• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    your own interests are often aligned with theirs.

    Seriously? If you are an employee of a company all you want to do is your job and then go home preferably after receiving a pay rise that didn’t require additional work on your behalf. The company’s interests however are to get as much work out of me as possible for as little compensation as possible.

    The interests of myself and the interests of the company are diametrically opposed, there cannot be alignment because we are in an inherently adversarial relationship.

    It’s like claiming that your interests and your landlords interests align, and then completely ignoring the fact that you can never get him to come around and fix the broken light fixture. The thing I want him to do is the one the thing that he definitely doesn’t want to do.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      there cannot be alignment because we are in an inherently adversarial relationship.

      Most jobs aren’t like this.

      Regardless, if your being bullied by your supervisor then HR wants that to stop in order to minimise their litigation risk, so your interests are aligned.

      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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        2 days ago

        If there’s 5 billion people working age, and 2% of workplaces are like this, how many people are effected?

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 days ago

          The comment I replied to is a generalisation:

          If you are an employee of a company

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          The interests of myself and the interests of the company are diametrically opposed, there cannot be alignment because we are in an inherently adversarial relationship.

          • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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            2 days ago

            Your “generalization” comment is dumb.

            These conversations are always about the lowest common denominator. At that end of the spectrum, you are flat wrong. All your comments tell everyone else you are either hopelessly ignorant or lucky and ignorant.