“Greedy employers do that with everyone.”
“In a jeremiad against what he claimed were insufficiently motivated workers”
Motivation is always destroyed with mistreatment. If you are going to bad mouth employees, then you don’t need them and you should get rid of them.
People take jobs for many different reasons: location of business, health bennies, hours, pay, and on some occasions, a feeling of success. Any time I hear about businesses failing I look at the business and what I can find that the business can no longer supply its employees. I was a better than average trainer in the Air Force, top 5%, and recognized for it, because I slapped on the back in public and in the face in private. I made a special effort to let the employee keep their self esteem and I had very few that didn’t walk out of the office ready to improve or stretch their capacity with effort. And they were rewarded for it.
I did an exercise with a number of my troops to display the way a task is accomplished. I asked them to determine their one arm as a series of levels of supervision with the fingers being the last part of the sequence. The shoulder was the commander and the fingers were them. I put a dime on the table and asked them to pick it up with the shoulder, elbow, wrist and finally fingers. And with all the parts of the arm making the decision on what to do to get it picked up, guess which part actually picked up the dime. So for the shoulder, the elbow, the wrist, which part was the most important to make sure worked. So make sure you don’t hit a finger with a hammer. You need it.
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I like your excersize with regard to picking up the dime. It’s Biblical too!
I haven’t read through this entire thread yet, but the earlier comments were talking about paying more money, etc. Agreed that if Lowes is paying $16.50 an hour vs. $16.00 at HD (actual entry level pay in Billings, MT) it might be worth it to go over to Lowes.
But these companies aren’t just competing with Lowes, they are also competing with government welfare. My kids know people (20-somethings) that will work for a little bit and then quit as soon as they don’t like something about the job. They don’t get welfare, but they have free health insurance through the state which they have commented on as one reason why they don’t need to have a job. (They also live in mom’s basement, use the food bank and go get another job when they run out of money for pot).