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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

While I agree with you in practical terms, I think it's crucial to separate emotional language from what is essentially a business transaction.

Yes, you should demand good conditions; yes, you should insist on proper pay and benefits; no, you shouldn't take crap from employers. However, love does not enter in to it.

I'm loyal to my friends, my family, and my teammates. I also recognize that my relationship to any employer is a business matter, not a personal matter. My employer's spreadsheets don't have any special love for me, nor should they.

I enjoy my job, love my team, love the work, and - as a matter of principle - always do my best. Because of that, and the compensation I get for my work, I intend to stick around. But when it comes to my working relationship with my company, I try to always think about it in objective, dispassionate terms. I think you should, too.

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Francis Isberto • Edited

I completely respect your opinion Benny. Everyone deserves to have their own opinion and point of view.
But clearly, you don't fully understand the concept of this particular article.

The main objective here is to find the "Love & Respect" not only from your employers but to your co-workers as well. To be able to find a good and healthy environment to the benefit of both parties.

The world we live in is filled with business matters, objective reasoning, routine schedule and a dull working environment.

They completely forgot there is a different world out there. A world that comprises with honor, dignity, and camaraderie.

We need to be inspired again. That is the secret ingredient to our success and to our happiness.

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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

The main objective here is to find the "Love & Respect" not only from your employers but to your co-workers as well. To be able to find a good and healthy environment to the benefit of both parties.

Perhaps we're really in agreement? Maintaining empathetic, respectful, and close working relationships with one's co-workers is very important.

My earlier comment was strictly about my economic relationship to my employer (the company). I want to warn people off of feeling emotionally beholden to their employers, which I think is a slippery slope.

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George

I want to warn people off of feeling emotionally beholden to their employers

This, so much.

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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

To clarify, I heartily recommend feeling good about your employer, just not emotionally beholden.

Furthermore, I believe that your employer doesn't want you to feel emotionally beholden either. A good employer should recognize that a healthy relationship between them and the employee involves a measure of emotional distance, and that this distance is essential to maintaining productive and happy employees.