Good pizza, cheesesteaks, panzorattis (sp?), and wings are needed in the Rut and K areas. I'm willing to bet a place that specializes in all four are a very slim minority and add to those a delivery service, and that slim minority slips to nill.MarieM wrote:Been there, done that. The hours suck; it sucks to ask/tell/require people to work on Sundays...lots of stress.BigKahuna13 wrote:Pizza. The pizza in Vermont sucks.
Used to work in a pizzaria when I was in HS. Could teach you how to make pies and heros.
Nothing like a cash business.........
The key is running/opening a business and finding a good manager who can run things so you're not working 24/7. I worked at a pizza shop and I was close with the owner, he's just step back and let his managers do the work while he came in here and there. Great guy and huge bonuses kept the staff at bay.
This is something I was faced with and I'm still not sure if I made the right choice. As you know I worked for SAP America ... great company, powerful, dynamic, room to move, etc. I could have stayed there and converted from Intern to contractor and then presumably to full-time employee. I could have made $15K more than I do today, but similar to you, I felt a disconnect between myself, some of the teams I worked on, and upper-management. I felt that SAP didn't give two shits about the contracters and interns ... other than a large bonus each year, it didn't appear SAP was too concerned with their f/t tech employees either.SkiDork wrote:I actually love IT, I just don't like the lack of any sort of intergrity by the companies in giving a $hit about the employees.
Not sure what else I'd like to do, except maybe just be a ski bum?
I took a job at a smaller firm (still a fortune 1000 company) took a cut in pay, but a 'plus' in benefits. My manager is a great guy and the management here is great. I've talked to the CIO several times and the director of IT works at my location once a week. It's great to be known and be able to have such a dialog with the powerful people in the company. The downside is I took a cut in pay to get what I want. At the same time however, I have flexible hours and a great boss that lets me take off whenever I need it.
I'm sure you could get a job that is more focused on its employees, but it won't come without some consequences.