You act as if there have NEVER been bad employees before. People have complained about workers forever; there's nothing special about now in that respect
The Peter Principle is part of it, but it’s also kind of amazing just how out of touch so many business leaders are with their workers. I recently left a job where I’d been for several years; the company was smallish (a couple hundred), but had a couple layers of parent corporations that were each substantially larger. I’m not sure of the total headcount, but it was easily in the tens of thousands. My company and the parents had all been in business for at least 20 years, yet there was nothing in place, at any level, for career development or advancement. The most we had was a corporate subscription to Linkedin Learning. Job titles and descriptions were ad hoc and not formalized or standardized. Requests for promotions and raises were met with a shrug (whether the response was yes or no). Subsidiaries (like mine) all did similar work, yet there was virtually no sharing of information outside of formal co-dev relationships. It was as if everybody in charge of running the companies were clueless about what it took to make our products (IMO, most of them truly were clueless). And I actually thought the CEO was a pretty decent, reasonable, thoughtful guy - ya know, for someone who flies private. Most of my local management were good people, too. It’s worse when the bosses are jerks.
Poor management is certainly a consequence of our increasingly unreliable workforce. Some of these managers are poor choices for their jobs, yet businesses often have no better options. It's not just Burger King either. I see an absence of accountability across the board. An absence of discipline. Absence of oversight. Punishment. Maybe I've noticed this more than others because I have worked ten different jobs in the last ten years.
And the top 4 billionaires have more wealth than entire generations
Because it treats it’s work force really badly. I’ve never worked more that 37.5 hours a week and I get seven weeks leave a years.
If counting paper clips needs to be done for a business to operate it should pay a living wage. The standard should be that the most menial job done full time should allow someone to live on.
Correct. Those roles should pay more than the minimum wage. If a business cannot afford to pay the least of it’s workers minimum wage it is not a viable business and people should look elsewhere for a better job.
No argument here. I go to other countries on vacation and run to people from other countries who are on holiday, and they have an entire month...plus.
When I retired from the military and went into the US civilian workforce, the biggest adjustment I had to make was not getting an entire month off for leave, accruing at 2.5 days a month from the very first month.
I still think it's hilarious people are trying to blame Biden. You'd think if he was the problem, Republicans in these state legislatures would be HUGE Biden supporters.
I retired from the state 6 years ago. Similarly I missed the long vacation days I would accrue each year. I literally had more vacation time than I could use. I would take off every Friday. They allowed us to roll over our vacation and sick leave into the next year. When I finally retired, I sold my leave days back to the state and got almost 10K for it. They also allowed us to donate our sick leave into a "sick leave pool" that could be drawn on by people with catastrophic health issues.
Don't you see that if you do that I couldn't become a millionaire. And that is all I am right now; and inconvenienced millionaire.
Now that's just silly. Most American's don't need seven weeks vacation per year.
