The Company You Work For Is Not Your Friend

[ND-Dem]

One thing becomes apparent after the honeymoon of a newly-launched career is over: Your employer—whether it’s a scrappy startup or a massive multi-million dollar company—is not your friend. You are a resource...

Sure, there are great jobs and companies out there that truly care about their employees. Those companies are rare, though, and you'll be lucky if you land a job with one of them. It's more likely you'll find a team or a boss that cares about you enough to keep every day from becoming soul-crushing drudgery.

For many of us though, we quickly learn—either through layoffs, bad bosses, or how they handle disputes—that the companies we work for aren't looking out for us. We learn the double standard of giving two weeks notice when we quit, even though the company can lay us off any time they choose with no warning. It sucks, but it's a reminder that you are your best ally...

http://lifehacker.com/the-company-you-work-for-is-not-your-friend-1692113529

[BubbaFett]

1. The sooner you learn that NO ONE CARES

the better off you will be.

[ND-Dem]

2. If that's the lesson you learn, the worse off you, and everyone else, will be. That's the lesson

the rulers *want* you to learn that and in fact want to force you to learn it, beat it into you so to speak.

[Populist_Prole]

3. And yet, so many feel it's their duty to be a boot licker

Over the years I've noticed this with some regularity. The more their boss/supervisor/manager shits on them; the harder they bust their humps for them.

From what I've noticed these types are either very religious ( christo-fascists - calvanists ) or ex-military types that still behave like they're in the military.

The bosses love 'em.

[rggjb4]

4. just us chickens

Remember as you walk through the door at where you work, your just another chicken to the slaughter.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. Fully agree.

The individuals in management positions may be, to varying degrees, conscientious and sensitive people. The entity for whom you all work? Couldn't possibly care less about your wellbeing as a discrete consideration outside profit margin.

Costco and Starbucks make ostentatious displays of "caring" because they feel that their profits are enhanced by maintaining that public perception.

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking" - Corporations have no character.

[GreatGazoo]

6. many companies will screen for people who don't need to be liked

by underlings and they make them supervisors or middle management. They are "not your friend" by design.

[Alkene]

7. Tell me about it.

Human Resources.

Resource: a supply of something that someone has and can use when it is needed; a thing that provides something useful.

Humans: the other red meat.
http://io9.com/what-kind-of-meat-is-human-meat-1511534805