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Post by ObserverStatus on Apr 19, 2020 11:55:15 GMT -6
I don't get it, is the labor market really so tight where you work that your employer can't just hire more help rather than paying out the ass for overtime? I've been with this company for 7 years now, just last year however our owners sold the company to someone else. The thing is the old owners started from the ground floor and built the company up, and while it was never perfect and I certainly had some issues with stuff to a certain degree they had at least some understanding of the logistics of how things ran down on the floor. They understood keeping the machines properly maintained was important in the long run, they understood that having more people helped to efficiently handle products and whatnot, the new owner however doesn't understand any of that, he's the kind of guy who looks at the numbers on paper and makes decisions without really listening to the people who understand that. To him having 7 employees doing 200-300 lifts a day is much less efficient than having 3-4 employees doing 700+ lifts daily without really thinking of the effect it has on the employees, machine wear and tear as well as the overall quality of the product.
They could easily, and I mean EASILY hire more people now if they were willing to. There's people out there that want the work. That being said I think there's a law that limits how many people can be working in our shop at once, which would be fine if they decreased the amount of work to compensate for that but instead the owner wants to use this virus as an excuse to get ahead and keep taking on more orders since all of our competitors have closed (since they actually give a shit about their employees safety).
The company itself is not doing well and it's desperately trying to keep its head above water but the decisions its making is only causing more and more damage. It's a sinking ship at this point and it's just a matter of when it all implodes in on itself. It'd be nice if it just went under sooner rather than later and I could at least get on EI, I'd just quit myself and find something else but the timing with what's going on makes entering the job market extremely nasty for me.
Meanwhile most the people I know are going insane from being in nonstop quarantine, I feel like a person drowning watching another person die of dehydration.
This almost sounds like one of those cases where someone’s parents or SO buys them a small business to run so they can be their own boss and feel like a big shot, but the business suffers because the new boss has no experience, and no idea how to run it. |
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