Comment by baiac
21 hours ago
> “The unapologetic and robotic style of communication makes it clear that they don’t care that many of us have high rents and mortgages to pay, children to feed and plans that depend on having an income,” the staff member added.
Don’t know what this bloke things a job is… They are your employer, not your parents
Frankly, many people do work at places where people are trying to look out for each other as humans and for a long, long time that was in fact the norm -- especially in white collar work.
Faceless, sterile companies with no investment in their employee's humanity were the domain of grim jobs in industrial manufacturing, resource extraction, and some agriculture.
It's true, but also troubling, that this dehumanizing view of labor has now also taken root in most of the largest white collar companies and among many of the smaller companies that compulsively emulate them, but we really don't help anybody by normalizing that without criticism because it's a very bad thing for society.
Basically: you're not wrong for what that kind of job is like today, and that's exactly what they're bringing attention to with that statement.
Because when it benefits the company (in terms of encouraging you to work more), companies are the first ones to claim that “we are a family” and bullshit like that.
> They are your employer, not your parents
No need to invoke such things. If jobs are this fragile and scarce in a society, it means that society has failed and whatever it is doing is not working. If the social contract is broken, the employees have no obligation to heed any social contract or concepts like the above.
> things a job is…
thinks, how did you manage to hit 'g' instead of 'k'? they aren't that close.
I use a swiping keyboard on my phone. When you swipe n-k-s there’s a g in between and often that happens.
ah ok fair enough
It's Ireland. Europe generally has higher expectations of the behavior of companies. The 'unapologetic and robotic' style of communication is very American. It literally costs nothing to be a bit kinder. They spend a fortune building their image as a great place to work then nuke it when the going gets tough.
Not that anyone should believe all that 'we're a family' garbage anyway, for any company.