988-05:002013-12-21T09:55:29.988-05:00It's a rare individual who has no problems.
A...It's a rare individual who has no problems.<br /><br />Actually, I've never had a bad boss including my first one. Some of them weren't too bright, but none of them were bad.<br /><br />And I don't object to the basic tenets of the capitalist system. In your own words, "there is nothing wrong with earning as much as you can." I agree completely. An economy based upon entitlement breeds laziness and punishes anyone who happens to be creative and productive by taxing them to death. I have a few acquaintances in Europe. But I have some difficulty defining the word "earning."<br /><br />If earnings were a direct function of hard work then the guys who pick up the garbage every week would all be millionaires. I worked for UPS loading their trucks for about 10 months. I worked hard enough to lose 30 pounds in three months while eating four meals a day. If hard work is the secret to success, why was I only paid 8 dollars an hour?<br /><br />Some jobs are easy to understand. If you work for a piece rate, you earn so much per unit you produce. If you write a book or a song, you generally receive so much per copy sold at the retail level. If you sell something on commission, you receive so much per sale. With some jobs, it's very easy to calculate what you've earned. When you earn a salary or an hourly wage, it starts to get foggy.<br /><br />My compensation is not based upon what I do. It's based upon how many people are waiting outside to take my job. This reduces people to "human resources." It dehumanizes them and adds to the preponderance of examples that a potential terrorist can reference to rationalize what he wants to do. The fictional CEO who receives $11,000 an hour is compensated according to a completely different system. His compensation is determined by a board of directors, all of whom are wealthy and like the CEO have a stratospheric sense of entitlement. They're not receiving $11,000 an hour because they actually earn it. They receive it because they've "made it" and therefore deserve it.<br /><br />What I'd like to see is a system that provides every employee, including the CEO with a sense of belonging. Treating the guy at the top like a deity while routinely reminding the guy at the bottom that he can be replaced only inspires resentment. And if you've ever been at the bottom, you don't need to be told where that can lead.Fowl Ideashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-26292744931969350322013-12-20T20:07:08.384-05:002013-12-20T20:07:08.384-05:00OK, this I'm not down with. The CEO that you ...OK, this I'm not down with. The CEO that you described earned the right to be there. Just like the military has ranks, business organizations have a hierarcky where time and grade includes more benefits than are accorded to lower ranks. And yes, this is a capitalist society, where there is nothing wrong with earnings as much as you can. The only two sure fire ways of dealing with the asshole boss, the playing-favorites of office politics, and the disproportional treatment that managers sometimes dish out are to (a) get another job, or (b) start your own business and run it more ethically. If you are an employee who entertains any of the above ideas, you have problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com