P03-28-14

12: 26am

BP: 122/ 79                                                                                                     Heart Rate 97.9

 

You know, now that I had time to actually think about it, I would actually recommend the wage hike on minimum wage. I mean, if you want your business to thrive, you would hope to have the best employees working for you, correct? And if you have well paid employees, that will lead to great customer service, because they are atleast somewhat happy. You can only do so much, but hey, you are training them to be the best. Whereas if you were going the min-wage route, you wouldn’t be training them because the employees won’t care anyways, and the service will be horrible. It’s how it used to be back in the day, but dems made the min wage a thing where it was mandated and a lot of businesses just fired back by ONLY giving employees the min-wage. In doing so, customers get crappy service, because the people working for that service isn’t getting paid shit to do a great job and so your business suffers. I can understand the McDonald’s workers who don’t want  to better themselves by at least taking the management program they give out at McDs free of charge, but the small businesses that need the customers need great customer service, because that’s what most small businesses are about, customer service. The moment you treat customers like they have some type of stock in your service, they will participate more often and your business will thrive, it can’t always be the owner that gets paid the most out of all of the employees. I mean if you really want to make money, then pay your employees if you need them to do an over the top job for you because they REPRESENT YOU as part of the company. It reflects upon you as a manager or business owner as to how you want your customers to feel when they patronize your establishment. Again, the fast food places need to stop with that nonsense because they CAN afford to give better wages, so they need to stop. And I highly doubt anybody hungry is going to pass up McDonald’s if they want to eat something quick to eat. I don’t pay attention to the prices of the meals when I go to the fast food places because I rarely go there. Then again, I don’t think anybody should be aware of the prices getting jacked up at most restaurants because if someone wants to go to that restaurant for a date or something, then they will go and overlook the pricing on the menu. I can see a few cheapskates who will probably forgo the restaurant, but how big a percentage is that? It’s not that serious. I do think that most people will pay more for better food and better customer service. See, the Republicans like to argue that raising the min-wage will only make small businesses lose business or lay off employees, but I beg to differ. I think that they’ll do fine if they provide excellent service. Most customers don’t pay attention to the price of the service. AND it’s only a damn 45 cent hike anyway. That makes it $18 a week extra if it’s 40 hours a week, and less if if the hours are less. How can a business justify going out of business if they get an extra $18 going from the business itself to the employees.  See, when I actually think about it and not act all selfish about it, I can see how this hike would be pretty reasonable. I mean, if you want to run a shitty business, be my guest, but you won’t last long. A business that lasts long gives out excellent service, not just from the owner, but also from the employees who are supposed to be part of the team or part of the family.

            There are so many reasons why I don’t vote Republican. They make no damn sense, and they suck too much corporate dicks to even serve the people at all.  And that’s the funny thing about it. Because if you really think about it, if you were a small business owner, why not give your employees a reasonable wage in order to ensure great service towards your customers from employees without having to pay extra for monitoring your employees, because we all know a lot of employers tend to do that if they want a business running smoothly.

            I realized this because I was thinking about it, yet nobody had mentioned it until tonight, but I had the idea in my head for a couple of days now. I just didn’t put it down on paper. Ever since I did that, I have been reading about it all over the place. Sure some places maybe need to just raise their employees’ wages regardless(most fast food places) but the small businesses need to be business smart themselves. That would increase the moral in the work environment as well as productivity, and ensure that employees leave happy campers. If small businesses are smart enough or if they want to last, they will raise the wages regardless because the minute you do that, the minute your employees do a better job and the more business gets generated. It’s lazy employers who make no sacrifice. Those are the employers who’s business ventures fold due to not making their customers first priority. Most businesses are services, because nobody who owns a business invented something, and if they did it’s a local staple that might last long if they keep the customer service up to par. That means a lot of investing on valuable employees who will help your business thrive and even ‘cause expansion due to such a great service towards customers, how can you argue with that?Republicans who claim that raising the minimum wage will cause businesses to close up don’t have any confidence towards small businesses. They only fight for the big corporations because the big corporations make contributions towards their political parties. I am surprised that so many small business owners don’t realize that the Republicans are slapping them in the face when they make such absurd statements like “oh, businesses will fold or lay off workers” when the price of raising wages isn’t that big a deal. If conservatives would just take their heads out of their asses, they would realize that doing this would literally stimulate the economy as these low-wage workers have more money to spend in the local community. BUT they want to try and shoot it down because of big corporations. That’s the problem, everybody’s getting used to working for big corporations. I work for a small company and I have never gotten laid off in the 20 some odd years being employed by both places I worked in and one place was a local public library.  Not only will it make your employees loyal and more willing to join you in fulfilling your goals as a small business owner.

You also avoid running the risk of theft among your employees, because if they are paid well and treated well, they will not steal from you. There have been employees who have stolen straight from the cash register, because I can remember when employees at my job’s coffee  cart were stealing upwards of half of the profits from a days’ sales. The never questioned anybody about it, but they had their suspicions and were monitoring employees due to this., of course they never caught anybody who as stealing, and there were many of them who were stealing, but it’s because they weren’t getting paid shit to work there.  They were paid a little over the minimum wage, but that was because that organization wanted to look like they paid better than most entry level jobs. I had to admit though, that no matter how much you paid them morons who worked at the coffee cart, they were going to steal regardless because it was not so hard to do so. I remember some of them used to do it right in front of me. They would pocket the money in front of me as if they were not being monitored. I used to laugh at the administrators, because they were so stupid that they never tried to fire them. It was so ridiculous that they never tried anything. I’ll admit to pocketing some of the money myself, but never took more than enough to take the bus back home  and fourth. I actually took more than most of my co-workers, because I double dipped one time and found myself receiving a check for more than $490 for one week’s work. My supervisor knew that I knew what I was doing, but they were all feigning ignorance (including myself) and so I was never actually investigated nor fired. I wonder why, because I t was a lot of money that I took from them, yet I was never made an example of. I guess it was because I wasn’t typically stealing from them and they decided to let it go. It was a small thing compared to what the rest of my co-workers were doing. They would steal everything from Video tapes to CDs to DVDs and even books on gangsters. A lot of these employees. If you went to their apartments you would stumble upon library books in the tons because they would never check them out, and so I would find it in even the most honest employee’s book shelves, lol. You could tell they were library books because of the call numbers attached to the spine of the books. Call numbers are the numbers for a specific shelving system in particular libraries for you to be able to locate them on the computer and while going out to the shelves. Anyways. In most small businesses, people don’t tend to steal or do anything malicious  if they get fair compensation. It doesn’t matter that they are just getting a check. Most people want to feel like they have a stake in their employers’ establishment. Most of the small business owners are greedy and DO not want to pay their employees their just due, and so they end up with employees who practice shady shit. It’s actually the employers fault for treating their employees like shit and making them feel like they’re not worth any more than minimum wage. Employers who pay minimum wage are plain f**king greedy. They tend to have very low moral among their employees and you can usually tell if those employees are miserable. Many of the bigger companies who hire low-wage employees have millions or billions, and it’s solely due to their employees, it wasn’t all because of the owners.  Papa Johns, one time, sent out a letter that if the affordable care act were to become las,they would be forced to fire or lay off employees. That greedy f**king CEO claimed that he would lose so much money because he could afford it for his employees. This greedy f**k had a mansion in California or something, in the millions, while his employees were going to the hospital and being billed for their care at amounts that were way higher than most people. these are the benefits of having a well paid staff, but alot of conservatives and Republicans will not tell you this because they’re too busy talking about the negative shit that might not even happen. If small businesses were more considerate, they would pay their employees enough tlo live off of. Instead they give them enough to barely survive and think it’s enough, making enough money, if not more, for themselves. This is all the while complaining that they will have to close up shop if they were to pay their employees more. That’s bullshit, because if they were smart they would know that they need to step up their game and make their business(es) shine in order to make more to do better than just survive. A lot of people are just perceiving most small employers as being greedy or whatever, but I think they’re just lazy and don’t want to put in that extra effort to make more to make more than enough profits to just get by.

            In some instances I do agree that affordable healthcare should be available to everybody no matter what. I don’t’ mind paying a little extra to keep most of the population healthy if it means less disease among those who make less than me, yet interact with me. A lot of people forget that they interact with people who make less than them in more ways than one, and those employees might not take care of themselves because they can’t afford to stay away from work. It’s a damn shame that everybody thinks about the financial burden that it causes them, when in reality it is more about peace of mind. If you want to stay a healthy society, then you should keep most of the population healthy and avoid disease by helping those who need healthcare. Instead a lot of people are selfish and don’t think about the consequences of not keeping others healthy. Again, republicans and conservatives don’t tell you about this because they are too busy getting into the financial consequences. How smart of them to pull that

            I swear the micro USB connections to these new cell phones are put there on purpose so you can go out and purchase another, newer phone. The connection can get damaged easily because, first of all, it’s difficult connecting the cable to the phone without running the risk of damaging it(which you eventually do). AGAIN, the general population doesn’t pay attention to this because they are ignorant, and probably don’t think that this could possibly happen, but I’m a business major, and trust me, if I wanted people to keep buying phones form my company, yes, Iwould make products that could die off in months just to achieve that without being so damn obvious about. But when I point this out, most people are so ignorant that they will listen and then shrug it off the next day or the next hour as they post away on Facebook or Twitter. This connection thing happened to my EVO smartphone after having it for almost two years, and it so happens that it’s almost two years since I upgraded to this phone, and it’s now acting like this. It’s not surprising to me, and anybody who doesn’t believe me is just plain f**king ignorant. They will probably claim that I’m being paranoid, or whatever, but they are the ones who are stupid enough to not believe this shit couldn’t happen. And most people are duped into thinking like sheep. They really are sheep. I swear a lot of people are guilty of having this type of mentality, where they just want to be so happy that they ignore everything in order to make themselves happy. They don’t want to bother with anything, yet those things affect them after all is said and done.

…lmao, I just heard that Malloy, our governor is running for re-election. He announces this a day right after he signed a bill to raise the minimum wage. I didn’t vote for him the last time he ran, and I’m not voting for him again. There’s too much welfare going on and I need to get a republican governor so he can get rid of a lot of social programs. He was responsible for raising taxes, and if liberals can’t see how much this affected them, then they are idiots. I don’t like this governor. He must think that just because he’s gotten a big surplus, I’m going to vote for him since I’m going to an extra $55 from my taxes. BULLSHIT. Eliminate income taxes and get it over with already. Tax everything else, but not my income, homo. If you haven’tnoticed, this wasn’t announced earlier in the morning and it wasn’t done during the week, it was during the last day of the week, when shit gets glossed over and ignored by the coming Monday. I just can’t believe how slick this bitch thinks he is. Not only that, but he also announces it AFTER the jim Vicevich show, who’s very vocal about our governor. He’s a self-ascribed libertarian with a conservative bent. I think he’s extreme sometimes, but he does make sense when you think about it. A lot of liberals tend to be a bit too damn liberal, and Malloy is exactly one of them. He would legalize weed if he could. He’s already legalized the sale of beer on Sundays, raised taxes up to 6.35%, and a number of other taxes. The “Fast Track” Busway is a project that seems to be going nowhere. If anything this state is so flooded with state and union employees, who knows what’s going to happen. All I know is this governor’s pissed off a lot of people who were democrats. I got my income tax raised and now I’m getting less than I used to get for my tax refund. Thanks Malloy, but sorry, you’re not getting my vote this time around.Not that you did the first time I voted for a governor. I don’t fit the description of the “poor and needy” so I will be voting for Foley or whoever comes around and convinces me. BUT they WILL be a Republican.

Man, am I getting tired of watching Scot Haney on the TV. He’s annoying after a while. I can’t stand watching him showing his ass. He likes attention so much that he jumps in front of the camera as much as he can. There’s no stopping this little homo. Every morning he does his thing, and it’s like he’s the main attraction, yet he’s a meteorologist. It should not take much to make such fucked up guesses about the weather and calling them predictions. If I hear him talk about break milk,and eggs one more time, I’m going to scream