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Originally Posted by DorianRo
Reasons why people are lazy at work today:
1. Lack of meritocracy. Promotions based off strictly nepotism and cronyism today. (Its far more important to be a good drinking, golf buddy with upper management than it is to know your job, have the necessary skills,bring value but not be buddies with the people in power)
2. Uneven, UNFAIR distribution of salary and wealth. (All the money flows to the top with far less flowing down than before). The Rich continue to get richer while the poor stay poor or get poorer while the price of everything else goes up.
3. Employers that have no appreciation for it's workforce. (Yes there are some who still do but they are few and far between)
4. Employers figuring out they can work best on a skeleton crew while treating the poor sucker leftover workforce like field hands with the work of 50 people thrown on them and no hint of raise or promotion
... Why wouldn't people be lazy today? Only suckers work their tail off for these employers we have today.
Truth is, its not even worth being in the corporate world today unless you're high up at the executive level where you get all the perks, get to call the shots, and do god knows what else all day. Anything below that is nothing but a crapshoot these days.
IF these companies would treat their employees like... Employees. With respect, appreciation, consideration, and added incentives, bonuses, pay increases etc and not like parasitic organisms to starve out and just "numbers", you would barely have any lazy employees.
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I'm sorry, but your post really look like whining to me.
I work hard and make sure my work have a certain level of quality to them because I take pride in my work. I often double/triple check my work before submitting them.
Hard work and dedication really pays off. People don't see this because, perhaps, they are not dedicated to their career enough?
I recently got headhunted by a major corporation to join one of their management teams. In my office, I'm the younger person here even though I'm 2nd down from the top.
You speak about unfair distribution of salary? When they headhunted me, they offered me a 50% increase from my already above average salary with my old company to drop everything and come join them.
On the other hand, let me give you a couple of examples of people who will never advance further than where they are.
I recently brought my company car into a car dealership to have some repairs and maintenance done. In the list of repairs needed, I specifically wrote driver side tail light need replacement. If you look at it, it was all smashed up. When I went back to pick it up, I was confused because it looked the same to me. The dealership told me they replaced the passenger side tail light. They waved over the mechanic who did the job and the mechanic said he thought the paper said passenger side.
I was perplexed by their answer, because if you just stood there you'd see that one side was all smashed up and the other was all good. Why would anyone in his right mind see that and then replaces the side that was good while leaving the all smashed up side alone?
So, last night I took it in again for them to replace the correct tail light. At 5:30pm I called Hertz confirming that they were closing at 6pm and that if I got there before 6 I'd get a car. My company had made reservation for me! My assistant drove us to Hertz and we got there at 5:45pm. The door was locked and the lights were off. I called their number and nothing.
Those of us who actually care about the quality of our work get annoyed at people who simply don't care. I'm still perplexed by how the mechanic could think it was a good idea to replace the tail light that was good while leaving the smashed up one alone and why the Hertz guy would tell me to come before 6pm at 5:30pm and then he closed up shop before 5:45pm?
The fact of the matter is if you do mediocre work or do the bare minimum amount of work required DON'T WHINE WHEN YOU DON'T GET PROMOTED OR DON'T GET A RAISE.
As a manager, nothing irks me more than people who do mediocre work. I show people respect by making sure all my work carry a certain level of quality before I pass my work on to the next person. Why can't they show me the same kind of respect?
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