Just went to get my car inspected, and the guy running the place says that he can’t schedule me until Saturday. I ask if I can leave my number in case someone before me cancels. He says that it won’t work, it’s a staffing issue, he doesn’t have enough people. Of course, he actually says “No one wants to work.” He says if I know anyone looking for a job, he’s hiring. I ask what the pay is and instead of giving a straight answer he talks about how there’s the possibility of 14% commission and how his employees are making between $900 and $1500 a week. If he can’t hold onto mechanics, and the pay is that low, it’s no wonder why he thinks “No one wants to work.” For example, the mechanic we bring all our major repairs to, his hourly labor rate is $90/hr, so I’m assuming…
The original owner of the business I worked for was amazing. I'll call him Larry. He cared about every employee and realized how much we helped the company with our respective positions. He had even let me go negative on my sick time once when I was hospitalized for a week following a double pulmonary embolism with the agreement that I would work the time back (and I did). Just painting a picture of how wonderful Larry was as our boss. Larry finally retired after 45 years of running the business and sold it to his son, who I'll call Eric. Most people know how bad an idea that is, but Larry thought his son could handle it. He couldn't at first, but that's another story. Eric thought I wasn't doing enough during working hours (office job, dealing with inventory coming into a retail store), but what he failed to…
