Employment and Favours
When I bought that loaf of bread, I was not really doing the bakery owner a favour.
He was not doing me a favour either.
I had a tummy to fill, and, he had a landlord to quieten.
However, things are a bit different when coming to employers and their employees.
Employees are somehow subtly trained (and, in most cases, “expected”) to kiss ass. Even in cases where ass-kissing is really unnecessary.
As much as the employer pays the employee’s salary — without the employee — the employer (or rather: his business) will fail to bring loafs of bread to being.
The employee, “his” baker, is as important to his business as flour, milk, yeast, et al.
No baker, no bread. No bread, no income. No income, no employer.
(Employment is a “recurring” business transaction; not a
favour to
the employed.)
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— June 14, 2011.