I’ve noticed something, something people don’t seem to get, and that is that there’s a compounding effect among the factors that make a bad job bad. Put another way, as jobs get worse, they tend to get worse more exponentially than they do linearly.
For example, a place that stresses people such that they have increased needs for ‘mental health’ days, is also far less likely to offer enough PTO to allow people mental health days. The same bad and incompetent management that causes the need strangles the cure, and this goes across the spectrum of issues at work. Companies that tend to have bad pay also tend to be the ones who think they’re most entitled to good employees. The same overvaluation of their own worth is what causes them to devalue the contributions of their employees; at once they assume people should be breaking down their door to work there, and so refuse to pay assuming the market is in their favor, when it isn’t.
And it really all comes down to one thing: poor management. Sometimes it’s just vacuous people with no idea what they’re doing, sometimes it’s outright malicious people who, finally tasting some power, make it their life’s goal to spread the misery they themselves feel. Most Americans are living lives of quiet desperation, being ground down into shadows of their former selves with no hope in their future, their bosses happily ignorant of the effects of their sheer incompetence on the mental and physical health of their down line. And there is absolutely no indication that this will change, ever.
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