I dunno how I can get my mojo back again. Don't you ever have that feeling when you are so in control like ironclad control of how you run the show only to find that you are slipping slowly.. day by the day and you try in earnest to get a grip again of the whole situation? Been on this challenge a lot of times and I hope to get out again on this fox hole like I did before. I can do it!
Frankly, I'm quite stuck in a rut for days now. Well, my wife's business is doing fine, thanks to the good Lord above. I put some moolah in the mix so she can grow it by having it loaned through her network. Wifey is the exact opposite of me. She is outgoing, friendly and everything that sums up of what extrovert is. So yeah, I'm stuck because I'm merely a supporting cast now. I'm not the one running the show like I always used to. But maybe I'm looking at things the wrong way. Woosa... woosa.. woosa... (watch: Anger Management).
Anyway, helping her in the backgrounds is where my expertise are best utilized. But I don't intend to stay in the backgrounds because it's at the front row, that's where success is found. I am grateful that I was able to help her grow her clientele. We also have a little van rental with my two pals and boy, booking is picking up lately with the intense advertising I'm running on Facebook. I haven't even tried the other social networking sites since FB is obviously the more popular here in the country.
But I'll get to them Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. etc... hopefully not before I get a job because it gets boring staring at the screen most of the time.
The job isn't really important. I just need to do something to un-bore myself and maybe earn some paper on the side. That would be awesome!
Speaking of job, most of my pals who knew what I did, resigning pronto, think it wasn't a good idea. They said that I should just suck it up, stick around and wait for them to terminate me so I can get paid for the many years of my service. Well, it's really easy if you're simply looking from the outside. There was no way around it. Before we became her underlings, we've already seen the many people who packed their bags because of her. Of the many people who left, I got to know this guy we'd call Mr. Brave. I thought he'd survive out of the many who left the position he filled in. I mean, I called him exactly that, Mr. Brave because he plod on and went many months longer than the previous ones.
When we had our chance to talk, the guys just opens up and says he's never felt so low and demoralized whenever he talks to this woman. After getting his ego bruised and beaten many times over, he finally called it quits. Unlike me, he went and properly turned over to the next guy his work. Well, he didn't suffered the same fate as me.
Then there's this another guy who is really good and he came from a prestigious company with vast experience on the job he was hired for. He did exactly like me. Just vanished out of thin air. And mind you, this guys was sent to Manila a number of times to attend training and important meetings and if my memory serves me right, was even a recipient to a trip abroad for some R & R.
And so it got me thinking. Why are there so many good people who left this company? This company, by the way, is running a very, very prestigious dealership brand. When we started, we only had roughly 10 people in it. Now, it's running in the hundreds (or in thousands?) of employees including the branches. Amazing, eh?
So why people left and couldn't care about the brand? There's little to no incentives for the support group. They prefer to hire new graduates because they are the most likely people to suck it up. I mean, really, who gives a flying F about the brand if your immediate supervisor gives you a dressing down most of the time?
Well, it's nice to see how awesome the brand is especially now when it's really on the verge of toppling everyone on the top. But, behind the brand is really a disgruntled dealership where the turnover of people is of record's all-time high. I have seen a lot of good people quit or let go all because some of these monglers (managers) think they are 'holier than thou' or know better than everybody else.
The only people who would stick around no matter how beaten black and blue they are, are the people who make a profit. Like primarily, sales. Insurance and the chattel mortgage guys too. Yeah, the managers, who else. I was making a profit, true, but I was giving them a stirring service in that no matter how difficult or impossible, I get things done.
Would you pay a hundred or a thousand for a car detailing? You know detailing is a difficult task and for someone to merely charge a hundred, you would certainly have doubts of the quality of work, right? So, I would compare myself to that. I might be charging a little bit more but, you know you are getting the result you are looking for.
Now they've cut cost. Good for them. However, from what I've heard from the close associates I have there, it's not looking rosy. There's a shhhh... load of problem brewing in the horizon. Well, don't say I didn't warn you!
Poetic justice is indeed a great feeling. They're the brilliant, we're nobody's so who are we that they'd listen to us?
My gripe also goes to the man who could have prevented this whole debacle. I told him about the outcome because me being on the ground and know how things work, he should have listened. But he rolled the dice, anyway. Here you go, boss. Ya got what you came for. I hope you are satisfied with all the money you saved. I hope it's cheaper than me and my loyalty.
Let me tell ya something and I'm saying this in a modest way possible. No matter who they put there, there is no one like me. I go out and establish a good relationship with the people we deal with, I put up the system that makes the processing seamless, I talk to customers about their gripes and make them understand of the situation to diffuse their agitation. If I need to go the extra mile and drive because the customer can't, I go. I do all these things because I want the company to look good. No less than this ambitious manager said that she is not satisfied with our very own brand of service.
The profit is secondary to me because I know, I work hard for it, it should come because I deserved it. I should get paid for my mad skills.
Nonetheless, they saw a 20-something-year-young-sexy-thing girl more fitting to head the little department I used to run. Awesome dude! And, they are still looking for the guy who will do the shhhh.. work I used to do. They've hired a few before but they ALL quit. LOL
That's over a month ago now.
Let me tell you something. These guys need work, alright, but once they see what's out there, they would rather plant sweet potato than work under these scheming biatches and/or deal with the guys and gals who aren't gonna be friendly, knowing how cheapskate the company is towards them.
Sorry, it's downhill from hereon now for you, pals.
I'm happy to announce this is my last post about this whole shebang of JOB thing. Time for some closure.
It's really a good day to move on... make everything exciting, feel the difference and go further.
anyone in for some FFffff CLAP???
And It goes without saying.. Today, I love myself more. I'm the best there is and the best will ever be in that position.
Case closed.
[Photos: backstroke: transblawg.eu ; car detailing: pennexxon.com]
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