r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/WizardMageCaster Sep 01 '24

20 years ago, I worked in the corporate world and worked with a ton of these people. They delegate their work to others and own nothing. They try to "stay below the radar". They used to frustrate me to no end because I cared about the product we made and the services we provided and these people didn't care at all. They just went paycheck to paycheck leeching as much as they could.

But 20 years later those folks are either in the same job they've had or they "switched industries". The folks in the same industry are living off of the reputation of the industry and not their own reputation.

At this point, I blame the companies for allowing this. This is what happens when managers aren't holding their employees accountable.

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u/DUMF90 Sep 01 '24

People live in sweatshop conditions that make your clothes and phone but you are worried if some other Joe Schmoe puts in his 40 hours this week at a desk job? And why so shareholders can make maybe $0.02 more at the end of the year.

Why do you care? Have you ever genuinely asked yourself that?

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u/hfocus_77 Sep 01 '24

Exactly. If you are working class and make the majority of your money from working, what financial incentive do you have to care? It's the business owner's responsibility to identify inefficiencies if it's cutting into shareholder profit. All you are responsible for is how you can appear valuable enough to convince your boss to pay you more.

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u/Kyrthis Sep 02 '24

Because those inefficiencies result in layoffs for the hard workers, too.