It's important to remember that the reason people go into business is to make money. Workers are there for the sole purpose of creating profit. I see many of the biggest problems with employee/employer relations stemming from workers forgetting this very thing.
Seems interesting the way you phrase that:
the workers are the ones who carry the blame here. Good. Because heaven forbid that "greed" shouldn't be a virtue, but envy a sin.
They are there to make money for the owner, but instead, they expect charity.
WRONG. You and I both know that 99.9% of American workers are not looking for Charity. Unless you truly think
that little of your fellow people, honestly, we all work and we all work hard. We are trained to expect little but when we fail to even get that while many at the top keep getting more and more and more then suddenly we workers are at fault for forgetting that the businessman went into business to make money.
Sorry, but
I went to work for the same guy to make money as well.
They expect the owner to consider their financial goals above his own.
WRONG AGAIN.
The owner
and we employees think mostly of our own financial goals. However in the case of the employees
the owner's actions become central to us. Meanwhile our ability to do the job for which we are hired becomes central to the owner's goals.
There is no "superior" in this. If the owner could do the work without hiring he or she would. They didn't make a job out of charity and we don't work for them out of pity for them.
They expect the owner to put his own needs aside when they don't give a full day's work, when they cheat their employers out of his due.
See, when you say stuff like that it sounds like you consider most workers little more than some kind of scum.
That's what I'm talking about when I refer to your lack of compassion. You look at the people around you and see "cheats".
What kind of twisted anti-Christian view of humanity is that? I'm an
atheist and I find that view nearly sociopathic.
Maybe you've never held a job for someone? Maybe you've never
worked for someone else? (It isn't as easy as you guys who constantly defend the "job creators" make it seem.)
I constantly hear about the business owner's responsibility to the worker, but rarely hear anyone say anything about the worker's responsibility to the owner.
So you've never heard of people who are "fired" or people who are "laid off"? Never heard of the papers one has to sign when taking employment? Never heard about "time clocks" at the work place? Never heard of "annual reviews"?
I don't get a single
say in my supervisor's annual review, but he is the one who has the most say in mine. Interesting how that works.
But you general ignorance of these things could explain your skewed view of your fellow people, though.
This attitude among workers has set up an adversarial relationship between workers and their employers, an environment of mistrust and fear.
Wonder why that is? I mean, my cube mate shouldn't be bitter because she had to train her Chinese replacement. I shouldn't be bitter because at the drop of a hat me or my coworkers could be "let go" because the business had a downturn. I know I shouldn't be bitter that I (and most of the people around me) had to work for several years without a cost of living adjustment while the cost of living increased. Why would anyone be bitter or "mistrustful"? Oh, sure, during 2010 there were a lot of big CEO's that got
double digit raises while the rest of us were force to "tighten our belts" or take a pay cut due to the horrible business climate (
LINKY). How could there
possibly be reason for an adversarial relationship between workers and employers????
But in generaly you seem to know very little about the
history of labor relations in the U.S. That's sad. Instead of exhorting others to read the Federalist Papers maybe you could pick up a history book some time. That might make it a bit more difficult to lay the blame solely at the feet of the workers and their "cheatin' ways".
