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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Do they actually trust their coworkers to run the company without tanking it almost immediatly? Most of my coworkers can barely make it through their own tasks without fucking something up, let alone actually having input on how the business is run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some of the workers may be managerial. But the managerial workers don't own a disproportionate amount of the company, and they're not considered the "superior" of any other workers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

if you dont raise your children to be adults, they won't act like adults when they grow up. A revolution would mean people learning entirely new skills, like making decisions in the workplace. Most workers have no agency, theyre treated like machines, so I dont expect people raised in that society to know how to run a completely different one from scratch. Revolution is a process, it has to be built. Keep shitting on your coworkers tho, im sure its a productive activity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can't even learn to do the tasks they are expected to do now. Even with frequent coaching. How the fuck can you expect them to learn to make business decisions?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've clearly never worked close with anyone making business decisions in the real world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to work for a food type company and the way they decided to import and sell stuff locally was if the board of directors (the CEO who inherited the company from daddy + his siblings) liked the item. They hired someone, my coworker, to actually run the market tests and everything and then promptly ignored any suggestion she had to make about the viability of this product on the local market, instead relegating her to a busser that was in charge of ordering the samples they decided they wanted.

I remember one item nobody liked (they would give us the remaining samples in the break room like some dogs getting the leftovers), but one of the siblings liked it and they got that close to putting it on the market because of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@lightnsfw @dingus
You really think the people currently running your company are any different from those other coworkers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they have education related to the running of a large company whereas most of my coworkers barely made it through their IT certs and have some of the stupidest takes regarding how things should be done I've ever heard in my life.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Education related to the exploitation of their workers

Ftfy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Most of my coworkers can barely make it through their own tasks

I guess you haven't met many CEOs, then.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I trust my average coworker much more than the average CEO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Highly depends on your coworkers. My current coworkers? Yeah they're great, we have two electrical engineers on my team, buncha geniuses.

My last job? Oh man I wouldn't trust those guys as far as I could throw em.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most of my coworkers can barely make it through their own tasks without fucking something up

This is a problem with the company you work for, not your coworkers. I'm sure if they were paid more, were given more agency, and received better training, they'd be better elployees

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Either that or the reason they purposefully hire meth-addled freaks is because they want desperate people who won't fight for any of those things.

Source: Friend who works in a warehouse and has coworkers who are obviously there to get a paycheck to afford their fix and then move on. It's the company culture. They could choose to hire better people, or mentor the people who could grow, they don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they're just idiots. Myself and others have had the same training and responsibilities and do fine. It's not that difficult of a job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i shall surely reap the rewards of working at the same level as these irredeemably dumb people. then i will prove my point online or something