Is this a stereotype?!

[Deja Q]

From compuserve:


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71% of Workers Commit This Indiscretion

Bosses beware! Fully 71 percent of U.S. workers are slackers. They aren't doing their jobs. That's the astonishing word from a Gallup poll that used more politically correct terminology than "slackers": Nearly three-quarters of us are "not engaged" in our jobs.

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Gallup's Curt Coffman, who is also a co-author of "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently," told Denver Post reporter Al Lewis that at best, these folks are clock-watchers and break-takers. At worst, they mock their bosses and undermine the companies where they work. Coffman is an expert on employee behavior, having studied it closely for more than 20 years. (We're operating on the assumption that Coffman is not a slacker, and therefore what he says is of value.) He claims that his extraordinarily high count of slackers is based on detailed quarterly surveys of 1,000 to 1,200 employees over a 2-1/2 year period.

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The news gets worse. The best employees are the newbies--the ones who have been on the payroll less than six months. They aren't jaded and are still trying their best. The worst workers are the ones who have been with the company a long time. "The longer employees stay with a company, the more disengaged they become," Coffman told The Denver Post. What causes employees to become disengaged? Primarily, it's having to perform useless tasks. The Denver Post got this confession from a slacker who worked at Hewlett-Packard in Denver and was recently laid off due to the merger with Compaq. Surprisingly, he wouldn't give his name. "I started working 6 1/2-hour days, and I had no problem taking two-hour lunches," he revealed. "I was basically coasting for the last six months. I knew what was coming. So why would I kill myself on the project I was working on?"

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What's worse than a slacker employee? One who wants to sabotage the company. Coffman estimates that 17 percent of the workforce fits into this category, whom he describes as "actively disengaged." Behavior includes deliberately provoking customers and even driving customers away--just because the employee hates the employer so much. Coffman's recommendation? This is harsh. He says the bottom-performing 20 percent of many large organizations should just be fired--and that includes managers.

Never share these secrets at work with your office friends. It could cost you your job.


Uh. I've been at my company for 7 years. I still ask to do new and different things while my coworkers just bitch and gripe. I try to show initiative and concern. I want to do more and be kept as a useful asset. Of course, I still end up doing the same things in the end because they want their control. Maybe those newbies think they're going to get somewhere and the people who've been at the ocmpany have figured the f**k out what's going on, duuuuh?!

Fucking corporations, they just use people like gears and throw 'em out the instant they show signs of wear... expendable... that's what the working class is. Not people; expendable gears in a system designed to keep the wealthy rich and the poor poorer.

Ever notice how the US is starting to parallel Rome? Remember how Rome ended...

[Nikia]

1. I think that most working class people aren't

After all they're usually being constabtly watched and it is pretty evident if they aren't doing their jobs.
I haven't really worked for large corporations. I did have a short term temp assignment at one though. I wondered what the people in the middle did. The low level positions did all the actual work "work" and the top level people had all the ideas. The people in the middle spent half their day surfing the internet.
I think that 71% is a bit high for habitual slackers. Like I said, most of the working class is constantly being watched.

[Aristus]

2. That's what happens when the manufacturing jobs go overseas.

When a person can make something, see it finished, and watch it being used, he or she will take pride in his or her job. When a worker is treated like a replaceable, expendable gear, shuffling papers, and doing bogus, make-work shit details for lousy pay and 'you'll be fired any day now' hanging over his or her head, of COURSE,they will turn into slackers. Corporate America just doesn't get it. Never will, probably.

[DrWeird]

3. Uh?

We're about to be sacked by barbarians from Canada?