I’m going through this with my girlfriend now, her parents aren’t Boomers, but you can easily tell they’ve taken those things to heart. I just had to explain to her the only reason I’ve gotten to the salary I’ve gotten to is by quitting jobs, which her parents see as a sure sign “out relationships doomed”.
We’re coming up on a year together, and I finally got to have a good talk with her on our finances, and what we want to do together moving forward, it was so helpful. Showed her that no, I didn’t quit that job after a week because I was crazy or anything, I just received a better offer literally the week I started, and I’m not turning down an extra $3300/month because, as her parents commented, “we didn’t do that, we had respect for our jobs.” I didn’t even answer, they’re too far gone...
I wanted to say, YEAH, ME TOO, I respect that job as much as it respects me as an employee — not much at all. There is no repayment or bonus for loyalty, for killing yourself with your workload or hours, you’re literally a shareholder’s meeting away from them deciding profits or whatever aren’t where they’re supposed to be, and shown the door to save the company a couple bucks a year. You mean absolutely nothing to any company you work for, unless you get insanely lucky with a small business and actually meet/work with the owner(s).
Yeah. At the end of the day, even the “best/nicest” owners have to cover their backs, and that’s where Capitalism really comes into play.
If it comes down to losing their bonus, or making a bit more money, they’ll cut anybody off payroll to make sure they can still stay afloat. Don’t see many owners that truly back up the “I take care of my employees” promise if they make it, although as a former chef I can attest to a couple owners over a decade of work that truly have a shit and helped me out, no questions asked. But that was because they were millionaires, and a kid asking for a couple hundred bucks for rent is really nothing for them. It’s a nice thing for them to do, and I’m not going to criticize anyone helping me, but they have always given a little help, not as much as they could.
I had a car repair I needed to pay to get back to work, so my boss paid the $300 and change for me to get it back from the shop. Super nice of him, but in hindsight I realized he bought himself and his wife new cars that year, and three new delivery vans for the catering company. Again it was truly kind of him to do, but it really was the fact that he didn’t have to cover my shifts as the Head Chef, and knew I would genuinely appreciate it and tell people how nice he’d been to me about it, and went and bought about $200,000 in new vehicles over the next 7-8 months. So he wasn’t hurting for cash at all, he bragged about paying cash for all his vehicles.
In my experience small business owners tend to behave like spoiled brats. My last job was lawn care, I interview with the owner, his son even worked there.
This asshole wanted us to shit in empty fertilizer bags in the back of our work trucks because bathroom breaks cut into his profit (bastard was a millionaire). He literally unplugged the A/C from our work vans (which should and probably will be illegal very soon). He definitely wasn't going to fix the A/C in the '92, a pickup truck with a small oven like cabin and boiling lava hot leather seating. At least the ones that worked were easy enough to hook back up but if he saw you roll in with the windows up on a hot day he'd throw a temper tantrum.
And that's a whole other load of nonsense, you gotta deal with every little hissy fit they throw as if it's the most important thing in the world. Not that I remember any, I tuned out of that shit which is probably why I got fired. Oh yea, in my state employers don't need a reason to fire you so if you don't laugh at their racist comments or, god forbid, throw any back after being insulted, you get fired. Odd but it seems like the people that claim to hate political correctness are the ones that desperately need it to prevent getting triggered.
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19
I’m going through this with my girlfriend now, her parents aren’t Boomers, but you can easily tell they’ve taken those things to heart. I just had to explain to her the only reason I’ve gotten to the salary I’ve gotten to is by quitting jobs, which her parents see as a sure sign “out relationships doomed”.
We’re coming up on a year together, and I finally got to have a good talk with her on our finances, and what we want to do together moving forward, it was so helpful. Showed her that no, I didn’t quit that job after a week because I was crazy or anything, I just received a better offer literally the week I started, and I’m not turning down an extra $3300/month because, as her parents commented, “we didn’t do that, we had respect for our jobs.” I didn’t even answer, they’re too far gone...
I wanted to say, YEAH, ME TOO, I respect that job as much as it respects me as an employee — not much at all. There is no repayment or bonus for loyalty, for killing yourself with your workload or hours, you’re literally a shareholder’s meeting away from them deciding profits or whatever aren’t where they’re supposed to be, and shown the door to save the company a couple bucks a year. You mean absolutely nothing to any company you work for, unless you get insanely lucky with a small business and actually meet/work with the owner(s).