2016 Man Of The Year: Hero Manager Who Fired Interns

[KSRBEvans]

I want to make all college-age kids memorize this whole article--a portion:

Everyone has to learn the lessons of life eventually—and that is why the anonymous manager who fired almost his whole class of summer interns en masse when they petitioned to relax the company dress code is a 2016 Free Beacon Man of the Year.

This hero came to America’s attention when the ringleader of the dress code rebellion asked for advice at askamanager.org. In a letter that was one-part obnoxious, one-part indignant, and all-parts un-self-aware, this little Pol-Pot-in-yoga-pants wrote that she was “shocked” to have been let go after organizing the movement to allow workers to wear “running shoes and non leather flats, as well as sandals” and to drop the requirement that they wear “suits and/or blazers.”

After all, the intern said, she wrote the petition “professionally” and employed “arguments that were thought out and well-reasoned” just like she “learned about in school.”

Check it, youngster. Whatever you learned about in “Intro to Intersectional Wokeness” isn’t going to fly in a professional setting—not while we can help it. Our hero manager had the genius to intuit that he was facing not just a group of obnoxious millennials, but also, possibly, one of those moments in history, those sparks, those tipping points, that could bring the whole thing crashing down. If he blinked here, what would be next? State socialism, almost certainly—and then it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump to the killing fields.

Not on his watch....

http://freebeacon.com/men-of-the-yea...ax-dress-code/

[dan_bgblue]

What is a job for? Is its purpose to help employees grow? To actualize their best potential futures and shift their paradigms? To provide space for sharing bold visions in a dynamic environment that nurtures creative minds such that maybe, just maybe, we all finish the day having learned little bit about ourselves?

No. The purpose of a job is for an employee to provide the owners of capital with labor in return for money.

A time worn hackneyed thought such as this has no place in a business that wants to be progressive and grow.

[CitizenBBN]

What is a job for? Is its purpose to help employees grow? To actualize their best potential futures and shift their paradigms? To provide space for sharing bold visions in a dynamic environment that nurtures creative minds such that maybe, just maybe, we all finish the day having learned little bit about ourselves?

No. The purpose of a job is for an employee to provide the owners of capital with labor in return for money.

A time worn hackneyed thought such as this has no place in a business that wants to be progressive and grow.

Lol. I have to deal w exactly this sort of thing right now. Have all people lost perspective on what constitutes employment and why businesses are willing to give you money in the first place?

[badrose]

I manage a retail store and what I see a lot is an employee will assign a certain amount of work based on his/her pay. It's not explicitly spoken but either their pace or accomplishment is diminished to the point of making it clear. Ultimately I'll cut their hours or replace them.