The Brewster-Seaview Landscaping Co. Part 1 During the summer of my freshman year in college, I worked for a small private landscaping company planting shrubs, seeding new lawns, cutting grass, and tending flower gardens. The company was located in my hometown of Seaview, N.J., which is a rural community on the coast about 80 miles from Philadelphia. The company was owned and run by Joe Brewster, a 45-year-old man who had lived in Seaview all his life. He had started the company some years ago and not only handled the paperwork (payroll, bills, estimates, and so on), but also worked along with the crew six days a week. The crew consisted of five guys ranging in age from 17 to 20 years. We all lived in towns around Seaview and had gone …show more content…
We were always willing to work overtime for Joe when he needed us to do so. Part II I returned the following summer to work for Joe because of the strong satisfaction I had with the job the summer before. So did the others. However, we were in for a surprise. Many things had changed. Joe had increased the number of workers to 10, bought another truck, and hired two young college graduates from Philadelphia as crew supervisors. His plan was to concentrate on the paperwork and on lining up new customers, leaving the direct guidance of the two work crews to the new supervisors. Joe had hired the two supervisors during the early spring after interviewing a number of applicants. Both were young (23 and 24), from the city, and had degrees in agricultural management from Penn State, but had not known each other previously. We “old timers” were assigned to one crew and five new workers were hired for the other crew. Because the job market was tighter this year, we were hired at the same base pay as the five new workers, but we were told that we would still be able to make bonus money based on referrals but the new people didn’t have this option. These new workers had little experience in landscaping. Except for the working hours, which were the same as during the previous summer, the two supervisors were told that they could run their crew in any manner they wished as
This experience led me to carry out several ventures. One of my first ventures was helping in food bank where I helped to pack food and transport it to several organizations and people in need. was hard to balance my school work with volunteering since I had to go in the evenings, but I developed the grit and passion to work hard! I started feeling a sense of accomplishment and gained responsibility.
A few moments later Brook interrupted Ann saying that the situation had to be taken care right away. Ann knew that the marketing analysis was about to be finished by Joe, so she decided to have the meeting with the employees right away. She listened to all the employees’ complaints and told them that although an increase will not happen overnight she will commit herself to examine and take care of the issue. She also told them that she will try to get some funds for a training program where everyone could acquire new skills.
My mother, a housekeeper at a Best Western Hotel, has been recognized for her exceptional commitment, leadership, and organizational skills for maintaining a clean and hospital environment in collaboration with her colleagues. She is from the countryside of a small town in Mexico called San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco, a beautiful place known for its rich history and architecture. At an early age my mother lost her father during a storm in Mexico. The loss of my grandfather was devastating for he left behind a widow, a new born, and a total of 8 children. The hardship caused several of the older children to leave school and start working to support the family. My mother however, managed to remain in school but with time, the teachers that would go out to the country to teach the children stopped coming and my mother was forced to resign her education. With school no longer an option my mother began working due to the lack of resources. At this point she was only able to obtain an education up to the 6th
First, the crew members have a common feeling that they were being “used” by management because they knew that many general office workers were earning more money and working shorter hours than them. Meanwhile, they felt that their jobs were more challenging and more valuable than those general office workers’. So they were supposed to earn more money than those people.
Working at FedEx Express, I had the privilege to interview my boss Brian Buchwald. We share the same work ethic background with the both of us serving in the military but serving in different branches. Brian served in the Army for 6 years, and then served in the Air Force for another 6 years after exiting the Army. Brian just recently got promoted to Operations Manager at FedEx Express after being with the company for only 3 years, which is quite incredible
I graduated high school back in 1994. I was engaged to be married in just two years, and even though I joined the Pennsylvania Air National Guard right after graduation it was only one weekend a month and two weeks out of the year. So I needed a full-time job. A friend of the family knew a guy who was opening a second store, and was going to need a store manager. I took the job and got started. What I didn’t know was the guy I was just hired to work for was a little confused as to what he wanted. I hung onto the job for a little over a year hoping it would turn around but, no dice.
The gift that my group performed for the community of Juneau, Alaska is snow removal. The group consisted of my two most trustworthy peers Marcos Yadao and Mitchell Laudert. We all understood that living in a small tight knit town such as Juneau; the smallest of tasks can have the biggest impacts. That is when the light bulb in our intellectual brains and the idea of snow removal came to mind. It was an appropriate job for the winter season. With heavy snow flurries in the forecast, this would be an achievable accomplishment. With the service in mind our next step was to pick a location. We did not want to select the wealthy neighborhoods because the residents there would probably be financially able to pay for such services. The location that we settled on was not a poverty stricken area, but the homes consisted of elderly residence. To avoid complications with the occupants of the home and explain our reasoning for the free service we wanted to only do homes were the residence weren’t present. That did not hold up to a standard when we actually got around to carry out the service. The whole point of going out and helping people of Juneau with their snow blanketed driveways, walkways, and porches too was to gain self respect and also to prove to the world that good can come from anything and anywhere too.
In the beginning, I feel that we did not have enough direction on what we were supposed to do or how to do it, given our lack of experience with labor relations. However, as the weeks went on and through communication and asking questions and research on our own, I think we all started to learn the process and
The Northwest Regular Crew number six was the first to be on the scene, there objective was
In this scenario, once again I selected the wrong person. I selected the woman because she was older, and being more mature led me to believe that she had more work experience than the two males that were pictured. In my opinion, both males appeared to be too young to have so much work experience; especially having worked as an account executive for a national mortgage lender. They both appeared to be high school or college students.
Rob’s goal is to keep margins consistent. As an example, he explained that if a customer wanted to upgrade from 10 seats to 30, an additional $200 in manufacturing costs would be added to
The second summer there were no motivations and rewards given to employees, which also affected their performance and behaviours. The experienced hard workers were supposed to be rehired at a higher base wage, but they weren’t. Bonuses were based on referrals but only for old crewmembers, which wasn’t fair to the new crewmembers.
Jefferson Landscape and Irrigation Supply is an organization founded in 1922 as Atlas Lawn Sprinkler, then changed to Jefferson Landscape and Irrigation Supply after David Jefferson acquired the organization. His philosophy of “a satisfied customer is a loyal customer” has been the foundation behind the success of the organization for more than 90 years and continues to be the driving force as the organization looks toward the future. Family Business Experts (n.d.) reported as of 2012, Jefferson Landscape and Irrigation Supply had been in business for 90 years and had grown to 188 locations in 21 states across the continental United States. Currently, the organization has expanded to 202 locations in 22 states and continues to grow whenever and wherever it is strategically prudent to do so. Jefferson Landscape and Irrigation Supply is and always will be a family owned business where relationships and honest hard work are the recipe for success. Family Business Experts (n.d.) again reported David’s daughter Sarah and son-in-law Paul, took over the operations of the company after David retired and eventually passed away, and now the third generation has assumed the role and Jefferson Landscape and Irrigation has grown to become one of the strongest and largest suppliers of landscape and irrigation products and services in the nation.
My grandma worked at at a factory called “Levis”. Levis was good to their employes and my grandma got paid every year for a week until the factory was shut down by NAFTA . At least 650 workers lost their jobs and were never given replacements as NAFTA promised. It was chaos.
Joe was interested in working for RR, but was very interested in a position on the business development team. He had to make a decision on whether to accept the offer with the hope of being able to move within the company. Additionally, although it was a good offer, Joe wanted to negotiate some of the terms.