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Hire People Who Care (2020)

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Re: Hire People Who Care (2020)

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It would be nice if the employer also cared in return, however in my experience, this is exceptionally rare. I think more than a fair share of us here learned our lessons in investing ourselves rather sharply. It rarely, if ever, pays off for the worker.

In practice what would an employer caring look like to you?

Re: Hire People Who Care (2020)

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post #5

It would be nice if the employer also cared in return, however in my experience, this is exceptionally rare. I think more than a fair share of us here learned our lessons in investing ourselves rather sharply. It rarely, if ever, pays off for the worker.

Yeah they're literally paying you money so they don't have to.

Re: Hire People Who Care (2020)

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post #5

It would be nice if the employer also cared in return, however in my experience, this is exceptionally rare. I think more than a fair share of us here learned our lessons in investing ourselves rather sharply. It rarely, if ever, pays off for the worker.

In practice what would an employer caring look like to you?

What risk/return are they expecting employees to accept? What risk/return are they willing to accept? Any advantage they give themselves over the employee, to me, means they don't care.

Re: Hire People Who Care (2020)

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post #5

It would be nice if the employer also cared in return, however in my experience, this is exceptionally rare. I think more than a fair share of us here learned our lessons in investing ourselves rather sharply. It rarely, if ever, pays off for the worker.

In practice what would an employer caring look like to you?

Stock options.

Re: Hire People Who Care (2020)

#18
post #5

It would be nice if the employer also cared in return, however in my experience, this is exceptionally rare. I think more than a fair share of us here learned our lessons in investing ourselves rather sharply. It rarely, if ever, pays off for the worker.

Yeah they're literally paying you money so they don't have to.

Maybe this opinion would have more weight if you didn't use a throwaway account to post it.
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