I’ve yet to have a job where my boss does less work than their employees. Is this common?
Yes, in just about every blue collar job. The CEO does not do as much work as the order selector in a warehouse, as much work as the undocumented migrant workers on the lines in the factory, or as much work as the cooks in a restaurant to give a few examples. Anyone that’s worked in those industries knows what I’m talking about.
Is “work” only boxes stacked or nuts bolted? Does all work have the same value?
Nope. The issue is the conflating of “boss” and “the business”. My boss does plenty of work. On average, my boss does as much work as I do, some days more, some days less.
My boss is also an employee whose excess value is siphoned off by the business in the form of corporate profits.
Most “bosses” are also someone else’s employee and I think people often forget that…at least here on lemmy. If the OP meant CEO they should have said that. Unless you’re a senior VP your boss is probably not the CEO of a giant corporation, your boss is probably just some guy trying to survive just like you.
this is clearly the view of someone who has never been in a management position
“bUt ThEY tAkE aLl tHE RiSk$!”
i hate it
i mean it’s fine but i hate it
As someone who is a floor manager partly responsible for 50 people if you think “the boss” does nothing take a moment and think about the dumbest cunts you have ever worked with and the dumbest laziest ones you currently work with.
Those people are their problem.
One person can literally eat my whole day by being a jackass for 3 seconds.
take a moment and think about the dumbest cunts you have ever worked with
Yep, they are all managers.
I have worked with some real idiots, people so stupid you wonder how many tries it takes them to get their pants on right. Those guys ain’t so bad.
By far the worst people I’ve worked with are the people who are smart enough to know they’re smarter than most, but not so smart as to realize they’re pretty fucking stupid. Those people claw their way in to management then make life miserable for as many people as they can, all while thinking they’re doing just great.
Yes, 3 glorious, beautiful seconds. I know how to make it look like an accident. I can make it look like someone else. I can bring this entire building to a halt with one simple mistake.
What was that about working this weekend?
Is this supposed to be serious or is the term “bro” used so heavily to criticize/call simplistic their take on it?
It’s a parody of an ancient meme (knowyourmeme link) where in the original, the rant above is instead “That’s my world without you bro.”
Also not that it justifies the pay disparity but do people really think there is zero labor involved in management? Cause even then, it comes with a crapton of liability risk under respondeat superior. Not sure everyone wants to be personally sued for every negligent mistake their coworkers make.
Thank you and exactly. I think most people who think managers do no work actually just don’t understand managers’ jobs (and how much work some people are to manage lol).
Doesn’t seem to be like it’s trying to be 100% accurate but the underlying message it tries to convey is probably serious (that there’s a class of people who mostly make money because they have money to own things).
Ah makes sense. As someone deeply and unfortunately entrenched in middle management, I never think of “boss” and “owner” being the same person, and I know for a fact that my boss is working hard as hell lol
Also technically in a management position, but 90% of my work is what I was doing before the promotion and its not that I’m doing less of that stuff (I’m doing more of it). I just have extra responsibilities like more emails and making sure we have supplies. I hope people don’t really think of me as a “boss.” Given its a small company, my boss is the owner and all the workers were interviewed, hired by, and regularly interact with said person. But I know no one at my job would accuse me of not doing any work.
