Money Hungry Businesses

Week Seven

I’ve decided to make my last entry about my personal experiences with a certain “Money Hungry Business” this past week. To keep the store away from this blog, I’ll call it the Big Red Star.

I wanted a seasonal job this winter break, so I wouldn’t die from the sheer boredom that College Station gives off during the holidays of everyone being gone. So I did. And by doing this, that meant I had to work BLACK FRIDAY. DUN, Dun, duuuuun.

But ANYWAYS, I have decided that I will never, ever get a job with within a business like the Big Red Star again. Being a college student, I’ll do the dirt work and get paid. I do not mind, but this could never become a career for me.

I have work many other jobs that were considered family businesses, so I’m used to being close to my coworkers and feeling like you have friends working with you. This is much different from the Big Red Star. Most employees are only there to work, and don’t care about getting to know you. The head people are friendly and inviting at first, but don’t let that façade fool you. Within a minute from getting back from lunch and walking up to the counter I work at, I was getting snapped at for standing around.

They also give us goals every shift that we should meet, which should help motivate us to sell, right? Wrong. They have our goals jacked up so high, that we are only destined to fail and not meet them. They also try to motivate us to sell so we can put our names in with special drawings to win very mediocre prizes, for example 40% on a given item. It’s just so we can spend our money at their store. So what they pay us, they ultimately just get back.

To reference Week Three, I feel like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. 

This X style of management is in no way encouraging and motivating to me. And it makes me terribly sad that there are people out there who have to settle with taking these kinds of jobs. I hope I never have to be one of those people. Whether I work for myself or for a company, I want goals that allow me to be creative and grow as a person. Even if that means I’m not earning a large salary, I know I’ll be happy.