Family that doesn’t want to give you overtime pay, paternity leave, two-week notice before termination, etc., etc.
TbF, my family totally wouldn’t want to do any of that either
“Now that I birthed a child, I need paternity leave from my family. I spent that time with my chosen family at work. Can you look after my baby in the meantime?”
“That’s a reason for me to break up. Here is my 2 weeks notice.”
My first week at my current tech job, our ceo gave a little presentation. He said, and I quote, “we ain’t a family. I like everyone here, but make no mistake: we’re a business”
We’re a pretty small (bout 150 at the time) company.
I really really enjoyed that honesty from him.
Had to make sure that wasn’t the Aeon Flux eye. Very different context.
American families are encouraged to demand their children pay rent and throw their children out on the street once they’re no longer legally required to provide for them. Workplaces have that same energy.
In rural areas of Europe, especially back in the day, kids were expected to pick up chores for the household. Clean, go walk the cattle, etc. It’s why big families thrived - everyone had to do their bit. The paying rent could be seen as a modern version of that. But working alongside your family to care for each other would have a meaningful and positive vibe, while the rent thing comes off as alienating and cold.
Being in charge doesn’t make you smarter, better, or give you the authority to do anything beyond the job description. Implying family is bullshit and those who you convince they are family have just been set up to be taken advantage of by someone who doesn’t love you.
Source, been the boss or the boss’s boss and so on for decades.
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Rule of Acquisition 211: Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don’t hesitate to step on them.
When they say that, they often mean it… as a fucked up narcissistic family with them on top, expecting the “children” to scramble around and hurt each other to please him.
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ah, the Colin Robinson theory of business management.
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