Are employees replaceable and customers/clients are not?

[Anonymous]

It sure feels that way. I've been fired before. I've resigned before.
Maybe the secret to staying employed (regardless of promotion or not) is - be a yes person.

Be a yes person

What do you lose by being yourself and getting fired/resigned is part and parcel, even if you're doing your job professionally

Other

Brings back uncomfortable memories (lol)

Results please sir

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Being a 'yes man' sure seems easier. Maybe even a way to climb the ladder for me to promotion. Ha.

[bobalife]

Unfortunately that is the truth, we are replaceable yet we are not replaceable. Good employers value their employees & find ways to keep them and help them professionally develop. I don’t think being a yes person is enough because employers or co workers can take advantage of you. I think it’s important to still show integrity, good work ethics, and be yourself while holding your own values of self respect & boundaries.

[Asker]

Lets try a tough pop quiz or pop test - the manager gives feedback, and asks rhetorical questions as questions knowing the answers, yet wants to hear it from the employee in performance evaluation meetings? So there's either honesty is the best policy, or be a yes man - aka - own up to mistakes or errors and whatever they say, say yes to, to keep ones job aka - if they say do it this way, do it that way then, because that's the company expectation or managerial expectation way to do the job - thoughts? In other words, no personality, all yes answers. Yes sir. Yes ma'am.

[bobalife]

The answer is easy, your manager is challenging you as an employee of your qualifications in your professionalism, relevance to represent company core values, expectations, and mission, and lastly your own professional development during your time there. Evaluations are there to give you feedback on what you’re doing well and what can you work on.

A good professional worker will be able to consider what are the expectations in your position and company mission/core values while confidently expressed what have they accomplished so far to fulfill their roles, if they made mistakes… (it’s normal), it’s good to acknowledge it to make room for improvement, and if you disagree on certain things… then, openly discuss your opposition and reasonings.

In a good learning work environment and leadership style, it’s never wrong to challenge your own manager/supervisor. A good leader will listen to their employees and be able to lead them to meet their objective. You should be able to have open discussions than feeling obligated to just be a “yes” person. You’ll get burnt out and be unhappy. Literally my own director gave me this advice that it’s okay to challenge your supervisor/manager and I looked up to her a lot with my professional growth at my company.

It’s also a given, if you don’t like your management, it’s time to leave soon or you’ll stay unhappy, walking on eggshells, resentment, might lack professional growth, and become compassionately fatigue. Etc

[bobalife]

Hopefully that answer your pop quiz lol. If not, may you clarify your question and I’ll respond to it in a different way.

[EmmaMary]

Correct... First and foremost you need to remember where the revenue is coming from that pays your salary.

[Asker]

I wonder then why do employers bother with permanent (quote unquote) contracts then? Why not just toss out an employee on 'limited' or 'certain time period contracts' if they can't meet targets or meet requirements? Customer first , and how cruel. 😅🥲

[Anonymous]

These days it seems like customers are not important anymore. They spend all this money advertising and getting you to buy, and then they don't care (or even respond) when you have a problem.

[Asker]

"the customer is always right" - unsure of source quote, yet that's what Americanisms I used to hear.