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Wafâa ELMOHAMMADI is an Energy Efficiency Engineer based in Paris, France.[/symple_box]
Paris, France-Have you ever felt the urge to rebel against what you think is wrong, with feelings invading you and prompting you to cogitate about the rationale behind the very meaning of certain things you always notice, and may take for granted, but rarely talk about explicitly?
Today, my words irrupt naturally narrating a situation I witnessed when I saw “him” treating “her” arrogantly, because he is “the boss” and she is “the employee.”
“Do the work then we’ll agree later on about the salary and everything else,” he said.
“Excuse me sir but I would like to be clear about the work terms and conditions before starting,” she answered.
“Don’t worry,“ he further noted. “Just do the work and you won’t be disappointed,” he stressed.
This is just a brief glimpse on thousands of scenarios that occur every day in Morocco, scenarios that triggered me to discuss today work regulations in our beloved country, including the treatment many Moroccan Bosses reserve to their employees.
Why do some Moroccan bosses place themselves on a pedestal and consider their employees as slaves?
A real boss manages his employees so that they can perform the best they could. He shouldn’t look at them with contempt. A real boss inspires, communicates with his staff. It goes without saying that a boss should be competent, knowledgeable, and very connected to his team to make the project he manages grow and expand.
In Morocco, you’d be surprised that a mainstream boss won’t even look at you. He won’t be clear with you on your salary terms and conditions. It all depends on how the work goes. He will find hundred excuses to not pay you in time, and thousands more to pay you less! All what matters to him is to get the maximum benefit from you.
The way in the West:
In many European countries, you’re paid for the work you do, all under the supervision of government work regulations.
You are respected for what you do and you don’t need to praise your boss to raise your salary as your performance and only your performance will raise it. In short, you only get what you truly deserve.
In many European countries, you can have a sincere conversation with your boss, go out, have fun with him, but then on the day after, at the work place, he is a totally different person, he is “so professional” because he doesn’t mix personal and professional life. If you ever have the change to work both in a multinational company and a Moroccan one, I bet you will notice this.
Employees should work in a positive environment, favorable for success and constant learning; each huge and successful company relies on its human wealth, strategies, and hard work to grow.
In Morocco some bosses are so conceited that all they think about is “gain” in the detriment of employees, no consideration to others, no well-deserved wage, only taking advantage of employees!
I would have loved to say things differently, but reality catches us at every attempt to deny it, and especially when you see a lot of people not going back to their motherland just because of this harsh reality [miserable work conditions].
If Moroccans felt they are respected and that there are good chances for career evolution in their own countries, they would not have immigrated, as simple as that.
So if you ever read this article, and if you happen by chance to be a boss, or if you are planning to be so, please remember to be first humble to yourself and to your employees.
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