When I was a teenager I worked the checkouts at a local supermarket. I didn’t like it and I didn’t like the bosses so I installed a personal policy that everyone coming down my checkout would get one item for free. I just didn’t ring it up. Sometimes I’d make the beep noise for funny. And diapers were always free. One packet per customer. No one ever said anything but it gave me an enormous sense of well being. Beep 🙂
There are a lot of labor problems in the US, yeah. But you're not going to get anywhere fighting half the country and the billionaires. The more you try to call conservatives nazis and fascists, the farther away you'll be from a solution that's good for all workers. You're trying to have your cake and eat it too, and it's not going to work. I want to be part of a serious labor reform movement, not part of a Twitter gang that tries to cancel people for using unapproved speech. Anyway, this post isn't going anywhere, but I wanted to get that off my chest. I'm out.
I’ve recently completed 3 applications and an onboarding packet. All 4 of these a required info line was who was my cell phone service carrier. Why do they want to know this information?
So I am a business owner. I employ 5 people currently. The current status of work, workers, work culture, employee and employer relations, antiwork, etc has me concerned. Not concerned that I am going to immediately lose any employees, however I don't want to perpetuate negative employment culture. I'm in a unique position for the first time in my life. Ive always been an employee. I am trying to be the boss ive always wanted, but feel like i am getting caught up in the “business side” and am losing touch with being a worker. I took over a business 1 year ago and am doing my annual reflection/review/planning and would love to hear some feedback. I've raised wages of the entire staff by 9%. I rolled out an unlimited PTO policy, and give each employee 2 hours of my time, uninterrupted each week to focus on goals, struggles, training,…