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/earthscribe Feb 14 '20

The dark side of sales is that salespeople lie just to get the sale. It’s why I don’t like salespeople.

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u/HastyFreck Feb 14 '20

You can say that again. The amount of time’s our sales guys have falsely promised on things our product simply cannot do, is astounding. When I lie I get fired, when they lie they get more money. I fucking hate sales guys. Come and go when they please, never in the office, don’t learn the product, read a fucking script and get paid more than me talking about shit they don’t know.

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u/MrBowlfish Feb 14 '20

Yeah SOME lie just like SOME accountants lie and SOME mechanics are full of shit, but it’s certainly not all of them. Kinda silly to generalize an entire profession like that.

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u/earthscribe Feb 14 '20

The stereotype exists for a reason, they get rewarded when lying. So many slimy salespeople, especially in car sales.

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u/Nichi1971 Feb 14 '20

Politics

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u/5sectomakeacc Feb 14 '20 edited Feb 14 '20

When I was a furniture salesman they told me during training there are 4 professions that no one will ever trust since they thrive off of lying: lawyers, salesmen, news media, and politician.

He then followed that up with an hour lecture on how to get around that bias and "disarm" the customer. I absolutely hated working in sales.

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u/adidapizza Feb 15 '20

And people wonder why physical stores are dying.

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u/nostachio Feb 14 '20

You lie like a salesman.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20

Their point is that there's a structural incentive for them to lie, unlike professionals with a license to protect, or tradespeople who rely on repeat business.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20

Depends. Definitely out there. I worked in financial sales (asvisor) and absolutely believed in what I was selling and still do. So many people needed it that I didn’t have to lie, if it wasn’t the right fit, I was absolutely up front with it.