How are you today?

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If they don't care or listen to you, then you know that company doesn't care about its employees. Not worth wasting you working life on. Better to find greener pastures.

If they do listen and do care, then you may have saved them a lot of money in the long run.

Three suggestions when talking to "THE boss"....

1. Keep everything "short and sweet", don't prattle on about everything. Stay on point.
If the boss/bosses want you to expand on a point, do so, but also keep it short and sweet. Bosses are like toddlers, they have an attention span of about 3 seconds. Keep them interested in what you are saying, don't give them a chance to get bored.

2. No matter if you are talking about bad managers or worthless employees, DON'T put them down or call them names. Keep it all professional. There are ways to tell them what is going on without putting someone down. Once you have put down someone in their employ, you have lost their interest.

3. Keep everything in reference to MONEY, TIME LOST, and LOW PRODUCTIVITY. Those are the three TOP things to keep in reference. If a manager is treating employees badly, keep it in reference of how this affects the employees, gives them lower moral, which in turn creates lower productivity, more employees seeking more time off, which in turn is money lost for the company. (as an example) Bosses LOVE it when you can save them money and make production better....or have the ideas for it.

4. On your meeting day, be sure and wear nice clothes (if you are able too). Or at least have time to put on a tie before hitting the big bosses office.

You might already know this stuff, but thought I would "throw it out there" anyway.

Thanks heaps for that. I'm a boss in the company myself so short and sweet is the way I like things as well as direct.

My issues are more with the 'industry' rather than the company and any of the employee's. There are issues in the industry which are changing and I don't think the company up top are aware of how serious the issues are because everyone is always like 'Yep, all is good in at work.' So if the top guys don't know about problems in the industry, they can't begin to address them.

I work in the retail fuel industry and convenience industry, my staff are the 'front line' for the company and they are confronted with an ever increasingly aggressive society willing to abuse and even physically threaten my staff and I don't feel there is enough being done in the way of support to allay the fears of my team. The approach has always been 'Keep smiling and stay calm with those customers.' which is fine if the abuse is every other week, but the abuse is several times a day and in busy periods the customers can 'gang up'

Most of my team work through the evening and early hours of the morning ALONE. If there is a fuel spill it would cause a volatile situation that they have to handle themselves and that is on top of the robbery and abuse threats that are very real at those times of day.

I'm just dissillusioned, but maybe I can help bring about change.