Companies must look out for their best interest, just as you yourself do. It's a two way street.
Posted on 08/24/2012 7:24:47 PM PDT by dynachrome
1. Rand focuses employees on money.
Rand practically worshipped the almighty dollar, seeing the acquisition of wealth as a goal worthy in and of itself.
Unfortunately, when that attitude spreads throughout an organization, a higher salary becomes the only motivation that really works. That means top workers will, of course, leave the moment they get a better offer elsewhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Sure, I am just saying that salary is not everything.”
I have been working for at least 55 years and IMO it sure beats everything else on the list. I believe the saying goes something like, “Money may not buy happiness, but it allows you to be unhappy in some very wonderful places.”
This guy has never read Rand.
Two words: Galt’s engine.
QED.
I agree if you are a small-business owner. I would say that the larger the business, especially corporations, loyalty is not a prerogative. I worked for a fortune 500 corp, and was booted out after 19 years. I was loyal, but my talents were deemed not needed. That's life. But my loyalty to the corp. played no part in their decision.In fact, I had a friend who was a manager. She used to chide me about my less than super love for my job and the corp we worked for. I told her that we'd both be gone in five years (the handwriting was on the wall), and she was gone before I was. We were both terminated. Again, that's business, but loyalty had no determination on who stayed and who got booted out.
Companies must look out for their best interest, just as you yourself do. It's a two way street.
I’m pretty sure that the author of this little “ditty” uses the same journalistic techniques as most of Rush Limbaugh’s critics... Don’t actually read Rand, just read the criticism of Rand, and go from there.
There are so many false assumptions that the author makes, it’s difficult to list them all, but 1 really stands out to me... “#3 Rand Creates Fanatics.” Someone may want to break it to the author, that Ayn Rand is no longer creating anything, as she’s gone to the “Great Galt’s Gulch in the Sky,” or more realistically for her, she simply no longer exists. The point is that if you have employees who read something and they become “fanatics,” maybe you’re hiring employees who have “issues” far before ever reading Rand.
Frankly, the posts on this thread, as well as the many pages of comments on the original article at the CNBC website pretty much says it all. That the author really has no understanding of what Rand wrote.
Mark
Every time I’ve changed jobs voluntarily, it has been for one reason.
Higher pay.
That’s it.
If you’re like me, your real life is what happens away from the job. The job is the way that you gain what it takes to afford your life. “Career advancement” is defined by the number next to the “$” on the paycheck.
As Bernadette Peters said in “The Jerk”, “It’s not the money....it’s the stuff.”
Don’t bother. Just shrug.
John Galt, go home. Take your homies with you.
Tell us about your resurrection.
I’ve been collecting reader’s opinions of Ayn Rand off the internet for a couple of months. There are hundreds like these:
Ayn Rand wrote Fiction and then as all mentally ill people do she started to believed her own fiction and fools believed right along with her adding fuel to her delusions. Odd how the right puts a closeted man hateing lesbian, athiest, anti semantic, anti social indiviualist on a pedistal???? Strange.
As Bernadette Peters said in “The Jerk”, “It’s not the money....it’s the stuff.”
You got it. I have a friend who worked very, very hard for many years. He has a plane, a boat and a restored Rolls that drives from the right side. He also has a pair of work boots in his closet that has duct tape covering holes in the top and soles of both of them. Said he keeps them to remind him of how he got to the place where he doesn’t ever have to walk very far any more if he doesn’t want to.
Gotta wonder if the folks writing this tripe are really as ignorant as they sound, just Wasserman-like liars, or (my bet) both.
Such workers respect leaders who know that others contributed to their success.....”You didn’t build that.”
What does CNBC stand for:
Communist Nonsense Bull Crap!
OH MAN! I have got to tell this story.
The company I worked for got a new general manager, after a month or so of him being in charge we, (The Employees), received a multi-page questionnaire about our jobs and what could the company do to improve work condition, morale, etc.
Well in my department we got together and talked it over. We ALL put down on our questionnaires that the number one thing the company could do to improve morale was to pay us more. The very last thing on mine anyway was “Improve communications from upper management to the lower level employees.”
Surprise, surprise! when the company posted the results of the questionaire “Improve Communications was #1. Pay increase were somewhere along the lines of #9 or #10. Needless to say morale did not improve and general disdain for the upper management did increase.
>>I’m an employer and loyalty is *EXTREMELY* important to me. In fact, I consider it to be a big revenue generator.
Thanks for making my point. Loyalty is about people, not revenue.
Wow, these jackals are terrified of Ayn Rand’s ideas. Good.
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