When I was clocking out last night, an employee said that they had been on my Blog but noticed that I hadn't published anything new lately - thought that maybe I was taking a break. I assured the employee that I hadn't taken a break but instead had not seen anything around the store to write about. Unless of course I would write about what the employees had been going through.
Not too long ago, a manager told me that they found it hard to look into the faces of the employees. "The morale", they said, "is gone." And that it is.
All of the hard work, the customer service, loyalty etc., somehow seems like it was a waste. As one person put it, "It's a slap in the face."
So many employees are now faced with finding healthcare and at the same time trying to make ends meet on their new found Part-time positions. Not an easy task. Especially if they cannot find another Part-time job with hours that can be coordinated with their positions at the store.
New people are being hired, what seems to be, constantly - Part-time/minimum wage.
The store has truly lost that wonderful 'vibe' and so many of our local customers; patrons of the store since it opened almost 20 years ago.
We could talk this out and what went wrong and first one thing and then another. But, that would not provide us with any solution only make us feel more miserable. We, the employees, know what brought us to this point but there is not now or ever has been anything that we could do to avoid the problems. It was out of our hands.
But thinking back on a published interview with the CEO of this company, I recall a statement made by the CEO that he never asks employees to do anything that he, himself, would not do.
Guess it's time for him to take a pay cut, too.
Talk at ya later!
Not too long ago, a manager told me that they found it hard to look into the faces of the employees. "The morale", they said, "is gone." And that it is.
All of the hard work, the customer service, loyalty etc., somehow seems like it was a waste. As one person put it, "It's a slap in the face."
So many employees are now faced with finding healthcare and at the same time trying to make ends meet on their new found Part-time positions. Not an easy task. Especially if they cannot find another Part-time job with hours that can be coordinated with their positions at the store.
New people are being hired, what seems to be, constantly - Part-time/minimum wage.
The store has truly lost that wonderful 'vibe' and so many of our local customers; patrons of the store since it opened almost 20 years ago.
We could talk this out and what went wrong and first one thing and then another. But, that would not provide us with any solution only make us feel more miserable. We, the employees, know what brought us to this point but there is not now or ever has been anything that we could do to avoid the problems. It was out of our hands.
But thinking back on a published interview with the CEO of this company, I recall a statement made by the CEO that he never asks employees to do anything that he, himself, would not do.
Guess it's time for him to take a pay cut, too.
Talk at ya later!
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