This Is What Broke The American Workplace With Dr. John Delony

When a company says "We are like family here", run .. what they mean is they want you to work as hard as they would for their own company, but not pay you what you are worth. When a company says, "You have the opportunity to learn a lot of different skills through our cross training program" ... run ... what they mean is you will work in various departments doing 2 to 5 different jobs and get paid for only one of them.

A company is not family. A job is not a marriage. The employer has an obligation to pay a fair wage, provide a safe work environment, offer fair working conditions. The employee needs to show up, have their head in the game, do a good job (in the eyes of the employer). Often neither side is holding up their end of the deal. In either large or small companies. Important to understand—BOTH employers and employees are broken.

I work at an amazing company (furniture manufacturing) with amazing people. I worked in I.T. help desk and our manager took each of the people in his department out each month for a one-on-one lunch meeting to ask us how we are doing and how things are going for us at work. It was due to one of these meetings that I switched from I.T. to metal fabrication (yes, I.T. to welding... still for the same company though) and now I actually look forward to going to work. I get to create and build things instead of just fixing things that are broken. Both of you have had a positive impact on my life, and you gave me the courage to make a change when I wasn't happy instead of just plowing on. Thanks.

What broke it? - Accountants and "educated" supposed leaders. Employees are nothing more than nameless, faceless line items on a spreadsheet. You ARE a "human resource" - once companies moved from "Personnel" to HR - it killed the employer / employee relationship. The "leader" only cares about their spreadsheet of the moment and their next bonus, and if that means headcount cuts and people suffer - they simply don't care. More, more, more - use up the employees until the break, quit or get cut - then replace, outsource or push the work on who remains.

I'm tired of having to work 12hrs a day Monday to Friday and 6hrs part time just to be able to afford my home(same price as renting), groceries, vehicle and insurance. I'm exhausted.

Corporations are amoral organizations. Pretending people who advance in corporations are actual leaders is really naive. Most would score very high on any test for narcissism and lack the emotional maturity to lead. The truth is, corporations don’t actually want leaders, they want foremen and women who keep people in line. To pretend “leaders” want to cultivate their staff is laughably naïve. Organizations are designed to compartmentalize knowledge to prevent people from having enough information to actually have agency. This last statement is more true, the further down the food chain you are in an organization. I think we need to stop pretending that employers, certainly in large organizations, have your best interest in mind.

I survived like 20 layoffs in my company. It was extremely traumatizing. People around me were let go in the middle of the week, and in mortgage people are still looking for work. From 2 years ago. . . Mortgage workers were blacklisted across companies they could take their skills to because the companies didn't want to take a chance on them thinking they would quit as soon as the market turns around. Its been 2 years. These people need jobs...

I got to baby step 7 in 2020. Retired in 2022. Don't miss one bit of all this work stress and demands. Get to baby step 7 and financial peace.

Dr. John talks about teachers and the work teachers do. The level of responsibilities expected of teachers is unbelievable. A parent told a teacher that it was her job to potty train her child. The mother had NO desire to train her child. It's a very, very sad day. Good luck

The bosses are waiting to retire. They have worked up the ladder for years, they're ready to leave emotionally but financially they need to stick around for their pension.

So many people have seen their family let go for quarterly profits, lose retirements, and getting jobs not paying the prior. When you treat employees like a number then expect your business to be a number to employees.

Ai and computers make work 10x more efficient, but that benefit never trickles down to workers, who still get paid hourly while the owners watch their net profit increase

I just got promoted to manager and this conversation comment come at a better time. I feel like I need to come back and listen to this twice a month. Please keep on this topic it write a book.

As a natural and incredible leader, i keep getting overlooked for jobs because companies dont value us. I have education plus experience. I might just have more kids and just give up and be a mom some more.

This left us better! Thank you!

This is exactly what I needed to hear. You guys are the best, thank you for your insight.

As a manager I always ask almost everyone on shift almost every day how they are, updates on their days off or health or their children...before I tell them to do specific work. They already all know their own job and I'd rather them be mentally happy or stable or positive before anything else. And I'm genuinely interested in them. And people can feel it when you care.

great interview. thanks for the wisdom ken and john!

Loved this episode

Thank you! Great show!!!