• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Oddly enough, I think most people aren’t motivated by the idea of making bucket loads of money for other people while they see barely a drop of it.

    Maybe if you paid people better, they’d be better motivated to make you money.

    As the saying goes, minimum wage = minimum effort

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      10 months ago

      Also, the shareholders aren’t actually working for the money, not like the employees are. Give the employees shares, that might help.

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    10 months ago

    That would be an accurate statement.

    You want to make me care about the company? Show that the company cares about me.

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    10 months ago

    Maybe CEOs should do some fundraising for their poor shareholders. The ice bucket one worked so why couldn’t a day old baguette up the ass challenge work as well?

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    “No employee ever wakes up and says, ‘I’m so excited. I made another penny a share today for Panera’s shareholders,’” Shaich told Business Insider in an interview. “Nobody cares. You don’t care whether your CEO comes or goes.”

    In case people read the title and not the article.

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    For people like this, money isn’t a resource that they need to survive, it’s just a way of keeping score.

    It’s like playing an idle game - you tweak the various settings and resources to get the most gain, and your reward is watching the numbers go up.

    They’re no more connected to the numbers themselves than someone sitting at their computer playing Realm Grinder.

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    10 months ago

    The overall article feels like a blog post in effort and quality of content.

    At least one founder and former CEO agrees that the idea of boosting shareholders’ returns isn’t likely to be a key motivator to workers these days.

    I love how the number is so low they only managed to find one fucking founder/former CEO that acknowledges it.

    (Panera’s former CEO) Shaich said that he believed a key part of good management is connecting with and understanding employees and that he is a big proponent of therapy.

    Ah yes, I see that your minimum wage is affecting your mental health. Here, go to therapy. Not during work hours, obviously. And we ain’t paying it.

    “I always say that therapists belong in the C-suite,” Shaich wrote in his book, “Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.”

    My man, if your company needs a therapist and none of the jobs involve dealing with heavy stuff (crimes, abuse, jail, etc), then the company is a hellhole. If “therapists belongs in the C-suite”, then your company must be the ultimate source of evil.

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    What a nonsense article. Shareholders have never motivated workers in any way, so this is like saying, “Water is wet.” Then they quote some Tiktok crap?

    Companies catering to shareholder whims and the demand for perpetual share value growth are the reasons why many companies go to shit when eventually that growth comes from layoffs, worse work conditions etc.

    Pay your workers fair wages, offer a good work/life balance and keep them happy to work for you and they will go above and beyond.