Let's say you start a business. It's all yours; you handle everything. One day you realize that you can't complete all your orders by yourself, so you decide to hire someone at minimum wage. After about a month or so you've caught up with your orders; business starts to slow down. You realize you're unable to pay your new worker.
What are you most likely to do?
1) Not pay the employee's wage for the next month and not say anything until the employee asks about it
2 ) Lay off the employee immediately - no sense in losing money if you don't have to
3 ) Ask the employee if they can wait to get paid when things pick up but keep working in the meantime
4) Continue to pay the employee as things may pick up
5) Tell the employee about your problem and see if you can come to an arrangement
At "the last company I worked for", there were maybe 60 employees and the boss was constantly complaining about how people weren't doing their jobs while also hiring people with absolutely little to no job experience about the jobs they were being hired for, and then underpaying them while providing no opportunity for training.
Should this guy even be in business? He fully understands the service he was attempting to provide but he was is not a designer of business office environments and workflows - he is not a "manager". He believes he understands marketing and hires his marketing staff accordingly using the "inside-out" model which has as its core idea that you hire the people to which you want to market. Unfortunately, pulling people out of your audience to create your next marketing strategy may not be exactly what they meant by that.
The company is completely mismanaged from bottom to top. The computer systems and methodologies are non-existent. The employees are nice and helpful and for the most part are diligent, but they really don't know what they're doing, or rather they are doing exactly what the person who had the job last is doing (as far as they know). No one remembers what happened the previous month. There is NO motivation to actually learn best practices for their job. There are a couple of people who have the job of "supervisor" but there is no accountability in either direction.
He also gets sued. A lot.
I've often questioned if this guy should even be in business? Even though he's making money the business is in complete turmoil. I worked there for a very frustrating year and a half. But I guess that's small business. I haven't worked for very many and they all are pretty much like that. After working for several large organizations I guess I've gotten spoiled.
Like rotten.
#smallbusiness #minimumwage @letsgetminimal @charliepecot
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