• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    9 months ago

    I would put it more that small business owners can’t always afford employees who aren’t willing to make the same sacrifices as they are for the good of the business. Also management can be hard, especially if it is your first time doing it; a lot of new managers follow the generational trauma of poor management they had when they were being managed.

    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      Part of the problem is the public labor pool is forced by circumstances to choose among a limited selection of shitty jobs. Note the form - résumé - interview process that is grueling, also the one-sided contracts by which workers are routinely stripped of rights (such as NDAs to cover up OSHA violations and workplace abuse). So our small businesses are accustomed to a bedraggled pool that they can overwork, underpay and trample without consequence.

      I’ve also observed we don’t take management seriously, hence the commonplace of toxic management or executives who behave childishly and expect administrators to handle their outbursts even as it detracts from running the company. A manager is (in my understanding, say like a coach or a commanding sergeant) develop an awareness of their crew and how best to utilize their strengths and approach them to preserve morale. But few places consider managers this way, rather being a manager is (allegedly) a reward for doing well as a lower-rung worker.

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        9 months ago

        An NDA cannot be used to cover up a crime. A manager may threaten a lawsuit, but the courts have been clear regarding issues like OSHA.

        And management is totally a skill independent of doing the job, but it is really hard to find people good at it.

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          9 months ago

          While that may be the case legally companies are good at bluffing about just how powerless they want you to believe that you are. You’ve had the legally protected right to discuss your wage with your coworkers for longer than any still-living member of my family has been alive… and yet they’ll happily tell you, off record, that it’s a violation of some policy or another to exercise that right.