A Day in the Life

Jaded

I've always known my boss and his wife cared more about money than people, at least when it comes to running their business. Although I didn't like their mindset, and grated against the lack of appreciation shown for us techs who are earning their salaries, I shrugged it off and retained a measure of respect for their business savvy. Even when I disagreed with their management style, I could usually find some value to their methods. Today I learned some things that I probably shouldn't have learned, and it makes my blood boil. Any vestige of loyalty I may have had has dissipated. Also gone is any desire to get in on a piece of a potentially profitable business venture they are undertaking. I simply don't want to work with people like that anymore. Maybe I'm overreacting; maybe that's just the way the business world works, but I know that's not true. Utter disregard for the welfare of employees is common, but not the norm for small businesses whose viability depends on the efforts of a small core of highly trained people, and I'm not including myself in that. I'm new, so I know I'm expendable. At the very least, such callous treatment should be compensated by pay, but that's definitely not the case here.

I'm in no hurry, but I think it might be time to return to the classifieds. What's sad is that I even like most of what my job entails, and most of the people are easy to get along with. Perhaps I'll reconsider when I cool off a bit.