It's Simple

     To me the company/employee relationship is simple. People like to make it complicated but like just about everything it's really simple. I have to listen to people at work everyday tell me the reasons why they are angry, bitter etc. at the place we work. To me they are angry at themselves for allowing themselves to be the victim. They may not know it but I think that's really why they are mad......because they realize at some level that they have some weakness which is preventing them from doing something about it.
     About a dozen years ago I sat across the table from people representing the company and they said we will give you X, Y and Z if you come here, follow the rules and work hard. So I follow the rules and work hard and they have given me far more than the X, Y and Z that were originally promised. There are some people who want to make it complicated and claim they are entitled to more or that it should be easy or some other way of blaming a faceless company for their unhappiness but in my opinion they're wrong.