RAT's Book of Golden Rules

[cokey]

High producing employees must be given more work to subsidize poor performers,

high producing employees should never be promoted

they are too useful where they are

This is me...  I'm stuck as a service tech cause I'm too good at it...

[RAT900]

everyone is replaceable in the workforce, everyone is expendible no matter how important the person thinks they are.

#1 rule in business, profits and money are the only goals, everything else is just pr spin.

This is an absolute truth

Profit and money should be everyone's goals....if they aren't they should be out on the street

It starts to get a little hazy when it comes to dividing up the spoils of the profits and money

[badgalbetty]

years ago I worked for Shell Oil.One Saturday evening the Capt. sent for me. He gave me a bottle of rum and said "I have some bad news...Its your mother. I will do my best to get ya home asap." The next Morning a German Navy Fastboat appeared along side. I went over the side in my galley checks in a net with my sea bag and onto the onto the fast boat. We rode the waves on this wee turd....me strapped in on the bridge in a six point harness. Then we stopped ."We are here" I hear the guy say. Middle of fricking nowhere I thought..... Then out of the sky appears a chopper with German navy markings and I am all of a sudden on deck in a gumby suit in a sling. Very quickly I am hoisted up into the chopper. We fly to Germany,Hamburg. There is a plane at the end of the Runway and the chopper lands close to it. Then I see a truck with a ladder driving out to the plane.I am told to get over to the plane. I run with my seabag, still in my checks( I was ships cook) and up I go with one of the German Navy aircrew. The plane door opens and he grabs the first guy in the door and says OFF. You have lost your seat. Priority Seafarer In distress, UN Regulations. He fights and argues and is last seen screaming and kicking going down the stairs. I do up the seatbelt and we take off. Everyone is looking at me wondering wtf??I get to London Heathrow and Shell has a car waiting for me to take me to see my dying mother in Hospital......
Now that friends is how it used to be when you worked for a company that values its employees. I was plucked off a ship in the middle of the north sea by a foreign navy ,had a boat ride,two air rides,and a taxi ride all in under 4 hours and this cost me nothing!
They did their best to get me home alright! They used up a couple of favors that day.....Shell recognized that a happy employee was the most productive employee possible. I to this day will buy Shell gas even if it the most expensive. I owe them.I owe them big time.
In 2011 would that happen? I would like to think so ,but in my heart I doubt it.
Just my 02...
BGB.

[Monsterlover]

Good story.

The moral: happy cows make more milk

[il d00d]

Great story BGB 

I happen to be in the process of venting some angst gases from my brain courtesy of my current company, so feel free to dismiss this as sour grapes.  But I am inclined to believe those were acts of personal kindness, back when companies didn't get in the way people doing that.

[triangleforge]

Good story.

The moral: happy cows make more milk

Correction; cows injected with rBST/rBGH make more milk. Do you really think that free coffee down at the end of the hall is a coincidence?

And RAT; does this approach the level of honesty you're wanting from employers?

http://jalopnik.com/#!5768869/boss-crafts-americas-most-gonzo-help+wanted-ad

[DoubleEagle]

Remember the #1 Golden Rule......" Those w, the Gold make the Rules "

Dolph   

[ungeheuer]

RAT, RAT, RAT.....     

You make me laugh out loud with your insightful observations.  This corporate world which you describe..... I know it so well  .
None of this here thread is news of course...... but it makes me feel better knowing the frustration is well understood by others too  .

Like you.... I tolerate it (just) in the hope that I can stay sane enough to survive the next few years of frustrating corporate doublespeak-shite.... before sailing off into the sunset, never to return.  Yes, the light at the end of the tunnel is finally becoming visible at last.  Thats until they figure how much can be saved by turning it off  .

"Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied"
L. Cohen.   

[RAT900]

All those annual compliance courses you must take/sit through or watch on your computer

are not because the company wants to make you a better person

or enlighten you about the sensitivities of women and minorities and disabled people....

the corporate attorneys really couldn't care less if you don a Klansman's outfit and hike up your cassock and wave your cock at any honey within eyeshot outside of the office

those training films and the mandatory completion sign-offs

are to protect the corporation from lawsuits that claim it fosters a harassing and discriminating environment

and to pave the way for the offended party to launch a personal liability lawsuit because it is documented that you were aware of the rules

[DoubleEagle]

In the end ....they really don't give a shit about you ,whether you live ...or die !

Sad, but true.

Just keep the " Machine "  running and the $$$$ coming in .

Dolph     

[RAT900]

In the end ....they really don't give a shit about you ,whether you live ...or die !

Sad, but true.

Just keep the " Machine "  running and the $$$$ coming in .

Dolph     

It always makes me laugh when people or the news speak of "friendships" between nations...

how we mis-accord terms (that pertain to personal relationships) to national collective collusions with other states....

or that the Government "cares" about your well-being....how can a government "care?"....how can nations be "friends"

anything other than a family owned-and-operated business should never speak of the work force as a "family" ....

besides that,,,,,family owned and operated businesses quite often have some of the sickest and most dysfunctional dynamics in-play

[ungeheuer]

You utter bastard RAT. 

All this time I thought America was Australia's big buddy.

[mitt]

All those annual compliance courses you must take/sit through or watch on your computer

are not because the company wants to make you a better person

or enlighten you about the sensitivities of women and minorities and disabled people....

the corporate attorneys really couldn't care less if you don a Klansman's outfit and hike up your cassock and wave your cock at any honey within eyeshot outside of the office

those training films and the mandatory completion sign-offs

are to protect the corporation from lawsuits that claim it fosters a harassing and discriminating environment

and to pave the way for the offended party to launch a personal liability lawsuit because it is documented that you were aware of the rules

This goes for safety videos as well...   I huge buzz program at least in my company. 

mitt

[RAT900]

You utter bastard RAT. 

All this time I thought America was Australia's big buddy.

  Think about it....you or I could easily name a half dozen of our own fellow countrymen that we would probably enjoy beating like baby harp seals....so the idea of a mutually all-encompassing embrace of/or between each and every citizen is absurd to even contemplate

Now on to more Golden Rules.........

A man should never exit a public Restroom wiping his mouth

[sbrguy]

if you are not looking out for yourself as your first and most important priority, you are doing yourself a huge disservice because noone and no compnay will put you that for forward on their priority list of concerns.