I've been wanting to do this for awhile now. I'm going to do "threads". Not very often I'm sure. Not anything important, just my own observations about life and things. It's more for myself. I guess in a way a digital diary. If anyone enjoys them all the better.
1) One thing I've noticed I find kind of interesting. People are always so blown away about the lack of rule following. It reminds me of a time I got a new job. The manger of the place was a slacker. Nice guy, but did the bare minimum of the job.
2) In turn he let the employees do the bare minimum. There were only 3 people under him, me being the newest. The other 2 were so used to his style of managing (or mismanagement) that they would get away with so much crap.
3) They walked all over him. They were all friends and would hang out after work and whatnot. The place was running okay..orders were getting filled and the customers were happy for the most part. But the potential was not being met for sure.
4) They were treating it like a day camp. Friends hanging out, smoke breaks that lasted way too long, loud music, just a "fun" atmosphere. I got along with everyone just fine, but that wasn't my way of doing business. I was in my early 20s but I was a bit more professional.
5) We all had a great time. After I was there about 8 months or so the owner decided he was going to sell the business. He was an absentee owner so he was unaware of how his place was being run. He made semi decent money and I'm sure that was his bottom line.
6) There were several people interested in buying the place and the employees were all on their best behavior when potential owners came to check it out. A nice couple ended up purchasing the place. They were going to keep everything pretty much like it was, same crew and all.
7) The manager and team were thrilled to be keeping their job......UNTIL....the new owner decided he wasn't going to be so hands off. He really had no experience in the process of the business he purchased, so he was counting on "us" to teach him. He had tons of retail experience
8) and knew how to attract business. Things went really well for the first few months. The owner started feeling more comfortable letting his manager take over running the place and slowly but surely things started going back to how it used to be. Not good in my opinion.
9) I had a meeting with the new owner to give him a heads up, and let him know that if this were MY business I wouldn't leave it in the hands of this manager. Even though I liked him and got along with him, he was not good for business.
10) The owner started doing "surprise" inspections of the place. Of course what he started seeing was slacking employees and loud music and a party atmosphere instead of a customer based professional business being run properly.
11) The owner was such a nice guy that he didn't threaten firing anyone. He had several meetings with the manager to try to get him to manage properly. Several months worth of meetings. And you know what happened?
12) The manager and the other 2 employees became bitter and upset. They started sabotaging his business! They would show up late to open, close up early, mess up orders on purpose. It was horrible. After all the new owner did to keep them on payroll and trust them with business.
13) It reminds me of the state of our country right now. The last 8 years have been a lawless society. We've all seen the blatant flouting of rules and yet it's become so "normal". When we have the new man in charge people want to sabotage it. They've become used to doing things
14) the way THEY want to do them. They've forgot what it is to do the right thing, follow the law. They're working themselves into a tizzy when all that's being done is making the place a more successful place for ALL OF US. They're bad mouthing the guy who is fixing us.
15) And they can't even see it. Not just can't but WON'T. They are missing their fun party atmosphere without comprehending the damage that was wrought due to that atmosphere.
16) I truly hope for everyone's sake, even the "other side", they take a step back and just SEE. Look what's happening. Good things! Amazing things! Things that never would have happened under anyone else.
~DMC~
~DMC~
