This is just a little pre-story. If you don't want to read it, just scroll down to where it says THE BUSINESS IDEA.
How this idea spawned?
Quite simply, really. I have a pain point. A really bad one. And if I'm having it, it's a good bet that many are as well.
I lost my job October 15th. I was there almost ten years. I was full-time (40 hours), made $13.77 an hour, along with health and dental benefits.
I landed a job two weeks ago, so that I could get off of the unemployment benefits, and make a little more money.
I am now part-time, getting somewhere between 25 and 31 hours, and I'm making $10 an hour, with no benefits.
Quite a difference indeed.
Indeed.com. I didn't appreciate it years ago, but I think it is an excellent job search engine. However, it is not Indeed that is the problem. It is the jobs, period.
The quality of jobs today sucks beyond belief. Majorly. I've still been actively looking for work, because this new job I have isn't going to cut it. It's unbelievable the amount of things most of these employers want you to do, and how very little they are willing to compensate you for it.
It got me thinking to what MJ said in one of his books. "I got a Bachelor's Degree so I could take a job that I could get straight out of High School?"
I actually found a job that is willing to pay you $15 an hour for the work you'll do, but one of the requirements is to have a Bachelor's Degree. Now I only have an Associates, but this is a total joke.
The workforce in this country (U.S.) is despicable. The quality of jobs and the pay are just downright awful.
Now, I agree with the whole entrepreneur mindset. I am fully aware of it, and have been applying it. Provide value, put others first, solve problems and needs, forget about the money. I totally agree with this mindset, and I have been applying it. However, before you can get a business system off the ground, YOU DO NEED money coming in to pay your bills. You need your car right? If you don't pay the car payment, they take away your car. If you don't pay your rent, you lose your home. With no money, you can't feed yourself and have good hygene.
THE BUSINESS IDEA
Here is my business idea:
I want to create a place called The Work Center.
The Details:
What is this Work Center you ask?
It is a new type of business system - a work system. Free from all of the typical corporate/business bureaucracy, politics, and general bullshit.
Companies can use us to have work done for them, and at the Work Center is where ANYONE can APPLY for WORK.
The system lets you choose your shift. You get to choose the day, the shift range, and the type of work to be performed. You CHOOSE the shift range when you get there, so there is NO SUCH THING AS BEING LATE! You decide the hours you want to work. However, if you leave before your shift ends (since you chose that shift range), you simply don't get paid for the remainder of your shift. There are no consequences. People need the money, and money comes from working, so there will always be people to perform the work that is required. You only get paid for what you work. So, there is no such thing as being late, or getting fired for leaving early. You simply have to make your punches in the system.
The pay depends on the work performed, HOWEVER, you are able to acquire new skills and perform those jobs that require those unique skills.
RESPECT is of the essence. No more corporate sleaze mentality of treating employees like dirt. Respect is given and respect is earned, for both parties. You can't get "FIRED", since getting FIRED doesn't exist anymore. There is a code of ethics. If you violate the code of ethics, you can be asked to leave for the day. Anything beyond the code of ethics simply falls into the law. You are responsible for your own actions. As I said, you can be asked to leave for the day for extreme behavior. Whether you do or not is up to you, but you can't be fired, and again, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Working age is 16 and older, however government and state laws still apply.
This BUSINESS SYSTEM allows you to work and make decent money, without all of the bullshit that comes with a job as we know it. You are able to receive your pay by choosing a PAY-OUT OPTION, however, if you wait until Friday, you receive BONUS POINTS (which is extra money for being patient). This helps with the payroll system.
Everything is done with the special time clock system.
The pay ranges are from $15 to $20 an hour. No less than $15. PEOPLE NEED TO LIVE. This bullshit where everybody is paying everyone $10 or $12 an hour to do all of these tasks is ridiculous.
And I know what some are going to say. "Companies have to pay that in order to keep themselves afloat."
Yeah, of course they do. But what about when the company is profiting in the millions and billions? There is no excuse. It's just GREED, plain and simple.
And I said, you get paid by the TYPE of job you choose.
This Work Center, picture a big building like a Walmart or Target store. There are several different work areas within this center. They have automotive, packaging boxes, shipping and receiving, customer service by phones and Internet, sales by phone and Internet, processing all sorts of products, assembling products, processing clothes, price ticketing, taking care of garbage and cleanup, ensuring certain things are being done properly, etc. There are so many possibilities!
An example of how pay-out would be:
If you're processing clothes or putting things into boxes, you will make $15 an hour.
If you're working on cars, assembling products, you will make $16 or $17 an hour.
Let's say I have a plumbing department. We can have an instructor TRAIN people to do plumbing skills, so they can do work. The instructors would make $20 an hour, and trainees $15 or $16 an hour. Once the trainees have learned enough and passed some kind of certification, they can they do plumbing work for $20 an hour.
Plumbing work can involve assembing plumbing products for companies, or heading out to a person's house to fix a plumbing issue.
I don't care if I see profit from this or not. I am okay with it being non-profit. I just want to HELP people. People need good paying jobs, without the bullshit of the current workforce system.
No more nonsense, no more "You're not working fast enough", "You have to sell this many or else", "You're always late", "You're late one more time and you're out of here" "You can't work these hours because you have a kid?" "But we already have someone doing that."
All of the bullshit that comes with today's jobs, and the bullshit pay will be a thing of the past, with this Work Center, which I feel we REALLY REALLY need. The jobs are horrible, and the pay is equally horrible.
This will be one of my gifts to humanity.
We need something like this. I've been hurting badly, I have a friend who is hurting badly, and I'm sure there are MANY that are hurting badly.
Please, weigh in. Let me know what you think. We really do need something like this.
If you like this idea, and encourage me to go through with it, if you could tell me the next step I should do, I would greatly appreciate it.
My friend thinks I should contact the government and see if they can help me out a little bit (such as taxes if it's a non-profit organization, etc.).
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this, and I appreciate your feedback and support.
How this idea spawned?
Quite simply, really. I have a pain point. A really bad one. And if I'm having it, it's a good bet that many are as well.
I lost my job October 15th. I was there almost ten years. I was full-time (40 hours), made $13.77 an hour, along with health and dental benefits.
I landed a job two weeks ago, so that I could get off of the unemployment benefits, and make a little more money.
I am now part-time, getting somewhere between 25 and 31 hours, and I'm making $10 an hour, with no benefits.
Quite a difference indeed.
Indeed.com. I didn't appreciate it years ago, but I think it is an excellent job search engine. However, it is not Indeed that is the problem. It is the jobs, period.
The quality of jobs today sucks beyond belief. Majorly. I've still been actively looking for work, because this new job I have isn't going to cut it. It's unbelievable the amount of things most of these employers want you to do, and how very little they are willing to compensate you for it.
It got me thinking to what MJ said in one of his books. "I got a Bachelor's Degree so I could take a job that I could get straight out of High School?"
I actually found a job that is willing to pay you $15 an hour for the work you'll do, but one of the requirements is to have a Bachelor's Degree. Now I only have an Associates, but this is a total joke.
The workforce in this country (U.S.) is despicable. The quality of jobs and the pay are just downright awful.
Now, I agree with the whole entrepreneur mindset. I am fully aware of it, and have been applying it. Provide value, put others first, solve problems and needs, forget about the money. I totally agree with this mindset, and I have been applying it. However, before you can get a business system off the ground, YOU DO NEED money coming in to pay your bills. You need your car right? If you don't pay the car payment, they take away your car. If you don't pay your rent, you lose your home. With no money, you can't feed yourself and have good hygene.
THE BUSINESS IDEA
Here is my business idea:
I want to create a place called The Work Center.
The Details:
What is this Work Center you ask?
It is a new type of business system - a work system. Free from all of the typical corporate/business bureaucracy, politics, and general bullshit.
Companies can use us to have work done for them, and at the Work Center is where ANYONE can APPLY for WORK.
The system lets you choose your shift. You get to choose the day, the shift range, and the type of work to be performed. You CHOOSE the shift range when you get there, so there is NO SUCH THING AS BEING LATE! You decide the hours you want to work. However, if you leave before your shift ends (since you chose that shift range), you simply don't get paid for the remainder of your shift. There are no consequences. People need the money, and money comes from working, so there will always be people to perform the work that is required. You only get paid for what you work. So, there is no such thing as being late, or getting fired for leaving early. You simply have to make your punches in the system.
The pay depends on the work performed, HOWEVER, you are able to acquire new skills and perform those jobs that require those unique skills.
RESPECT is of the essence. No more corporate sleaze mentality of treating employees like dirt. Respect is given and respect is earned, for both parties. You can't get "FIRED", since getting FIRED doesn't exist anymore. There is a code of ethics. If you violate the code of ethics, you can be asked to leave for the day. Anything beyond the code of ethics simply falls into the law. You are responsible for your own actions. As I said, you can be asked to leave for the day for extreme behavior. Whether you do or not is up to you, but you can't be fired, and again, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Working age is 16 and older, however government and state laws still apply.
This BUSINESS SYSTEM allows you to work and make decent money, without all of the bullshit that comes with a job as we know it. You are able to receive your pay by choosing a PAY-OUT OPTION, however, if you wait until Friday, you receive BONUS POINTS (which is extra money for being patient). This helps with the payroll system.
Everything is done with the special time clock system.
The pay ranges are from $15 to $20 an hour. No less than $15. PEOPLE NEED TO LIVE. This bullshit where everybody is paying everyone $10 or $12 an hour to do all of these tasks is ridiculous.
And I know what some are going to say. "Companies have to pay that in order to keep themselves afloat."
Yeah, of course they do. But what about when the company is profiting in the millions and billions? There is no excuse. It's just GREED, plain and simple.
And I said, you get paid by the TYPE of job you choose.
This Work Center, picture a big building like a Walmart or Target store. There are several different work areas within this center. They have automotive, packaging boxes, shipping and receiving, customer service by phones and Internet, sales by phone and Internet, processing all sorts of products, assembling products, processing clothes, price ticketing, taking care of garbage and cleanup, ensuring certain things are being done properly, etc. There are so many possibilities!
An example of how pay-out would be:
If you're processing clothes or putting things into boxes, you will make $15 an hour.
If you're working on cars, assembling products, you will make $16 or $17 an hour.
Let's say I have a plumbing department. We can have an instructor TRAIN people to do plumbing skills, so they can do work. The instructors would make $20 an hour, and trainees $15 or $16 an hour. Once the trainees have learned enough and passed some kind of certification, they can they do plumbing work for $20 an hour.
Plumbing work can involve assembing plumbing products for companies, or heading out to a person's house to fix a plumbing issue.
I don't care if I see profit from this or not. I am okay with it being non-profit. I just want to HELP people. People need good paying jobs, without the bullshit of the current workforce system.
No more nonsense, no more "You're not working fast enough", "You have to sell this many or else", "You're always late", "You're late one more time and you're out of here" "You can't work these hours because you have a kid?" "But we already have someone doing that."
All of the bullshit that comes with today's jobs, and the bullshit pay will be a thing of the past, with this Work Center, which I feel we REALLY REALLY need. The jobs are horrible, and the pay is equally horrible.
This will be one of my gifts to humanity.
We need something like this. I've been hurting badly, I have a friend who is hurting badly, and I'm sure there are MANY that are hurting badly.
Please, weigh in. Let me know what you think. We really do need something like this.
If you like this idea, and encourage me to go through with it, if you could tell me the next step I should do, I would greatly appreciate it.
My friend thinks I should contact the government and see if they can help me out a little bit (such as taxes if it's a non-profit organization, etc.).
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this, and I appreciate your feedback and support.
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