Below I said: It's not good place to work. I started to write "It's not a bad place to work" but tried to restate it more accurately and positively as, "It's a good place to work", and lo and behold, I didn't backspace enough. I hope y'all can understand a mistake like that and not get all Freudiananalytical ...it really IS a good place....I think!
B, Grant and thanks to Joe for liking the packing. On Aug 8, 8:04 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.
