Worth less.... Worth More...

Wrote a line in a Facebook post that got me thinking...

I know... I know... but my one brain cell does actually work on occasion...

Why do some people think others are "Worth Less"...

No one is "worth less" and no one is "worth more"...

Nearly everybody I have said this to has disagreed with me... with, very few, asking if I meant financially or humanitarianly...  Pretty much, everyone just went into a monetary based reply....

Get a life... Greed is not good... Its was the reason behind the original wall street crash... it is behind the apathy which is causing the current blindness to mass migration... A labour force is not cheap if it depletes finances and overwhelms resources...

We are all the same... We eat, sleep, defecate and die...

So, on to what this post is about,  promoting the incorrect fact that the "Big Cheese" is worth more than the workforce...

The workforce is in two parts...

The producing part of a process, which may or may not contain "the boss"... it produces the items to be sold to have the money to pay itself....

The management, which may or may not include "the boss" is the consuming part of the process that requires the producing part of the process to pay for itself...

 A, hands on,  small company boss often just has enough to have a slightly better home and lifestyle than the workforce...

The effect of the small company boss can be very small on the items produced price, with, often, the cost of the workforce having a bigger, percentage, effect on the unit price...

Then there is the "top dog" variable...

The senior person of the company who requires both the management and the production processes to pay for themselves...

A "top dog" system requires a massive increase in the produced item price... and, often, an increase in non productive, high level management, staff...

So why does the smallest cog in the chain...  the single "top dog"...  "deserve" reward  because they are "worth more"?

Never quite got that point...

A worker can work for decades and get nothing when they retire.... not even a handshake, sometimes...

But a "top dog" can work for less than a year and retire with a "golden" handshake... and repeat that process over and over again...

The "top dog" is not worth millions... its just the greed system of generating fear and feeding apathy that allows them to... With many a "top dog" getting their "due" bonus even when failing...

Worked alongside a person who solved a problem the company was having with one of it's newly developed products... He could see the problem because he actually machined the part... not looked at in on some computer CAD system... 

He talked to the designer many times, only to be repeatedly treated like he could not have any idea of what he was talking about... and then some "Brown-nose" overheard him one day... The part was changed... it now worked flawlessly... The worker getting nothing... and the "sycophant" getting promoted...

Who was worth more or less for finding the solution?

I have had several jobs in my life and have been both worker and management... Did not make me feel different... I did upset many people, at one company, though... As while working as an industrial engineer the company had a problem with staffing in it's Bronze foundry... which is where I started...  I was an air press moulder... good one to...

So when asked if I could help out by covering people on holiday I said yes... Unheard of in those days... office was office... shop floor was shop floor...

But after years of service I received a glowing tribute with my 15 years long service award and my redundancy, pittance, notice on the same day... from the same manager... who then moved all production to China and made everybody redundant...

Name against clock card... if you have to clock in then, to some, you are "worth less"

But I can honestly say that I have only worked for one good boss... He rewarded those who put forward ideas... he rewarded as you trained... he asked our opinions on working hours and shift rotas, rather than just forcing change...

Loved that job... I felt part of something... Not an employee... Not a name next to a clock number... My worth appreciated...

It was intensive, challenging and you always had to be at the top of your game... But it was in the Fibre optic communication industry and when Marconi when south in the early noughties this company went south with it...

Yes my outlook on top management, in general, is biased... openly accept that...

But generating paperwork to justify jobs is self defeating in the end... And spending millions on consultants that end up torpedoing the company is mind-numbingly bad management...

But the elitists still keep employing each other with no thought to worth... just greed...

My first boss, after leaving school, was a tyrant... I earned  £6 a week (it was 1970 folks) and the apprentice (I was promised a printing apprenticeship but it never happened) was on £9... The person training me up in Lithographic printing left after six months... and the boss did not replace him... So for a year I taught myself to run the presses we had... Then he sacked me, sighting colourblindness... so I could not get another job in that industry...

But, my outlook, is not as biased as the preconception that you are worth more if you control someone

I keep re-reading this and it's hard to separate wealth and worth... so I hope it makes sense... 

9.3 Millions worth of.... Well nothing really

Just received my "why we should stay in" leaflet from the Government.... And I must say... TOTALLY UNIMPRESSED... For all that money I though it would be thicker... and not contain photographs it had no, real, legal right to publish.... Nice shot of Felixstowe Docks though...

Anyhoo... Here is my simple, maybe naive, view of it...


The cover..
Black and white statement about how the Government think its best to stay in... So no subliminal message there then.... being in black and white.....

Ignoring pages one and the picture on two as with the present turmoil only the date of the referendum stated there can be looked on as accurate as all the "Special Status" bullet points might not hold true in the future 

Page 3...
A Stronger Economy...

The EU is by far the UK's biggest trading partner... EU countries buy 44% of everything we sell abroad....   So, firstly, no one will buy any British product if we leave???.... Secondly.... 44% means that our biggest oversea sales, 56%, are to NON EU countries....

The EU's single market has over 500 million customers and an economy over five times bigger than the UK...  So our own economy is not that small then.... Given how many countries are in the EU...  And those customers will no longer need, or want, what we make if we leave?

The Single market makes it easier and cheaper for UK companies to sell their products outside the UK, creating jobs....

First off... Do they meant "to the EU/Single Market" ie the 44% market we will lose if we left?.... As this just reads that it is easy and cheap to sell, red tape aside, outside the UK.... like... Anywhere... but if we leave we will never sell to anyone ever again as it will be "not easy and to expensive"...

Create jobs.... A one of the thousands who used to work for Crane Fluid Systems.... who now work elsewhere, if they can, and all the other heavy industry companies that are no longer here... Because all the "CHEAP" products are now made in China, or elsewhere......

Being inside the EU also makes it more attractive to companies to invest in the UK...
In the early days this was true as many companies built plant here, or registered companies, as it was a gateway into the EU for those outside it... Think of car manufacturing companies, amongst others, who used the UK to avoid import duties...

But these days.... Companies will still invest in the UK if we leave because of the Governments insistence that everything must be in private hands, and are... Genesis album title... "Selling England by the Pound"... Well Euro these days... You name it... NHS... Dartford Crossing... Electricity... Roads... Royal Mail... Land Registry (don't know how many, truly, realise the effect of this one... but it really does enables those that have to ride rough shod over those who have not)... Schools and far to many more to list here...

But bottom line for our (your fave name for them here) if its public, or free... it wont be soon....

Over the last decade foreign companies have invested £540 billion in the UK, equivalent to £148 million each day...
Foreign companies..... so not just EU companies then... and how much of that is for selling out this country...

Below all this misdirection and badly worded "facts" is a list of meaningless numbers... Trust me in this... As a trained, if not qualified, Industrial Engineer this list of numbers is just that... a list of numbers...

Page 4...
Page four is a very nice, staged, picture with its almost (come on... no female in there somewhere)  PC correct workforce...

Since 2010 tourism has been the fastest growing sector in the UK in employment terms. Britain is forecast to have a tourism industry worth over £257 billion by 2025. 
(Taken from www.visitbritain.org/visitor-economy-facts)

So I guess that soon most people will be working in a tourist/entertainment based job and spend their holidays at other tourist/entertainment places....

You know I could go on right threw this waste of money but do not, in my wildest dreams, think anybody would make it to the end...

Will end with one more phrase from the "What happens if we leave?" page...

The Government judges it could result in 10 years or more of uncertainty as the UK unpicks our relationship with the EU and over 50 other countries around the world... 
 
Who worded this...  

The Government "Judges"... like they do that so well... Bail something out for 100 million and then sell it for 10 or setting share prices way below the true market value...does not give confidence in their good judgement.. (wish I could sit on a comfy bench and go Arff Arff...  And claim dodgy allowances for twice my wages or more)

Could result???  way to go with the conviction (subliminal/scare tactics???) factor there...

As for "the UK unpicks "our" relationship".... "it's" makes sense but "OUR" just screams "I'm rich and have not got a clue how to talk to these.... what do we call them... Oh yes.. common people...

Be Happy folks and vote the way your own heart tells you.... but please either vote or don't complain when stuff hits the fan...