humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
The customer who take off a mask
Sometimes, the word “A customer is a king” is colorless in our shop, and the owner of the shop is sometimes the king. Some customers ask how the owner feels like when they enter the shop. However, the customer in this story is a bit strong.
By Thomas Pak6 years ago in Journal
Losing a Customer
One aspect of working with the public that can be difficult is losing a customer. Most of the time this is something that is avoidable, whether through careful and attentive customer service or through amazing products that the customer feels they need. If a customer leaves in anger or frustration then it’s almost always the fault of an employee or the business. If they leave because the service or products have changed that can often be avoidable too.
By Frank Shaw6 years ago in Journal
Hero or sellout?
We are living in difficult times where good paying jobs are hard to find without a college education or vocational training makes it even harder to find a job that will pay the bills and take care of our families. It makes it twice as hard being an African American male without a college degree. The options you have to stay financially stable become smaller. Though it’s not impossible, in today’s society it makes the task more challenging.
By Carlos Oates6 years ago in Journal
Ethics and why they are important
First role In the last year of my apprenticeship the company I worked for failed to inform us that all 10 of us only needed to do the final year of the City & Guilds Technicians course to qualify for the 2nd year in the BSc Electronics degree course. This would have earned us Chartered Engineer status with the IEE the largest professional institute after IEEE in the USA.
By Eric Sutherland6 years ago in Journal
Work Cycle
The sun was shining bright, the parking lot already beginning to fill. I work in a call center, helping customers with orders. When the door slams closed behind you every morning, you feel as though you've just entered a prison. They had you for at least eight hours.
By Lee Naylor6 years ago in Journal
Disability Shame
I'm not the first, nor will I be the last, to be terminated from a job for my disability...a disability disclosed prior to still being offered the position. To be excited to be working with a woman-owned minority company on a Federal Government contract was exciting when I started. Especially, with the company being an African-American woman-owned company (as it's very rare to come across one of those), it was truly a new venture for me. Things were going well, my performance reviews were always between the 96-100 percentage, and on a daily basis I was averaging 45-70 emails on any given day (as the company's contract with DHHS was strictly for email support - the main reason why I applied for the position, and accepted the position after informing during my interview of my anxiety disability and being unable to provide any form of phone support). It was great to finally be accepted at a company and not have to be embarrassed of not feeling like a real employee because of my anxiety disability!
By L Williams6 years ago in Journal
Equal Work
Why Equal Work for Equal Pay has not passed yet is something that is not getting as much attention as other movements that are more important right now. Women are often not paid equally at companies, save the ones I plan on building. I don't look my age so I deal with reverse ageism. Are you really almost forty? Yes, really. But anyway, how to fix the income inequality issue? Many employers simply do not get how to establish equal work for equal pay, only because they are stuck in the past, when many didn't know about how companies worked like this.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Journal
Two flows to every river.
My job makes me deeply unhappy. Everyday a monotonous, deeply unenjoyable, hard slog of eight hours reading case files and submission documents for police forces and private clients regarding crimes of the highest order. The most depraved and effecting betrayals of the human spirit and soul.
By Andi James Chamberlain6 years ago in Journal
Tattooed and employed
I love referrals and I am still in business because of word of mouth. Couple of weeks ago, I met a new client thanks to one of them and I was excited to actually see this agent (who I've already followed for months) in person. She is all I was expecting and then some until I heard why she changed some of her appearance so that way she might attract more clients... (what?)
By Rosie Vaccaro6 years ago in Journal
