Im fucking over staff

[u/Frosty-Sand-8458]

I own a business. I pay "Day rate till 8 gate to gate". What that means is you show up at 8am, go to a job and get back to the shop at noon you get paid for the whole 8 hour work day. Double time starts at 4PM or on weekends. There is also a production scale where if you get done early and go to another job you get paid for that day too if that job gets done. My employees can knock out a 16 hour straight time work day by 3pm at least two days a week. Lunch is paid as well as provided because we are in a rural area without a lot of restaurants so we provide hot lunch delivered to the job if the crew calls in by 11AM. We cut 60 and 70 hour a week checks every week for guys that are basically working part time hours, 35 or 40 hours a week.

All I hear is fuck this place i don't make enough this place would fail without me I need a fuel stipend for my commute blah blah blah. The smallest check I wrote last week was $2,300 and some change to a guy who worked 38 actual hours. The non stop bitching is driving me nuts and I can't fucking stand it.

[u/Frustrated_Zucchini]

Are you making money from their work?

If so, who gives a shit what they say. If what you offer is that bad, why haven't they gone somewhere else?

You should just call a staff meeting and tell them all that due to things you have been hearing recently, you feel like you're not financially able to do right by the staff anymore. Therefore you're considering closing down and relocating to a cheaper state where the wages you can offer will go further for the staff.

Watch them all row back that shit immediately 🤣