If it wasn't for a concise set of rules, we might have to resort to common sense!
Any of you guys actually work in a small business, with the owner of said business?
My dad is a simmiler thing. Work is fickel (sp) and while there is enough to keep him going they are not making a large amount and have (about a yea ago) make redunt 2 employees. The two that went were the ones that worked slowly, had poor apperance, made mistakes and barely broke even. On the other hand the employee that he has kept on his worth his weight in gold, as a result he is on top pay, more holidays than the standerd and so far is the only employee (dad included) to get a new van.
A good employee is worth keeping, bad ones are a dime a dozzen.
Have done in the past and ridden the roller coaster.
However, this thread is aimed more at the big corporations (mostly aussie or, god forbid, US owned) that are using the whole crisis as a trigger to lump the profit.
Small business's are vunerable more so than the big, filth, piggy trough corporate scum. The small guys have their houses and lively hoods riding on their business and I respect these people for that.
But, the big pigs started this and it's us, workers and small busines owners, that will have to pay.
I was just wound up by what my mate said last night, poor sod. Mind you, he phoned earlier today and told me that he has a possibility of a start week after next at another firm so good on him.
Soapbox tucked away now, back to my book writing....
Yep ya got it in a nutshell. The firm that I was working for had us all to a meeting on the wednesday and said that
" All was well and we could weather the storm. No worrys jobs were secure we were good."
Less than a week later a selected few, 11 of us, were told the firm was on shaky ground and the had to revisit the whole thing. I personally offered to go onto a 3 day week, to no avail.
Up shot of it was 6 of the more senior members of the shop floor staff were given the boot.
All of the asians, Parkys and darkys on the staff stayed.
Some of then had been there a matter of a few weeks.
Heard through the grapevine the company loves the asians because "they do as they are told, don't ask questions and will work for a bowl of rice." Quote the production manager. (Arsehole)
Funny thing was we were all KIWI's that lost our jobs.
The firm in question is New Zealand owned. It's not just off shore interests that are taking advantage of this situation
"May the motorcycle god's keep your tyres pumped"
"The shortest distance between any two points on a motorbike, is the long way round"
Freeman, you are better off out of it if that is the way they operate.
A generalisation but the Ockers are far more proactive in their management style than we are , we wait till the tidal wave hits us & then start to swim, Ockers tend to see the signs & don the water wings ahead of time. Aussies will never do us any favours so we should not be suprised at this sort of stuff.
Imagine if we were a nation of savers instead of spenders & actually invested in our own companies, we might still own the odd bank or insurance company, even a lunch bar would be nice.
It's standard practice to ride public feelings on things. If you sell a dairy-based product, and everyone is moaning about the price of dairy going up, then put your price up whether you have to or not. Same goes for fuel - if it is abundantly clear to everyone that you use a lot of fuel, put your prices up and point at fuel costs for the reason - everyone will believe you without question. Same applies for staff - if you WANT to ditch staff, and everyone is complaining about unemployment, then ditch them now and point at the "unemployment problem" as the cause of it. No one questions it.
It's just all good business practice. Not nice for employees and consumers to hear I know, but don't shoot the messenger if you please.
Steve
"I am a licenced motorcycle instructor, I agree with dangerousbastard, no point in repeating what he said."
"read what Steve says. He's right."
"What Steve said pretty much summed it up."
"I did axactly as you said and it worked...!!"
"Wow, Great advise there DB."
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