Every time we get snow, my wife has to deal with people not coming to work. The thing is she’s the big bosswoman and has to make sure shit gets done – so when someone calls off and no one can (or will) cover…it’s up to her and her management team (and others willing to step up) to make it happen.
So the last two days we had snow…and ice.
People started calling off before it even began based solely on weather reports of it coming. More people after it started falling and even more today in the aftermath and cleanup phase.
So my wife and some of the managers are forced to do crazy shit like sleep at the hotel or work 16 hours or get up at 4am and head in to do stuff like serving food or cleaning rooms or taking reservations.
Big deal, they’re the bosses that’s why they get paid what they get paid, right?
Well, sort of. But a lot of people (mostly the kind of people that don’t make any extra effort – like showing up when they call for snow) don’t seem to put the whole process on the table.
Maybe that willingness to come in and pick up the slack is why these people became managers and achieved higher salaries? In fact, I’m 99% sure it is.
The kind of people who do things like that are the kind that become managers with big salaries. The kind who aren’t don’t.
And the funny thing is that those that don’t, don’t seem to get it at all. And when Friday rolls around and those people who came in an worked 16 hour days and slept at their place of employment to make sure they’d be there and things would be taken care of take a three day weekend, you know what the “people who don’t” are all going to say to each other?
“Must be nice to be the boss and take a three day weekend whenever you want.”
People are so predictable.
Note: “people that don’t” also usually complain about how they keep getting screwed in life and how they never get a break or a raise or recognition or anything and can’t understand why others do
