When someone tells you to get real, they want you to get a reality
check and to stop behaving as though you'
re living in a fantasy world.
Could apply to pretty much anyone or
anything (as in a company or organisation) that mentally is not living in
reality.
Examples can include companies paying their employees minimum wage while demanding preformance and duties etc that someone willing to preform them is worth at least twise that. On the other side of the
coin, it can also include employees demanding pay that is far in excess of what the company can realistically afford to pay them.
Basically anyone or anything that expects something that just isn't realistic, saying 'get real' means to tell them to stop being unrealistic.
Employee: I demand $75,000 a year, a company
car,
50,000 shares of the company's
stock, every benifit imaginable and a months vacation every year to start.
Interviewer: Get real, this is a burger flipping job, not an executive job.