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Pay vs. Happiness
itri writes "A co-worker recently sent me and article about job burnout. Although it's a year old, the points seemed to resonate well with me. The nutshell of the article is that job burnout is caused by lack of the sense of accomplishment, working for a narcissistic boss, and a conflict between the employers and employee's values. Is it really better working for a company that cares about your satisfaction? Are there any companies like that and (more importantly) are they hiring?"
SUCK MY BIG BLACK DICK, FAGGOT!!!
Americans are such whiners. Now I know why the French hate you shitfuckers.
DID YOUR MOM SERVE YOU AN EXTRA HELPING OF DUMB TONIGHT?
O.K. some care so you do not die in some nasty thing they caused and then thay have to pay your family a fortune ...
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... I worked at many places, smaller bigger and never got fired but always burned out and left by myself
:) - and it was a mistake but I do not take idiots too well when I am working....
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Big companies will replace anyone in a snap
Big companies will put you away in a snap
Big companies just want to make more $$ and are ran by shareholders who do not give a crap about YOU.
Small companies cannot afford to care about you many times, and as soon as they grow they care less and less
So I am better broke sometimes run my small businesses, do some this-and-that here-and-there and be happy that I do not rely on a company of any size...
Now you might think that I am some failure being fired from somewhere, but nop
OK I got fired once on the first week from my 2nd workplace, but that guy who I ended up holding to the wall by his neck shouting at him was there for a much longer time
I heard a big soda company (better do not name them) firing trusted, respected employees just days before bonuses, and in cases just before retirement just to save a few $$ and to put people on the street who will retire in powerty
that is how comapnies care
So in other words I would go for the money then quit before it is too late, or would go for a job that is pleasant and bearable - at the end you spend 8hours a day there (and 1-2 hours commuting)...
I mean your job is half your life. If it sucks your life sucks, and my life should not suck for money, I better be poor and with a smile on my face
First, why don't you change jobs? Second, why don't you get an education so you can change jobs. Third, if you have kids, why did you have them if you couldn't support them? How irresponsible are you?
How we know is more important than what we know.
remind me never to work for you.
You seem very much a theory X type of manager. or PHB as people around here call it. Take your liberterian crap and shove it.
My parents had that same exact hands-off-approach to raising me with money. Payed for the schooling, payed for the extra cirricular activities, payed for the videogames and TV to babysit me, payed for the computer so I could figure out my head from my ass, among food, water, roof, and they were so kind even to pay for a few luxuries. They let those raise me instead of doing the job themselves.
I don't talk to either of them much anymore. My father is a dominating piece of shit who will never trust me because he is not a man, and therefor, cannot give me my manhood; I don't acknowledge his existance. I also don't talk to my mother, she also didn't trust me, and that really screwed me up for a long time, but at least she had the drive to stay around after the divorce and basically raise us while my father ran off, made a bunch of promises he didn't keep, then later robbed me of a grand by withdrawing the rainy-day fund from a joint account we had to buy stocks which he promptly lost because he doesn't understand how the stock market works.
The point? You're an asshole of the worst sort and deserve a bullet in the head if you think money and the use thereof is all there is to having a family.
Why?
Because that leads to the exploitation of your children is why, and then when they grow up, they look for more children to exploit which are conveniently made available by assholes just like you. If you don't raise them and teach them, someone else WILL exploit them; schools, corporations, the government, churches, there are hundreds of organizations designed to do it. That's why parents are so quick to believe propaganda which blames their kids for the childrens problems when they start doing things they don't like; they don't want to believe it's the fact their kid lacks confidence and self-love. Then, these kids, without the proper guidance from the right place, generally either figure out their heads from their asses, or, they do something stupid; have kids and enslave themselves for the rest of their lives to some major corporation or welfare government who won't let them have time to raise them, get hooked on drugs and fuck themselves up perminantly, go out and do illegal shit and get themselves killed, among other things. Very few kids are so lucky to be pointed in the right direction when they don't have self confidence or self love.
That's why if you think that way you deserve an ear cleaning with a shotgun. The psychochristians, politicians, party-goers, all of them are a result of that kind of thinking that leads a parent to have other people raise their kids.
You are a father, and moreso, you're a man(I hope...). Men don't rely entirely on money; They traditionally rely on one thing and one thing only; hard labor. You seem to have a modicrum of intelligence as well, which means you're ahead of the game because you can learn a number of varied skills and truely make earning money a secondary necessity. Your wife and kids don't love to you because you make money, they love you because you take care of the outside world which is what a man is supposed to do.
If you didn't have money, and you took care of them, do you think they'd love you any more or less? I say more, because you'd be spending more time with them.
I predict you will be unemployed within a couple of years.
The Business world is NOT akin to the IT world. IT is an operations device. I really hate to break it to you, but IT people make poor businessmen. IT guys put little value on the seemingly 'insignificant' things: appearance, hygiene, etc. The reality is that in the real world, those things are be critically important - albeit from a different viewpoint. In the world of sales and marketing (highly critical for any business), your appearance makes or breaks your deals. IT guys love to think they are all-important and that they get paid the 'big bucks' because they have tremendous power and because they control the corporate information infrastructure. Yet, IT guys are incorrect in this thinking. Sales guys typically make about 30% more than you. You _are_ a PIMP for making $65k a year - but don't become too self-important. The sales guys are making between $85k and $120k a year.
I'm not saying this applies to every company, but I can guarantee you that if your CEO shows up at Noon, dresses like a high-schooler and convinces you that "the internet means we don't have to adhere to the 'normal' business world" - his business will fail.
And as a further note, if he replies to a Slashdot post, his/your business has already failed - you just don't know it yet. Any CEO/Executive that has time to reply (reading is ok) to trivial posts such as this one, is failing their role in his/her company. Being an Executive is a 24/7 job, and not easily condusive to "browsing the web".
Having said all that, I completely agree that being happy at a job is very important; however, in this [US] economy I would focus more on longevity; not how cool my boss or his/her thinking is.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.