I’ve seen it (not personally, but observing) at the higher end of paid professionals too, like doctors/dentists. Outstanding work, treated like cogs, squeezed harder and harder. In one instance, the local monopoly who bought their group out literally committed fraud.
Come to think of it, everyone I’ve known working corporate got screwed.
I worked hard until I got my dream job at a Fortune 500 company. I would have been perfectly happy doing that job for literally the rest of my life.
Then the accounting department took over the company, and started making decisions, and the next thing we know, our company had slipped from being in 1st place for 25 years, to fourth out of five major corporations in that industry.
The result was thousands list their jobs, including me. Not because I did a bad job, or because I had an attitude problem, etc. It was all because other people totally fucked up, and I paid the price.
So I thought “If I would work that hard to make someone else wealthy, and still get tossed out, why couldn’t I do that for myself?” So I started my own business, and I’ve never looked back. That was 30 years ago, and it hasn’t been easy. I never got rich, but I also never have to take orders from an incompetent middle manager, never have my work or credit stolen, my income is in my hands not some corporation’s, I can make my own schedule, wake up when I want, and nobody can fire me.
If you can’t get someone to hire you, hire yourself.
The stories here are crazy.
I’ve seen it (not personally, but observing) at the higher end of paid professionals too, like doctors/dentists. Outstanding work, treated like cogs, squeezed harder and harder. In one instance, the local monopoly who bought their group out literally committed fraud.
Come to think of it, everyone I’ve known working corporate got screwed.
…Feels like things can’t go on like this.
I worked hard until I got my dream job at a Fortune 500 company. I would have been perfectly happy doing that job for literally the rest of my life.
Then the accounting department took over the company, and started making decisions, and the next thing we know, our company had slipped from being in 1st place for 25 years, to fourth out of five major corporations in that industry.
The result was thousands list their jobs, including me. Not because I did a bad job, or because I had an attitude problem, etc. It was all because other people totally fucked up, and I paid the price.
So I thought “If I would work that hard to make someone else wealthy, and still get tossed out, why couldn’t I do that for myself?” So I started my own business, and I’ve never looked back. That was 30 years ago, and it hasn’t been easy. I never got rich, but I also never have to take orders from an incompetent middle manager, never have my work or credit stolen, my income is in my hands not some corporation’s, I can make my own schedule, wake up when I want, and nobody can fire me.
If you can’t get someone to hire you, hire yourself.
This reads like capitalist propaganda
Too bad there isn’t anything else to do but keep going like this until it ends the world.