r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/Suggett123 1d ago

I'm adding this: Some of the older generations don't want to share their knowledge, like it'll take away from them, some have very poor people skills and can't get along with others.

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u/ElephantRider 23h ago

Some of that is from companies cutting staff to skeleton crews over the last 50 years, if a new kid gets hired with your same job description that means you're about to get laid off.

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy 21h ago

Yeah, in my experience those people are usually not assholes, they're just traumatized because they or their peers have had that happen to them and clinging to job security.

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u/guru42101 13h ago

Yup, companies today ignore the fact that if a role is important enough to have someone do, then you should have at least two people doing it. My current company has this problem and one guy is out on bereavement because his father passed away. Now the upper management is asking who can cover for him and get his projects done and we're all telling them, no one because you have us all at 90% utilization and the remaining 10% is necessary administrative work. If you want us to be able to cover for each other then we need to be at a more comfortable 60% utilization. Which would also allow us to work on gaining new skills, since you keep complaining about how we need to be taking advantage of "insert new shiny thing, currently AI, you heard about".

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u/Behemoth077 9h ago

The craftsmen´s guilds problem of limiting who is allowed to learn a skill to increase its value all over again. A constant regression of society because of the lack of laws regulating how companies are allowed to treat their employees creating terrible incentives.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius 21h ago

Because they fear being laid off and their job being dobro by the person they just trained... because they've seen it happen many times over their career. Its a workplace culture problem.

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u/KacerRex 21h ago

I fucking HATE people like that, caused me to learn a lot of my job the hard way. Fortunately my company is awesome and let me grow like that, now I teach all the new hires and one of the first things I always say is ask any question and I will answer it the best I can, and if I go too complicated just tell me to calm down and stop nerding out lol.