Corporate Workplace Objective: Employee Containment

Do you have the motivation to work hard at your corporate job?

Does your boss motivate you with a promotion and never deliver?

Do you have a plunger on your forehead with a carrot dangling from its end that’s just out of reach?

I’m sorry to tell you this, but the corporate working environment is one that focuses on maintaining its employees where they are instead of rewarding them.

Let’s say you work harder than everyone else; this is common for the newcomer to a job, they haven’t yet figured out there’s no point. You also have the skills necessary to do more than just your job description. You have professional courtesy and respect. You take initiative. You take on extra work that is not outlined in your job description. You are praised by your co-workers and your employers for doing a great job. You should be promoted, right?

Wrong.

You will be given as much work as possible without receiving any extra compensation. You have established to your employer that you have no sense of self-worth and can easily be manipulated. You are completely reliant on the good will of others and are easily taken advantage of.

It doesn’t pay to be a decent person.

Business profits are expected to trickle up to the owners of the company. It’s all about what you can do for them. A large middle class is required to continue to drive the economy and support those on top.

Your bosses have bosses above them and are looking out for themselves. Extra expenditures, like giving employees more money, look bad on your immediate supervisors and are out of the question. The goal is: more productivity with less cost. If you work hard without being paid for it you are just doing someone else a favor. It earns you brownie points, not money. You’re banking your career on one untrustworthy person in a forced relationship. All that extra work you did could be for nothing if they decide it’s not to their benefit to reward you. You were counting on them being a decent person, but the sad fact is: they were once where you are, and they’ll do whatever they can to continue to stand upon your shoulders.

So what do you do?

You have to establish yourself as an asset. You have to make it known that you cannot be replaced by any random hire. Then you have to respectfully decline, and logically pass off to others, all the extra work you’ve taken on, gradually. During this time, you must also line up other job opportunities; because you have to hope to God you don’t get replaced. Hopefully you can continue to get your regular paycheck by getting by doing the bare minimum.

Once you’ve reached this point, you now appear towards new hires the same as all those other lazy mothers appeared to you on your first year with the company. You’ve been watered down into the soulless robot that is the corporate work force. Your supervisor’s job is now complete.

Any hopes for success in life have to come from somewhere else. Over 90% of us are just going to hover at this point in our careers for the rest of our lives. We’ll make just enough money to get by.

So, have a family. Raise some kids you can be proud of. Do some painting. Write a book. Make an album. Instruct others. Find joy in the simple things.

Happiness will never come to us at the hand of another person. We’re all out for ourselves.

By Randall Thomas

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Thanks,

Joe