This is my rant to employers. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think this is more relevant that ever now.
Enough is enough. Its full of hypocrasy if you think about it.
There is this notion that we should respect and value employers.
Here is why that is damaging and allowing employers to get away with anything.
This is why the job market sucks
Some examples are.
1) Give two weeks notice if you leave.
2) You are a good employee if you worked over a year with the same company.
3) Don't leave a company unless you have worked there for over 6 months.
Now here is the flip side of those examples.
1) If a comapany fires you, do you think they would give you two weeks notice? Hell no. That never happens.
Most of the time, you they don't even give you hints. They try to be shady, hire someone quietly and then you get called into a meeting room and fired within a second. Then you gather your belongings and walk out.
Why? Because they are afraid if they let you stay that you will damage their property or delete whatever files they have. Even if you have no intention of doing this, they won't take the risk.
So now you're left scrambling looking for a new job. You don't have two weeks to prepare.
So why should I give the company two weeks to "prepare" to hire someone new, when you won't give me the same respect for my time?
2) Its funny how if your resume is full of short term employments, you are considered a bad employee because of your "lack of dedication".
You aren't dedicating yourself enough. But employers will never look at the fact that many employers are just shitty. It doesn't matter if it was the company's fault for your short term employment. They will always see it as "your problem".
But since employees have to put their employement history on a piece of paper, the employer should do the same.
Of course, they will never do that.
If you think about it from this viewpoint, it is ridiculous.
The employer wants to judge you based on your work history. Yet they wouldn't want to reveal their employee history.
If they had their employee history, wouldn't every potential candidate be concerned if they had a people there short term?
Now the tables have turned. Now the employer would have to come up with every excuse to justify and cover up what it wasn't their problem that employee didn't work out. Now you see how ridiculous this is?
The employer wants to judge you, but doesn't want to be judged.
3) Lastly, they say you should give a company a shot. Because if you stay less than 3 months, you can't put it on your resume. Again, this is where the stigma of short term employement kills. Why the heck would I stay at a company for 6 months if I know its not gonna work out? Why do employers see it as a bad thing if you just worked there for less than 3 momths? Again, its hypocrasy. Employers wouldn't hesistate to fire an employee in 3 days if they saw that the employee couldn't do their job. So when it comes to the employer is totally fine to fire an employee without giving their maximum effort to help them. But its bad if you do it to them?
Honestly, employer respect has to be earned.
I am not saying you should go out of your way to try these things if you like your job and your boss.
But if you hate your job, don't go with the norm. In fact, the more we treat bad employers this way, the more they will see this as being okay.
There is a reason why job hopping happens. Its because companies wouldn't hesitate to fire you within a split second. So why do you think an employee will stay knowing that they could be fired any second with no job security?
Enough is enough. Its full of hypocrasy if you think about it.
There is this notion that we should respect and value employers.
Here is why that is damaging and allowing employers to get away with anything.
This is why the job market sucks
Some examples are.
1) Give two weeks notice if you leave.
2) You are a good employee if you worked over a year with the same company.
3) Don't leave a company unless you have worked there for over 6 months.
Now here is the flip side of those examples.
1) If a comapany fires you, do you think they would give you two weeks notice? Hell no. That never happens.
Most of the time, you they don't even give you hints. They try to be shady, hire someone quietly and then you get called into a meeting room and fired within a second. Then you gather your belongings and walk out.
Why? Because they are afraid if they let you stay that you will damage their property or delete whatever files they have. Even if you have no intention of doing this, they won't take the risk.
So now you're left scrambling looking for a new job. You don't have two weeks to prepare.
So why should I give the company two weeks to "prepare" to hire someone new, when you won't give me the same respect for my time?
2) Its funny how if your resume is full of short term employments, you are considered a bad employee because of your "lack of dedication".
You aren't dedicating yourself enough. But employers will never look at the fact that many employers are just shitty. It doesn't matter if it was the company's fault for your short term employment. They will always see it as "your problem".
But since employees have to put their employement history on a piece of paper, the employer should do the same.
Of course, they will never do that.
If you think about it from this viewpoint, it is ridiculous.
The employer wants to judge you based on your work history. Yet they wouldn't want to reveal their employee history.
If they had their employee history, wouldn't every potential candidate be concerned if they had a people there short term?
Now the tables have turned. Now the employer would have to come up with every excuse to justify and cover up what it wasn't their problem that employee didn't work out. Now you see how ridiculous this is?
The employer wants to judge you, but doesn't want to be judged.
3) Lastly, they say you should give a company a shot. Because if you stay less than 3 months, you can't put it on your resume. Again, this is where the stigma of short term employement kills. Why the heck would I stay at a company for 6 months if I know its not gonna work out? Why do employers see it as a bad thing if you just worked there for less than 3 momths? Again, its hypocrasy. Employers wouldn't hesistate to fire an employee in 3 days if they saw that the employee couldn't do their job. So when it comes to the employer is totally fine to fire an employee without giving their maximum effort to help them. But its bad if you do it to them?
Honestly, employer respect has to be earned.
I am not saying you should go out of your way to try these things if you like your job and your boss.
But if you hate your job, don't go with the norm. In fact, the more we treat bad employers this way, the more they will see this as being okay.
There is a reason why job hopping happens. Its because companies wouldn't hesitate to fire you within a split second. So why do you think an employee will stay knowing that they could be fired any second with no job security?
