How Do You Deal With People Who Don't Care? - Dave Ramsey Rant 

To the USA people who need to wake up and care: I lived and worked in Japan and noticed the difference in work ethics ! All I heard from many American hires is "that's not my job or I don't care" and they are the ones who didn't last long. The old fashioned "Americans will get it done" attitude needs to be nurtured and promoted. Don't talk about not getting paid enough, talk about and appreciating the current job and how it will open doors of opportunity. Believe me, someone of influence is watching! I've promoted many thorough breds and talked to donkeys to show them how to improve (or let them go, if no change).

"It's frustrating being a thoroughbred around a bunch of mules" Felt that from the bottom of my soul lol

I worked for a company once that wanted me to ghost-write a book in 17 days and kept interrupting me to type letters for the CEO. (I am a fairly good editor and writer, but a lousy secretary.) When I developed pneumonia during this period of time, they patted themselves on the back for allowing me to work only part-time for a few days. Sometimes employees get abused by owners/CEOs who are psychopaths. Before you jettison someone who objects to what you ask him/her to do, ask yourself if you are treating that person fairly and using his/her talents in a reasonable manner.

Sometimes a lack of leadership can cause even the best thoroughbred to lose motivation and become a donkey.

"How do you motivate people?" "I don't. I hire motivated people." That's what people need to hear. Young or old.

Sometimes the company is the donkey.

At my workplace the saying goes "the more you know the more they ask. Therefore I know nothing" if you are competent you get pushed and pushed to do more and more, then something extra comes up and the managers run to the people with the highest workload to do a little more. Meanwhile there are wall to wall mediocre "the more you know, I know nothing" people as far as the eye can see that are completely invisible. Until something fails and suddenly there are fingers all pointed straight at the people who "should have known" because they aren't the know nothing people. Favourite quote ever, a supervisor was on days off and got blamed for an accident because he "shouldn't have taken time off, and should have been there so that it didn't happen" yeah that just happened, I suddenly forgot how to do anything.

"your excellence exposes their donkiness" God that is the truth.

In my experience the "leader" typically creates an environment that encourages people not to care. It usually involves open disrespect for employees, favoritism, or being unreasonable. You might, for example, give your employee a pile of tasks that have to get done today no matter what, then have them spend the entire day in a meeting. So the honest hard-working employee that does care and is willing to take on any job misses the opportunity to have dinner with his wife and kids to stay late and finish. You make that a regular occurrence and you create a "bad" employee.

When you are understaffed, overworked, and management has more days off than everyone combined, who's the donkey?

Doing something that is "not your job" to cover for someone's laziness is the fast track to being taken advantage of in any business small or big. Caring is what leads to burnout while others manipulate you. Management can be very manipulative just to get the job done they don't care who does the work regardless of how it gets done--hence good workers leave and the bad stays. The odds are people who "don't care" or say "it's not my job" has been taken advantage of whether they're a donkey or a thoroughbred.

I could not agree more. When did caring go out of style!?

He who is competent in smaller matters can be entrusted with larger ones.

A lot of people don't care because of bad management at some jobs. I work at a place where "I don't care" is used every day by the employees. The managers do not set a good example and most importantly they don't care either, so no one has the initiative to care because if they did no one would notice.

“It’s not my job.” Was the most used line in the union environment I used to work in. They literally got off on doing the minimum and patted themselves on the back as if they were doing the maximum. Apathy might be the only thing outnumbering stupidity in this world.

Some companies like to break law, I had my far share complaining to OSHA at them. I had a janitorial job , boss wanted me to clean public restroom without protection. Women like to say men leave bathroom dirty. Well women leave dirty tampons and blood on toilet seat. I was written up for disobeying a order. I was glade they let me go, the company didn't care about my health.

"your very presence exposes their donkeyness" - Dave Ramsey quote of the year lol

Love this, "exposes their donkeyness".

If you paid minimum wage don't expect to get people that work well.

I am a retired soldier and disabled veteran. I volunteer at my local VA Hospital. From time-to-time I get patients who ask me "do you get paid for doing this?". The answer is "no."

Last job I was at with donkeys, I was a thoroughbred. I was paid the same hourly rate as everyone else. What did I get as a reward? A hernia.

I work at the level I am paid. You get a lot out of me at $40 an hour. $10 not so much.

In defense of this, anyone notice this happening in corporate America more? I've noticed they just keep pushing more and more responsibility on you without increasing your pay at all! We're getting tired of doing other people's jobs and doing more but getting nothing in return!

I've worked in kitchens that handed out write-ups like candy to cover themselves from being fined by the department of labor. In places like that I found that people who care leave because they just end up becoming bullied by all of the donkeys. To be fair, if you only take jobs that you feel are going to care as much about you as you do about your ethics at work, that is the dream

Dave missed another piece of this... Perhaps the person started out caring, but quickly learned to be complacent without a sense of accountability as a result of the organizational culture or bad leadership and consistent backlash for calling out bad ideas and mediocrity. Sometimes that "donkey" is actually a canary in a coal mine, an invaluable part of the company, because behind "I don't care" hides a significant amount of feedback.

This is how I feel being the youngest person in my office by 30+ years.

You let a donkey in the Building- Dave Ramsey.

I treat my company like I own it, but its hard to shine when everybody around you don't.

I needed this video thank you Dave

Set them free in Jesus name LOL

I needed to hear this. I'm not dogging folks out. But I've really tried to be diligent in my work and there are folks who for no reason are trying to undermine you at every turn. They're not just customers. They're co-workers. They're family. They're supposed friends. It can really be a hard time because that fear and that pain gets so loud. In a rare moment, Dave Ramsey just reminded me again about what the bible says about diligence and just caring. I appreciate it.

This is so true my wife went from working at a restaurant when she was 17 years old to being a restaurant GM and now she's running multiple restaurants but she's honest hard-working intelligent and fair that gets you places in life not fast you can't be lazy about it but eventually it will get you somewhere

I'm a shiny person. Taking on extra responsibility despite getting behind on a never ending problem...

I actually get scolded for trying to do things to improve the company and workflow, because I have a controlling supervisor. I'm a contractor, and this has happened at this present job and the last (last job was 18 months). Unfortunately, this tends to show on my resume as 'basic' work (I am a graphic designer/illustrator), and when I try to do the 'how I improved the company' description for the last two jobs, I can't. I realize this contract track is a dead end, so I'm bolstering my business and going out on my own. This thoroughbred is sick of dealing with the donkey mindset when there are problems that could be solved, and I don't want to turn into one of them.

100% agree, was listening to this while on shift, I explained my concerns about why tonight’s workload will fail and they didn’t want to listen

I needed to hear this. Thank you Mr. Ramsey. My frustration has been on 10. As you stated, either I'll be seen in house or someone else will see me and steal me. This is why the bible says " Do not become weary in doing good"

do donkeys look at memes on their phone instead of working? i might be a donkey xd

People at my job like to make their problem my problem so you have to tell them where to stick it.

Excellent and motivating! :-)

Sometimes the donkeys just sit around braying while the workhorse works. No one steals you. No one cares.

Thanks Dave, it's very encouraging to hear you say this!

Thank you. Very inspiring and straightforward action that I can take right now for a better mindset.

I so needed to hear this today. I feel encouraged. Thanks Dave ;)

I care. Thank you for caring, it's changing my life.

“You see Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.” -Peter Gibbons Office Space

Funny thing about donkeys is they ALL complain about how they're not paid enough. The boss is "robbing them", while they waste time and do the minimum.

Perfect advise for the people who are managing teams. Excellent............ you made my day.

“Sniny people attract money” - love that!

"sometimes they need to be somewhere else" LOL!

I worked at a place for a while as an independent contractor where the owner would tell us to do things that aren't our job - which btw is illegal. That case, I think, would be an exception to Dave.

Reciprocity. If you're used to say "it's not my obligation as an employer" you may end up hearing it's not my obligation as an employee" a lot. It also works the other way around.

Sometimes people don't start out that way...poor leadership can harden hearts

You right Dave everybody who works together achieves more in getting to the goal it's called team work.😊

This is great! Spot on.

In the How to treat ppl who don't care video--- you sound SOOO right!! My husband has NO MOTIVATION what SO EVER...when it has to do with the house stuff..

One of my favorite DR videos! So true!

Donkeyness is a basic human trait. Work is giving your time and effort. People have issues when it comes to giving. Receiving things on the other hand is so pleasant for them- they will be there first if they can get something for free or for marginal effort. The only person who cares about anything is the owner.

Best advice I needed to hear. Thank you 😂

"Shiny people attract money"

They made not care about their jobs or not motivated by work but they will care about that paycheck!

Sometimes managers depress the staff. Some managers are negative, uninspiring, abusive and that leads to depressed staff.

Excellent!

Hey Dave you hire your own kids. Good workers despise nepotism. Food for thought!

Oooh this is a good one. I was considering a woman that regularly smokes cigarettes and I just can’t fit that into my budget and her reaction to that was that she just didn’t care. This advice is good for snapping my consciousness back to focusing on the people that do care enough about budgeting and health to cut something as frivolous and unhealthy as cigarettes out of the expenditure. Thank’s Dave!

I find it satisfying that Dave's collar stripes match up with the other stripes of the shirt.

Watched probably 100 videos, rants, clips, full shows... first one that really struck with me

I'm one of those people that care but it depends on the situation I worked for a place with just had 3 employees and when the company wasn't doing so well I took on that stress and brought it home with me so anyone watching this video just think about the situation

Amazing video

Make them sit down and listen to Dave Ramsey clips all day

I wouldn't mind. Let me give you an example that I heard in a meeting between IT and Business. IT was asking for project specifications on a change request made and asked for an example of what they expect. The Business user told the IT member to learn the business and find the examples and what should happen themselves. The IT employee replied with "Learning the business is not my job, I don't need to understand the business behind the project, I only need to know what you want the project to do and given what input, what type of output you want. My job is to find out how to accomplish those requirements in the best possible way. To do so, if you provide me the specifications and expectations of what you want this project to do, then I can get to work on making it happen." As a fellow IT member I feel the response to "learn the business" being "that is not my job" is reasonable. IT should know enough of the business to do their job effectively, but they should not be expected to know as much as a business user. The same way IT can't expect a business user to know how to program the project or give suggestions. So, yes, there are times when "that isn't my job" is perfectly acceptable in my opinion.

I feel like I’m having a donkey moment because, although I do care about my job, I’m being asked to do a new aspect of my job that I really don’t want to do. I’m now inspired to grab the bull by the horns and do the new task. Thanks for the motivation Dave

You have to shine for you, whether or not it is recognized or appreciated.

Dave you hit the nail on the head. But I work with a few snakes in the grass too. I'm " supposed" be incharge when boss in gone but i got 4 snakes trying to sabotage and exaggerate how I didn't do my job properly. So every morning I have to check things over to see if anything been messed with. & not only that gotta deal with someone trying to get me into trouble with their exaggerations. I have brought this up to the boss. I don't know if it's me but seems every place I work at I always have someone that has an problem with me. But this particular job I was supposed be incharge but few had an problem with it. Got guys acting like an child simple order as what time to be at work they won't follow because they say " you're not my boss I want to hear it from him." Oh it's an donkey show I've just gotta keep shining hopefully another place sees it. Can't just quit have an family to support. Good leadership videos ! Love watching& learning and to better myself.

This needs context. For example, I was hired to work in digital marketing. That was the job description, that's what was discussed during all 3 of my interviews and that's the knowledge that I presented. After I started, it was revealed (immediately and some over time) that I was also the IT administrator, QuickBooks administrator, Networking engineer, cyber security specialist and email manager. None of that was mentioned as I was interviewing for the job, and those other tasks took me away from my primary responsibilities. I'm certainly not qualified to do all of those things and never claimed to be. So I kind of had to make the point that those weren't really part of the job I applied to, and that ended up being a blessing when I transferred to our Chattanooga office. Occasionally, sure. But not in every case.

Boss: Go fix the plumbing in the bathroom. Me: That’s not my job, I’m not a plumber. Boss: You’re fired.

Dave is so right i was poached by different companies for years before starting my own business

Please come to South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth Massachusetts. Talk to all the Operating Room staff.

Simple, I just don't hire anyone. I do my own electrical, my own HVAC, my own carpentry, my own vehicle maintenance and repair. And I save big $$$ and do the job to my satisfaction which most if not all tradespeople cannot do.

"I don't care" types are to be avoided at all costs!

I get this and for the most part I agree but for me it comes down to prioritizing my tasks. If I have work backing up, clients are literally screaming at my teammates and I am the bottleneck for some process, I don't have time to make a pot of coffee or whatever. Sure I can do it later no problem but right now? I'm taking care of the customer and my team. How does someone resolve those conflicts of interest?

Every one who agree or disagree with this may read the book boundaries to assess the ground reality themselves. It is a nice book and help individuals to take balenced call in various situations

To care you have to suffer. That's been my experience of life.

“When I see garbage on the floor it tells me that people don’t care and when people stop caring, that’s when crime breeds and criminals take over” -Beavis

I wonder if the problem is the employees or the owner though. I used to work for a small business where the owner would have some of his employees do favors for him and his friends and just crossed the line in what he expected his employees to put up with. This was a retail job where we took in second hand stuff for trade or cash. Me helping your friend clean out his basement absolutely is not my job. It's not my job to work 16 hour days without overtime pay to help you run a convention. It's not my job to try and manage your friend you hired and refuse to fire even though he does nothing and is suspected by multiple employees of stealing from the store. Sorry, but there have to be boundaries in what you ask your employees to do and put up with. It's really hard for me to care about your business when you don't care about it enough to take it seriously.

This explains my work place. I need to get Though breed wages!

Donkey bar, hilarious

Liked the analogy of donkeys and thoroughbreds. Most places I have worked are donkey farms, and they have lots of rules and policies in place that protect the donkeys. The thoroughbreds get overlooked and end up going elsewhere out of frustration.

Mr. Ramsey, I am an accountant, the CEO sends me to clean his toilet. I will say no, he will say you are fired! and I will sue him!

But the context here is the important part. If someone you work with is a lazy jerk with a power trip and they try and push their work off onto you to get you to do it, then no that is not good boundaries and anyone would have the right to say no to doing someone else's job for them because "It's not my job" no way!

I worked in a company, loved working there when I started, but they burned through their employees with switching day and night shifts and mind-numbing work while the interesting jobs went to a privileged preferred few that at the end you really don't care about the work anymore and was happy to see the place burn down when I quit. Take care of your employees and they (most likely) will take care of you.

"Your very presence exposes their donkeyness" 😂😂😂😂😂

our car dealership service dept has 95% donkeys. and those few thorough breds become donkeys after time. very frustrating.

Been there, seen it. I've left a particular industry for this VERY REASON.

the problem with the logic that somehow management is always right is a big no no....cause I worked in places where the employees that said "Its not my job" are the same people that bosses said are their best employees...!

Dave, from the flip-side, how do you go about changing the culture of an organization where the management does not care?

Donkeys. That made me laugh.

Often a thoroughbred becomes a donkey in a toxic work environment. You could say well they need to leave then.. But that's hard to do when they make a lot of money and are fighting their way through the baby steps. Yes, I'm talking about me! But there is a light at the end of this tunnel!

I have a coworker who complained about my helping out in other areas (we were really swamped and understaffed there) because it meant i didn't get something done and she had to do it.

Also, there are people who go above and beyond and the Boss dosent care, it goes both ways, cause I work for one of these guys.

Be excellent to each other