Originally Posted by
SLP
When I was young I worked at a gas station for a period of time. It was the early morning shift on a busy road where people filled up for their daily commutes, so we were always very busy. It was myself and another fellow that maned the shits, and this was before the current programmable pumps, so we had to stop each pump by hand at the desired dollar amount so it could sometime get hectic running back and forth between cars, keeping them all getting serviced promptly and out quickly.
One day the other fellow gave his notice that he would be leaving. I told the boss that if he gave me half of the other fellows salary that I could handle the shift myself. I told him give me at least one week to prove that sales wouldn't drop before he hired anyone else. This would be a win-win for both of us, I would be making 50% more, and he would be saving 50% on a second salary. I worked my tale off and sales actually went up instead of down, so we kept it like that permanently.
My point is that I am sure that some customers watched me running around like mad keeping pace with all the cars, and concluded the owner must have been taking advantage of me. Of course by judging a situation that they really didn't know anything about they would have been very wrong. So unless you really know all the circumstances surrounding the company, its finances, and its employees I wouldn't jump to any conclusions. Unfortunately we too often form opinions through the prisms of our preconceived views about something instead of actually learning what all the facts are.
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