An irrational employer enslaved to greed does not avoid philosophical assumptions or regard the worker first as a person and only secondarily as a means of labor to generate revenue. On the contrary, they might believe whatever benefits them and the "bottom line" at a given time must be followed and sp disregard logic and morality, all for the sake of increasing or maintaining their money, power, and ego—as if truth is determined by their wishes or success! Moment to moment, they might inconsistently swing from one idea to a contradictory one in everything from their moral stances to their business practices, or they might be incredibly consistent in whatever stupidity appeals to their subjective preference. Whichever is the case, they will almost certainly misunderstand the ramifications of the following two truths.
The clients are the source of income, and employees are an expense. Thus, whereas an employer fixated on greed will probably bend over backwards to accommodate even asinine whims of clients or outright lie to them in order to secure a sale by positive persuasion, they will likely demonize employees as if they are nothing but unworthy parasites draining their own hard-earned money, although the employer themself might do very little; either way, he or she relies on employees to maintain the business if it has a scope larger than that of a strict sole proprietorship. Employees do have a degree of power in business, however stifled it can be [1], but they are viewed by certain employers as threats or leeches.
A rational employer could alternatively react to this truth by trying to entice workers to come to them for employment rather than any other company, especially a competitor. He or she would actually treat workers like people and make aspects of their role and workplace desirable! This is the idea behind benefits like paid time off, discounted insurance, and 401(k) matching to supplement compensation, but many companies are hell-bent on giving whatever the absolute bare minimum is that would persuade people to apply; even then, the compensation or benefits could still be quite lackluster or insufficient as a means of easily getting ahead financially, no matter how hard you work.
Again, an employer who does not grasp or live out these truths regards clients as perhaps nothing but an income stream and employees as a horrid drain on that what is left over from that income after separate expenses like utilities. On one hand, the employer needs the employee; on the other hand, this kind of employer resents having to give up a livable (or any!) portion of their revenue to the very employee who helps the client/consumer. Clients might simply see a more sanitized, illusory, reductionistic kindness directed to them from the upper echelons of a corporate system because without their money, not even a single employee business could survive. They are a foundation on which the business depends, as are its employees. Workers still might not even get the same facade of concern or warmth from this type of employer when no one outside the company is looking.
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