Worker Bees
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There are two kinds of people who go to work and you not knowing the difference will make them leave. The two are the Operator and the Appreciator. Some people like me (Operator) just want to get the job done and go the hell home. Some people like you (Appreciator) want to be appreciated and felt like without them the company will die. Believe me I have pissed off enough employees that they left thinking I didn’t know what the hell I was talking about. But, in the end I just don’t want certain people in my company because I run a business not a self esteem retreat.
Operators are the type of people who like to get a stack of files and be left the fvck alone. We’re usually good at execution and usually get startled when you say good morning. Politricks, potlucks and any sort of feelings usually make us look at you like you are weak. You telling me all about your gross sex life makes me think who cares about your unhealthy non-sexy ass. I already know business is about money so anyone trying to tell me we are family is plainly trying to con me. I have no expectations of happiness or fulfillment when I come to work. I won’t be the guy who decorates a cubicle or puts a new pad on my cheap ass chair. I will never have carpal tunnel syndrome because I will never work that damn hard for anyone over myself. Overall I know the damn game and I just want to go home. I actually enjoy my life outside of being at work so coming to work is a damn chore that keeps the lights on.
Appreciators are the type of people who identify theirselves with their jobs. If you criticize their work they somehow go home and feel like shit. If you give them shit work to do they feel like shit. If you don’t notice they put their kids picture on the cubicle they feel like shit. If you don’t want any of their tuna casserole they feel like shit. They walk around the office looking for people to validate their existence and they try to personalize the business altogether. If you don’t appreciate them they will quietly sabotage your business by selling secrets to your enemies or planning to kill you somehow someway. Appreciators are the types who feel they can somehow improve the process of digging ditches. And, they are willing to try to improve a working process just so you can appreciate what they bring to the business.
As you can see I don’t have any appreciators working with me at all. I am sure they help to make the job more liveable but since they are so sensitive I can never get them to do their damn job. I didn’t start a business to come in every morning trying to make sure I don’t offend you somehow. I went through a lot of people who wanted me to pat them on the back and it never happened. I lost a lot of customers who want me to say thank you for the business even though I do my job.
I only bring this up because it’s part of the game. If you are a operator like me I think you have a great chance to run a business because we are natural born executioners. If you need to be appreciated you need to go work at a suicide hotline because those are the only people who are probably happen you are around.
That’s all I have to say about that!
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You say worker bees and thats funny to me because while I am at work, I look around and say look at all these Sheep. There are folks who decorate their desk with their ritualistic artifacts…lol. I even have a co worker who keeps a Wholefoods in her cabinet ie groceries. There are even folks who have been there for 25-40 yrs. I look around and see this and think to myself, NOT ME. I figure that this is only temporary until my business plans come into fruitiion.
People always try to make their job like a 2nd home. I just thought me and the job were a deal.. I came in and did the work and they paid me. When I left my job you could move someone right in as I didn’t have anything in or on that desk that said Freeeman was here!
Even when I was working I was always looking for the next job so I never had the mentality to dig in and enjoy. All jobs to me are transitions either to my own stuff or a better place on the plantation. I was there for money and I surely didn’t want to celebrate another fellow slaves birthday.
Wow….well since you put it that way….
Ummmm my name is Keish and I’m an Appreciator. SMH
This is the type of knowledge that should be taught to people like me before we enter the workforce. I feel like I wasted years just not getting the big picture.
Some of us are just used to gold stars so we look for them when we grow up too. Don’t get me wrong I see the benefit of someone who wants to make a business like home otherwise all businesses would look like factories. But, making someone happy or appreciating them when the money is proof of my appreciation is a damn chore.
In order for Capitalism to work someone has to be a Sucker! So take it in stride because once you know this is the game they are playing you can manipulate it for your own end.
WOW! Looking at my desk i have no pictures or personal items hanging on it other than computers and computer parts. I guess that makes me a Operator then. I never did understand why people tried to make their cubicles all personable even putting personal pictures in corporate computers. Most of the time my face is planted on the monitor answering trouble issues then i get startled when some one approaches my cubicle wanting to say “HI”. Depending on how much work i have i may or may not be in a good mood. I hate when i loose my focus because someone wants to talk to me.
Reminds me of an employee i knew. Every morning she would walk around the whole office telling everyone “Good Morning!” one by one. If you did not acknowledge her she will stand their until you do! its just weird!!
Beyond weird it’s borderline insanity. When they are around you feel a unnecessary need to be fake and that’s the part I hate because I’m just trying to get this shit over so I can go home. I think people like to have them around (other Appreciators) to add color to a boring landscape but they’re overall needing attention gets on your nerves fast.
Man I’ve always been and Executioner. But the ability to cut through bullsh*t and get things done has gotten me paid very well throughout my career. The funny thing is that just like some of y’all I’ve never been one to keep personal stuff at work. At most I’ve had some company trinkets around. So people have always looked at my office and said things like “wow are you staying long”. Of course I just laugh it off but the fact is I always keep a copy of a resignation letter on my hard drive. So if they ask me to leave suddenly or I decide to leave suddenly I can be gone in 10 seconds with no need to pack up or anything.
Oh and I used to work with one of those retarded drones that went around and said good morning every morning. But she didn’t stop to make sure you replied though. Most of the time I just ignored her low level ass.
Make yourself at home at your own damn home! I had cats telling me we are family and you can be in the inner circle and I thought I am around devils. I didn’t have my resignation on deck but everything I had was in my pockets so when I got up and left it was like I was never there.
Some people swallowed the Kool-Aid and they are the ones who do all that team building shit. I used to sit there and think what are they paying you OR what did your parents do so wrong that you want acceptance from strangers!
Man, this is so true brotha….I wish I would have looked at it in this perspective when I started at Bank of AmeriKKKa & Merill Lynch a few years back….I allowed myself to get caught up in pot lucks, gossip, awards, slimy hoes, dumb ass team building exercises, you name it. At the end of the day it effected me personally and financially. Thank goodness I learned my lesson and matured and charged it to the game. This thread really confirmed everything I’ve been telling myself for the last few years about focusing on just making money and getting this heck out of there.
Alonzo of Orlando Florida – Welcome – Like I said earlier in order for Capitalism to work someone has to be a Sucker! You got a good experience in high finance so you should be able to take what they taught you and parlay that into something of your own. Some people get beat up and never come back and some of us get beat up and vow to destroy the cat and everyone rolling with them. Take the negative and make it a positive and tell the truth about the game to everyone you know so we can end the reign of the devils!
Check out a future podcast I have coming up called “The Nature of the Game” and I’ll dive into what you experienced even more.
I’m an operator plain and simple. I don’t fraternize or talk about life. I just come in, go to my desk, put on my earphones, do my work and leave. People ask if I ever go out to lunch with my co-workers. Nope. Or hang out after work hours. Nope. No happy hours for me. I even hate the silly birthday celebrations we have. Sneaking the card around so everyone can sign it like its a CIA mission. And then singing happy birthday to a damn adult like we’re on Sesame Street.
I don’t ask many questions and damn sure don’t care about office politics. But most of my co-workers are the complete opposite. They take their job personally and actually care to contribute in staff meetings as if they’re going to get the employee of the month award. I could truly care less. I just come to get my money. To me, any job is just a stop on the road to my end goal….my own lineup of businesses. And as soon as I find something that pays more, I’m gone.
I think if employees had the operator mentality, stress and suicides would drop in society. Companies don’t hire people to become part of their family. They hire people to do a job.
You are ruined now bruh! You know the game that’s being played so you trying to make that company rich is a no go! LOL
Some people always ask me do I miss being around people at work. I usually say I like being around them after work because the only conversations I used to have were about how we hate this fvcking place. Since I have a off plantation life I show up to happy hour like I actually enjoy my life instead of showing up in the zoot suit loosening my tie.
If employees knew the game they would quit!