So here it is. I learned a lot in history class. Not sure if anyone else did or not. With looking around though it doesn't appear to me anyone who is in charge paid attention.
Alright here is my first example. Companies back before the Great Depression. Anyone remember what some of the biggest problems with how most businesses were ran before the Great Depression? They were ran thinking about the dollar. How much was coming in at the moment and how to save as much money as possible. This included low pay rates, minimal work crews who weren't paid extra for their time, few or no benefits all in the name of the Mighty Dollar. Where did that lead those companies? People starting their own gardens to implement for food. Canning the extra food from their gardens. Raising chickens for food and eggs. Many people learned to use soups and other foods to stretch their limited food due to not having enough money. Does this remind you of anything?
So why are companies still laying people off? How is making more unemployed people going to improve the market? Here is what I think and I give props to the companies who are doing something to help rather then add to the problem. If money is the concern of the company. Take some of the money from the top and spread it to the people in the lower portions of the company. Stop buying needless items in the company name. What reason does a company really need condos or jets for? Why does there need to be expensive cars on the company expense reports? If a company is heading into rough times isn't it wiser to get rid of needless expenditures? Just an idea that I would do if I owned a company. I would also take a pay cut if I was making millions a year. Who really needs to make millions in a year? I am not saying it isn't nice or that I wouldn't want to. My point is who needs to. If the concern is money then cut the upper parts of the companies top paying people's pay by a set amount, remove extra unnecessary expenditures, and be open to your employees on the decisions you are making and the reasons. The reason this is a good plan in my opinion is due to the larger picture.
Here is the larger picture.
Take a pay cut now so that there are still a larger amount of people employed.
The more people employed the more people spending money.
The more people spending money the more money coming into the company.
As people see a company who cares about the current problems, cares about their customers, and cares about their employees more people look at that company and want to do business with them. They gain respect for the company.
Now if companies keep looking at the smaller picture here is what you see.
People without jobs.
Which leads to people who don't have money to spend.
People making less money due to companies not paying enough.
Again leading to less spending.
Companies not providing as many benefits.
Causing people to get sick and not able to work.
Once again less spending.
What does less spending lead to?
Oh ya. Less spending means less customers.
Less customers leads to what happening again? I keep forgetting how that works. Oh ya I remember it leads to less revenue.
Less revenue leads to? Can anyone guess?
That is right companies going bankrupt.
So lets go back to how learning something new makes us forget something important.
New technology has made us start forgetting some very important things. One of those major things is customer service. One on one help. Granted internet help is a wonderful thing for quick items such as paying a bill or finding simple answers. I am not knocking technology. I love paying bills online.I love paying my bill through the automated system. What I don't love is IMing a person about being billed wrong or when I have a problem. I don't like having to answer a million questions that have nothing to do with my problem through an automated system. Save me time and a headache please. Just implement the 0 option. That way when the automated system is taking my calm peaceful self to a very irritated and angry person I can press 0 and get help. Otherwise I won't be as reasonable by the time someone has to speak to me. Also nothing pisses me off faster and makes me want to end all services with a company faster than not being able to contact the company. I am willing to go without any service I have if my only other choice is to be left talking to a machine when I need a quick simple fix or I am not being treated like a human being. I am serious. I can live without internet. I can live without a phone. Electricity is ify, but if need by I will find a way to live without it. Campgrounds are great and cheap if I can't find a good place to call home. Get my point? There isn't a service provided that I pay money for that I can't live without if need be. Learn that companies. You aren't the end all be all of my life. Nor should you be that for anyone else. We have the power people.
If you have the choice of a company that treats you better and treats their employees better make that choice. I hear people complaining all the time about gas prices. Yet nobody seems concerned about who provides their service or what they are doing. I am not saying for you to give everything up. I just want companies and people to realize in order to make it through the hard times we all need to help each other. As a country we need to band together like we have always done. History isn't there to be forgotten. It is there to learn from. If we move forward in one are, but start making past mistakes while moving forward how does that help us?
Alright enough on this subject. I have other examples of how we learn something new and forget something important that I will get into later. Stay tuned. If you agreed with any of this or liked it please press the share button. If you have a comment please feel free to leave one below or contact me directly. I hope this made you start thinking or opened your mind some. If not then I hope it was at least entertaining. If it did open your mind then I did m
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