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Boston - “Take This Job and Shove It” was a popular song in the late 1970s. Now there’s a 2011 variation on the same theme: “Take That Corner Office Job and Shove It.” Not to put too fine a point on it, a new survey finds that 76 percent of employees polled said they have no interest in having their boss’s job. The survey is from OfficeTeam, a division of the specialized staffing firm Robert Half International Inc. According to the survey, 76 percent of respondents said that they don’t covet their boss’s job, and 65 percent said that they didn’t think that they could do a better job than their boss.
People realize being in charge and making more money is a good thing, right? Like that’s the goal for a career. To achieve enough that people decide “hey that guy knows what he’s doing, we should give him more money and extra weeks of vacation.” Like, gee I wonder why our economy is going to shit and people are camping out in tents complaining about rich people…guys, the goal is to become those rich people. Don’t turn down the corner office, embrace it.
Of course, what motivation do people have to go for the corner office when the government will probably force your company to give you a raise for absolutely nothing at all:
Boston Herald - The Boston City Council will use its bully pulpit to try to convince Massport to increase the wages of employees at companies who do business at Logan International Airport — some who earn minimum wage — while nearly a quarter of Massport staff earned $100,000 or more last year. President Stephen Murphy argue that the Massachusetts Port Authority should enforce the city’s living wage ordinance, which requires city contractors to pay workers a minimum of $15.27 per hour.
I mean, hey if the City is offering to pay you $15 an hour just to pick up and put down bags, then why bother going for that promotion, right? Don't worry about working hard to get ahead, just sit on your thumbs and complain a little bit and wait for some overzealous city council man or woman who probably has a son or nephew making minimum wage at the airport, to lobby for a raise for you...It's the American way.
