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Employees: Assets? Or Liabilities?

re: Amyrebba has a question, too.

I have worked for companies that treated me and paid me like I was an asset to the company. They asked for and respected my ideas and opinions. I have remained friends with many of them, and I consider them a part of making me the woman I am in business today.

However, on the other hand I have worked for companies that viewed their employees as disposable liabilities. They didn't pay worth a darn and had the attitude "if you don't like it there's the door." Why is this? I understand there are some people who aren't good employees and are unreliable, but why treat everyone that way? Why not hire and treat people as though they were an asset to the company?

Amy Crooks/That's Life. Life Goes On



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.