Comments on: “Woo” Your Employees http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Karl Staib - The Work Happy Guy http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-516 Karl Staib - The Work Happy Guy Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:59:24 +0000 http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-516 Hey Patricia, it really isn't that hard to give your employees a little pat on the back every once in a while. That's what managers should be doing to create a great place to work. They lost a valuable employee. My guess is that they hire people that take the abuse because they want to work in a book store. They don't have any motivation to make it a cool environment. The thing is they would probably be selling a lot more books if they treated their employees with respect. Hey Patricia, it really isn’t that hard to give your employees a little pat on the back every once in a while. That’s what managers should be doing to create a great place to work.

They lost a valuable employee. My guess is that they hire people that take the abuse because they want to work in a book store. They don’t have any motivation to make it a cool environment. The thing is they would probably be selling a lot more books if they treated their employees with respect.

]]> By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-498 Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:07:37 +0000 http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-498 I love working in a bookstore environment. I love books and enjoy being around other people that love works. I very much believe in good customer service. About 10 years ago I worked for the biggest bookstore for a little over a year. I helped line the shelves with books and open the store. I was trained to do customer service. I loved it as long as we had managers that showed appreciation to their employees. This particular bookstore has a very large turnover in employees. The store pays minimum wage only. Most employees are parttime with no benefits and they don't hire an adequate staff to do all of the work so the staff that they do have is always overworked. The good employees seemed to move on to better paying jobs and to jobs that they were appreciated at. After a year and 3 months, I gave my two weeks notice and quit. The final straw was when the store manager refused to answer calls to come to help out at the cash register so that I could do my job in customer service. If the managers and company had valued their people, I would still be there today. <em>Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker's last blog post..<a href='http://patriciasingleton.blogspot.com/2008/06/using-your-pain-to-live-your-divine.html' rel="nofollow">Using Your Pain To Live Your Divine Purpose</a></em> I love working in a bookstore environment. I love books and enjoy being around other people that love works. I very much believe in good customer service. About 10 years ago I worked for the biggest bookstore for a little over a year. I helped line the shelves with books and open the store. I was trained to do customer service. I loved it as long as we had managers that showed appreciation to their employees. This particular bookstore has a very large turnover in employees. The store pays minimum wage only. Most employees are parttime with no benefits and they don’t hire an adequate staff to do all of the work so the staff that they do have is always overworked. The good employees seemed to move on to better paying jobs and to jobs that they were appreciated at. After a year and 3 months, I gave my two weeks notice and quit. The final straw was when the store manager refused to answer calls to come to help out at the cash register so that I could do my job in customer service. If the managers and company had valued their people, I would still be there today.

Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker’s last blog post..Using Your Pain To Live Your Divine Purpose

]]> By: The Work Happy Guy http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-216 The Work Happy Guy Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:42:40 +0000 http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-216 Hey Billy, I've read about Japanese work habits and hopefully they will improve the work-life balance that all of us deserve. Hey Billy, I’ve read about Japanese work habits and hopefully they will improve the work-life balance that all of us deserve.

]]> By: billywest http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-215 billywest Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:40:10 +0000 http://www.workhappynow.com/2008/04/17/%e2%80%9cwoo%e2%80%9d-your-employees/#comment-215 Nice piece. Here in Japan, it would be nice if employers could take on such a line of thinking. <em>billywest's last blog post..<a href='http://www.sevententotokyo.com/happiness-is-a-fishbowl-of-beer/' rel="nofollow">Happiness Is A Fishbowl Of Beer</a></em> Nice piece. Here in Japan, it would be nice if employers could take on such a line of thinking.

billywest’s last blog post..Happiness Is A Fishbowl Of Beer

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