[egannacht]

Employees don’t understand business either. They actually are happy that less customers walk through the door so they can collect their checks without actually working.

[DogBarkTree]

They actually are happy that less customers walk through the door so they can collect their checks without actually working.

You said it. I fired 3 Obama voting, mouth breathing, slack jaws at the end of November. They got the change they deserved.

[PrincessB]

Employees don’t understand business either. They actually are happy that less customers walk through the door so they can collect their checks without actually working. I hate people like this (when they are coworkers they hate me too). It's neat to have on my resume that I managed an increase of 40% of clients served in five years. I spent from about 3:30 to 5:00 yesterday answering phone calls while trying to prepare for a project that will start on Monday. As frustrating as each interruption might have been, I know better than to be anything but grateful to anyone who contacts our office. (ie, I know where my lunch comes from)

[ArmstedFragg]

Employees don’t understand business either.

Many, many years ago, I was an employee of a business that was established solely for the purpose of losing money in order to gain a government benefit. The management, obviously, couldn't tell the employees what the story was. So we, noticing a dearth of customers, and reasoning that no customers meant no job, went nuts trying to find, keep, and grow the base of customers. Which, of course, drove the management crazy. They kept spending more money and hiring more employees, trying to drive the company into the red. We kept working harder and more productively trying to keep it in the black. After a year of pulling their hair out, they finally came up with a solution... firing everyone competent. Now, I realize that lots of American companies have done the same thing, but this was one of the few occasions when it was intentional.