1941 chevy sales training video. Watch the whole thing but if you find it boring, watch from 7:00-10:00.
Employees...geez (Pic of the day)
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I agree that young people in general tend to be lazy, but this generation in particular is even more detached. They (not all) seem to think it's okay spending 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there checking their Facebook, or text messages in the middle of work.
They don't seem to posses any aptitude either, it blows my mind that they don't know how to roll up a cord or hose. That stuff used to be mandatory intelligence.
Seeking dopamine hits Mike, that's what all these mindless tasks do for the young generations, instant gratification.
The Facebook/cell phone behavior is starting to bridge the gap between generations. My brother who is 5 years older than me (he is now 30) can't put his cell phone down. I had him help me a few times and he just stands there on his cell phone until I specifically give him directions. Directions like bring the spotter from the last room we cleaned to current room we are cleaning. It's just "what are you f***ing stupid, you don't think if I used it there I might use it here" but I consider him another generation because he didn't have Facebook in high school so he adapted to it more when he should have been an adult. But still he can't put the cell phone down. Which is why I haven't had him help me out in a while. I mean even on an overnight job he had the cell phone out. I said to him "who the f*** are you texting at 2 am"
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I have uncles who hold "professional" positions who cry when they have to do more than expected. Every generation feels the one after them are lazy hence "When I was a kid I had to walk"................I do agree people having to be on these electronic devices all the time is an addiction of some sorts.
Definitely understandable Ed... and every employee deserves respect.
The beautiful thing is that that my service company also rewards on commission based pay structure.
I have paid an employee just under $85k one year. There is no limit.
I'm not sure exactly how you structure things. But that sounds good and I feel is one part of the puzzle that I feel would keep a potential "rival" o/o under your employ. If he thinks he can make 100k running his own business and you pay him 80k and he doesn't have to deal with the headaches of actually running the business (and understands that) he would most likely stick around (i feel). That being said, I haven't hired any employees so what do I really know. Other than being on the employee side of things once before and wanting to stick around, feeling that I could one day open my own location in another state and run the business under the existing corporation.
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http://seattletimes.com/html/health/2023110779_healthdigitalxml.html
“If a person is constantly letting a computer think for them or are spending hours surfing the Internet, then they are not using their brain and, hence, their neural pathways are not stimulated,” he wrote in an email. “We know very well that neurons that are not used are pruned away.”
Are we evolving or devolving?
I'd watch out tho. Because I don't know if TMF doesn't fall under that category…Haha although I actually think it wouldn't since we are for the most part learning or sharing information. But still…haha
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My wife stimulates my pathways. So in marriage are we evolving or devolving?
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I couldn't disagree with this more if I tried. If you're a lazy bum and have no respect for authority including your boss's authority it's your fault not Daddy or Mommy's fault. It's not the previous generations fault. It's not the school you went to. It's not even the governments fault although I might make a case in how they've contributed to the mess we see today!!! My Dad nor my Mom frankly taught me anything. My Dad was an alcoholic most of his adult life spending the bulk of his evenings in bars and cheating on my mother. He really never taught me ANYTHING. Sure anyone can play the blame game and blame others for their problems or the fact they're a lazy, shiftless bum w/o respect for anything or anyone.
There has to be a point that YOU take responsibility for YOUR LIFE. I could go on, but I'll stop my rant here. You can disagree all you want, but I KNOW I'm right on this. Blaming others for YOUR lack of character just exacerbates the problem and perpetuates it. I say employers who get too lacks with their employees and let them run rough shod over them are asking for trouble and they will get it. I NEVER worked for an employer who would let me get away with some of the things people routinely get by with these days.
You also have to look at the population we are talking about. And by that I mean this. The motivated (would be great employees) young people are doing one of two things. In college and pursuing another career or starting their own business. So when we go out and try to hire someone we are (mostly) left with the scraps that others don't want. Now don't get me wrong there are good motivated people out there (who just happen to be out of work) but fewer of them than the lazy "don't want to work" kind of youngsters.
It's not like we can recruit good employees from other jobs...or can we...
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In a way you are certainly wrong. You expect an infant to be able to identify that their surroundings are fudgeed up. My family is lazy, I happened to realize that in my teenage years. And was able to act in a different way than what I was taught. But it's only once we are older can we identify that we are the result of our upbringing. It's nature vs nurture and there is certainly both involved. But I do agree that once we reach a certain age we should become accountable. But if you have a 10 year old acting like a brat that is indeed his parents fault. And that certainly translates to behaviors as an adult.
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Here is a perfect example of "this generation." I am with two girls 20 and 21 right now and every few minutes they have to snap chat or post to Facebook or text or anything that involves their phone. It's all about lacking the ability to be in the moment. I just had a thought that I should share this being one of the people in this generation. This is the first time I have actually picked up my phone tonight. But these girls can barely put them down. It's just a little bit ridiculous. Then if we do something in the moment that is fun they have to immediately snap chat r post to Facebook. It is quite ridiculous. Just thought I would share my current situation as a perfect example of how this generation acts.
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I have finally assembled a great team of employees. However I have to live with the fact that this generation is carrying a lot of baggage. With the family and moral breakdown comes issues that this generation has to work through to be successful. Times have changed. It is just a fact and burying your head in the sand will not work towards the success of your business.
Reading the post I can't help but to shake my head in agreeance with the majority of posters and am glad to be reminded why I joined the forum, that is that i'm not alone when it comes to employees and the janitorial world.
My parents run the business and have been for the past 17 yrs, we've worked as a family and probably the main reason why we have done as well as we have. I've never dealt with hiring and firing employees, only heard what my parents had to deal with.
However today I got my first taste. A employee who for the past several months has been flaking and always has some excuses, my folks had it and ignored her call, my mom (busy at the moment) asked me to send a text saying we should go separate ways and things just weren't working out.......
well minutes s later I get a phone call from her mother saying it was unfair what we are doing and that she's gone through so much this year (cause shes the only one(sarcasm)). Funny how a 20 some what year old always got sick or couldn't make it into work on a friday evening or sat night.
She was also involved in a car accident, asked us to write a letter saying she worked for us and was o.k to get a car etc etc, talk about a regret. She asked for a $1000 to put a loan down (thankfully we didn't), that following monday we she was supposed to work she couldn't there was a "missunderadnting" even tho my mom talked to her several times saying she's as good to go. And in one of our main building that she was cleaning I found a stack of her business cards with her & her mother name on it. I've had several workers leave and try and take jobs away from us and I looked at this as the same.
Her mom asked us to give her daughter one more chance, we agreed and said yes to ONE FINAL CHANCE, so will see what happens next week. Sorry about the rant but had to get it off my chest. Earlier I was cleaning a new house and the painter was there, he worked for himself, just a hard days worth of work and no b.s employee drama......son of a bit-ch was all that I was saying to myself as I left.
My parents run the business and have been for the past 17 yrs, we've worked as a family and probably the main reason why we have done as well as we have. I've never dealt with hiring and firing employees, only heard what my parents had to deal with.
However today I got my first taste. A employee who for the past several months has been flaking and always has some excuses, my folks had it and ignored her call, my mom (busy at the moment) asked me to send a text saying we should go separate ways and things just weren't working out.......
well minutes s later I get a phone call from her mother saying it was unfair what we are doing and that she's gone through so much this year (cause shes the only one(sarcasm)). Funny how a 20 some what year old always got sick or couldn't make it into work on a friday evening or sat night.
She was also involved in a car accident, asked us to write a letter saying she worked for us and was o.k to get a car etc etc, talk about a regret. She asked for a $1000 to put a loan down (thankfully we didn't), that following monday we she was supposed to work she couldn't there was a "missunderadnting" even tho my mom talked to her several times saying she's as good to go. And in one of our main building that she was cleaning I found a stack of her business cards with her & her mother name on it. I've had several workers leave and try and take jobs away from us and I looked at this as the same.
Her mom asked us to give her daughter one more chance, we agreed and said yes to ONE FINAL CHANCE, so will see what happens next week. Sorry about the rant but had to get it off my chest. Earlier I was cleaning a new house and the painter was there, he worked for himself, just a hard days worth of work and no b.s employee drama......son of a bit-ch was all that I was saying to myself as I left.
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This might be bad if us. General rule of thumb, look for vets first then fathers trying to make money for their families. Those ate the people with the drive. A also hired a friends son because he was brought up to be respectful of other people and great work ethics.
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I think it's a struggle many businesses have. Most of us on this forum are A type personalities: self driven, self motivated entrepreneurs.
And then their are those who are not.
If it was easy everybody would do it
And then their are those who are not.
If it was easy everybody would do it
Do any of you have employees that say, "I'm broke!"?
Seems to be reoccurring with mine. When I say, "Hey we have 10 hours of carpets to do this weekend" I get a no thanks...
So now when they say, "Mike how come you always have money?" I say, "You want to read my book? It's called: Why I'm not broke", "It's a single paragraph book detailing that I work 3x more hours than you and thus I'm not broke."
Seriously I don't try to be an ass to my employees, but if there's extra hours available and you don't take them...
Seems to be reoccurring with mine. When I say, "Hey we have 10 hours of carpets to do this weekend" I get a no thanks...
So now when they say, "Mike how come you always have money?" I say, "You want to read my book? It's called: Why I'm not broke", "It's a single paragraph book detailing that I work 3x more hours than you and thus I'm not broke."
Seriously I don't try to be an ass to my employees, but if there's extra hours available and you don't take them...
