Long Time Coming
Well, I promised to keep in touch after the wedding and that hasn't worked out the way I wanted it to. We have been very busy and working nearly 70 hours a week. It frustrates me to think that no matter at which point in your life you decide to get married, it is never easy. I am definitely not saying that I thought this would be easy but I did truly want to be able to spend weekends with my family. Not a lot to ask but my employer has definitely had other plans.
I have some hard decisions to make in the coming weeks. Do I stay where I am and become hardened by the retail world or do I move on to other things while staying in the tech field (so to speak). I love technology and the joy it gives me to learn new and different things every day. The problem is that I find myself disgruntled by complaints by customers everyday about things that I have no control over. While my employer has been very successful over the years they have failed to do so in a retail environment. So now, with almost 30 stores, they find themselves in a situation where the cost of paying hourly wages and salaries has eaten into their profits. At what point does an employer become so big that they stop caring about the welfare of the employee? This is a trend that is becoming all to familiar in todays business world.
Many employers will release a team member for just being sick for more than one day. Some actually find ways to keep the insurance from paying when a serious illness has affected their work schedule. It seems to me that until the worker is actually made of GOLD they will never be valuable to their respective companies. My true complaint is that why companies do not care as much about letting good people go as the people care about being let go? It hurts to see people who had bright futures at one time and then become nothing more than throw away employees only because the companies fall on hard times or don't run the business efficiently.
My whole point with this is to release some frustration about the current employment situation in America. It seems that no one really cares anymore and that everything is focused on the business itself instead of making the employees happy so that the business succeeds. Treat people with respect and dignity and they usually will do the same. There are always exceptions to the rule in that case. You might find sometime that, given the chance, people will far exceed your expectations of them.
I think no matter who you are that you can find something good in everyone. Even in business where cut throat tactics rule the day.
I have some hard decisions to make in the coming weeks. Do I stay where I am and become hardened by the retail world or do I move on to other things while staying in the tech field (so to speak). I love technology and the joy it gives me to learn new and different things every day. The problem is that I find myself disgruntled by complaints by customers everyday about things that I have no control over. While my employer has been very successful over the years they have failed to do so in a retail environment. So now, with almost 30 stores, they find themselves in a situation where the cost of paying hourly wages and salaries has eaten into their profits. At what point does an employer become so big that they stop caring about the welfare of the employee? This is a trend that is becoming all to familiar in todays business world.
Many employers will release a team member for just being sick for more than one day. Some actually find ways to keep the insurance from paying when a serious illness has affected their work schedule. It seems to me that until the worker is actually made of GOLD they will never be valuable to their respective companies. My true complaint is that why companies do not care as much about letting good people go as the people care about being let go? It hurts to see people who had bright futures at one time and then become nothing more than throw away employees only because the companies fall on hard times or don't run the business efficiently.
My whole point with this is to release some frustration about the current employment situation in America. It seems that no one really cares anymore and that everything is focused on the business itself instead of making the employees happy so that the business succeeds. Treat people with respect and dignity and they usually will do the same. There are always exceptions to the rule in that case. You might find sometime that, given the chance, people will far exceed your expectations of them.
I think no matter who you are that you can find something good in everyone. Even in business where cut throat tactics rule the day.
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