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      Christ, you aren’t kidding. The article is clear that he is saying it’s too easy for higher ups to forget that employees don’t have an investment in the success of the company overall, and that they need to try to empathize with their employees more.

      Except it dances around it and has this idiotic title. Fucking trash website.

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        It’s Business Insider; if they’re not pushing a shitty agenda they’re not doing their job. Same with Forbes.

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      The fun thing about articles like this is skimming the comments and seeing just how many people absolutely will not read articles under any circumstances.

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        I love the ones replying to people that did read the article asking for more details about the article. Those are my favorite.

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    Yeah - we don’t care about making money for rich people when we can’t afford to both eat and pay our bills. Hell, we’re starting to not be able to do even one of those things. Pay us enough for us to live comfortably and we’ll start caring about your next fucking yacht.

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    Hmm… Have you tried motivating them with that stuff that motivates the shareholders? I think it’s called… Money?

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      Man, they’re already getting the legally required minimum wage for their territory.

      What more can they offer?

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      “Sorry, we’ve reserved all that stuff for our shareholders and executives. The best we can do is a pizza party. You want more? Fine. We’ll generously toss in some store bought cupcakes. Now get back to work! Our executives and shareholders want more money!”

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    Oddly enough, I think most people aren’t motivated by the idea of making bucket loads of money for other people while they see barely a drop of it.

    Maybe if you paid people better, they’d be better motivated to make you money.

    As the saying goes, minimum wage = minimum effort

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      Also, the shareholders aren’t actually working for the money, not like the employees are. Give the employees shares, that might help.

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          Yeah, this is kind of the issue with walling the workers off from the success of their product and converting it all into poker chips for other people to play with. Imagine how different things could be if everyone’s pay grew with the success of the company.

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    I can’t believe such an obvious statement is making news. Therapists may belong in the c-suite, but perhaps the massive salary disparities are the problem. Perhaps.

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    What world do they live in where they expect people to be motivated to make money for someone else with no benefit to themselves?
    We can’t even motivate people to be charitable towards those who actually need it.

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    Maybe CEOs should do some fundraising for their poor shareholders. The ice bucket one worked so why couldn’t a day old baguette up the ass challenge work as well?

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    “So much of what running a business is about is figuring out ‘how do I connect with people?’” Shaich told BI. “What motivates them, and how do I help them decide to affiliate with what the mission of the enterprise is?”

    Money! Seriously, I don’t want to connect with my CEO. Maybe a pizza party is just what I need

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    That would be an accurate statement.

    You want to make me care about the company? Show that the company cares about me.

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    Why the fuck do I care about shareholders when I’m typing to survive. My primary effort is for me not some rich fool. Hell all my work is just to benefit someone else much better off.

    When is it for me and my future? I’m never paying for Panera again.