A Million Jobs
Being small business owners the wife and I have found the past four years an endless struggle to grow the business. Finding customers is not the problem, in fact they seek us out. The problem has been our inablity to find enough suitable help even though we offer higher than usual local industry standard wages. Two weeks ago we were on the search yet again. This time it was different….
Two days went by with out a single response to our ad … zip, zero.. nada.
” Let me see this ad ” said the wife getting worried….. and upon seeing it she informed me the problem was the last line I had written in the ad …. that line informed the prospectives that they ….
” Must be able to go two hours with out playing with a phone ”
This I wrote due to the chronic problem of employees thinking it is their right to not stop telephone use while vacuuming and dusting.
” What if it’s an emegency ? ” they always lament to which I can’t help but push my belief that ” Jimmy changing his picture on Face Book ” isn’t a friggen emergency.
So I deleted that line and instantly the responses started to flow in ….. the first four responses had mug shots . Then a couple or so informed me they “might” be available next Tuesday or… maybe Thursday . The rest emailed me between the hours of 2 and 3 a.m. until finally the pick of the litter appeared …… with all of her tattoos.
She arrived at 7 a.m. unusually punctual for a first day on the job and I was delighted by that fact. That is until she opened her yap to inform me she needed to leave At 9 a.m … only three hours early. She turned out to be quite the worker for a whole week before performing the usual no show no call act.
Still… considering she replaced a young guy who showed up 1 1/2 hours late on his first day she still holds pick of the litter status ths month….
Ya know… when Mr. Trump laid claim to bringing millions of jobs back to the United States I felt it a worthy endeavor…. but I did question what would happen when only hundreds of thousands showed up for work….
