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From: Joel Koltner on 20 May 2010 20:46 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:dckbv5donm2cdbasbu88jvojcef1be7v1r(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:07:25 -0700, "Joel Koltner" > <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>Of course, these days most unions seem to do rather more harm than good. > I was just about to say that. Yeah, I figured someone like James Arthur would have called me on it if I hadn't mentioned it. :-) > Small businesses are usually run by real people who know and care > about the people they work with. Big companies can be run by bean > counters who may decide on any Tuesday near the end of the quarter to > can 4000 employees because the books will look better. I think that with small businesses there's far greater deviation in what you get (in terms of how much the people running the joint really care about the employees) than in big businesses, but the average is probably a bit higher. I.e., while a big business just can't be as magnanimous as some little guys -- particularly in publicly held companies --, you also don't find the worst of the worst scumbags in big business either. Or at least I didn't used to think so... with some of the big banking/investment firm scandals, you really have to wonder sometimes. Hey, since you're a small business, perhaps you'd consider just giving the company to your employees when you're ready to retire? A guy here in Oregon just did that: http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/02/bobs_red_mill_natural_foods_ro.html . > So another choice the individual worker can make is to work for a > small company or a monster one. Lots of people deliberately pick the > big one... and they had better not expect a lot of touchy-feeley > individual caring if they do. Agreed. For years now I've been a bit incredulous at just how attractive big business is to would-be employees... it's certainly not my first choice. ---Joel |