it doesnt
trampling on your staff to achieve your bonus' can get you 100k a year.
thats not basic.
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it doesnt
trampling on your staff to achieve your bonus' can get you 100k a year.
thats not basic.
My old boss many years ago passed that peice of wisdom on and it's the best advice I have ever had. I am happy in my job and get paid a (decent) salary and allows myself and my fiancee to have a good life doing pretty much what we want. There is no disputing that if I had been more ambitious and worked 80+ hours a week I would be on double or triple the salary I am now but I would not be any happier. My free time is much more important to me. My current boss works 100+ hours per week and is a multi millionaire but is the most unhappiest bloke I know and the job has already cost him a marriage (he has two young children who hardly ever see him). He has no hobbies or life outside of work.
I'm not. I have quite a few friends who are working up the supermarket chains. One is 24 and earns £40k per annum with bonus running a small Co-op. The other runs a much bigger one and earns £70k with bonus.
The bit that makes me laugh with the Coop (and I assume other supermarkets do it on a similar basis?) is that your bonus is based on store turnover versus size. There are certain stores which are guaranteed to give you the biggest bonus. I'm pretty sure my mate once told me that the Whitby Co-op store was the one that everybody wanted to manage as that guaranteed the biggest bonuses £50K plus per annum. To me, bonuses should be for working hard, making improvements, not just handed to you cause you had a store with a great catchment area.
Throw in staff discount cards and taking stuff home for practiculary nothing if close to sell by dates (my friend brought home 5 chickens for 10p each one week and had a full trolley for a fiver) and you can feed your family all year for almost nothing.
The friend who is 24 doesn't want to move to a bigger store even though it would mean a minimum £7k payrise as he says he has an easy job, sleeps in his office when he wants, sleeps with most of the checkout girls, has little stress or bother and gets paid a silly amount of money for doing very little. He says he might have to work if he went to a bigger store.
