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originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
a reply to: Lyxdeslic
Time to move on. You state that the shop makes more profit on the days that you work, because you keep the store more presentable and you have some good ideas on attracting new customers.
In my opinion you have two options. Go sell yourself and your ideas to another entrepreneur, or become an entrepreneur yourself and take the leap into opening your own store.
If you take the first option, sure you may increase your prospects to an extent where you are working 40 hours per week and being recompensed at the going rate for this.
If you decide to take the second option you will probably put in at least three times the hours you currently work for less return than you are currently receiving. There will be blood, sweat and tears, sleepless nights even. Yet, you seem to have a knack of increasing income, use this to make yourself rich and not somebody who is probably going to use your suggestions the moment you leave or worse still whilst you remain working for them.
Good luck with whatever you chose in life.
originally posted by: Lyxdeslic
I don't think I have ever been more pissed off in my life. Or at least that I can remember.
I work for this mom and pop game shop. I love my job. I want to see this store succeed. I don't want to see it get shut down like many other mom and pop shops in the area.
Most weeks my schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. And now my schedule has been cut six hours. Which means that after taxes, I'm taking a 50 dollar cut on my already tiny paycheck. My 32 hours has now dropped to 26 hours, because I'm losing Saturday and Sunday, though, I'm gaining Saturdays hours by picking up Friday. My schedule has been changed because there is a new 'project' that my boss and his wife are working on, and now his wife needs to work Saturday and Sunday.
I normally would have no problem with this. I'm pissed because this is a new store. In November, the store will have been here for a year. We are making enough most days to just pay the bills in the store. On days that I work, we make a couple hundred dollars more than what's being made on days that I'm not here. I keep the store looking presentable (This place was VERY messy when I started here), and I go out of my way to really help people. Recently, on my day off, I took a few hours to brainstorm ways to bring people into the store, especially with the holidays coming up. I emailed the list of things to my boss, who never responded. I was already feeling under appreciated, and now it's worse, because I'm now making less here than when I started, despite the fact that I do the most work here.
I feel like # about the whole thing, and I voiced this to my boss, and he said he'd make it up to me, but how the heck do you make up the fact that someone is losing 50 dollars on an already measly paycheck?
I don't understand how someone could justify effing over one of the best people they've got. I just don't friggin get it.
originally posted by: signalfire
They're not screwing you over, they're trying to survive themselves and not doing all that good a job at it.
By the time they pay rent and buy products to sell, they're probably not even making anything extra. An employee is overhead and if they can staff it themselves, that's what they'll have to do.
Doesn't matter if you're the world's best employee, if they can't afford you, they can't afford you. Beware that whatever they're paying you, you can almost double that for their state and federal costs to employ you. So you have the strange math happen where employee 'A' is being paid, say, $8.50 an hour, taking home the equivalent of $6.50 an hour, and yet costing the employer $18.00 an hour... only the government is winning here, and then only in the short run.
originally posted by: Lyxdeslic
Heh. Thanks guys. Knowing that other people understand why I'm aggravated helps. And thanks for the advice. That helps, too. I'm most likely going to be looking into something else, at the least as a second job. This whole thing just has me feeling really lost and confused. Confused because I just can't wrap my head around this whole thing. And lost because it really bothers me that someone can put everything into a job and have their bosses screw them over. I'm lost because it seems like no matter what I do in this world it is not enough. I'm extremely tired of feeling like everything I do is not enough.
originally posted by: haven123
originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
a reply to: Lyxdeslic
Time to move on. You state that the shop makes more profit on the days that you work, because you keep the store more presentable and you have some good ideas on attracting new customers.
In my opinion you have two options. Go sell yourself and your ideas to another entrepreneur, or become an entrepreneur yourself and take the leap into opening your own store.
If you take the first option, sure you may increase your prospects to an extent where you are working 40 hours per week and being recompensed at the going rate for this.
If you decide to take the second option you will probably put in at least three times the hours you currently work for less return than you are currently receiving. There will be blood, sweat and tears, sleepless nights even. Yet, you seem to have a knack of increasing income, use this to make yourself rich and not somebody who is probably going to use your suggestions the moment you leave or worse still whilst you remain working for them.
Good luck with whatever you chose in life.
and hide a rotten fish somwhere