Everyone does their job.
Nothing is dumped on anyone else.
You had a lousy employer. Today that would get taken out of the boss’s hands, kicked to HR.
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Interesting. Could open a whole different discussion. So, how, all of a sudden, do these young workers manage to pull this off? Usually that sort of “work ethic” gets you no job and the boss hires somebody else who actually wants the job and doesn’t mind working. And in the meantime (which in this case could be till age 40-45) how do they manage to eat? And, if you say, "Hey, I mean like all these young people are doing it, so you can’t just hire an alternate. So, how do they manage to organize this de facto labor union?
We have a worker shortage. Everyone is a minority.
Most of them have special status. So everyone has special status.
I am not working for a mom-pop. I expect crap on that level. I get most mom-pops that get larger do not develop their management styles well.
The work gets done. Some small stuff does not get done. I complain sometimes that a few little things are not done. Be nice if the computer people did more in that regard.
I can not get into who my employer is or the industry without representing them online. Company policy.
adding where people are going expecting worker trouble with this model is interesting. People are good in the workplace when treated properly. The assumption that workers won’t work is a management failure. The management that does not want to work with themselves on this is horrible.
With demand side economics in Europe the norm was to respect the workers.
With supply-side econ in the US the norm was to beat up the workers. The assumption that people won’t work was more fear out of guilt than reality. It becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.
I have detailed before the nonsense I was ordered to put up with, at the several placed I worked over the years. Basically, each “JC” heaped on the work, and beat on me, until I quit. Then I got the same from the next “JC”.
Steve
@intercst was practicing “The Millionaire Next Door” philosophy.
That’s a long way from "forego ".
ralph
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Again it’s a matter of cost, price and value. Prior to about age 55, the only meal I ate at home was breakfast. So I was eating a lot of restaurant meals, just not in expensive French restaurants and I didn’t drink in expensive hotel bars unless I was on expense account. I also owned a series of convertibles in my 20’s and 30’s, just not Porsches or Jaguars. Vacations were few because I never had more than 2 weeks of vacation since I job-hopped through five Fortune 500 companies in the 1980’s to get higher pay. My most controversial practice and biggest savings was applying the rent vs. buy analysis to my housing decisions, but that didn’t result in me making any compromises in where I lived and the amenities I had. I still paid a premium to live close to the office since “commuting is uncompensated overtime”. Certainly few people thought I was skimping on housing when I lived at the beach in San Diego.
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Hmmm. Retire early to spend all day on Motley Fool.
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Hardly. People retire early once they’ve accumulated sufficient capital to avoid the need to submit to the supervision of an employer (or the need to deal with clients, customers, or subordinates.) It’s about the freedom to do what you want, when you want.
Of course, it’s not for everyone. Many people need structure in their life and get nervous if they don’t have someplace to go in the morning, and someone to tell them what to do once they get there. I always worked better with no supervision.
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