“Lazy is the new professionalism,” he says.”
Compared to where? France?
I drive two and a half hours just to reach my job and get home every day. The sorry bunch of thugs I work for monitors every minute, and makes us take vacation for family emergencies and sick time for leaving fifteen minutes early for a doctor visit. We are on salary, not a time clock. Anything that happens pushes one way, towards management. Their refrain is very much like this article, “You are lucky to have a job.” They actually told us that in a recent seminar.
Just curious, what's the turnover rate?
Or conversely you are not lucky,so far, to have found a different job.
I had a wacko PHB-ette who castigated me over going to a specialist once a month out of town and I needed to leave an hour early. I had the time to use but it didn’t matter to her. One day I had some really bad muscle spasms and I was walking around like Frankenstein and she just looked at me and gave a “so what?” look.
The company my husband works for told them the same thing when they questioned bennies being cut, pay being cut, etc.
Well, you are lucky to have a job.
My husband kind of got that attitude from his last employer...they were down to half the engineers they needed and of course everything fell onto the ones that remained—the company refused to hire more. My husband was working pretty much 7 days a week and the requests for pay raises (which they hadn’t received in 3 years) were met with silence. Not to mention just the attitude they received for trying to do their job.
Someone told my husband ‘you should be thankful to have that job right now.’ My husband disagreed and through some twist of fate received a phone call from the plant manager of the place he worked at before we moved to Arkansas. He told my husband about a manufacturing engineering position that had just opened up at the plant he managed (same industry even). It was in OH, which was about a 2/3 reduction in the drive time to see family and it was a pay raise with good upward opportunity.
You can imagine how p.o.’d the (now former) employer was when he submitted his 2 week notice—of course they thought they had him over a barrel with the state of the economy. He’s been at the new job for going on 3 months and although we’re in two separate states for the time being, he is pretty happy with the job. He gets to work pretty much 8-9 hour days, 5 days a week, with an occasional Saturday morning. Now there’s a job he’s thankful for! :)