Biggest Asset
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Whenever the head of a company gets interviewed the same BS comes out of their mouth. “Our people are our Biggest Asset” But, if you’re smart and unemployed right now the product they pushed seemed to be more of an asset than you. What they are really saying is thank GOD I have that slave delivering Pepsi to that liquor store in Compton because I sure as hell don’t want to go in there. They are saying thank GOD that slave works graveyard shift packaging toilet cakes because I sure as hell don’t want that Blue poison on my fingers. Overall since they got the head of the company on TV he knows most slaves are happy to be recognized and appreciated for picking 20 bales of cotton!
Every company in this world is pushing a product or service so let’s not ever get caught up in you as a person being that damn important to them. The reason why they have vacations, 401k and even childcare is because they don’t want your indentured servant ass to go home or quit early. They have measured exactly how much money it will take to keep you working on the plantation and shutting up. You are only a asset to them if you somehow become hard to replace and by that time they have given you 3 times as much money as the field slaves that you fall for the con of the title and recognition.
Each person at each job is about as valuable as a microwave in your place. You count on that thing to work quietly and not mess up but as soon as it does you curse it out and get another. In fact the way you see all products is the way you are seen at your job. If your Owner could he would return your sorry working ass for a full refund back to the tenement he got your non-productive ass from. A employees role is much more like a pet as soon as your dog needs to be walked or more food you think I should get rid of his ass. An employee is even lesser than a machine as the machine actually makes the product.
You’d better learn how to value yourself and what you can do for yourself. You are your biggest asset but definitely not to anyone else and definitely not to a company.
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this is so true. i am in beverage outside sales and they put me in the urban demographics for that exact same reason no one wants to be in the hood. but i am working on my freedom papers or my escape route either way i am going for it
As long as we recognize the CON we won’t fall for it. Whenever a company is in trouble they lay off PEOPLE so obviously the people aren’t that damn important. Candy company don’t stop selling Snickers before they decide to fire people. In fact a candy company won’t even shut down a damn machine before they fire someone. So a employee is at the bottom of the totem pole.
Good thing you are stacking and plotting as that’s all a job is good for. Make money while you make a way out!
BoardroomB: I feel ya.
Reminds me of a followup to your value podcast and what the R&G is about..financial freedom and control of our destiny. This one makes you really think about your own self worth. It hurts to think that the fax machine and copier is worth more to them than you. So you basically saying that capitalism is nothing but the slave trade. Now I know why Harriet Tubman did what she did. She valued herself as a human being and had to be free of the BS.
This reminds me of an employee who used to work at the Plantation (corporation). She was so gung ho that when the plantation expanded to another state. She packed up and moved there to run the plantation. She had many years working for the plantation and was a money maker for them. But as soon as she hit a rough patch and began not to hit the Plantations money goals is when the owners of the plantation decided to throw her out of the plantation for not producing. After more than 10 years on the plantation and even moving on her own expense to run the other plantation all she got was a swift kick in the ass and shown the door!
Since its inception “Our employees are our biggest asset” is a bold face lie. I never believed in this saying and others that they like to use. In this world it is up to you to make a change in this world and be your own “Biggest Asset!”
@AH – I know it’s a shock but we need to have the right mind when we are on the plantation. Capitalism is a system to make money and anyone who chooses to stay an employee when millions are being generated is a slave. Now not a slave in the chains and whip way but a slave in the childish influence way by taking care of a child’s needs love and loyalty is created.
@G71 – Hey I had to learn the same lesson when I was in college. I wish I could find that woman because she could do the R&G and provide even more game. When she got up to expand the plantation to another state she drank the Kool Aid and damnit she probably made the Kool Aid.
Real talk when your dreams are tied into the machine built by someone else you are worthless. The machine will move without you and the best a slave can do is hang on. The CON is the same as most cats see on the street when they talk to women. A cat will say anything to get the woman to think of them in a certain way but, his patna next to him should know he’s running game. Here we have the patna in the company actually believing the game the plantation puts out to the public.
For the past 6 months I have been working for a company that has not given their employee’s a raise in 4 years. I was informed of this at a company party that was given to celebrate the companies $40 billion dollar income for 2010……
I sit across from a brotha who probably made $50 million of it in the 8 hours he dedicates to the company everyday. Yesterday he came to my desk and told me that his review was A+, but his income is stuck at $50,000 a year.
You got to love the plantation. They can on one hand say we made 40 billion dollars and on the other hand give you a A+ review with no raise. I got a podcast on Monday talking about that dilemma right there.
Well you are employed in a recession so take that and see what you can build on the side. Since we already know they aren’t going to break bread with you I guess you are blessed to see what they are really about. If a cat generated 50 million of it and he can’t get a raise DAMN you are on the Jim Crow plantation.
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(Damn, FreeMan – why you gotta’ hurt em like that? I can’t even add anything to this post nor comment)
I feel extremely blessed and fortunate that I never had to join the plantation and experience this shit.. My father went through it and he ended up getting discarded from the plantation this was mid 80′s before I was even born and he bounced back and started a business that’s been successful for the past 20 years. So the pitfalls and traps of the plantation have been drilled into me since I was a kid pops would kick me out the house if I even tried to get a job so I had no choice but to hustle for myself
@UBJ – I threw a no-hitter huh?
@Alpo – Maybe I’ll be the same way to my son as your father. Once you learn these people don’t care then you start to build something that is independent of them. People always say it’s worse to be self-employed but when everything you have is in the hands of another it’s a worse place to be.