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When side-jobs hurt your chances.. |
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trust has not value? |
| Date Posted: |
08/08/2004 |
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macromaniac, thanks for your note! and you bring up a very important issue -- trust.
i agree with your point on the surface, which is what i feared quite frankly. however, let met ask this... i was at ibm 9 years. i supported three executives during that time and as part of my job i gathered competitive information. leave it there. ;)
i've never leaked that information -- nor would i. if i did i know what circumstances would result -- and really, no harm would come to me other than being blacklisted in that industry, for a few months really.
i look at it this way... an employer (in the USA) may fire anyone of us in a drop of a hat and without reason. so, i would never trust an employer, nor did i trust ibm, but i do see my weekly paycheck as that employer buying *my* trust.
maybe this is all a part of ethics...? on a political analogy... i personally despise bush; however, as you've probably read on my site, i publish stories in *support* of george bush. i even had fun editing them for the writers who submitted these stories... i wanted their ideas to come through in the best possible way. i didn't have to agree with them in order to help them be a success. but this is simply upholding the journalistic eithic i've sworn to my profession.
if an employer can not trust
me even though they offer pay, i don't see a good match. so, i am not convinced that hiding myself would really change that. do you agree? |
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Hi there and thank you for your response to my email message. Yes, I totally agree with you!. It is really not worth the time or the effort to work for someone who is not mature enough to trust their employees!. I have worked for different employers and I really can't stand working for those who are so insecure that they feel that they have to control EVERYTHING!
One time I ALMOST worked for an Employer who actually got mad at me for just being friendly and saying hello to one of the Wholesaler's who happened to come into the store whilst I was being interviewed. The employer had stopped the interview to attend to a customer, so instead of being a SNOB, I just said a friendly," Hello," to this person, and then I was told off for it....this was rather strange behaviour I thought and a foreshadowing of what I would have to put up with if I was to have worked there.
Right after the interview I left knowing that I would not be going back there even as a Customer nevertheless as an Employee!
When I first started out working I use to put up with all kinds of crap and now that I am a bit older I know better now than to put up with it. I don't mind working hard for someone else, but I can't be bothered to become their Psychological Counselor too.
I think that you should have the freedom to be yourself and express your talents as much as you want without any negative behaviour being expressed towards you by ANYONE.
If the Employer is "A CONTROL FREAK" I say that it's not worth working for them. By the way I have not seen your website yet, but seeing that you mentioned it, I would like to see it.... Please let me know your website address. Thanks
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