How else would they motivate me?
Because employment is not about me motivating myself.
They want to get my work, they have to provide motivation.
To put it differently: Work is a trade. The worker sells time and skill, the employer buys that with money. That is the very basic underlying concept of work.
If the employer doesn’t want to do that deal, why should the worker?
Ironically if you really want employees to be motivated by more than money, you need to pay even more.
Only people who don’t worry about money can afford to be motivated by other things.
Only people who don’t worry about money can afford to be motivated by other things.
Which is exactly why it’s important that they make sure most people can’t afford this
Nobody is motivated by money.
The poor are motivated to be able to afford food they need money for this they are motivated by the need to eat money is simply a means to an ends.
The middle class are motivated by comfort and ironically will work very hard to achieve this. Once again money is the means to this ends.
The rich are motivated by power and influence and will do anything to achieve this. Again money is the means not the ends.
To not be motivated by money one must become the Buddha. To not want money one must want for nothing that money can purchase but by its very definition it can purchase anything. So one must want for nothing and thus have achieved nirvana. I doubt someone who has achieved nirvana would find themselves working a dead end job.
A Buddha is the correct way to say that, and you don’t just throw away all desires, permenantly. Desires still come, but is in unentangling yourself from your karmic fetters that allows one to be unattached from their desires. To want nothing is to be dead. Buddhas still have wants. Negative thoughts come, but they go just as quickly, and in developing one’s inner world, their unconscious mind catches most unuseful percolations to the surface.
There is a story about Mara, which is kinda, sorta “the Buddhist devil” in a trickster sort of way, yet is also an enlightened being, who once possessed a child and threw a rock at an arhant’s head while he was walking in jhana meditation behind the Buddha. The rock hit his head and drew blood, and from the outsider’s perspective, it looks as if the arhant is unphased, but there was a microsecond of the feeling and the cascade of processes within him.
The thing is, enlightenment involves, in modern terms, developing one’s prefrontal cortex to predict the animal part of the brain and cut it off at the pass, so to speak. So, even before the rock finished impacting him, the arhant would have unconsciously quieted the parts of him that are inclined to react.
Also, you don’t “achieve” Nirvana, as that implies personally accomplishing some feat, when it is really a process akin to entering a stream and being carried to a place you see what you need to see to understand the entanglement process of Karma.
Likewise, someone who has been awakened to the emptiness inside them would absolutely work a dead-end job if they knew there was merit to it. A Buddha is a perfect spy, for instance, for they would be able to do the highest or lowest job or task required of them to complete their mission, peacefully and skillfully.
This is my poem, a lipogram using only A and E vowels, entitled Nervana:
Thx for the info my understanding of the philosophy is relatively surface level. If you have any books u would recommend I read to understand I’d appreciate a recommendation. I’m not looking to convert just interested in the philosophy and ideas. Would especially appreciate something that integrates will with Albert Camus absurdism. I would prefer a translation of something old as I find in many places contemporary works take existing knowledge as a given and also tend to soften the messages that the foundational texts where based on.
Even if you provide other motivations that are substantial, it’s going to cost money.
Want people with children to work there longer? Provide them with onsite or daycare somewhere. Daycare is a huge expense for a parent to take on just to continue working. If it’s onsite, they can when things calm down a bit visit their children and have a moment together.
More vacation time and some leisure time during the day. More vacation would mean having a workforce robust enough to handle it. What this does as well though is help spread the everyday load without that consideration to prevent or mitigate burnout. As well if I can just take 15 minutes to go get water, use the restroom, talk a little bit without feeling like the boss is breathing down my neck…
The kicker is that all of that raises productivity and will almost certainly net a return on the investment.
It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message… that shareholder value will always increase to perpetually borrow against tax free!
Accurate depiction, given that the CEO is seconds away from lighting it all on fire
But he burned it in the next part of the scene so this doesn’t make sense. Should have gone with Huell Babineaux.
CEOs are burning money on AI, so it still works.
It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message that will cost us at least five hundred tokens and probably come back with shit code that doesn’t even compile.
And they’d probably have objectively more money if their employees got paid more, as the pie would grow. But they care more about having the biggest slice, even if that decrease the total amount, so it really is about sending a message for them.
Loyal Employee: “I’ve worked hundreds of unpaid OT hours to get the new HR website running. Now that it’s up, my wife just had a baby and I’d like to take a month of comp time to help out.”
Company: “Take all the time you want! Whenever you’re ready to come back, you can use our new HR website to apply online!”
Soo…power?
To be fair, I did know a couple of CEOs who really had a vision and were working like mad. To be even more fair, they were still cutthroat bitches and were ready to dispose of any “human resource” as they saw fit.
Two things that aren’t mutually exclusive…
Lmao CEOs are all about the compensation, bonuses, and share allocations.
It depends. Got respect for my previous employer who rejected a hefty deal with Big Tobacco company on the basis it being harmful to humanity
In terms of CO2 at least, less humans is beneficial to humanity as a whole.
What do you mean
I guess: more smoking = more cancer = less humans = less CO2?
Reported for spreading ecofascism
Hilarious.
How can you report something you didn’t understand?
Reported you too. See you never
You’ve reported me for what? Exactly which guidelines have been violated? What community standards need to be upheld?
We’re family… One of those families with shitty, narcissistic parents
The one that ends up with the kids killing their parents just to make it stop.
This is exactly my experience with companies that say they’re a “family.” They typically want you to work all hours and come in on your day off to “pitch in.”
The ones that have mutual respect for employees and healthy boundaries don’t usually describe themselves that way.
Sounds just like a previous CEO always talking about how “this will make us all filthy rich” while issuing layoffs and demanding nights/weekends. Should’ve left sooner.
and then: You must act hungry to earn a raise
Lots of families are dysfunctional.
