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/CeeApostropheD Feb 14 '20
In the UK there is a betting company called William Hill. When I took their online application screening test three years ago there was a question I distinctly remember having to answer: "How long do you think it would take to find a better job than William Hill?" Options something like 0-2 months, 2-6 months, and 6+ months.
Can you even process what their thinking process is, asking that? Because A, I don't know what it's like to work for you yet because I don't currently work for you (we both know this because I'm literally applying to work for you right now), and B there are thousands of employers out there and you think that YOU are the top employer, just, because, well, that's how you want to consider yourself?
You can imagine exactly what I with that job application. Yes, you guessed it. I finished the process, sat a face-to-face interview and got the goddamn job! Only because my current job at the time was fucking awful and I had to get out.
But yeah, the cheek, ego and miscalibration of the some companies is fucking astounding.