It saddens me that the simple concept of 'take care of your workers, and they will take care of you' seems to be lost on so many would be business people.

I don't get it. Workers are the foundation of any business. They are the ones making the fucking thing you are selling. Investing in your workers would be one of the best investments that a business owner could make, as they will be more incentivized and less stressed when approaching tasks and issues at work.

Yet almost every company I have seen seems to value middle management and above as some how worth more than the workers they manage.

I've been a manager and dealing with the emotional state and life situation of my workers was part of the job. I depended on these people to make shit work, and so I tried to help where I could.

But I could never break through to the higher management and ownership partners that the workers are the ones the make the fucking product that they sell. They always treated workers as disposable, despite the constant bitching of the cost of training new employees for the job.

I just don't understand the logic behind it. A business is like a house. If you try to build an apartment complex out on one level, then jacked that level up to the third story and put one support beam under it, you would be laughed at because physics will eventually cause it to crash.

If you build a house from the ground up, making solid foundations and multiple supports, it can last for centuries.

If I have any point to this, it's just that having worked as both the lowest level new guy and as the experienced manager, the co-workers I had were the ones I depended on. Without them, I would have been fucked and wouldn't have been able to do my job with any effectiveness.

Invest in your workers.