Have you ever noticed how MegaCorp treats it's customers? Smiling faces of pretty women and handsome men, immaculately dressed, usher a bewildered client along a red-carpeted walkway, bathed in warm soothing light. Ahead is a golden desk, and as the client settles into a deep and soft leather lined armchair, MegaCorp's finest soothsayer steps forward and serves every whim, every desire, every possible need of the client (as long as they're paying).
Compare and contrast this to a MegaCorp employee; dragging their ball and chain, barefoot and cold, in the rain and gloom. The grey wall is plain and oppressive; the rusty iron door slides open and stale air escapes, wafting the fug of sweat and toil under the noses of those about to step inside.
Has MegaCorp ever considered the concept of balance? If the balance was tipped and an employee was treated as an asset, rather than a shoe-clinging piece of turd, how much better would their business be? An employee that wants to work will always serve better than an employee forced to work.
Peter Gibbons:
The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.Bob Porter:
Don't... don't care?Peter Gibbons:
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob; I have eight different bosses right now.Bob Slydell:
I beg your pardon?Peter Gibbons:
Eight bosses.Bob Slydell:
Eight?Peter Gibbons:
Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
