Not too long ago I got told off for "costing the company a lot of money", except I wasn't even an employee, I was a customer whose wheelchair assistance caused a minor delay (through no fault of my own I might add).
And all I can think is "what makes a person bootlick that hard?" (socialisation under capitalism and propaganda from birth). It's enraging.
I used to work for a boss who would proudly say shit to my face like “it’s my job to get the most out of you for the least amount of money”. I used to respond by flat out refusing to do work saying “you’re paying me $12/hr, you’re getting $12/hr worth of work from me. You want me to work harder? Give me a raise.” We were understaffed and they refused to hire enough people to do the work (our work load more than tripled and they refused to hire any additional staff. Another location had more staff and way less work coming in daily). When my boss started regularly panicking that the work was never done at the end of the day and his ass was going to get handed to him by corporate I was like “huh, that sucks for you, I’m done at 5 and don’t give a shit. Maybe you should hire a few extra people like we keep asking”
I work for a huge financial institution. Every now and again some manager gets it in their head that it might be a motivating factor to say something like, “this is costing/going to save the company millions of dollars!”
In my head I’m like, “Yeah, so what you’re saying is that this fix/improvement is so trivial as to barely be worth anyone’s time.” If your company makes billions of dollarsin pure profitevery fucking quarter a few million dollars here and there over the course of a year is the equivalent of a middle class individual losing a quarter down a storm drain once… In their lifetime.
Usually if you’re involved in something that is genuinely urgent, it doesn’t even need to be said. I remember being in a situation where a server wasn’t starting back up after some changes while we were in the data centre, and if it didn’t come online by the time we left the office, one of the largest pay as you go networks in the UK would have gone down lol. If a PM had approached us with something ‘urgent’ during this they’d have to run away from projectile rack mounts…
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