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Blows my mind this is what destroys a company and morale

Why are you looking at your phone instead of doing your fucking job?

Hiring is an awful process, and a lot of the time, you gotta hire a bunch to find one that works out, and ride out the shitty ones until you do.

If they are like my work they just want bodies. They don't care what those bodies do on the job, just that the upper management sees enough names on the schedule.

Because employers are even lazier, TC

maybe if you spent more time doing your job you'd have less time to watch your co-workers not do theirs

Unemployment is like 3 percent. There has never been a better time to be lazy at work.

Heh, theres a guy at work whos been caught sleeping multiple times at his desk and other peoples desks. Its almost comical that hes still employed if it wasnt so sad

Sleep deprivation is no joke.

Because when employers pretty unanimously treat everyone like shitty disposable cogs and pay them like shit, they arent surprised when they get the bare minimum.

Because most people are lazy, and they still get their job done as they should.

In my old job I was the eager and motivated guy who did as much as I could. There were problems, and I was motivated to solve them, every single one of them.

Did not payed of. The only reward I got was a meeting with my boss with him complaining why I can't do the work of my colleague (who left 3 months prior to that) too.

Take a guess why it is my "old job" and not my "current job".

Karovorak posted...

Because most people are lazy, and they still get their job done as they should.

In my old job I was the eager and motivated guy who did as much as I could. There were problems, and I was motivated to solve them, every single one of them.

Did not payed of. The only reward I got was a meeting with my boss with him complaining why I can't do the work of my colleague (who left 3 months prior to that) too.

Take a guess why it is my "old job" and not my "current job".

The reward for good work, is more work.

Because laziness is rewarded. Most people make money on the clock, meaning time is the only measurement of income. Do the absolute minimum and get out. Also more often than not, hard work is punished. Promotions and paid incentives to work hard are not a thing anymore. Hard work is "rewarded" with more hard work.

Friends,

Because they are afraid of Lawsuits.

Want the race card pulled on you, fire a person with a disability,
fire a person that is "TOO OLD".

we had a person that was sleeping at his desk, in the computer department. This guy was really huge and heavy. He went to HR with all his meds, he had many of them, they said a side effect was "drowsiness" . So HR protected him, when people would complain of him sleeping at his desk.

If you have given a person good or fair reviews for 4 years,, and NOW they are a bad employee. they can just make is a misserible process if they are like that, or complain on social media. Its best to just ignore them, and maybe they will go away on there own.

Once someone is hired there are a ton of HR hoops to jump through to get them out. Most bosses pray for attendance issues from shitty employees where I work.

Minimum pay, minimum effort.

I dont know. Someone recently went on disability and I had to cover her workload which didnt amount to much. Personally I waste time often but then Ill pull an all nighter to make up for it. I procrastinate on larger projects because I dont want to rush it and make design mistakes.

Depends... At a previous job my boss wanted me to fire anyone not performing. Sounds easy, right? Except I already had open positions with nobody applying. I told him better to get 80% from someone than zero. Plus it was low pay and what I'd consider a tough job (house keeping at a nursing home). The highest paid employee I had was making less than $12/hour and the lowest was around $8.50. Could hire people in at $10 but not bring the current staff below that up to that amount. Which didn't help morale for the existing employees when I got lucky and was able to hire someone.

One of the worst jobs I ever had, management wise. I tried to motivate them, paid for stuff out of my own pocket like lunch, etc. But when you make so little it doesn't help much. I came in on weekends and worked with them, cleaned rooms, etc. They appreciated it and did work pretty good. But the task at hand was designed to be impossible I feel like.

Sunk cost is also a factor in some cases

the people who aren't there are even worse, believe it or not

At my job they are unionized

At least they're just lazy instead of stealing from the company or actively sabotaging it.

What destroys companies is poor training, excesive CEO/High level pay, stock buybacks, under staffing, poor equipment, poor management, nepotism, short term thinking etc.

If you pay well, treat workers well and management is on the ball laziness isn't much of an issue.

ooger posted...

The reward for good work, is more work.

Yep. "Oh you finished yours? Help the team, wtf is wrong with you?"

Jagr_68 posted...

Why are you looking at your phone instead of doing your fucking job?

got em

TimeForAction posted...

got em

I posted this before I clocked into work

MabusIncarnate posted...

Hiring is an awful process, and a lot of the time, you gotta hire a bunch to find one that works out, and ride out the shitty ones until you do.

Yep this. It's very hard to gauge who's going to be a good employee and ones that suck during the interview process. There are certain patterns you can identify, but it's not full proof. I do notice the more experience and older the interviewee is, the more likely they're a better employee (when it comes to accounting) versus someone with almost no work experience and are younger.

1) Hiring is a pain
2) There's no guarantee the replacement is going to be any better
3) You have to pay unemployment

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I find that hard to believe but I can't be bothered to look it up.

Because being lazy can easily pay off if done right.

Work smarter, not harder. Many of the people who excel, aren't actually hard workers. They just know how to look like they work hard, know how to appear valuable to the company and kiss up to the right people.

Also over achiever types are seen as a valuable asset but not in the good way you'd hope.

If you want to find the most efficient, easy way to do a task, give it to a lazy person.

asdf8562 posted...

Because being lazy can easily pay off if done right.

Work smarter, not harder. Many of the people who excel, aren't actually hard workers. They just know how to look like they work hard, know how to appear valuable to the company and kiss up to the right people.

I think it was Bill Gates who said something about liking to hire lazy people. They are the ones that will find the way to do the job most efficiently.