Comments on: What do you want from me, I just work here? http://israpreneur.com/work/ Business Ideas, advice, inspiration & Job Hunting in Israel Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:10:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chaim http://israpreneur.com/work/comment-page-1/#comment-2359 Chaim Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:04:53 +0000 http://israpreneur.com/?p=656#comment-2359 You are 100% correct in your assessment of the prototypical Israeli boss. As someone who formally worked in a large Israeli firm (before leaving to start my own company, for precisely the reason that I had had enough of the poor treatment), even as a high salaried employee, the bosses' attitude was a degrading one of, "us and them". And from the employees' perspective, our incentive to perform on a higher level than minimally required was almost non-existent. Interestingly, the husband of a co-worker from that firm was the head of a law department in a certain university, and his expertise was business practice in Israel. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the subject, in which he claimed that it was the rule rather than the exception for Israeli employers - from makolet owners to large and leading companies - to break rules and laws meant to protect the employees' rights! The outcome is unhappy employees, which, when it comes to stores, trickles down to the poor service we all get treated with. When it comes to larger companies, the effect is slower and less efficient workers and lower quality work, which leads to loss of revenue, etc. Woe unto the foolish Israeli bosses! You are 100% correct in your assessment of the prototypical Israeli boss. As someone who formally worked in a large Israeli firm (before leaving to start my own company, for precisely the reason that I had had enough of the poor treatment), even as a high salaried employee, the bosses’ attitude was a degrading one of, “us and them”. And from the employees’ perspective, our incentive to perform on a higher level than minimally required was almost non-existent.

Interestingly, the husband of a co-worker from that firm was the head of a law department in a certain university, and his expertise was business practice in Israel. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the subject, in which he claimed that it was the rule rather than the exception for Israeli employers – from makolet owners to large and leading companies – to break rules and laws meant to protect the employees’ rights! The outcome is unhappy employees, which, when it comes to stores, trickles down to the poor service we all get treated with. When it comes to larger companies, the effect is slower and less efficient workers and lower quality work, which leads to loss of revenue, etc.

Woe unto the foolish Israeli bosses!

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