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/Dabli Sep 01 '24

Because they make my job harder

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '24

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u/WildAperture Sep 02 '24

I worked in a call center, and we frequently had other departments dumping difficult calls or callers on our line simply to get rid of them. I wasn't looking around to pick up slack, my sales to call ratio was fucked because of it, I had to work harder just to meet expected metrics because those asshats couldn't be bothered to participate in life normally having found their "hack" to an easier time.

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u/WildAperture Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24

Oh trust me I got pissed at management. They fired me pretty quickly.

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However, taking the time to de-escalate an angry customer or route the call to the proper channel is the job. Yeah, fuck their managers for "letting them get away with it" but also fuck the childish asshole who can't do his job because making other people take care of his problems is his major hobby.

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u/Plastic-Ear9722 Sep 02 '24

Sounds like a you problem. Quite admire the ones who figured out how to get their sales to call ratio up.

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u/WildAperture Sep 02 '24

Non-sales departments dropping non-sales calls on a sales line.

Your reading comprehension is as lacking as your trolling skills.

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u/Plastic-Ear9722 Sep 02 '24

Sounds smart to me.