Do you value your values?

Values. They do mean a different things to different parties.

Values what do they mean for you in a conceptual level? A treasure? A jewel perhaps? a wedding ring?

Do they mean same to your employer than to you? Do employer’s values mean same to you than to them?
At work they are words to show what principles company work at. Some take them more literally than others. In military, values can be thought to be a doctrine - and surpsingly then they actually have a meaning.

Values are worthless if they are not followed. Yet they bring extreme value (pun intended) when they are followed.

When interviewing into a job, it may be valuable to have a discussion about values. In this way it can probably prevent landing into a micromanagemented job, where one does not like to be. Values, philosophical discussion about humanity for finding that, and then discussion about technical corner areas to find others. Instead, quite often the job interview concentrates on mechanical things, like job history, but that does not carve out people who have egoism etc - character is more important. Or not so often what made a manager eligible to manage in the first place

What if they give us work and nobody came?

Work.

What is work? Exchange of some benefits - a service, in many forms to other side, and then exchanging of goods as return. Commonly a money given for gaining some activity.

Times have been tough for some companies due industry revolutions, global competition, which means that company may face a new competitor that he did not even know existed before. The increased competition creates a bit more complex environmnet, this together of feeling of security creates a loop where managers try to do cost cutting and gain more control whereas the opposite would be the right approach.

This means that on many places it is very short sighted management, and not creating an environment where people could thrive and as an outcome make company to succeed. And due increased competition, it may be that managers look that employees should be happpy they have work. After all there are constant layoffs, beware that you would not be among them.

In some industries there is a market of employees, meaning that employer is in need of an employee. Some managers do not understand that. Also people talk about places, meaning that if there is toxic culture, it will be known among the people who think if they should be employed by you.

And that, dear employers, will mean that nobody will come.

change again

Only thing constant is the change.

Took a possibility to work with a company filled with people i knew, friends. Turn out it may not have been the best of decisions, especially when my reasons to do so feel - as of writing - quite thin.

During negotations there were mishaps which i forgave, not rised an issue due having the thing going according to talks. Now seeing should have seen the signs. Also was thinking that since been spending quite much time on learning, researching, excercising leadership, mgmt etc, thought that able to see more mistakes and thought common was ok.

The managers are not mature, they aim for control, yet are not transparent. Lot of decisions done without thinking reality, thus when decisions hit reality - aka doing differently instead they focus on outcome not the reason. This can be thought to be micromanagement. Control freak. Uncertain.

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