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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
You are one of the good guys who gets it Fred. There are a lot of employers out there who don't consider their employees to be human beings. To them they are just unreliable production units to be put on line or laid off as needed for efficient production.
It's not hard to understand how some employers get this way. Some employees walk in the door with an attitude that the employer and employee are adversaries. If they come in with that attitude about all you can do is respond in kind. Likewise, if the employer comes in acting like an adversary, he'll get the same attitude back.
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To be clear, as a manager my mantra is ‘If The company takes care of its employees and their families, the employees will look after the company and its customers.’ This works.
I am probably the most flexible boss you could imagine, my employees respect me and have followed me from company to company. I won’t tolerate people not getting their jobs done (without reason), continued missed milestones, or crappy attitudes.
All of my employees are salaried and I expect them to pitch in more when needed and am totally flexible with letting them take an unaccounted flex day to go skiing or do family stuff provided the work gets done - I don’t care.