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The Hard Truth about Employees and Companies

Have you heard or yourself made such comments before: "How could the company be retrenching people when they are making profits?" "Why can't the company provide us with more benefits, they are so rich, it's just peanuts to them."  "Why does the company only ask me to work, but never send me for any training?" "I sacrificed so much family time for the company, why am I not promoted?"  Whenever I read or hear such comments, it just make me wonder why do people not realize the truth about the relationship between employees and companies? As a corporate warrior for  nine years  and counting , each year only reminds me more firmly about this hard truth.  Companies exist to accomplish the vision of the owners. It could be to leave a legacy, fulfill their dreams, make money or whatever. It's never, I repeat, NEVER for the employees. To a company, employing an employee is a transaction. A transaction for a service the empl