We had a survey recently at my job asking how to reduce attrition (I’m in the training and development department). I opened it up and took a read through it and not one of the questions had anything to do with pay, benefits, or schedules. Every question was a variation of, how can we keep new hires engaged in training. Most of the resignations I get are because of schedules and the complete lack of flexibility so sure let’s talk about engagement.
Anyone want pizza?
Only if it’s one slice once a month.
Here’s your pizza slice for 14 extra hours this week, the company “appreciates” you! I’ll take my slice, 99% of the labor value you generated!
Wow thanks boss! Forget I said anything
What people are missing (and may not even have been intended, but is true nonetheless):
“Pay them more” is what’s inside the box.
The box itself is capitalism.
Outside of the box is a world where you aren’t forced to sell your labour at a fraction of what it’s worth to make sure you have enough money to pay others for the means to survive (or end up like those they tell you simply “didn’t work hard enough”).
“There’s a PS4 in the breakroom!”
“I’m never in the breakroom long enough to play anything on it”
“Everyone will wonder how you have time to use it if you ever try to do so and will resent you for it”
All these people saying we should just pay workers more, they don’t realise it’s part of a conveyor belt, if you start paying people more they’ll start expecting more pay every time work increases or you need them to work longer hours or travel further for their job. Once you start raising wages, before you know it you’ll be raising wages every year and don’t get me started on those people who ignore the ‘don’t tell your colleagues how much you’re being paid’ rule.
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Dead-end talking point. 100% obselete. This one expired like 20 years ago OP, check the dates next time.
So let me get this straight - if our system has a problem that impacts workers financially, and the problem’s not their salary… Then what is it? Clearly low wages arent the only reason for massive poverty these days, so it must be a flaw of our wider economic system, right? The only other option is that workers have poor spending habits, but that’s too individualized to change the course of capitalism. So it must be a systemic issue. If paying workers more money somehow doesn’t “fix” capitalism (true), then the inequality is more or less by design. Not put there deliberately per se, but allowed to continue for the sake of profit.
There’s a clear, almost perfectly distinct hierarchy in modern society that’s entirely based on wealth. Try to use any other model to describe our world, and you’ll always come back to wealth. So if youre looking for the root of workplace inequality, of pretty much all other types of inequality, there it is.
I’m completely distracted by the slight misalignment in the left flap of the box’s top line.
Businesses aren’t just fucking this up anymore – they’re fucking up cost-saving QOL improvements like remote work! They’re innovating!
-Hmm… how about “make them work less”?
-Wait, that was supposed to be in the box too
I love how this was made in ms paint still such a good program
This is so fucking dumb. This isn’t how business’s work nor is planning accomplished like this in most successful business.
This is more of that faux internet progressive-ism that Obama bitched about.
