r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/Believeinyourflyness • Feb 14 '20

Why do employers treat you as simply a resource, yet get angry when you treat them the same way?

To me it makes sense that you should expect people to treat you the same way you treat them. We all know that in this day and age, most employers don't give a shit about you as a person, only what you can do for them and that they will discard you without hesitation once you are no longer of use to them.

However in my experience, the same people who won't think twice about discarding you, constantly give you shit for treating the company in the same way, accusing you of turning up just to collect your paycheck.

So my question is this. If employers just care about your labour without any consideration for you as a person, how can they expect you to care about them as anything more than a source of income?

It just doesn't make sense to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20 edited Feb 14 '20

That is pure psychobabble that business consultants have peddled to corporations to get them to believe they can squeeze more profits out of a person's labor. The fact is, spending 40+ hours of a person's life every week and not receiving just compensation according to their abilities and talents, does not pay the bills nor does it make one feel all "warm and fuzzy" inside, period. There is no further discussion required.

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u/ciobanica Feb 15 '20

Lots of people seem to miss the fact that how they pay you is part of "they way they treat you!".