Comment · Sat, December 5, 2020 · ND Owner
For anyone who ordered yesterday, has your shipping status updated?
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National-Spite · 6 points
Normally when I order, I get an email with the tracking info like within an hour and then later in the evening I get a text from Fed Ex once they have it and then texts for subsequent updates. However for the order I placed yesterday morning, I got the email with the tracking, but it hasn't updated yet and still says Fed Ex hasn't received it. So I don't know if it didn't go out yet or if it did but Fed Ex isn't scanning it. I thought there might be a chance of a delay because of increased orders on Friday and Monday, but when I ordered it still said it would ship same day so I didn't think it would be an issue.
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drop0dead · 3 points
100% been my experience as well. Another trait that I will say is most people at the top show some form of brutality towards others. Nobody ever actually makes a million dollars, the people around them and their products make the money. And honestly that's one of my biggest issues with finding work now, I see right through most places bullshit.
I'm actually really been considering starting my own clothing company called kill the rich. In doing so I would want it to be transparent with all financials including cost to produce, how much everyone in the company is being paid etc. And evening limiting what owners/ CEOs are able to make. I think moving forward that particular business model will actually prove to be more successful in the long run. Your company kind of provides a clue as to how successful that may be.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I think the issue with that is that you are fighting against human nature. People are happiest when they think they are succeeding as much as those around them. The actual reality of it is less important. It's about their perception of their standing. If someone is happy, and feels they are being paid fairly, that all comes crashing down if their learn someone else is getting more. It doesn't matter if the other person is more crucial to the company, takes on more work, or is more efficient. I mean, it's just human nature. We are the centers of our own stories. We create the narratives in our heads for why we are where we are. If our narrative is challenged by other information, it creates an existential problem for our egos. So while many people are being taken advantage of by those at the top, going the other direction and having everything be open will also cause chaos. You'd have to create a lot of tiers that people could fit into based on skill, responsibilities, effectiveness, etc. So you can still have open costs and salaries, but they would have to be VERY structured to help people connect their narrative to the reality of things. Steve and Patty might be technically in the same position, but Steve has 20 years experience and gets double the amount done in the same time with no mistakes. You have to build in a way to pay Steve more for that, or Steve will become disillusioned and either quit or stop working as hard. At the same time, you have to have a very strategic way of making Patty realize why she is paid less for the "same" job as Steve. In that scenario it is all about Patty's feelings, and how she can internalize the reality of the situation to help her ego cope with the fact that she is not paid as much. That's very very difficult. It would be nice to have it be all daises and butterflies, and have everyone be paid the same for the "same" job. However, that's just not reality.
Dealing with people is always messy. Things on paper almost never happen in the real world the way you think they will. Building a team that is effective, accurate, and happy, while maintaining profitability, is super difficult. You have to be careful to recognize who is actually a crucial asset, and ensure they know you understand that, and value them, while also managing those on the team that are not as much of an asset. It can be difficult to hear sometimes, but most people overvalue their contributions to things. Again, that's just human nature. Sometimes you have people on your team that are just doing a basic job, and they really have no way to move up from there. Sometimes those people are perfectly happy with that. They want to just have a stable job, do their work, go home, and live their lives. That's perfectly fine. However, they are not ever going to be compensated like someone fully dedicated to your mission, and who will do anything to help see that through to fruition. It can be difficult to explain that to someone not in that position, and sometimes just hearing that sends them into an existential crisis when they were perfectly happy before. Managing people's feelings about their contribution to your company is just as crucial about the actual job they do.
Just food for thought. The one thing about the real world is that it is a lot more complex and nuanced than we can plan in our heads. That's just normal shit. Throw people's personalities into the equation, and you are going to see things you never could have predicted. I've seen some shit now... I never could have predicted the stuff we have gone through ahead of time. I had seen thousands of people in jobs all over the world in my consulting days, but nothing could have ever prepared me for starting something from nothing like this. All the plans and ideas I had in my head from before I started had to shift and pivot to a more workable solution in the real world.