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There are only so many hour in the day that get “wasted” since employees insist on basic habits of eating , sleeping, and even procreating. The belief structure among many management and supervisory types is that these can be simply reduced, if not eliminated by forcing poor workers to work longer and longer hours on in the end unpaid “overtime”. Either be quiet, or you won’t be working here is the mantra so to speak.
To serve these purposes , and to complete the internalizations of the said employee it might be best for him or her not even to refer to these time periods worked for the organization not as unpaid overtime but rather as “commitment to professionalism” or “the reason you get your bonus.”.
Talk about the book 1984 with its Orwellian tales of doublespeak and mind control.
In the end it goes under the guise of “Be glad that you have a job” and management bonuses for their efficiencies at keeping costs and labor costs in line. Reminds you of organized crime who are able to run businesses due to low input costs – the goods have invariably been stolen elsewhere and have low direct costs to the said business.
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If you do your research about much dollars , cash or money that you can expect to be paid by your new or next employer then you are on the graveytrain. This can perhaps be determined through the interview process.
It is an interesting concept. Practice interviews. Its not unlike practicing having teeth pulled or limbs ripped off or practicing hunger or deprivation . Practice interviews and interviewing can be similar to “dress rehearsals” or football practice. You might try or wish to fine tune your answers to questions or work on your abilities to maintain a condition of aliveness. You may need to try one one i f you have not figured out what your next “bottom line” salary minimum is or should be.
Practice interviews can range from going to people to people in your field for advice to actually pursuing job interviews. Either way will show you how to put your efforts and road map into practice before tackling the “real thing”.
But get all your practicing down long before you show up for your important job interviews. Those are the ones that you want to crack wide open.
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The United Auto Workers may be out of the hole now that President Bush has approved a $17 billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry, but the union isn’t out of the bunker just yet. Even as the industry struggles with massive losses, the UAW brass continue to own and operate a $33 million lakeside retreat in Michigan, complete with a $6.4 million designer golf course. And it’s costing them millions each year.
The UAW, known more for its strikes than its slices, hosts seminars and junkets at the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Mich., which is nestled on “1,000 heavily forested acres” on Michigan’s Black Lake, according to its Web site. But the Black Lake club and retreat, which are among the union’s biggest fixed assets, have lost $23 million in the past five years alone, a heavy albatross around the union’s neck as it tries to manage a multibillion-dollar pension plan crisis. Critics call it a resort for union leaders that wastes money from union dues. “It’s their members’ money that they’re spending on this thing,” said Justin Wilson, managing director of the Center for Union Facts, a union watchdog group. “The union has bigger issues at hand than managing a golf course.
Managing the course may become a burden for the union. The UAW covers costs for the Reuther Center from the interest it earns on its strike fund, according to tax documents, but massive losses in the past five years have forced the union to make heavy loans to keep the center afloat. Critics call it a poor investment for a group with over $1.25 billion in assets
It can be often said that women and female employees experience more than their share of disrespect and
poor treatment by the agents of society and management. “My job is to manage”. Yet when asked few in these position can explain what this means other than “I am the manager” and similar mantras. When applying what might be considered downright foolish behavior – such as the “we know routine “ or pointing to graphs and charts on the wall where the rules are one sided if not indeed stacked and informing victims that “I am just doing my job”. Similar answers and mentalities could be expected of border guards or policemen / women issuing tickets at a speed trap whose only purpose is that of revenue collection – little else.
It can be best said that if a women does rise to management then their attempts to be firm or forthright
with male employees may be more than difficult. Employers have traditionally paid women less than women as “men have to raise a family”. How that logic and argument does not apply to single parent households where the mother is the provider and wage earner is somewhat elusive.
A large group of us from work had taken an entire evening to travel from the suburbs into the city and site in a studio for over three hours -all to provide a live audience for our pastor’s TV program. Every couple of weeks the bosses would evaluate us “for own good”. Lot of luck.
The same people who beat you up in the sandbox when you were four years old are now in charge. Woody Allen said that “Those that don’t do teach those that cannot teach manage”.
What on earth can a manager teach an experienced employee who is on the front lines , is productive and has proven so by being gainfully employed a number of years by the firm or the specified industry.
Nothing more than self justification of insecure individuals to keep their so called perks and privileges. Perks can be defined as things given to management that in no way can be justified.
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