Wednesday, August 22, 2012

15 ways to make our jobs better.

  1. Remember: we are letting you pay us for a service we provide. That makes you our client.
  2. Stop controlling your employees' lives. You are not our masters and we are not slaves.
  3. Have more flexible hours. This 8 to 5 crap is so arbitrary, so artificial, so.. unnatural. Take advantage of the fact that different people have different awake/asleep patterns.
  4. Stop watching the pennies (as in the minutes).
  5. Set clear examples of what is allowed and what is not. If you get to do it, then your employee gets to do it.
  6. Don't treat the employee as a thief first, and a human second.
  7. Hire some old people! (Some of the wisest people I know..)
  8. Hire some disabled people! (Some of the sweetest people I know..)
  9. Provide spacious parking for your employees and customers. Stop cramming as many 'spaces' into as little space as possible. Quality not quantity.
  10. Discuss everyone's salaries with everyone. People should get paid for what they actually do, not what their position/title says.
  11. Don't fire people for passive mistakes. If the employee doesn't perform well, then lower their level of responsibility (reassign them).
  12. Reward good (actual) work. Not what the braggart claims to have done.
  13. Pay each person in cash weekly.
  14. Don't mess around with contracts, 401K, insurance, and other crap like them.
  15. Be nice. Don't just act nice. BE nice.

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