Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Okay, if I can be that meandering in my thoughts in the student accessible version, how much more is it going to be here?

Of course I could always go back to talking about the last topic, of which, given the year long experience not really all documented here, I still have a lot to get off my chest, now that the floodgates have opened.

There was a time when I thought that the way I handled most other people should be the way that I handle employees.

That unless it directly concerned the business or dealing with customers, I would not call the attention of the employees to it immediately.

Given the first few months of operation, there were times when I had to refrain from saying anything otherwise I knew the workers would feel that criticism, of even the smallest thing, was all that I noticed.

I knew the consequences of their actions or inactions would be more immediate than what I could afford when dealing with students.

What happened, though, was that either consciously or subconsciously, as I have mentioned in the previous write-ups, that anything they may on some level know that they are doing that is wrong for the business that the boss does not comment upon, they will take as being something they can do frequently.

Yes, it is physically and emotionally draining to always keep up the Mr. Crab consistency, especially when also considering the well-being of the workers.

Maybe in the back of my mind I am getting tired because unlike classes, I have only a limited time to influence the students (then the term ends), while here with workers that stay on it will be a constant uphill challenge while they are still working for me; that is, if I resist the temptation to just give up on them and fire them.

Job termination I consider to be a last resort, when I feel that there really is no chance anymore that we could meet halfway with what I want (that translates to what I think is good for the business) and what they want.

But the alternative so far means taking a lot of time in what approximates as lecturing the employees to emphasize my points.

Sure there would be times when there would be immediate reactions and I can answer immediately, but what if there are no reactions whatsoever, as if I was talking to a five-year-old child who had just been chastised?

Or worse, that reactions would come at the most inappropriate times by text, and THEN and immediate reply is demanded.

The employer-employee dynamic must be clearly delineated, despite attempts at appearing to be a friend to them. I wish this was being taught in business administration courses, because I would definitely sit in on that class.

But as it is, just like how it happened with the students that I had to adapt to each one and their foibles, it is what I have to do here.

So what else is there to do but soldier on, and try to infect them with my spirit of positivism and enthusiasm, that I have to keep showing?

Session 2971 would do this all the time, if real life and the other work did not get in the way. Class dismissed.