Ever since I was young, I have been seeing the way some organization treat their staffs and this makes me to wonder if they truly care about these employees.
I decided to make research on why organization gives their staffs incentives and recognition. From my research, I discovered that organization gives their staffs and employees mainly to encourage them to work harder so that the organization output can improve.
All they care about is their growth and their survival. Every organization protects its own interests even at the expense of employees. I won't want to use this world but employers are quite greedy in their quest.
The major reasons why they employ staffs is because they want to improve their outputs and efficiency. Assuming the jobs can be done by them alone and they can increase efficiency just by doing all the tasks alone, trust me, they would.
Most times, they will tell you that you are family. Some other times, they will tell you that you are their greatest assets. It is all lies.
Organization is not created to respect anyone or care about anyone. This is one of the reason why even when the founder of the organization dies, the organization continues.
An organization is not built to have conscience, loyalty and memory. No matter how valuable you are in an organization, you are replaceable. Even the founder is replaceable, how much more you the employees. You are insignificant. The earlier you know this, the better.
The major reason why you are still celebrated as the best staff or appreciated is because of the output you are providing. The moment that stops, everything you have done in the past will be automatically forgotten.
I am revealing deep secrets that employers of labors will never tell you. In fact, they don't want you to know.
3 Reasons Why Your Employees Doesn't Care About You
What they do most times is to exploit your loyalty in order to get results. They are only after your result.
Let me share a short story with you. A woman gave birth and doctor told her to rest for a minimum of 6 months before she continues her job. She informed the organization about this, they agreed with her.
They paid her first and second month salary but by the third month, they told her they can't continue paying her salary because she is not working for it.
They told her that after the six months, she can come back if she still wishes but at the moment, they will terminate her appointment. Trust me, they eventually terminated her appointment.
Let's look at another scenario: Have you ever wondered that if you had a bad time or season in your life, maybe you lost someone. All they will do is to give you few days leave or a week leave. After this, you are expected to resume.
Or perhaps, if you are seriously sick, they might give you few days leave to treat yourself but if it is getting long, they might terminate your appointment.
On the other hand, if the organization is having a bad time or season, they will do anything to get out of it. They might terminate employees appointment without reason and without informing them.
However, as employees you can't do anything without their permission. You dare not stay out of office without informing them, the result will be catastrophic. But, they can terminate an employee appointment without informing them even when the employee is loyal to them when the need arises.
2. You are a structure, Not a Person to them: Another evidence that your organization doesn't care about you is that they sees you as an item and not a person.
Often times, your organization category you as "headcount", "labor cost", or "attrition rate". Most times, they won't mention your name except you are causing them trouble.
It is when you are giving them troubles, that is when they will be mentioning your name at almost every point in time. This is because you are living outside the principles they have put in place.
The Hr might care about you. The top managers might care about you but the organization itself does not care about you. Even when you did something wrong and the organization says you should be punished, they will surely punish you even when it is against their will.
This is because the system that is binding you is also the one binding them. They don't have any reason that to obey the system. They won't want to lose their jobs too.
3. The Reward System is meant to keep you hopeful enough: Some years ago, I had a friend who worked hard for a school. In fact, the management of the school knows about this and they gave him an award on their end of session party.
He felt motivated that he was recognized but what he didn't know was that it was a strategy on the path of the management to make him increase his output.
Every penny an organization spend is meant to gather more. Employers of labour will never spend a dime on anything that will not bring result.
Hence, the reward system of any organization is meant to keep you looking out for more. They won't want to pay you to the extent that you will be self sufficient. They know once you are self sufficient, you are quite dangerous to them.
Most times, employers wants to keep you in bondage forever especially when you are yielding results for them.
However, they know they can't keep you forever. As a result of that, they will do anything to keep you.
Short Story About Someone Who Didn't Know That Organization Doesn't Care About You
A neighbor of mine back then got an appointment at a bigger organization with increased pay. However, he didn't know if to quit his previous job for the new opportunity.
One day, I asked him why he was delaying the new opportunity. He said it was because the management of his previous job always treat him nice and recently, they gave him the most dedicated staff award recently.
He said all these factors makes it difficult for him to leave. He said he doesn't know how to submit the letter of resignation.
I laughed when he was telling me this. I told him I was once in his shoe. Back then, I never knew that organizations doesn't care about him. I explained some of the things that have been written in this article which confirms that organizations doesn't care about him to him.
While I was explaining why organizations doesn't care about their staffs to him, he was just nodding along with me.
After I finished speaking, he thanked me from the bottom of his heart. He said i was like a Messiah sent to him.
He said everything I spoke to him gave him courage. The next day, he sent a letter of resignation.
They asked him why he was leaving and he told them he was leaving because of career advancement. They tried to tell him to stay.
They even promised to increase his pay. All these are strategy. My neighbor knew all these were strategy just to keep him in the loop. Thanks to me.
After quitting, the rest is history. Hence, it is important you know that the organization you work for doesn't really care about you. They only care about their own interest and that is why in every organization, their own interest is always above the organization interest.
In conclusion, Never ever think your organization cares about you because they are giving you honorarium or giving you some recognition. All these are just strategy to keep you in the loop and under their wings.
They don't care about you and this is more reason why you always need to make yourself priority even at their expense because they will never make you their priority at their expense. Pay them back what they will pay you.
Thanks for reading!