business is business

Today i have realized what this sentence means: Business is business. no hard feelings. It’s just business.

As sad as it may sound, i totally understand it and I have realized that sometimes one has to look for his own well being and be an egoist motherfucker. No hard feelings. It’s just business.

I’ve been working in this job for a bit longer than a year. My first “real” job. I was putting all my effort and hopes, willingness and dreams in it. It all started off well as when you fall madly in love with something or someone: Everything’s perfect, it’s all advantages and there is no way things can be better. After 6 months, things start to not look so great. One or two “bad episodes” happen and you start to realize that maybe is not as great as you thought on the first place…but still, you like the job, enjoy the people, and well, you’re getting paid, so ok. A year after this, you start thinking and trying to make things your way and not just “the way is supposed to”, you start wondering why this is this way and not the other one, you start asking questions and you get to know how the job is: Advantages and also disadvantages. Still, you trust the company and the people who are in charge, so you keep on.

Its going to be almost 3 months since i passed my 1st year. 2 weeks ago i really understood how my job is. 2 weeks ago, this crisis that everyone’s knows about and that is all over the news hit on my company. 2 of my fellow coworkers were fired. A drastic measure to cope with the year’s forecast. They were fired 4 hours after they were told the company was going through a bad moment and some of the people would have to leave in order to let the company survive.

Today i’ve realized it was just business. No hard feelings. Numbers and results is everything that counts in business. As cold as it sound, a simple as a math result.

Today i’ve realised that the same way any company looks for its interests and the best way to survive and make profit, I have to do the same. If i can get more money in some other place, i should do so. No hard feelings. It’s just business. If i think i’m not getting the money i should, i have to speak it out. Make my point and get more.

If i put all my hopes and effort in company “A” and i get, let’s say 100, and there is a company B where putting all my hopes and effort will make me earn 300…which one should i choose? Well, numbers are numbers.

It’s not all about money, of course. The work itself has to be attractive and challenging. The people you work with also make a big difference. But in same conditions of people and work…i dont think there should be such thing as “loyalty” to the company. Not now. Not today that i’ve realized that the company will not show any loyalty back. It’s normal. That’s the way things go in business. If you dont like it, dont get into it.

As long as you do your job and make the company make his money, you’ll keep the job. If the company depends on you, you’ll keep the job. If none of the previous premises are true, the company will “let you go”. That’s business.