Posted on 07/15/2014 2:13:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The boss/employee relationship has an inherent inequality of power, and since knowledge is power, most bosses will want to keep some knowledge to themselves and away from employees.
Doing so often involves telling the following lies:
1. “We can't pay you more.”
If a company has any cash flow whatsoever, the boss is making decisions about where to spend based on what the boss feels is a priority. Your salary isn’t the priority, so can’t really means won’t.
Since your compensation always reflects the minimum your boss believes you’ll accept, when you hear this lie, it’s a signal that you need to renegotiate the compensation agreement you have with your boss.
2. “Your raise is above average.”
If you’re in an organization in which the compensation for everyone in the group is pulled from a set amount of money, there’s a good chance that the boss is describing almost everyone’s raise as “above average.”
Companies that employ nonunion labor are exquisitely sensitive about anybody sharing salary information, because such sharing inevitably makes somebody feel that he or she is being slighted.
Bosses therefore tell this lie because they’re afraid that if you knew what your coworkers were being paid, you would quit in disgust.
3. “We're one big happy family.”
In real life happy families don’t keep secrets from one another, and tend to share everything equally.
The most wretched places to work are those in which bosses and employees replicate the yelling, spanking, criticism, deception, and cruelty that play a huge role in the horrors of a miserable childhood.
Your best bet is to quietly refuse the entire premise of the lie and remember that it’s not personal, it’s business.
4. “There's no truth to the layoff rumor.”
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How bout the lies told by the current president. Would have to add at least 2 zeros though
We have it pretty easy at my office. Every time the boss opens his mouth he’s lying, so it’s easy for us to know.
Having worked in corporate America for 20+ years this list is absolutely true.
I've heard this one. This only works until the guys start talking about how much they got. Then we all know the boss is a liar.
One more in the case of political bosses
9. I never had sex with that woman.
Goes double for state government.
At the agency I used to work at, it was pretty much a given that anything from the land of make believe upstairs was a lie except for a few dyed in the wool true believers (boot licking lackeys).
After a long time of being lied to, held back, and generally being lied to, I called the pointy haired tech manager on it. I mentioned the word veteran and lawsuit.
That guy has moved on to an ever bigger state gov. parasite slot. I feel sorry for any unfavorite and veterans that are deemed lesser.
I'm pretty sure my father didn't give us all the details of his income and assets or split it equally with my sis, my Mom and me.
When virtually no one serves God and everyone serves Mammon, trust is non-existent. It’s a horrible world to live in, so Christians look forward to the next one.
worked at a company for 3 months when one of the old timers there said the entire office was going to close. i asked my boss and she said it was a vicious rumor. meantime she relocated from out of state and bought a new house close to the office. well 2 months later the suits arrive with the message that there will be some layoffs “in an orderly fashion”. right... the first to go were the marketing and sales people.. what? yep one month later the suits arrived again with the shut down message. 350 people out the door with jobs relocated to india and china... that is why the customer service people answer “JELLO”.... anyhow they had to pay $1 million a year in rent for 3 years after closing the office (which exceeded the entire payroll and the company unit was very profitable doing $700 mil/year with a 30% margin before taxes.. this is and will continue to happen in the ussa in every company across the board.. my boss didn’t know what was going on and the housing market concurrently dropped 30% and she got screwed royally. wall street oriented management are SUBHUMAN PIECES OF SHIT in it for the money in total disregard for the human aspect. Plus they keep profits offshore and pay little to no taxes. that is why there wil be NO REAL RECOVERY E V E R in the ussa and we are now heading to be a banana republic. Good luck.
Best to avoid this entirely and just stay on welfare.
Not necessarily a lie, and it's easy to prove mathematically. For any given salary s there is always a higher salary s+δ. By repeatedly asking for a raise - and rejecting the excuse that "we can't pay you more" - you, in some circumstances (subject to rules of calculus,) can ask for more money than is present on the planet.
For example, on your first day of work you ask for a $1 raise, and you receive it. On the second day you ask for double that amount - $2 - and also receive it. There is a chess-related mathematical problem that illustrates how geometric progressions work. But it's enough to say that within 20 work days you will be commanding a salary in excess of 1 million dollars. If you can wait another calendar week, it becomes 33 million. If you can wait yet another calendar week, it becomes 1 billion dollars. I am sure that even Microsoft would say, at some point, that "we can't pay you more."
I got out of corporate America 20 years ago for this reason.
The lies they tell affect your professional development and screw up your future planning. It’s like they like to keep you in limbo. Punched out and haven’t looked back since.
11. Our corporation is focused on maximizing stakeholder profits on a quarter-by-quarter basis.
If we do not show an increase in revenue this quarter, we cannot justify any incerase in expenditures; that goes for travel expenses as well as personnel increases.
Sorry.
I personally am alarmed when my boss shares the truth/reality with me about anything. Managers don’t share knowledge/power unless for a very specific, planned reason.
Yep — heard em all
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