13 Reasons Your Co-workers and the Business Don’t Miss you

Pretty funny that I’m in the middle of Christmas stuff and getting ready for the big day like many of you. Actually I’m maxamizing my time… and currently sit at a red light writing this post. With it being the busy shopping season there’s no question that I’ll have plenty of red lights on the way to my destination to get the header and footer of this post written, the list itself won’t be getting done at these lights.

Anyway, I thought it would be a good time to start putting together a fun, informative post. Trust me, there’s people out there in the work force that need to see this. There’s also a business owner or entrepreneur out there that understands exactly what I’m talking about when it comes to a few of these reasons that you wouldn’t miss an associate… or in some cases why you would be THRILLED to see an associate go.

On to the list.

Reasons No One Cares That You Quit

1. “Taking care of  business” was something you thought only occurred in a bathroom
2. “Expectations” only meant that you expected to be paid for doing nothing
3. Truth be told, just not by you
4. Your work ethic was matched only by that of a dead snail
5. You took the fork in the road at every learning curve
6. You confuse + / – with funny symbols to send in SMS messages
7. The word “success” made you think of white rice
8. “Time” is the one four letter word you never figured out
9. Stephan King’s stories couldn’t hold a candle to your epic tales of bullshit
10. Every time someone said “clean” you waited for a bald guy with an earring to show up
11. “CS” means something to you that I won’t write here vs it’s actual meaning, “Customer Service”
12. Being “self motivated” to you was picking up the phone to call in sick
13. “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” is a word you could only spell when the song was on

Parting Shots

As funny as the list above might be, it’s actually very sad. If you have an associate that suffers from those things above you should already be set into a good counseling practice to either get the associate on track or exiting stage left. Any associate with the issues above that get to linger around only damage your business, hard working associates and the most important facet of your business, the customers.

Take a look at “9 Tips to proper Employee Counseling” and “3 Step Employee Counseling Process” for more information on getting the useless weight out of your business before they do more damage then needs to be done.

Bottom line, proper counseling to train and educate will ensure that your expectations become closer to reality.

You’re Up

Leave a comment below and share a few things that an associate, co-worker or associate within your business could do in order for you to not miss them when they aren’t with you any longer. I’m sure this can get pretty interesting.

Tagged as: business counseling tips, business owner tips, employee tips, tips for business owners

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