Wow what a mess!
The fact that I as a business owner am being painted as a fire breathing, threatening, ******* who takes money from his underpaid employees just so he can buy a boat literally had me LOL’ing.
@danski0224 and
@scooby074, love both you guys, but i think you guys should discuss this more with your legal counsel in depth, as you most definitely can hold employees accountable financially. Somewhere the term “garnished wages” got thrown around but I didn’t recall using that term. I would also look into employee case law a little more in depth and understand how that works as a relationship if you were ever in need of going to court. I am fully aware of your intents to discuss this with my employees as well as getting them to report me to the labor board, and you’re intent’s to take this to social media. I have no issue with that as they are all within your rights to do and we are 100% compliant - if not those fines will be taken out of my legal counsels E&O for sure as they wrote our employee agreement contracts!
I am not going to open my legal stuff on the internet - but when you are offered a position at Olsen you are provided with documents. One is your offer letter - explains benefits, salary, PTO etc. Pretty standard. Second doc is the brand standard agreement - How you will portray the company to the outside world (like how you wear a hat etc - anything having to do with something with our trademarked logo’s, slogans etc) - The third is your employee contract, including your job description, your responsibilities, and the expectations of KPI’s (with both the financial reward and the removal of that reward if not executed) and your improvement on those KPI’s (your value add) The 4th is your employee handbook which has everything else - pretty standard stuff.
Now to the threatening part that got everyone’s ******* in a bunch (freaking horrible choice of a word lol sorry guys). That is the threat to enforce the agreement of loss of profit share (agreement signed by employee) - if threatening to enforce the agreement falls on deaf ears, then a written conversation is recorded and signed acknowledging the understanding of the employee contract and its expectations, then if that still doesn’t work money changes hands.
Now the closing. The loss of money only applies to the cleanliness and organization/loss of company property. 7 figures cars happen upon Us all the time. Who is going to leave a car worth that in a shithole to get serviced?
Now if you do not have those signed, agreed upon docs, you are gonna have a rough road ahead of you. Both legally, as well as trying to keep your tool room/space organized and presentable.
I think what people should be asking themselves at work is what is the best use of people’s time. We have this conversation weekly. Is the best use of managements time wiping down cars we covered in fingerprints? Or setting us up for success on the next ticket? Is the best use of Tim’s time making sure we follow the basic rules? Or making sure we have enough business or cash to improve and continue to grow. People inherently will lose focus on things and do what they think is important. Does that make them bad? Hell no. Just means they aren’t focused. But when they have skin in the game that does help with the shared focus.
I have head so many times from people that they say people don’t want to work anymore, and it is impossible to find good help. I have experienced the exact opposite. My Reply to that is do people not want to work? Or do they just not want to work for YOU. Last time I checked the population is still the same, and people still got to eat.
My C tech doesnt get out of bed for this amount and he shouldn’t, he is worth more. My lead techs get almost double that.
He is giving me the "really" look 
) so upsold engine out service top end rebuild. It’s insane how many of these we do in a month. 
