I pit employers whining about how they can’t get help because “everyone is on unemployment”.
Let’s review MY first 12 years in the workforce:
-Quit a construction crew where I was verbally abused by the foreman and then had to fight to get $300 in back pay.
-Worked at a car sales lot where I quickly learned part of my job was to wash and detail cars, something not mentioned in the interview but I was happy to do it. After I quit because of his temper tantrums, the owner over-reported my earnings costing me $750 in taxes.
-Worked for a Big Box store where I was promised a transfer from the store (I helped build) an hour and a half from my house to one 15 minutes away, and was denied. So, I quit to take a better job at a rival big box store 20 minutes from my house. When I went to get my backpay, a manager at the first store said I was blackballed and would never work for them again.
-At Big Box store #2 , which I helped build, as a manager I was constantly understaffed and forced to work overtime which I was not compensated for. After three years and great sales numbers, I asked if I was in line to be promoted to store Assistant manager, and was passed over for another manager that rode motorcycles with the store manager, and his secretary.
-Worked as a manufacturers rep for a company that hired an outside consultant and bullshit artist to help promote his product to distributors. He decided he didn’t like me because I asked him to not put down my products in front of me and the customers. and threw me under the bus to management, forcing me to find another job.
-At a rental sales place my orders were repeatedly sandbagged by the dispatcher so they could deliver orders for the other sales rep (who had a better territory than me) who she played cards with every Friday night. It was suggested by my manager, who never stuck up for his salespeople, that I “kiss her ass” a little more. I suggested to him that he is her manager too, and he needs to ask her to just do her job. I was fired shortly after.
After a year of dealing with employers stupid fucking interview “stress” questions, being grilled by bitchy HR staff, and put through the ringer by various companies, I was finally lucky enough to land a job with a great company that has treated me well for almost 20 years now.
Here is what I am suggesting: if you are a business person and can’t get your employees to come back, maybe its their subtle way of saying “fuck you”. America’s workforce is sick of being underpaid, abused, cheated, backstabbed, denied promotions and threatened by incompetents, bullies, crooks, con-artists, and members of the good 'ol boy network. To quote Johnny Paycheck, “Take this job and shove it”.
