1. $25 K plus benefit to start for packing: damn' good (tho' of course that *is* No Cal, not hinterland, USA). But the cheapest way to get quality work is to hire somebody good to do a good job and to pay that person well enough that he/she wants to stay. That's the *normal* way of treating people, too: expect good work and pay for it, not the pissant, picayune modern globalized way of trying to squeeze more and more just passable work from more and more miserable employees for less and less compensation.
2. I have received three frames and one bike (not to mention many, many smaller items) from Riv and I really believe that not only is the packing, for bikes and frames at any rate, the best I've ever seen, but that it is truly a work of art, minor art in the sense of one of the minor crafts, I grant you, in its own right and I am perfectly serious about that. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:04 PM, grant <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a job to fill. It's a specific job. If somebody gets the job > and leaves it, we're back to SqOne and have to find,hire, and train > again. > To outsiders, maybe "shipping" is a low-totem pole job, and EVERYthing > is a stepping stone. Not that way here. If we don't ship, you don't > get your goods. If we don't ship on time, we lose business and may go > out of business. Everybody here is in awe of our current shipping > department, super proud, and if every area of the business worked as > well as shipping does, we'd be doing better. > > Robert is here for life. He has a respect for packing and shipping > that few if any people can relate to. Unless you work here and see how > it all goes together, you have no idea of the level of > professionalism and care that he puts into his work. That's not your > fault. You just aren't priveleged enough to see it happen the way it > happens every day...unless you work here. > > For somebody to treat their job alongside him as an entry level job > and a stepping stone to what they see as bigger or more important or > more glamorous jobs is an insult to Robert and shows a gross > misunderstanding of how we want the postion to be treated, and of the > respect we accord it, ourselves. > > We will always need two shippers, at least. We are looking for > somebody special, and it's tough. It's easy to find outa workers who > will grasp at anything that starts at $25K plus benefits---and I > understand that. I'd do it myself, if I were out of work. But in this > case, that's not getting it. > > We're looking for somebody who, like Vaughn, can come here and be the > last link in a long chain of commerce that keeps us all employed and > allows us to do whateveritis that we do. > > We're getting a steady flow of applicants who say stuff like, "I love > your ethic, your philosophy, what you stand for. I spend hours on your > site, I love the fight you fight, I've been a fan for years, I dig you > up he wazoo.." but they haven't even bought a bar of pine tar soap > from us...so how "into" us can they be, how MUCH of us can they know, > if they've never tiptoed over the line and actually used the stuff? > > It's not a big deal.....ultimately we'll hire a goody, and I hope > they'll stick around. It's not good place to work. John's excellent > job description was intended to weed out those who really don't want > to ship, and really do think after a year they'll have a window > office. There are (literally) no windows here, and the shippers work > closer to the rollup doors than anybody. > > Wish us luck, that is all. Don't want to make this any more public, > but in the past we've found some good guys through blog + forum posts, > so we thought we'd try again. > > G > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW [email protected] A billion stars go spinning through the night Blazing high above your head; But in you is the Presence that will be When all the stars are dead. (Rilke, Buddha in Glory) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
