Bryan W. Alaspa 1Evil, Inc, Co., Corp, LLC
September 30th 2009 13:38
It is possible you work for a large company or corporation. Maybe you even like your job. You go to your job every day and you sit in a cubicle and you do your work and you put in overtime when needed and you get your work done on time or ahead of time and your bosses seem to like you. All is well. You probably assume that somewhere, somehow, there is a manager way above you who notices your hard work, appreciates it, and will somehow reward you.
What you may not know, however, is that to the upper management at your company you are nothing more than a number. You aren’t really a person. You are data in a computer and a blip on some screen somewhere. In fact, it is very possible that the company has hedged its bet on you and done something without you even knowing about it. They are betting against you dying.
It is apparently commonplace for companies to take out insurance policies on their employees. They don’t have to let the employees know about it. What they do is take out the policies on various employees and then make the corporation the beneficiary. So that way, if you die, the company makes money.
That’s what you really mean to the company you work for. You are a number. You are an expense. More than likely, you are very expensive too. They have to pay your salary and they have to pay for the benefits that you have. They put up with you as long as the money is coming in and they make you feel like good things are “trickling down” to you, but when your numbers don’t add up they have no compunction about cutting you like a bad habit. No matter how long you’ve been working for the company, if your salary and your job doesn’t benefit them in some way, they will cut your job and your career and not care about you at all.
I guess you can argue that a company has no reason to care. All they have to do is provide you with work and then a paycheck. Why should they care about the people who work for them? Of course, if all you think a company needs to do is occupy you for eight hours during a day and give you some money for it, then I guess you are happy with your lot in life.
For me, it seems like when you give breaks to those who run the corporations all they do is try to screw as many people as they can to make a buck and make many more bucks as fast as possible. These are the same people who came up with the crazy mortgages and things known as “derivatives” that ended up putting the country in the economic crisis it’s in now. Sure, it’s popular to blame the people who bought the homes and got the mortgages, but there are the companies that created these convoluted mortgages and plans that the average consumer couldn’t understand what they were signing. Half of the people who were supposed to be regulating this couldn’t understand it.
A woman named Elizabeth Warren, at Harvard University, brings one of the refinancing contracts into her law classes these days and asks her students to tell her what the interest rate is. Each student picks up the fifty or so pages that comprise one of the loans that were so popular. Most of the time, not a single one can find the interest rate or tell her what the payment is or what it will balloon to. That isn’t the problem of the person getting the loan, that’s a problem of the corporation behind it.
Maybe corporations aren’t obligated to care about their customers or their employees. I just feel that they should be.
What you may not know, however, is that to the upper management at your company you are nothing more than a number. You aren’t really a person. You are data in a computer and a blip on some screen somewhere. In fact, it is very possible that the company has hedged its bet on you and done something without you even knowing about it. They are betting against you dying.
It is apparently commonplace for companies to take out insurance policies on their employees. They don’t have to let the employees know about it. What they do is take out the policies on various employees and then make the corporation the beneficiary. So that way, if you die, the company makes money.
That’s what you really mean to the company you work for. You are a number. You are an expense. More than likely, you are very expensive too. They have to pay your salary and they have to pay for the benefits that you have. They put up with you as long as the money is coming in and they make you feel like good things are “trickling down” to you, but when your numbers don’t add up they have no compunction about cutting you like a bad habit. No matter how long you’ve been working for the company, if your salary and your job doesn’t benefit them in some way, they will cut your job and your career and not care about you at all.
I guess you can argue that a company has no reason to care. All they have to do is provide you with work and then a paycheck. Why should they care about the people who work for them? Of course, if all you think a company needs to do is occupy you for eight hours during a day and give you some money for it, then I guess you are happy with your lot in life.
For me, it seems like when you give breaks to those who run the corporations all they do is try to screw as many people as they can to make a buck and make many more bucks as fast as possible. These are the same people who came up with the crazy mortgages and things known as “derivatives” that ended up putting the country in the economic crisis it’s in now. Sure, it’s popular to blame the people who bought the homes and got the mortgages, but there are the companies that created these convoluted mortgages and plans that the average consumer couldn’t understand what they were signing. Half of the people who were supposed to be regulating this couldn’t understand it.
A woman named Elizabeth Warren, at Harvard University, brings one of the refinancing contracts into her law classes these days and asks her students to tell her what the interest rate is. Each student picks up the fifty or so pages that comprise one of the loans that were so popular. Most of the time, not a single one can find the interest rate or tell her what the payment is or what it will balloon to. That isn’t the problem of the person getting the loan, that’s a problem of the corporation behind it.
Maybe corporations aren’t obligated to care about their customers or their employees. I just feel that they should be.
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