Remember when people said they wanted this country run like a business?

Lmao, why on earth would you ever want that?

Yes I’d like to live in a country that can fire me for inadequate performance which will be constantly monitored and documented at all times. If you feel this is unfair please refer to HR who will both ignore you and trick you into signing away any retaliatory action you could possibly take against the company.

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Northwest · M

There's a misunderstanding about how how businesses are run in the USA. Unless you work for a union shop, you have zero rights.

It's called "at will employment". This includes the entire tech industry, small, medium, large and colossal, and just about every small to medium size business.

Performance reviews may be conducted in some places, but for they mean absolutely nothing. A manager can call an employee into their office, at any time, and tell them "we no longer need you, leave now. Someone will pack up your personal stuff, and you will be contacted to pick it up".

The standard, as of about a decade ago, is that they will use something, like a 4-6 week settlement, to force you to sign two sets of documents:

1. You will promise not to compete against the company.

2. You promise not to say anything bad about the company or its management. Every violation will cost you an x amount of $s (starts at something like $5K), and a violation is one word, so if you say 10 bad words about the company in a sentence, that $50K. There is no expiration date attached to this clause.

A business is NOT a democracy. This is what those who voted for Trump did not process properly. A country IS a democracy. Ours still is.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Northwest Alot of people also don't realize alot of those obscene profits American companies make are a direct result of the US being decades behind the rest of the developed world in workers rights.

NoahB · 26-30, M

@Northwest I know right? It’s almost like all the losers who said this country should be run like a business have never actually had a real job before

Northwest · M

@NoahB Alternately, they also don't understand how government works, and remind of a group of morons, who spend their later afternoons in a bar, musing about what they would do if they were President. One of them became President.

NoahB · 26-30, M

@Northwest nothing wrong with being a moron who fantasizes about being I charge lol I’m one myself. But yeah a lot of these idiots have deluded themselves into thinking they actually work hard and nobody else does.