5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee

[Ikonoklast]

15. The next-to-last company that I worked for had management consultants come in to run a seminar.

The owners, upper management, supervision, and store level management attended for a three-day fairly intense learning experience.

The people putting on the affair were really good at what they did, especially the lead who developed the seminar. He knew what being a manager of people really entailed, that we were dealing with people, not things, and that everyone cannot be treated in the same manner as different things motivate different people.

I learned that the dynamic between employee/employer does not need to be an adversarial one, there were better, more efficient ways for management and employees to meet their goals.

Anyway, at the end of the course everyone had very nice dinner and was enjoying a drink. I was with the people in my working group when the seminar lead approached us.

He congratulated us on our work, told us that he enjoyed working with us as we seemed to 'get it', unlike so many other management types at other firms.

Then he shocked the pants off of us.

He came right out and said that there was no way the the owners of the company would allow us to implement what we had learned, as the owners were firmly convinced that the only way to motivate people was through fear, intimidation, and threats.

He then went further to say that the company wasted their money having him and his team come in, although he said that this was not an uncommon happenstance.

He then advised us to seek employment elsewhere, as he saw that the company was headed toward a cliff unless they drastically changed at the top, but he did not see that as ever happening.

And he told the people at the top who hired him the very same thing he told us.


He was also 100% correct in his prediction.