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ABSURD Op-Ed: Employees Will Quit If They Get Bonuses - YouTube
Channel: The Young Turks
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imagine it's the end of the year you've
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been busting your butt you've been
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working real hard you have delivered for
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the company you're working for you're
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about to have that year-end review
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you're expecting a bonus you're
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expecting a raise
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but your boss tells you you know what i
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read this
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article
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written by an hr person in ink magazine
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and she suggested that
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in lieu of a bonus
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i pay for management classes for you how
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about that how good does that sound
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merry christmas
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that's literally something suggested
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literally something that was suggested
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in an article written in ink okay
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ink is the name of the publication so
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let me give you a few excerpts because i
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love it this is literally the worst
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advice anyone can give to an employer
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and yes this is a passive-aggressive way
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of me letting my employer know that you
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better not try to pull this
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i am not going to stand for it so let me
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give you the details
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year end writes suzanne lucas
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can come with holiday presents parties
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and year-end bonuses
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it's also quite normal to do annual pay
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increases effective at the first of the
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new year
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these things are all good but it may
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impact what the great resignation looks
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like at your office
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what does that even mean how about pay
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your workers so they want to stay at
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your company but that is that is not the
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take here all right uh suzanne continues
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to write if your end bonuses and raises
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are the norms in your company your
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employees may hold off accepting that
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new job until the money is in their
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pockets who wants to quit three weeks
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before bonuses hit the bank account
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but what about all the work the
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employers or employees did throughout
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the year
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which earns them that bone like that's
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the point of the bonus right that's what
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that's what the bonus is yeah so her
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point is
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make it make sure your employees have no
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money to kind of carry them through
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looking for a better job
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like make them so desperate that they
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don't have the means to go search for a
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better job
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and so yeah don't give a bonus don't
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give a pay raise instead why don't you
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pay for some management classes
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can you can you imagine management i
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would rather shoot myself
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no i was thinking of giving you the gift
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of hosting classes
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i need to give you hosting classes
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homeboys
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please
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could you imagine how that review would
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go over okay i don't know that i'd walk
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out alive
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okay no seriously guys um
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i thought the
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op-ed or whatever it was uh and by the
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way ink magazines inc hasn't
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incorporated right
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this is advice to theoretically ceos etc
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and and i'm the ceo here not a big deal
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actually really not a big deal
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anyways i didn't even understand really
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what she was saying if someone's bonus
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is due at a certain time
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you have to pay it it's not negotiable
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like what you promise the bonus
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you know and and obviously everybody's
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got different performance and it's and
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different ways of calculating the
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bonuses but you can't say well now i'm
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going to delay it because i'm worried
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you're going to resign no that's not the
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deal and you don't get to play around
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with people's lives that way so i just i
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thought the whole thing was ridiculous
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okay i mean
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oh no you know what no i'll
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i'll
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i'll be okay with you not giving me a
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bonus and instead
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taking me to trainings to be part of the
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pmc like i'm like it's insane it's
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insane but i do want to say one thing
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anna like some people don't mind
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management classes but that's work you
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get that right that that's work no i
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know but they're paying for the
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management classes if you're saying i'm
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not gonna give you your bonus and i'm
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not gonna give you a choice i'm gonna
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make you take classes instead yeah then
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i'm sure your frustration but if you say
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hey if you want instead i'll give you a
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management classes and they actually do
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want that i would you know what i would
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love to see what percentage of employees
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would say yeah you know give the bonus
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keep the bonus
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i want to be part of a management club
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like it's essentially a management
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meeting really right teaching you how to
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be
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some people really do want management
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classes i get it i get it but that's
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like that's work that's not a treat you
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get what i'm saying yeah i i don't know
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that they want management classes in
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lieu of their bonus yeah
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that's a different question let me give
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you more of what she writes um and we'll
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eventually finally get to the management
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uh excerpt so she uh says inflation
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it's a huge problem it's affecting
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everything including salaries yes it's
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more work to have your human resources
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department look at what it would cost to
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replace someone than it is to just uh
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then it is just to allot a small
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percentage to everyone still if you
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don't do it you'll not only lose more
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employees you'll also end up paying the
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higher rate for their replacements
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i don't she thinks that if you pay
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employees more money and if you give
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them bonuses they're gonna leave her
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thinking is if you treat your employees
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well
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they might leave you so treat them
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poorly and maybe they'll stay
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i i don't know if this woman's married
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but i want to have a talk with her
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husband i want to know how he's feeling
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in the household right okay wow you went
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there is she is she punishing him so he
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stays like is that her thinking like
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well maybe he's into it i don't know
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that's true some people are into that
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okay no seriously i didn't i had trouble
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understanding her point um because
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that sentence was so confusing i read it
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twice before we got on air i'm like
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so wait it's worth it to go through the
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extra effort
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of looking for new people so don't pay
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the bonuses and i kn she never quite
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explained
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how do you not pay the bonuses you said
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you'd give them bonuses what do you go
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ha ha surprise there is none because i'm
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worried you're gonna quit which by the
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way would lead them probably to quitting
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100 so
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i you know
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it but but i think the larger point here
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is
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uh
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yes it's true most corporations are
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obsessed with how do i pay you less
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and um and so look if they were
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obsessed with keeping employees which is
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half of this article right
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well that's good you want to be but i
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would think maybe i'm
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a naive ceo but i i would think that
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if you want to keep employees you just
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treat them well yeah i mean i think that
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that works yeah i mean i
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i like to be treated well i don't know
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about you guys you guys like to be edwin
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you like to be treated well edwin likes
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to be treated well bart you like to be
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treated well of course i want to be
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treated everyone wants to be treated
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well we have agreement and by the way
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treated well means give me the money
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okay that's what treated well means let
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me give you more make sure you have
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compensation that takes time to vest
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this little i say this little trick okay
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so um
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stocks or 401k matches for instance if
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you make that valuable enough you can
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increase your employee loyalty and help
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keep people around uh longer term listen
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the
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benefits and perks that take time to
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vest that's fine
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in addition to the pay raises and the
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bonuses okay
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okay let's just be straight um and then
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finally uh take your holiday bonus and
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enroll yourself in a management class
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heck take your whole management team
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it'll be worth the money put real effort
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into increasing your management skills
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and you may find your turnover dropping
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instead of increasing
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no but that's crazy like the craziest
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thing anyone has ever written and this
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magazine that gives advice to like
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corporate executives is like hey
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do this
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and everyone will quit like i mean it's
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like the worst advice ever i believe
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that she was published yeah
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so look guys if you said to anyone uh
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hey good news uh i'm not gonna give you
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your bonus instead i've taken that money
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and enrolled you in a management class
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even the people who want to go to mass
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class will be like you did what
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it's like a husband buying his wife a
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vacuum right yeah it's for her but it's
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really for him
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yeah and i would uh it's
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i get your frustration because i would
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argue it's actually worse because
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um how about the people who didn't want
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to go to management class oh good news
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i took your bonus and i signed you up
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for school instead
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and that was good news how and then her
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justification was no no it's okay
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because it's going to make you more
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valuable in the long run so then when
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you get more valuable we'll take that
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bigger bonus and enroll you in another
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class
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yeah but when do i actually get paid
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it's so it's amazing it's amazing
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so um
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suzanne
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apologies we did you dirty but you
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deserved it
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