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...