In the last month, I did a lot of changes within the company administration. I worked on my excel files in a way that allows the administrator to save 5h per week. Yes, it's that much. I was amazed. Especially since the administrator is me now, yet again. With Lily gone, I can use the distraction, and Danny has to focus on his restaurant. But it leaves one bad part:
Concentration of workload.
Between Danny and I, we were able to replace each other easily. Vacation, sickness, whatever, we managed. Now, with him and our salesman gone (he quit 2 months ago), I have quite the schedule. What if I fall sick? So, I have to look for a new person to work with us. And that is not easy.
Work for money vs. money for work.
What I encountered many times it that people ask for work, but they're meaning money. They don't necessarily want to work, but they need to work to make money. Which is understandable, but in my experience nothe right attitude. They tend to quit jobs quickly, have little loyalty, and a poor work performance. Honestly, most of the applicants I encountered are like that.
They lack perspective.
In my non-humble opinion. I experience work as an integral part of life. Work can be many things, not everything has to lead to money - but tell that to capitalism. It'll laugh. And laugh. And laugh. I decided to not hold a grudge against the world I live in, but rather try to adapt while maintaining who I am, and inducing my self into everything I do.
It brought me much.
And to the people that work with me. Those who stuck with me. The guy who's with me for over 8 years now is making more money than even I - because he works three 12h shifts over night. And he has the best attitude. Whenever something goes wrong, he puts himself to investigate why that happened. And then he changes the process or whatever. And the most important thing:
He's proud of this work.
As am I. As are the others that work with me. We take pleasure in doing a great job, and the money is secondary - it seems to come automatically once you're doing a fabulous job. But we're kind of unicorns. It's not easy to work this way. To create a business that works that way, and is economically successful at the same time. I got lucky, too. And most businesses don't work that way, they exploit, and that's why potential employees have that attitude of "work for money." Can't blame them.
It's how they grew up.
And it's deeply embedded into the culture. "Viveza criolla" they call it. A "me first" attitude. There are plenty of exceptions, of course, and those I have to find. And I have to be creative to get there. In times of AI, everyone can make a CV quickly, and apply quickly for whatever, without reading the requirements nor the underlying text. So, to filter those out quickly, I added some challenges.
Hiding the info.
First sentence talks about Pandala as a business. Then it gets into how to apply - use the your full name and the words "sourdough bread" in the E-Mail Topic. Find the E-Mail yourself (it's not in the post). Write a 100 word text about a memory that you have connected to bread in English, not polished by AI, make as many mistakes as you need, we don't care about those, just that it's authentic. And then ending again talking about the business.
Why do I have to do that?
People don't read anymore. They can't follow instructions, either. The job needs some English and the willingness to make mistakes and own them. And learn from them, grow as a person and in self-esteem and hence be proud of their work.
The money will come with that. I'll make sure of it.
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These days, people don't seek for work for the purpose of serving. It's money that defines everything about service.
It's really sad how the concept of true service for humanity has degenerated all because of money.
Work is the key to moving forward... As some people say, it's better to work smart than to work hard.
Sure, but I'd say it's more important to work with passion than smart or hard. Best would be the three of them, that makes for high chances of success.
You said it yourself... By the way, it would be great if you could support us with your witness vote. We have a Hive node that's monitored from Venezuela. Thank Beelzael.
Sure, I have one vote left I think, I'll check it out.
All right!
I am sure that you treat people fairly and won't exploit them for the sake of maximum profit.
Of course not. It does happen a lot around me, and I really try not to. Getting back into the game, doing the sales myself for a while, showed me that I was not - it was the salesperson who was not up to the job, though being a very nice guy.
As one of the other comments states - I want people to be as happy with their work as me and the team. That's how we all make more money. One of my favorite things to do is giving out bonuses or raising wages because they deserve it. It's a special kind of gratification there.
I get it and understand people need money to survive and work is one way to achieve that. But there's a difference between turning up to work like a robot to do the minimum in return for money, and turning up for work with heart and passion and get rewarded.
Whilst both go home with the same pay packet at the end of the week/month, I'm certain the latter are much happier, both at home and at work, and end up not just financially richer. A lot of people just don't have the right mentality and attitude nowadays and that's killing everything, including themselves
Exactly, it's the happiness factor. Thanks for putting that feeling of mine into words. I want to work with people who are as happy as me with their work, like the rest of the team.
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