Abusive Employers

It is only individual preferences or societal pressures that bring people to "climb the corporate ladder."  In no way is it rational or irrational to subjectively enjoy business, but for many people, involvement in the business world is something they do largely or solely to continue eating, to still have access to water and shelter, and to afford some luxuries to help soften the dullness or bitterness of much of workplace life.  Perhaps they would even look forward to the chance to work more often if there was not widespread, normalized workplace exploitation perpetuated significantly by abusive, incompetent managers, with these qualities springing ultimately from irrationality: the irrationality of thinking their perceptions, preferences, and assumptions dictate anything about logical truths, moral obligations, and scientific practicalities.

Managers and employers can of course be rational, just, or kind (though kindness is neither rational nor just in itself).  It is up to them if they want to live for assumptions, contradictions, emotionalism, and egoism or if they want to do all that they can to align with reason, God, and justice.  No number of terrible employers means that the next one will be the same or that the others were by logical necessity irrational, hypocritical, cruel, and selfish; in all cases, the individuals could decide what person they will be, as is true for the workers themselves.

Beware the irrationalistic, self-absorbed, power or greed-driven employer, though.  This kind of person will "reward" employees with the smallest amount of compensation or benefits they can legally or pragmatically get away with, take as much of their workers' free time as they can steal away unopposed, and use vague or dishonest promises to convince their exploited workforce to stay in a hellscape of a company/job.  Through both subtle and overt, enormous means, they reap their earnings at the expense of honoring reason, God, and the people made in his image.

These people are deformities on the otherwise amoral or good construct of business, which does permit individuals and societies to flourish all the more when it is conducted without any such blunders.  They will use people like subhuman objects for every bit of labor, profit, and fleeting feelings of power that they can, tossing them aside when they need a new "machine" to continue work as their established employees lose their usefulness.  Whether their workers live or die, whether they thrive or are burdened with mental and physical health problems from their careers, is not their concern.

Their concern, in one sense, is to hoard wealth and influence or recognition for no reason other than to have them, even as they might be trying desperately to quell existential terror or confusion through materialism (in the sense of belongings, not the metaphysical ideology) and whatever fallacies make them feel successful or subjectively important.  Workers would do well to avoid these types of employers, as common as they are, carefully handling what resources they have to acquire more and more financial independence until they have the stability to push back against them--without irrationality, emotionalism, or hypocrisy of their own--and not feel pressured to stay in their jobs just to survive.