… every employer wishes for a traumatized workaholic unable to say no to unreasonable demands.
intercst
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I thought they mostly wanted stable, married with children that have a lot to lose without a job
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I thought they mostly wanted stable, married with children that have a lot to lose without a job
Bosses want people would can be bullied.
Steve
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Steve, we know you didn’t have a good employment experience. In the various jobs I had over the decades I never had a boss who was a bully. They had various levels of competence, but no bullying.
DB2
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DrBob2,
Steve, we know you didn’t have a good employment experience. In the various jobs I had over the decades I never had a boss who was a bully. They had various levels of competence, but no bullying.
DB2
Not taking a side here because I hear truth in DB and Steve. Not all my bosses were bullies and I was not a bully as a boss, myself. (Altho you tell somebody he’ s got to work the weekend, pack his bags for a 3-weeker, or “hurry up with that thing, I don’t have all day” he will think you’re being a bully.)
What I see in Steve’s pithy aphorism is 19th century labor practices. Joe Blow “the boss”/supervisor/foreman might be quite the amenable chap. But Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, et all, yes, they wanted scared, compliant workers who didn’t speak English and had nowhere else to go.
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Maybe you were one of the slackers, who got away with being a slacker, because your boss had someone else he could dump your work on, and tell that other person “shut up and work”? 
Steve
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" Not taking a side here because I hear truth in DB and Steve. Not all my bosses were bullies and I was not a bully as a boss, myself. (Altho you tell somebody he’ s got to work the weekend, pack his bags for a 3-weeker, or “hurry up with that thing, I don’t have all day ” he will think you’re being a bully.)"
Ever read “The Jungle” by Sinclair ? I think it should be required reading for everybody. Lots of Americans have bought into, as Steve would label them, the JC’s storyline.
We are not all that far removed from the storyline played out in Sinclair’s book.
I’m like you, I worked for mostly good bosses, but there were a few losers…
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For me it went to the industry and timing. If a business was not doing well the desperate boss would cover that up with meanness. If the employer was doing well things were excellent.
The bosses had no competence in the poorly run companies.
The bosses in better run companies were good to great. The good ones were allowed to succeed. The best ones were allowed to go even further.
When a boss tried to limit my earned time off, I would respond that if I’m that important that I can’t have time off, then we need to discuss my wages because obviously I’m indispensable.
And another response I had when we were having discussions about my employment was “I was looking for a job when I found this one”.
People will push you around only if you let them.
The theme song of the working guys, who get worked like a rented mule.
(almost G rated version)
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