On employee loyalty...

If i hear one more tv/radio show, read one more article whining about how "there's no employee loyalty, employees just don't care anymore', I'm cockpunching them. You know the shows. Where they bitch about how "employees don't care" and "they're only in it for the paycheck", and how "in the good old days..."

My response?

EAT A BIG BAG OF DICKS

You want the loyalty from employees you read about 30-40 years ago? You want that level of caring? Give your employees that loyalty. Give your employees that level of caring. 30-40 years ago, you know what you got if you spend 35 years with IBM?

A great pension, medical benefits for you and your family for life et al.

That shit got canned in the late 90s. So did a tradition of no layoffs. So did the desire to work for IBM for 40 years.

Over and over, you see companies that treat their employees worse than the desks they sit at, and then dare to complain about bad attitudes. Because somehow, even though an employer treats you like you're more trouble than you're worth, will throw you out with the trash at the first opportunity, and cuts your benefits until you're lucky you're not paying a fee for direct deposit, somehow, somehow, you're still supposed to be blindly loyal to them. You're supposed to care more about the company than you do about yourself. You're supposed to sacrifice your dignity, your self-worth, everything, to pump up the profits of a company that will knock your dick in the dirt if it means they get an extra nickel in the executive bonuses.

Then, when (SHOCKERS), their employees dump out for a job anywhere else, or DARE to not sing the company song, these dickwipes cry about how they can't find good employees.

My response?

Fuck.you.assholes.

How dare you complain about the loyalty you aren't getting when you care more about the toilet paper in your private bathroom than you do about the people who actually do the work that gets you that bonus. How dare you expect people to treat you and the company like munificent deities when you treat them like shit. You want them to care when you outsource their livelihoods every time some random stock analyst promises you a point gain in return.

Over and over you tell your employees "You don't matter. You are nothing more than ungrateful wretches, suckling at the teat of my 'generosity'", then cry in your fucking tea towel when the employees return the favor. You want loyalty? Show loyalty.

Don't throw your employees out with the trash every time your stock price twitches while they read about your fucking parachute. Don't take away their fucking raises while they read about your six or more-figure bonuses. Don't screw them out of benefits while you get access to more than they'll ever see. Don't take away every reason they have to be loyal, then cry in your fucking brandy that they aren't. You want loyalty, be loyal yourself. You want to know why some companies have that kind of employee loyalty, and yours doesn't? Look at how they treat their people.

My company may be small, and they may be, from my IT POV, totally fucking insane at times, but they show me loyalty. Our benefit package recently changed. It not only got better, but it costs less out of my pocket. While other companies that are much larger, making far more money are fucking their people over with regard to medical insurance, the folks I work for did the opposite. That kind of thing...that's how you get loyalty. You show loyalty. That kind of thing is why I went with my gut when I started, and took a largeish pay cut. Because everything about them told me what I see: that when they talk about the value the rank and file have, they aren't just talking. They mean it, and they show it.

They don't just ask for my loyalty, they do the work to earn it. If more companies really did that, they'd not be crying as much.

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If i hear one more tv/radio show, read one more article whining about how \"there's no employee loyalty, employees just don't care anymore', I'm cockpunching them. You know the shows. Where they bitch about how \"employees don't care\" and \"they're only in it for the paycheck\", and how \"in the good old days...\"\n\nMy response? \n\nEAT A BIG BAG OF DICKS\n\n\nYou want the loyalty from employees you read about 30-40 years ago? You want that level of caring? Give your employees that loyalty. Give your employees that level of caring. 30-40 years ago, you know what you got if you spend 35 years with IBM?\n\nA great pension, medical benefits for you and your family for life et al.\n\nThat shit got canned in the late 90s. So did a tradition of no layoffs. So did the desire to work for IBM for 40 years.\n\nOver and over, you see companies that treat their employees worse than the desks they sit at, and then dare to complain about bad attitudes. Because somehow, even though an employer treats you like you're more trouble than you're worth, will throw you out with the trash at the first opportunity, and cuts your benefits until you're lucky you're not paying a fee for direct deposit, somehow, somehow, you're still supposed to be blindly loyal to them. You're supposed to care more about the company than you do about yourself. You're supposed to sacrifice your dignity, your self-worth, everything, to pump up the profits of a company that will knock your dick in the dirt if it means they get an extra nickel in the executive bonuses. \n\nThen, when (SHOCKERS), their employees dump out for a job anywhere else, or DARE to not sing the company song, these dickwipes cry about how they can't find good employees. \n\nMy response?\n\nFuck.you.assholes.\n\nHow dare you complain about the loyalty you aren't getting when you care more about the toilet paper in your private bathroom than you do about the people who actually do the work that gets you that bonus. How dare you expect people to treat you and the company like munificent deities when you treat them like shit. You want them to care when you outsource their livelihoods every time some random stock analyst promises you a point gain in return. \n\nOver and over you tell your employees \"You don't matter. You are nothing more than ungrateful wretches, suckling at the teat of my 'generosity'\", then cry in your fucking tea towel when the employees return the favor. You want loyalty? Show loyalty.\n\nDon't throw your employees out with the trash every time your stock price twitches while they read about your fucking parachute. Don't take away their fucking raises while they read about your six or more-figure bonuses. Don't screw them out of benefits while you get access to more than they'll ever see. Don't take away every reason they have to be loyal, then cry in your fucking brandy that they aren't. You want loyalty, be loyal yourself. You want to know why some companies have that kind of employee loyalty, and yours doesn't? Look at how they treat their people. \n\nMy company may be small, and they may be, from my IT POV, totally fucking insane at times, but they show me loyalty. Our benefit package recently changed. It not only got better, but it costs less out of my pocket. While other companies that are much larger, making far more money are fucking their people over with regard to medical insurance, the folks I work for did the opposite. That kind of thing...that's how you get loyalty. You show loyalty. That kind of thing is why I went with my gut when I started, and took a largeish pay cut. Because everything about them told me what I see: that when they talk about the value the rank and file have, they aren't just talking. They mean it, and they show it. \n\nThey don't just ask for my loyalty, they do the work to earn it. If more companies really did that, they'd not be crying as much.