How To Tame Someone Into An Employee

Posted on January 11, 2008
Filed Under Culture

From the department of put-up-or-shut-up

This is no simple task. To tame someone into an employee. The first of which is to give them a weighty policy filled with nonsensical rules and regulations that are designed to break their independent will. Once the new employee has read the policy he or she now has reasons to be fearful because they now know they can be disciplined for their mistakes as interpreted by the policy.

Thus, the new employee will simply obey the boss’s instructions without question to simply stay on the boss’s good side. Add some office gossip, backstabbing and bootlicking stories to the mix and we have a we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.

To further reinforce their obedience to you. You can demand that they dress, talk, move and socialize they way you see fit. After all we pay for them. We just can’t have our products running all around thinking for themselves, now can we?

I know of some Singapore companies that forbid you do certain things especially during “office hours”. Answering personal phone calls or even taking a short break to watch YouTube are grave office sins.

To some bosses it’s like the end of the world because time is money. We just can’t have our employees taking a break or talking to family and friends can we? We need to discipline them at once and maybe send them for another round of sterility training.

I for one don’t give a shit about such rules and regulations because they are just plain stupid and people listening to them well… need I say more.