A Crumbling Economy
Mood: Sad
I work for a well known Sporting Goods Store. Like all businesses we are struggling to make the numbers everyday. Still and all, we are always being critized about not meeting numbers, about supplies in demand and also consumers are trying to save every buck that they can by negotiating prices with us. The Corporate honchos, are beating us up, because they refuse to see how bad the economy is getting. The comparison from last year to now is so very different now, that you can really see the changes.
Still, they want us to promote a credit card that has a very high APR. Consumers are looking to save money, not give more money away. Gas prices are at a ridiculous high, and food prices are just soaring higher and higher. The theft rate is climbing because of the very inflated cost of living, so businesses are getting hit with external theft. What to do? Many businesses are going out of business. The economy is suffering terribly, so this affects the billions of hard working people who are trying to make ends meet. We get threatened with, "If you can't meet our demands, you will lose your jobs and jobs are very hard to find." This threat in turn makes us feel like we are under so much pressure just trying to stay afloat, that employee moral is at a very low sad state.
If this does not get better, we will all be out of a job and things will most certainly get very ugly. This goes to show you that big Corporations really don't care about thier workers. All they care about is how much money they want to make. If Corporations show that they don't care, then why should we? We come to work everyday and believe me we want to do very well. I don't think we come to work hoping that we fail on a daily basis.
What will the future hold?...........................................................................I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore.
