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https://today.duke.edu/2023/03/managers-exploit-loyal-workers-over-less-committed-colleagues A loyal worker gets more extra work than the fair, honest, or disloyal DURHAM, N.C. – Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Managers target loyal workers over less committed colleagues when doling out unpaid work and additional job tasks. “Companies want loyal workers, and there is a ton of research showing that loyal workers provide all sorts of positive benefits to companies,” said Matthew Stanley, Ph.D., the lead researcher on the new paper and postdoctoral researcher at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. “But it seems like managers are apt to target them for exploitative practices.” That’s the main conclusion from a series of experiments conducted by Stanley and his colleagues Chris Neck, Ph.D. and Chris Neck, father-and-son researchers at Arizona State University and West Virginia University, respectively. The findings appeared online January 6 in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. For the study, Stanley recruited nearly 1,400 managers online to read about a fictional 29-year-old employee named John. The mangers all learned that John’s company was on a tight budget, and to keep costs down, had to decide how willing they would be to task John with extra hours and responsibilities without any extra pay. (Participants handing out the unpaid work in Stanley’s study were compensated $12 an hour.) No matter how Stanley and his colleagues framed the scenario, branding John as loyal always resulted in managers being more willing to ask him to shoulder the unpaid labor. Managers were more willing to exploit Loyal John over Disloyal John. And when a separate group of managers read a letter of recommendation about John, the letters praising John as loyal led to an increased willingness to recruit him for unpaid work over versions of John extolled for honesty or fairness. The reverse was true, too: when John was portrayed as having a reputation to accept extra hours and workload, managers rated him as more loyal than a John who had a reputation to decline the same workload. Agreeable John and Refusal John were rated as similarly honest and fair however, demonstrating that loyalty but not closely related moral traits is bolstered by a history of doing free labor. “It’s a vicious cycle,” Stanley said. “Loyal workers tend to get picked out for exploitation. And then when they do something that's exploitative, they end up getting a boost in their reputation as a loyal worker, making them more likely to get picked out in the future.” One reason managers preyed on loyal workers over others is their belief that it’s just the price to pay for being loyal. Stanley and his team found that managers targeted loyal workers because they believe that loyalty comes with a duty to make personal sacrifices for their company. It’s not all malicious, though. Exploitation may be in part just due to ignorance, or what psychologists call “ethical blindness.” “Most people want to be good,” Stanley said. “Yet, they transgress with surprising frequency in their everyday lives. A lot of it is due to ethical blindness, where people don’t see how what they're doing is inconsistent with whatever principles or values they tend to profess.” The study doesn’t provide a quick fix to eradicate employers’ exploitative practices, but one partial cure might be simply having managers recognize the error of their ways and point out these ethical blind spots, Stanley said. While company loyalty seems to come with consequence, Stanley cautions that it doesn’t mean we should just abandon work commitments or dodge uncompensated overtime. This is just an unfortunate side effect of a mostly positive trait, which Stanley recently found also happens with other aspirational traits, like generosity. “I don't want to suggest that the take-away of the paper is to not be loyal to anybody because it just leads to disaster,” Stanley said. “We value people who are loyal. We think about them in positive terms. They get awarded often. It's not just the negative side. It's really tricky and complex.”

just before xmas, a colleague gave me a bar of toblerone ...on easter I came back and it was no longer on my desk. last Saturday, I left half a big bar of Cadbury in a container on my desk .... today I come back, its gone too ! only left my half packet of square cream crackers. I really think my office is haunted - by tam jiak kwee !! anyone got haunted office also ?

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http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/this-urban-jungle/the-dream-and-the-reality-every-guy%E2%80%99s-fantasy-colleague-versus-the-one-he-really I would like to recommend my boss to hire the following Dream Colleagues: 1. Emma Watson 2. Scarlett Johansson 3. Blake Lively As well as the first few ladies in the video! Link is SFW-ish.

Come across this and found it really interesting, quite lengthy if you read all at once. http://lifestyle.xin.msn.com/en/worklife/c...-of-you#image=1

Bro/sis, I'm driving 2 male colleagues age 25 & 28 from India for a 1/2 day trip (10am - 9pm). What do you think will interest them? Beside Geylang Some items I have in mind: - Singapore Zoo - Sim Lim Square Shopping - Makan @ Little India - Shopping @ Mustafa - Sri Mariamman Temple & China town - Singapore Flyer - Dinner @ Geylang & "explore" around

Hiz guys, hope tis is the right place to post tis new topic. not to flame anybody but juz wanna share your "wonderful" colleagues @ your workplace. hope tis will be a interesting topic to share among all ppl. (mod, if tis topic is way too off, pls let me know & i'll will remove it)

This is about some funny/unique incidents about your charbo colleagues. Tell you about my previous lady 'boss'......... Description: lets just call her not-too-young mei mei..... Background: fastfood marketing senior position before current post, not my direct boss, but got 'dotted-line' linking my position with hers Physical: shape: ok 的, nothing to shout about, nothing to complain also, 1.52m, average built, nehneh? <-------- not the first thing you'll notice Hair: long freezy, should be about 20years out-of-date Dressing: ocassionally normal, usually 'weird' colour combo Cars: sometimes 6-series, something a 4x4 Face: 马马虎虎 aka horse-horse-tiger-tiger ie so-so Best part: still searching Potential: should be backward-potential ie in her younger days, maybe could pass (just) as a chio bu Funny incident: 2009, 13th Aug or there about, a Friday, she co-chaired a meeting, which ended up lasting 4.5 hours long (what the hell, so long!?) .... this is her 'trademark' as far as the length of meetings chaired by her goes.... As this was a Friday, she also dressed down..... some kind of lacey, semi-see-thru (not that there's much to see-thru) blouse with a similar flower pattern short and filmsy skirt (OMG........) About halfway thru the meeting, her hp rang, she picked it up, and spoke to the caller, from her tone, we guessed someone from the Board called.... she looked abit kang-chiong, stood up and walked out of the room, but as soon as she stood up from her chair and turned her back towards us, her flimsy skirt got stuck to her buttock but rode all the way up, exposing almost her entire thighs from the back (maybe missed her panties by 1mm)........ all the men in the room (about 6 of us) were like "eyes popped out", mouth wide-open........... and all controlling hard not to burst into laughters.......... not say her thighs not nice or what, in fact smooth and fair, just that it's something we neither expected nor desired............. once she disappearted into the corridor outside the room, we all made all kinds of faces at each other... and the boring meeting finally gave us some reliefs... Strangely, during the remaining 2 hours, the Board members called twice again, and she did the same............. The above is true, although not very funny, just good enough to give us men a much needed break during the meeting

This is what i call Dee Siao Sim Keng Tee, 39, pleaded guilty on Wednesday afternoon to two charges of mischief where he tainted two of his female colleagues' drinking water with his semen. This is just two of the ten offences he pleaded guilty to in court. The names of victims are not revealed to protect their identities. The civilian officer in the Singapore Police Force mixed semen into his colleagues' drinking water on two separate occasions in 2008 at his office along Irrawady Road. He has since been relieved of his position in the police force. On February 21 2008, he masturbated to a photograph of his female colleague, and collected the semen in a small bottle. He recorded himself doing this on his handphone. He then returned to his office and waited for her to leave her desk temporarily. When she did, Sim mixed his semen with the drinking water in her water bottle. He also recorded this. As the water bottle was tinted red the victim did not realised the water was no longer clear. Sim then struck up a conversation with the victim when she returned to her desk and secretly recorded her drinking the tainted water. Two months later, on April 2, 2008, Sim repeated his actions with a second female colleague. This time, instead of pouring the semen into her water bottle, he poured it into her bottle of green tea. As the bottle was wrapped in plastic, the victim did not realize the difference. Again Sim, struck up a conversation with his victim while he recorded her drinking the water mixed with his semen. Sim saved these videos on his personal computer at home. These videos and more were discovered in a police raid conducted in 2009 when a third female colleague reported him to the authorities after she caught him taking up-skirt photos of her. The police raid also revealed that Sim had taken videos of four of his colleagues and had organized the videos on his personal computer into separate folders named after each victim. How he was discovered On September 10, 2009, Sim approached a colleague at her desk and asked her to pass him a stack of documents. While she was standing up, Sim squatted on the opposite side of the desk. When she turned around she noticed that the accused was holding his mobile phone under her skirt. After a struggle, she managed to grab the phone and discovered the upskirt shots of herself She then reported the matter. Further to the ten charges that Sim pleaded guilty to, he consented to another 149 charges which will be taken into consideration for sentencing to be held on December 1, 2010. Sim pleaded for leniency saying he has voluntarily put himself through medical check ups and counselling sessions. Deputy Public Prosecutor Kumaresan s/o Gohulabalam requested for a substantial jail term because of the sheer number of charges brought to light. For intending to intrude upon the privacy of a woman, Sim faces imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or a fine, or both for each of the eight charges at hand. He also faces imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or a fine, or both for each of the two charges of mischief faced.

i mean not 15 to 20 mins late but one hour to one hour and a half late...

Would you take a pay cut to keep jobs or would you rather the company retrench employees?

Hey bros, my colleagues traded in their Markx for sunny because markx has high road tax, high fc and high maintenance. However, they claimed that when Markx is traveling on NSH, it's FC is soooooooooooooo much better than Sunny during city driving. Sighz