Monday, March 21, 2005

To Employ Or Be Employed, That Is The Question

To be employed is to receive a stagnant wage every month for doing the impossible & not owning the rights to it. But at the very least & generally speaking, employees usually only put in 80% worth of effort(or less) in compare to the 120% responsibility(or more) that they shoulder, for every dollar that they are "legally" paid. With regards to the retail industry, the same cannot be said. I shall not elaborate on that as many employees' ricebowls are at stake.

To employ is to supplement an expenditure every month to someone who might not necessarily be at your beck & call, to perform seemingly menial tasks which are "so not worth" the salary you are paying them for(from the employers' point of view, that is). And not to mention that they only put in that 80% effort(or less).

Is it better to employ or be employed?

2 comments:

reecia said...

hmm..
i think some ppl dont even give in 80%... for the ppl here i suppose 30% to work, 70% to family & children..

Reese P. said...

That I believe is due to your company policy. As per usual, leniency is always taken advantage of.
They start off by nibbling a little. When there's no apparent reaction, they chew off in chunks