CorporateCulture #EmployeeEngagement #WorkplaceEthics
Ever wonder why some average people seem to bend over backwards to please their corporate overlords? 🤔 What causes this phenomenon of sucking up to authority figures in the workplace? Is it a desire for approval, a fear of repercussions, or something else entirely?
Here are a few thoughts on what might cause average people to "suck corporate toes":
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Desire for recognition: Some individuals may believe that by catering to their superiors, they will be more likely to receive promotions or other forms of recognition.
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Fear of consequences: Others might be motivated by a fear of negative repercussions if they don’t comply with their employer’s wishes.
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Cultural norms: In some workplaces, sucking up to authority figures may be seen as the norm, leading employees to follow suit in order to fit in.
- Lack of self-confidence: People who lack confidence in their own abilities may resort to sucking up in order to feel validated and secure in their positions.
But how can we combat this toxic behavior and create a more positive work environment for all employees? 🌟 Here are a few potential solutions:
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Promote transparency: Encourage open communication and feedback so that employees feel heard and valued for their contributions.
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Foster a culture of respect: Emphasize the importance of treating all team members with respect and dignity, regardless of their position in the company.
- Reward merit, not sucking up: Recognize and reward employees based on their actual performance and achievements, rather than their ability to cater to authority figures.
Let’s start a conversation! What do you think causes this behavior, and how can we work together to create a more positive and inclusive workplace culture? Share your thoughts below! 💬 #PositiveWorkplace #Teamwork #EmployeeWellbeing
Lots of propaganda
The belief that if they just keep grinding long enough, they’ll be getting huge salaries and deserving them. “Temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
You want to know what the end-goal is with destroying public education? Congratulations! You’ve found it.
Ignorance and the explanation they’re given when asking within the company.
Belief that the free market sets an accurate and rational value on how much a CEO is worth. The best faith argument I can muster on this point of view is that capable CEOs are not exactly a plentiful asset and that the pay reflects both the scarcity of that specific labor pool and the competitive lengths companies are willing to go to ensure that such individuals don’t go work for their competitors.
the guys at the top were born into privilege, went to the right schools, were the most sociopathic sharks in the cess pool and will destroy anyone and anything to become richer. they are not brighter, they just completely lack any moral compass and in any truly functioning society would be in facilities designed to rehabilitate them and to turn them into carrying citizens.
but in this society, in this world, they are the absolute worst of us.
You’d think boot polish would taste bad, but they keep licking it.
Same people that think CEOs are worth tens of millions will say that a “kid” shouldn’t earn more than $7.25 at McDonalds because they are “just flipping burgers”
The people that control every major media platform are these same shareholders. And the poster is right with the first part, CEOs are selected by boards/investors. And their job is to extract as much value from the company to give to the shareholders in terms of stock price and dividends – while reducing labor and depressing wages. It’s just theft from the working class to give to the owner class all day long. It’s in their best interest to push the stories of how hard it is to be a CEO and that infinite growth is something that is reasonable to expect from a company and the economy.
Hard to be a CEO? I would bet a fair chunk of money that with the executive team a CEO has available, almost anyone could bungle through that role and not end in disaster. And at the same time, I don’t think any CEO of a Fortune 500 company could make it through the same day if the actually had to do the work of their lowest paid employee.
Pretty sure a dead frog could handle being close of a lot of places haha. Now I would bet money a lot of ceo could not handle genuinely living and working as their most common employees do.
protestant work ethic and just world fallacy. If they have all that money the must have earned it which means I can earn it too.
“What do you mean why haven’t I, I just haven’t tried yet.”
Conversely because they have money they must be good people, which means they will have money.
I’m sorry, but it seems wildly inaccurate to say that “most businesses operate on a single digit profit margin.” That sounds like complete bullshit even if you include Mom and pop businesses that generally don’t have massive executive firms involved.
Any publicly traded company operating on a single digit profit margin would lose investors so fucking fast that the entire executive suite would be shit canned faster than a retail worker showing their balls to a customer.
Yes I certainly see why Boeing’s CEO needed to double his income at his job, the company record of employee and public mortality is something that company has earned under his watch and should make him feasibly impractical for the position again for the rest of his life.
Investors and boards are going to pay a lot of money to whomever makes the most profit. Corporations exist for the benefit of their owners. Employees and raw materials are just necessary costs to generate that profit. That’s capitalism. Socialism fights against this but human nature proves that capitalism with some social programs is the best system that has been invented so far. Pure Socialism tends to morph into communism and then even fewer people than the ownership class control the means of production, and not the market. The results have been horrific.
The third picture is a straight up lie. There is no corporation operating with single digit profit margins, particularly if it’s publicly traded. Some of them may run single digit earnings from time to time if they have to, but definitely not their margins.
I agree. Not everyone has the brains to be the boss. And while it might appear that they don’t do jakc, they gotta be doing something right, because why would the company keep someone who’s not bringing them any value, just collecting paychecks.
Now, what I don’t agree with is that they are working 1000x harder than everyone else,. Let’s say they are 10x more important than everyone else.
In a company I used to work in, I made $40k. My boss made $65k. His boss around $85k. Their boss? $500k before bonuses and “achievements” … Why? Because FU is why.
Yep.
As others have said.
It is the hope that they become rich also someday. And the false sense of importance we all want to give ourselves and ourselves alone for any success that comes our way.
The entire time, easily neglecting the fact that the success also depended on other people giving us those chances and breaks in order to achieve something in the first place.
Also neglecting the fact that in order to achieve, other people like team members and others are actually involved in that success as well and that it really isn’t just because of one lone person (themselves) operating in a vacuum that they found that success purely entirely on their own.
It is this fantasy that every narcissistic self important person, trying to validate their existence in this world, ascribes to with zero objectivity nor self awareness and any awareness outside of themselves, always claiming they were just great from birth and needed no one and no one helped them to achieve greatness.
Just selfishness to the highest degree.
Can’t expect much from a guy with a Thomas Sowell avatar
Being born to privilege is what causes people to think this way. All those people spewing this nonsense are the same people who benefit from the system which exploits the working class to benefit the rich.
The more people understand this, the closer we’ll get to some sort of reform to the unfairness.
Keep talking about it. Barely anything else scares them.
I’m pretty sure all those comments are by not CEOs
im losing it at the Thomas Sowell pfp.
I mean, we see some CEOs lose millions every single day, and then pretend otherwise because wealthy people of course are afforded every safety net possible
We see the most powerful politicians be incapable of basic problem solving. There’s no shortage of incredibly wealthy people embarrassing themselves
It’s absurd to think someone is competent based entirely on their salary
I have worked closely with presidents of companies, CEOs, VPs, etc and none of them were worth their salary. People would act like it was a big deal to take matters up to them, they’d just act like they knew what they were doing, giving non fucking answers and ask someone their opinion and say let’s go with that. AI needs to take their fucking jobs ASAP.
CEO Gets higher pay, but the business is struggling on a single digit profit margin? Sounds like someone needs to take a pay cut
Imagine workers negotiating performance goals where they get sizable bonuses for meeting productivity goals and golden parachutes if they don’t.
CEOs don’t determine their own bonus. If you believe this….
Failure to understand what value is and where it comes from