No, not the Slackoisie, who are just going to hate this, but the employer. Via Reviving Work Ethic.
H/T Stephanie West Allen
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No, not the Slackoisie, who are just going to hate this, but the employer. Via Reviving Work Ethic.
H/T Stephanie West Allen
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What a bunch of entitled whiners.
If the job you’re offering is so great, then you’re not going to have trouble finding someone to do it, and who will do it well and with a good attitude.
Otherwise, it’s just not worth getting off the couch and giving up that half full bag of Cheestos.
You get what you pay for. If I’m unwilling to pay the price for Cheetos, I shouldn’t create a YouTube video complaining about the poor quality of Giant store-brand puffed cheese snacks.
The problem is sometimes you don’t get what you pay for. Sometimes not even close.
I know! Like when you pay someone to be at work at 9:00am, and then 9:00am rolls around and the person is there!
Exactly! Like when you’re expecting them at 9:00am Monday and they show up at 9:00am Tuesday!
Hard weekend, big game, fun party, sorry boss.
Ah. So you need that explained to you. My pleasure. When the job requires you to start work at 9, that means that at 9 you start working. Not roll in the door at 9, get a cup of coffee, hit the john, check your emails, Facebook and twits. It’s not just physical presence by the skin of your teeth, but start working when work starts.
Don’t feel bad. A lot of people don’t get it. You are not alone.
The position in the video appears to be that if you show up at 9am for a 9am, and even immediately get to work, you’re still late.
If it takes your employees 10 minutes to read the intraoffice mail and let their Windows 98 computers boot up, then tough. They’re not late, you’re just not running a 100% efficient company. If you want your employees to show up at 8:45, pay them for the extra quarter hour you want them there.
You’re entitled to direct their actions while they’re on the clock, not before hand.
And you wonder why no one would hire you?
Seriously, I thought you were joking up to now, but it appears that you really don’t get it. <sad face>
Someone did hire me. And then there was a recession (you probably heard about it on NPR), and I had to move to a city where I wasn’t licensed, had no connections or network, and which itself was about to get hit extremely hard by the city’s key industry disappearing.
And I do get “it” if what you mean by “it” is requiring employees to be on site and doing work related tasks before the start of their shift and without compensation for that time.
If you don’t want your employees waiting around for their ancient computers to boot up after their shift starts, then you get in their early and turn on all the machines so work is ready to begin when your employees show up.
I see. Thank you for applying. If a position opens that’s suitable for someone with your skills, we’ll let you know. Next.
There are two types of people in this world…
One type wants to do the minimum they can to put beer on the table and get to happy hour. The more people will give them for less, the better.
The other type wants to contribute, to build, and to achieve. The more they can accomplish the better.
It’s pretty obvious which group you fall into.
So the employers are the first type? Because they definitely seem to be asking to get more while giving less.
Not to worry. You are safe from the abuse of paid employment.
Yeup. Just have to worry about the unpaid employment market.
If I’m lucky one day I can move up to a part-time position that just had its hours reduced so that the employer won’t have to provide health insurance or other benefits. And if I’m super lucky, it will be classified as a private contractor position, so I get to feel the pride of paying the entire share of payroll taxes.
Don’t try to reach too high. You could hurt yourself.
You missed the part about there being good employers with good jobs, good salaries, good benefits, good futures. But you won’t get those jobs with an “entitled” attitude. Or, you can hate on employers, sit alone in mommy’s basement playing on the computer, eating Cheetos, and complaining about how life is unfair. Maybe you will win the lottery? Or maybe the Dude Abides. Would that work for you?
If they really were good jobs with good salaries, good benefits, and good futures, they wouldn’t have trouble finding good employees to fill them.
This guy is simply playing to Boomer entitlement and dislike of Gen Y in order to peddle his books and training materials.
If he’d gone to law school instead of um… well, his bio doesn’t actually say what his education or qualifications are, other than he has a bunch of public speaking certificates. …But if he had gone to law school, now he’d be giving seminars on how to leverage the latest search engine optimized technology to manage client expectations.
He’s making a point, not running a help wanted. Jeez, doesn’t that whooshing sound you keep hearing bother you? Give it up. You hit bottom.
You’re agreeing with the person who says he’s entitled to the work he’s paying you to do “and then some.”
Holy shit is your generation spoiled.
Yes, we are. We were raised on work ethic. Doing the minimum was never how we approach life. Not as employee. Not as employer. Not anything. The idea was that anything worth doing was worth doing well. If you’re an employee, be the best damn employee you can. That’s what work ethic means.
The irony is that everyone in my generation isn’t an employer. Some are employees. And work ethic still applies. The shame is your argument is that the bare minimum is the most you will ever give. What a sad way to go through life, always being the least you can be, doing the least you can get away with.
The sad thing about your generation is that you seem to believe that if you aren’t getting paid, you’re not doing work.
You’d probably look at a group like Law School Transparency, and because they’re unpaid volunteers (and thus by definition everything they do is beyond the bare minimum required), you’d say they’re just a bunch of slackers.
Not at all. Don’t assume.
I don’t have anything to contribute; I just want to see if we can break SHG’s blogging software with too many nested replies.
I was wondering about that. There has to be a limit but I have no idea what happens when the limit is reached.
Damn you two. Like I don’t have enough problems with it already.
Hmmmmmmmm…. it looks like when there are too many comments problems start to happen. Who should I blame for this? GoDaddy? The economy? Greenfield? Obama? I am so confused.
I don’t see the problem. If shg wanted software that did more than the minimum, and went the extra comment, so to speak, he should have paid for it. Prolly built by a millennial.
It was the best software money could buy in 1972.
I have never found a good solution to the problem of employers who feel entitled. Right now I have dozens of them. They’re called clients. Even the pro bono clients have expectations! And don’t get me started on judges who think lawyers should be in the courtroom ready to start a 9:00 a.m. hearing at 9:00 a.m.
Neither clients nor judges are employers. Drawing the analogy merely confuses the issue and illuminates nothing.
Following Entitlement Eric’s advice, you should probably call up the parents of whoever designed your comment system.
I use Disqus, which doesn’t have this problem, but then again I’m accustomed to a “entertainment-rich, techno gadget-filled, bling-bling lifestyle.”
Disqus didn’t exist when I started this blog. And now you use it!
First rate comment management, Big Guy. Like olden days.
On Entitlement: Check out the big comments on Greenfield.
See Monday’s post “Yes, You Are Entitled”. Classic looter v. lawyer exchanges….
From the video I tend to agree with the employers as appearing to be reasonable and fair. But there are many who aren’t.
For instance, “show up on time” with “leave on time” is of course fair. “Show up on time” with “leave when I say, I expect you to work unpaid overtime or work through your breaks which are mandated by law or specified in your employment agreement” is not.
And therein would lie a critical distinction. The point of the video was that there are good employers, and they still can’t find good employees.
It’s interesting, although definitely not surprising, to see how a soft labor market suddenly gives employers carte blanche to treat workers as deplorably as they’d like.
Absolutely. Can you imagine employers expecting people they pay to do their jobs? Animals.