The business of religion

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

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[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Not even true. - "human resource"

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Depends on the employee I suppose. It's quite possible for the value of both to be zero.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Loyalty only goes upward. Your employer is not your family. I'm still learning this the hard way.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

I can speak with confidence: I have known people who have no loyalty upward.

But alas, you are all too correct. And for those of us who want to be optimistic it can be a rough ride. *wookie soft-punch of friendship on the shoulder*

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Some of those people tried to tell me I was being a fool/tool. I didn't listen. I try to always do a good job just to stay in the habit.

Awe, right back atcha, watch out for the carbonite.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

It also gets harder the better you know MGMT. You say to yourself: "Oh, I know Bob, he ain't so bad!"

And perhaps he is not. Perhaps he really *wants* to be a good guy, but circumstantially, he is not. Shit does only roll downhill, I suppose.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I'm loyal right up until I ask for something and it doesn't get returned. A perfect example is a boss who docket me for leaving early but then expected me to stay late for meetings. He cracked when I walked out whilst he was talking one day and I said "you told me the day ends at 4:27".

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

I have found that HR is there to protect the company, not you.

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

Absolutely true.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

That's why we have unions.

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

There are no unions for call centers. (that I am aware of)

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

When I worked in call centres I was at various times a member of the financial services union (bank call centre), hospitality and miscellaneous workers union and the australian services union. I know things are a lot different between our countries though (we can't have closed shops here anymore, for example, but we also can't have an employer refuse to work with a union or ban unions from the workplace).