Why Do People Hate Change?

[greggargubby]

My customer requires constant change, constant innovation. As in every day of the week. My employees hate it. As a group, they cannot handle even the slightest disruption to their princess lifestyles. My question to you, BARF, is why the fuck are people such fucking pussies when it comes to change?

 

[bikeama]

When I worked I had a saying. "Change is inherently good with one exception. You spouse"

 

[Blankpage]

Newtons first law of motion

 

[budman]

I think many of us thrive on it, but in ways it is so scary and we as humans like being secure.


Change your employees. Maybe that is what you need.

 

[Eldritch]

My customer requires constant change, constant innovation. As in every day of the week. My employees hate it. As a group, they cannot handle even the slightest disruption to their princess lifestyles. My question to you, BARF, is why the fuck are people such fucking pussies when it comes to change?

Humans are lazy animals. Change requires thought.

 

[Mike95060]

What is the point of said change? Your employees obviously do not see the bennifit. Your job as a manager is to get them to see the light and embrace your new ideas. Perhapse you a could be more persuasive. Making people run around in circles for the sake of running around in circles seems like a fantastic way to sap motivation.

I really am having a hard time imagining how any meaningful innovation can happen day after day after day as you describe. How can innovation happen without the time needed to develop a new idea? The entire scenario as described sounds really wishy washy and your employees know it.

 

[Human Ills]

Yup

 

[Stormdragon]

I'm all for progress.
It's change I'm against.

 

[mosquito]

I too would like to have a better understanding of this.

So far my best estimate: Most people have jobs for stability in their lives. Changing what they have to do means they're no longer sure they're doing it right and if they get it wrong it threatens the stability.

 

[MikeyRocks]

Simple...

Change = Work

 

[Agent Orange]

The head manager at my department says the same thing. No one likes him.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

My customer requires constant change, constant innovation. As in every day of the week. My employees hate it. As a group, they cannot handle even the slightest disruption to their princess lifestyles. My question to you, BARF, is why the fuck are people such fucking pussies when it comes to change?

Ever tried changing yourself and doing some of the stuff the customer wants???

let us know how you like it

 

[Mike95060]

Simple...

Change = Work

Actually in simple laymen's terms work = force x distance. You can push on something all day. If it doesn't move you haven't done any work, even if it made you tired.

As it applies to the question at hand, if the customer keeps changing the direction you are trying to go, It's going to be very difficult to get any work done. Hence employee frustration I think.

 

[sandyxb]

Change requires energy, don't want to hasten that entropy wins earlier.

 

[byke]

The word "change" has no positive/negative connotation. You can't really ask why people like/dislike change because it offers nothing and people just end up making some association that you probably didn't intend with your question.

One time at work they decided to stop allowing people their own desktop background and we all had to use the same tofu-corporate-drone-nonsense, that was a pretty pointless change that did nothing but hurt moral. Why do you want to hurt company moral??

Explain the change to your employees form start to finish (i.e. we need to add this new software feature which helps our customer perform X task, which shows our dedication to customer service, which may lead to X contract, which may lead to greater profits, which may lead to profit sharing, or a raises, or free hand jobs, or whatever).

 

[Agent Orange]

Sure you can do that. Just make sure you've earned the trust of your employees beforehand.

 

[SFSV650]

I really am having a hard time imagining how any meaningful innovation can happen day after day after day as you describe. How can innovation happen without the time needed to develop a new idea? The entire scenario as described sounds really wishy washy and your employees know it.

I'd be real curious to hear more about why constant innovation is a good thing, because as of now the above is sounding like a lot of sense.

 

[rodr]

Not enough information.

 

[Blankpage]

I was studying industrial engineering before pursuing something else. We covered topics such as time management and efficiency in the workplace. This constant daily change doesn't sound very efficient but does sound highly disruptive.

 

[littlebeast]

My customer requires constant change, constant innovation. As in every day of the week. My employees hate it. As a group, they cannot handle even the slightest disruption to their princess lifestyles. My question to you, BARF, is why the fuck are people such fucking pussies when it comes to change?

no offense, but if this is how you characterize the situation, and the people involved, maybe you are not the best at selling the whole concept of change. leadership has a huge influence on the acceptance of change and how it is perceived. going personal and derogatory is a recipe for disaster. if you want to people to buy into change - show them a vision of the future where change is a good thing, and how they can contribute to it, are part of it, and will benefit from it.