• meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    We are all freely interchangeable widgets in their calculations. They don’t have time to consider that some people might be better than the job than others.

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      Because profit is in the tail.

      They’re betting that some will leave, most will stay, and even if the some that leave are the best, most of their money is made by the vast majority of people behind them.

      They’re looking at trends, not individuals. Individuals don’t matter to them.

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        They’re looking at trends, not individuals. Individuals don’t matter to them.

        Exactly.

        They’re going to learn better, but it’s going to be an expensive process.

        The irony is that the average worker already knows better.

        “Name two people at your workplace who, if they quit, everything will go to shit.”

        We can all do it. Only the CEO can’t. And many of us would name differet people at the same workplace, and still be correct. But the CEO rarely knows that, or more likely can only name two, themselves, when their real risk is closer to 200.

    • wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world
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      They don’t have time to consider that some people might be better than the job than others.

      I’m way better than the job!