Comments on: Industriousness, fat cash and you. Oh, and not being an idiot if you work in payroll.

By: denise young

denise young — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:51:13 +0000

I work for a large corporation, that you have likely never heard of either. I liken their management style to the Stockholm Syndrome. No matter what benefit they discontinue, or how many paycuts they dish out. They consistently remind us that we should all just be thankful we have a job at all. “Thank you sir, may I have another!” (Animal House)I’m amazed at my co-workers who agree! (BTW – They happen to be the non-producers) I bet if the company cut their finger off, they would go around thankful that their entire hand wasn’t cut off! Gee!! Aren’t we lucky!!!??
Love your site Charlie.

By: @Stephen

@Stephen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:11:51 +0000

What socialists and equal-outcome proponents have to say about financial incentives: http://www.danpink.com/archives/2009/07/money-cant-buy-you-performance

I am still looking for more info on the preso, but the speakers are hard-core “egalitarians”. FWIW I don’t think Dan Pink is a socialist.

Charlie, check your e-mail for more info.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:58:46 +0000

Cindy Lou -

Always there with a kind word, ain’t ya?

My advice regarding your pay system…hard to say. I don’t know what it is, but I can certainly make an assumption. If you’re at a small enough company where you can do so, I’d say talk to the people in charge. They probably started low on the totem pole and will remember their days of hard wages.

However, if you’re at a behemoth corporation like I was, good luck. And I mean it. I couldn’t even get meetings with the people who were assistants for the people that I needed to talk to. Plus there’s the corporate inertia thing. Small changes to a large corporation often take huge amounts of paper work, discussion, etc. Not ALL corporations, but some.

So…gauge your scene out. See what you can do, eh? Always worth a try.