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The 8 Lies Most Bosses Tell
Business Insider ^
| 07/15/2014
| GEOFFREY JAMES
Posted on 07/15/2014 2:13:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: MD Expat in PA
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.
I worked for 3 years at a very dangerous chemical plant run by a bunch of rogues who had to be paying off the inspectors.
One dark night, with only the production crew on site, an office was broken into, and a list of the Christmas bonuses to management was copied and placed in EVERY MAILBOX!!! (I suspect the guy who routinely swiped tools and computers)
Management was of course furious, but from the various sizes of the bonuses I was able to work backwards (this is why ALGEBRA is IMPORTANT!!!!) and calculate the bases salaries of all the managers, and of course, I didn't keep the calculations a secret...
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posted on
07/15/2014 7:08:31 PM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: SeekAndFind
“7. Your response will be confidential.”
I remember this one, back in the days of paper. They promised us they would be confidential, but they were serialized. Now, on a computer, nothing is confidential, and you’d have to be a TOTAL IDIOT to think otherwise.
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posted on
07/15/2014 7:46:16 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: Texas resident
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. Its like they like to keep you in limbo. Punched out and havent looked back since. That is absolutely true. Always dangling something and never following up on it. And if you call them on it you are punished. I have a great boss but even he has used most of these excuses. And the stuff that C level people do for themselves but say they "can't" do for staff is mind blowing.
Congrats for getting out. I'm working on an exit strategy as well. Life is too short to live in a Dilbert cartoon.
To: Wyatt's Torch
Ok you got me laughing with the Dilbert reference.
It is SO true.
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posted on
07/16/2014 5:33:40 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
(The democrat party is the CPUSA)
To: wally_bert
Hard to believe people talk like this. We all started out with UGH!
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To: SeekAndFind
4. There's no truth to the layoff rumor.Yeah, I've heard that one. The rumor was true, and the company itself folded a few years later.
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posted on
07/16/2014 9:07:18 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Fresh Wind
I should add this...
The union killed the company.
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posted on
07/16/2014 9:08:33 AM PDT
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Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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