Posted on 10/02/2001 8:37:31 AM PDT by SAMWolf
The only person who can get three days off in a week is the general manager.
Being promoted to a supervisor is actually a demotion considering the fact that you just sold your soul.
The arrogance level of any given member of management is inversely proportional to their intelligence quotient.
Don't worry about management's stepping in to do workers' jobs during a strike. They can't run the place with us, so how can they run it without us?
Don't ever get caught reading anything on the job; the management want to keep us as clueless as they are.
All managers suffer from selective amnesia; they can only remember Union contract agreements when it benefits their cause.
The amount of favoritism you receive from management is directly proportional to the amount of a** you kiss and inversely proportional to the quality of work you perform.
Whenever management posts a letter of thanks to the workers, the employees will again be treated like crap within two minutes of the posting.
The chances that an employee's idea will ever be implemented are inversely proportional to its ultimate good.
A new supervisor who has worked for only two days is always construed to know more than workers who have worked in the company for years.
As soon as a supervisor is promoted to a manager, an inexplicable, sudden drop of 50 IQ points will occur.
The accountability of the workers is inversely proportional to the accountability of the supervisors and managers.
If management accidentally discovers that an employee is smart, more work will be expected from that employee.
Succeeding at the workplace is simply a matter of rising above everyone else's incompetence.
The more a worker gets yelled at by a manager, the more that worker can take comfort in the fact that they are right.
In the workplace, incompetence perpetuates itself.
If a rule does not exist that supports the position of management, they will make one up on the spot.
You will never get paid for any overtime or extra hours you work unless you catch the forthcoming error and report it to the same management who tried to get away with it in the first place.
Whenever a new rule or procedure is implemented, the employees must be given either no notice or as little notice as possible.
The greatest possible threat to any given manager is an employee who is smarter than they are.
Whenever management comes out with a so-called "policy," it is merely an attempt on their part to circumvent a provision in the Union contract that they don't like.
In the workplace, managerial incompetence flows from the top on down.
Small companies are run by owners who would be run out of business if they didn't subordinate their egos to the bottom line. Hence, they tend to be fair and reasonable with their employees.
Only in a very large company can a manager afford to play mind games. The shareholders have no idea that his demoralization of the employees is contributing to lower profits.
Bill Gates has a reputation for being a Type-A you-know-what, but people forget that Microsoft is one of the few companies that lavishly rewards its employees. If you invented something valuable at the corporation where I worked, they not only failed to reward you, the managers would take credit for the patent.
Agreed.
This was clearly compiled by a someone on the lowest rung.
Having worked upper management (and on the lowest rung), I can attest via personal experience, that subordinates often are clueless about what is going on and most, not all, but most are so incompetent that one has to wonder how they survived into adulthood.
Instead of working to improve their lives, they deride others and write bs such as this.
There was an American intellectual who was very highly esteemed among the conservatives. He was James Burnham, received Medal of Freedom from Reagan, wrote a lot of articles for National Review, and he wrote some books. One book was 'The Managerial Revolution'. His thesis was that in the 20'th century the class of people known as managers became prominent and like every other class of people would work for the benefit of themselves and others in their class. Every aspect of our lives, he said, was dominated by the managers, they were making all kinds of decisions and having enormous control that previously they did not have. He said this class of people would become abusive. He was right.
The big corporations are now completely controlled by these managers with the owners being very weak in the equation, the owners basically only get some of the profits after the CEOs get their's. It takes a lot of integrity for them to be decent in their jobs. Lots of them just don't measure up, it is a big problem that we as a people do face. They frequently manage for their own personal interest whether it be job security or ego.
It should obviously be a top priority to drive unemployment back into the historical norm range. This is the best we can do for the poor, the lower income who many times can't afford families. Injustice in the workplace is a real issue and the best way to treat it is to give people good options at working elsewhere. It is very unjust that neither political party really cares at all about this type of thing. The democrats work for their dream of socialism, the Republicans work for the corporate managers, nobody serves the americans. Just 40 years ago both parties competed with each other to serve us, today they don't.
Respectfully, sources please
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