When you were employed FT, did you feel like your employer cared for you?

[Olivia]

My longest term of employment was teaching in a girls' Catholic school run by nuns. I had never met a nun in my life before that and I was pleasantly surprised to find myself welcomed and appreciated. The pastoral care of the girls was amazing and the same care was extended to the staff. The nuns had certainly absorbed the command to "love one another as I have loved you". I stayed there for 25 years, until I retired.

 

[papa tiger]

Never took what they said to heart. I worked for something a whole lot bigger than me.
When I retired My younger than me Team Leader said he wished he could go with me. He's retired no too! Nuff Said!

 

[Olivia]

I've decided to stop posting until after my wifi gets fixed and I get the cataract surgery in my left eye. It's just getting too difficult and frustrating. It takes so long to type something and to then go and fix it.

 

[papa tiger]

I also new a wonderful Nun that had left the Catholic Church due to its changing way of throwing its nuns away.
I did not take all of that without personal thoughts also.

 

[papa tiger]

I've decided to stop posting until after my wifi gets fixed and I get the cataract surgery in my left eye. It's just getting too difficult and frustrating. It takes so long to type something and to then go and fix it.

Hope you can resolve that!

 

[Olivia]

Hope you can resolve that!

Thank you.
When my dad was stationed (military) in Taiwan some of us kids when to the Catholic school which covered several grades in a couple of classroom. One instructor was a Taiwanese woman was a nun, She was really good in teaching. I learned so much during the English part of the class and really got to like it.

Hope you can resolve that!

Thank you.
When my dad was transferred to Taiwan some of us kids also attended the Catholic school even though most of us weren't Catholic. It was really small with not much of us. One of the instructors was a nun and taught the English class (grammar and such). I learned so much and so well that I was way ahead of the class when we moved back to the U.S. I kept in touch with her order and found out that she stayed in Taiwan and helped out the Taiwanese students and also when she finally passed away at an advanced age. I really loved my time in Taiwan (named Formosa at that time).

 

[Fyrefox]

For the first half of my career in education, they did. My office had the atmosphere of an extended family, and there was support and appreciation for all members of staff. We’d socialize to a degree after work. I actually when single once had a superior who’d call me before he’d go someplace after work to see if I wanted to go along! We’d play ping-pong over our lunch hours in an unused room. Everybody had each other’s backs!

The good people gradually left for career advancement and higher-paying positions. The school board, which once had the best and brightest in the community on it, was infiltrated by fiscal conservatives who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. An adversarial relationship was established with the educational community, who they felt made “too much money.“ The school board president sat in parking lots to time clock professional and support staff. A school superintendent was appointed who substituted the installation of fear for leadership. The people at your back now had knives in their hands. I was made to feel afraid at work, getting frequent notices critical of my performance, and finished my last tormented years on major antidepressants.

And the remarkable thing was that this devolution occurred over three decades in exactly the same location…

 

[VintageBetter]

I made my employers care. I never lost sight of the employer/employee dynamic and worked my ass off to show I could make the business money, and expected to reap some of those profits myself.

My first two jobs out of highschool were union shops, they didn't work out for me very well because I thought their production quotas were silly, I over produced to earn incentive pay, the other workers and union stuarts didn't like that.lol

Then I spent the next 38 years working for two privately owned businesses, they treated me very well. Did they love me? Who cares? They respected me and rewarded me for my contributions.

Eventually I became a business owner, I will say without hesitation that running a business and dealing with employees is no fun. But people don't want to hear that side of it, it makes a better narrative to portray business owners as big bad tyrants always screwing the little guy.

How does one make employers CARE?

That is another question I should post in General Discussion. If we somehow had the power to make lots of apathetic, selfish people care, I guess we’d solve many national problems.

 

[C50]

How does one make employers CARE?

The two employers I worked for that "cared" were both privately owned businesses and were small enough that everyone got to know one another on a personal level. I think that made a difference, that day to day personal connection and seeing I was working hard to be an asset to the business. I was fortunate, I recognize that.

 

[KathyB1968]

How does one make employers CARE?

That is another question I should post in General Discussion. If we somehow had the power to make lots of apathetic, selfish people care, I guess we’d solve many national problems.

I don't think there is one easy answer to this.

Some people are only in it for themselves. There isn't much you can do about it.

But sometimes you can influence things. Be supportive of other people - both your boss and your coworkers. Show that you care about your coworkers and supervisor. And also show that you care about the company/organization.

Have friendly chats with your supervisor. Don't just talk about work, talk about vacation plans, pets, music, interesting things that happened. Get to know them a little as a person.