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Is Your Boss a Used Car Salesman?
Is your boss a used car salesman? At least if you go to the caryard, you can spot them from a mile away; cheap suit, slick hair, usually a big stupid grin. They ask you how your day is going, lovely weather outside, anything you’re interested in? “Oh no don’t worry, I just want to chat mate”… Yeah right.
At least you KNOW their motive, they are trying to sell you something. Their sole purpose from 9 – 5 is to get you to buy something. The test drive, have a sit inside, see how it feels, the new car smell, it’s all aimed at getting you to buy their car. They have a motive; it’s out there for everyone to see.
Your boss and everyone above you in the corporate world have a motive, but it’s not always clear to you and me. You think they are really interested in how your weekend was, your family and your interests outside of work?
The ideal employee wouldn’t have family, interests or any free thought! Or checking out websites during the day might I add! 
The motives of the corporate are many and are more often than not sold to you as ‘career opportunities’.
- Working overtime & extra hours, you’ve just become a lot less of an expense! Your employer is getting way more out of you than they’re paying for.
- Their promotion & moving up the ranks, you make them look good.
- Share holder profits, executives have one main driver, profits for the shareholders.
I’ll never forget being told, “You’re never going to be able to have more of an effect on the share price than at this company son!” Big deal, I don’t own any shares!
The Working World of Old
There are a number of common themes that used to be applicable to the working world; loyalty, years served at a company, punctuality, friendly service. These days the working world is all about conversions; how many sales have you made? When will you be finished your current task to start the next? Can you work Saturday to meet the deadline? Push push push.
Too many workplaces are focusing on a big corporate image without having any substance or core business. Sure they’ve got a flash website and glossy brochures, but what are they actually trying to sell you?
Work = Money
This concept hasn’t been explored enough, that not only are customers being sold bullshit, but employees are too! The world needs a good slap around the ear, you’re working for your pay, not to build a company image, not so that your executives will look good in front of a board of directors, not to do work Saturday mornings for free. Plain and simple, work = money. Work is that 8 hour inconvenience in your day that allows to you enjoy your time off & your family.
Next time you’re at work have a good look around, are you being sold a lemon? If you want to tell the world about your used car salesman, leave a comment.
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My Subscribers Quadrupled in a Day!
Amazing results! So I wanted to have my own website, somewhere to post a few articles and get a few ‘subscribers’, to try and get people out of their cubicle jail cells and to start doing what they actually want as opposed to sitting at work for the pay, and also to give everyone a bit of a forum to discuss our plans to break out of Alcatraz.
I’ve written half a dozen articles, plenty more to come, enough cynical rants to keep you amused and a few helpful ones in between. Then it got to actually putting up a website, ‘blogging’ and all that jazz…
This is what really opened my eyes, there’s a whole community of people ‘blogging’ for a living, and this is their ‘job’, for better use of the word. There are however hundreds of websites about creating websites, blogs about blogs, no one* is really ‘writing’ anything of value unless you want to learn about how to create your own little website or blog. *(there are few great exceptions that I’ll link to in a post soon enough)
So I followed all the instructions out there, and now leadersofthefreeworld.org is here, somewhere for you to check in and hopefully check-out of the ball and chain that is your ‘job’. I’m not saying we should all slack off and play a lot of xbox, just that being employed by someone else isn’t the answer.
All of these professional bloggers out of there, websites with subscriptions everywhere wouldn’t be able to claim their subscribers quadrupled in one day, amazing results!? That’s right, on Friday the 18th September my subscriber count went from…. 1… to 4. Take that professional bloggers!
So check back in as you please, feel free to sign-up for the emails as I’ll be posting plenty more articles with a bit of a balance between employed life tirades, some useful online resources that’ll blow your mind, some property and financial who-ha and hopefully a bit of a kick in the arse to help you help yourself.
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