Chalo said:
Folks aren't going to kick ass for an employer if they can't make a decent living that way. Nor should they, when the only end goal of the business is to generate profit for other people who haven't done anything to make that profit.
So with you on that.
I have been sort of on a spiritual quest lately to figure out how companies like Costco are thriving. Because i want my business to work like theirs. I want a fair system which is more of a circle or flat hierarchy rather than the pyramid structure that's designed to funnel money to the top. The main difference between walmart and costco ( both which were inspired by the same person ) is the structure shape and the priorities.
I have talked to many people in the office about their difficulty in hiring
anyone. We're all scratching our heads as to where the workforce went. Yet.. there continue to be more new guys coming into the office complex starting their own thing. What happened is that since we can't hire anyone, we've started hiring each other during the pandemic crap, and ended up working together to the point where we're essentially all one large business, not legally, but in spirit.
So that's been weird and mind blowing to see. i've been here for 3 years, and never noticed anything like it until year two of surviving under the government's pandemic response.
My feeling is that, the little break from humanity we had across the world probably lead a lot of people, while collecting unemployment, to consider how they feel about pyramid organizations to evaluate if they ever wanted to go back to one. And there aren't many circular or flat organizations to join, so the best next option is to start your own business.
I have a term for it: capitalist rumspringa.
Yet... companies like Costco have never had a hard time hiring! In fact, a job at Costco is so appealing that they have to publish documents like these warning people of fraudulent offers to be employed there. What a hilarious problem to have!!
Maybe the circular organization is in and the pyramid is on it's way out. Or at least that's what i'd like to believe.
But i do know that the zeitgeist says that people around the world are getting really tired of living under, and working for these pyramids. Some of those kids after the rumspringa are not coming back to the plantation. They're done.