It amazes me that people who can’t distinguish between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ are allowed to manage people

  • hayvan@piefed.world
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    So, act like a million 💸 company and cover your employees’ babysitting and taxi expenses. Also hire enough people.

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      A million dollar company could just be a warehouse and 10 employees. I don’t know why they are acting like it’s a lot.

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          Word processors also have grammar checkers. Hell, my phone gave me a blue line while I typed this comment.

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          and you need to know grammar to use a grammar checker. My paper in uni I decided to just hit corels gramatik and accept all changes (did it a few times just for funsies) that paper went from above acceptable to an atrocious mess in no time

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      Yes, except “hire enough people”. You can’t staff enough to cover 4 out of 8 employees off from a combination of sick, bereavement, and vacation.

      It happens. All you can do is prioritize tasks, make it work the best you can with the resources you have, and manage expectations.

      If the work can’t be rescheduled, and isn’t worth paying someone OT to cover, well, then, it’s not worth doing.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      Maybe she sincerely means ‘million dollar company’, a company too dirt poor to pay to have adequate coverage…

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    Nothing says “million-dollar company” more than a printed-out email pinned to a corkboard.

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    Hire enough staff that a few missing makes no difference to operations.

    You’re a million dollar company. Act like it.

    Also, pretty sure my company got sold for a lot more than that and we’re amateur as fuck.

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      15 days ago

      clears throat Don’t you think we should ask for more than a million dollars? A million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!

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    I am not a million dollar company I am a wage slave that gets treated like a disposable sack of shit by said Million Dollar Company. And I won’t be sacrificing my or my family’s health for their benefit.

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    We are a million-dollar company. Let’s act like one.

    Okay so that means you’ll schedule several people to be on-call, right?

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      Right? I work for an actual megacorp and our policy is almost the exact opposite on every point.
      Sick workers make more sick: don’t work and feel better faster. Distracted workers makes mistakes and cause problems: don’t work and take care of your kid. Rested workers work better: take the time around the holidays off entirely. Productivity is crap then anyway and with so many vacations it’s easier to plan around a block where nothing happens than to deal with random teams having unpredictable delays. Car broken? Expense a Lyft. We have a corporate account and your ride to work is a rounding error compared to the sales visits.

      If you’re going to invoke money you should actually understand how big companies function and view money.

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        We have so many tickets open with third party companies that almost certainly won’t get resolved until the new year that there’s no point worrying about our productivity.

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    We had a guy call in one day saying he couldn’t make it as he was having car problems. Boss says he didn’t even know he had a car. Guy replies: I don’t. That’s the problem.

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    “we are a million dollar company, you have no choice but to come in and make your $90 on this day”

    Ya ok. If we are a million dollar company then where’s my share?

    Fuck that mentality.

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      I worked in a service center for a big company back in my 20’s, they would factor in callouts to their staffing plan, and use historical data for it. They also paid 2.5x time on holidays like the 25/26 December. That’s what a million dollar company should look like…if you want to make sure there’s coverage, you pay for it.

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        A million dollar company is relatively a small fry. That’s what an average auto repair shop can make in a year in revenue. Small companies are way more likely to break labor laws and treat their employees like shit.

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    14 days ago

    Hot take: a million dollar company is a small company. The owner better stop acting like his company is something exceptional

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    Million dollar company sounds impressive, but I don’t think that is impressive. Like twenty employees already imply a million or more in expenses annually, and require corresponding revenue to sustain.

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      Yeah, I took it as it’s a barely functional company that’s being held together by hopes and dreams. The food vendors at my local state fair do millions in sales in just a few weekends. Per Wikipedia, Sweet Martha’s Cookies in 2023 made $4.6 million in 12 days.

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      20 employees = 3-4 employees + 1 owner/CEO whose wife needs fake tits and many vacations, but yes otherwise

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        Needs?

        People’s needs are things like food, water, air and Costco rotisserie chicken.

        In fact this ‘need’ could be easily fulfilled by two Costco rotisserie chickens taped to the chest and that way meals would be covered too.

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    No, “your sick” makes perfect sense because it will become their sick when that employee brings it into work. Everyone can have the sick that way 👍