If you enjoy all of those, you might enjoy doing Heart in Hand's long-leggity birds -- they have them for all for seasons, and for several holidays. They're very cute and make up very quickly. I've done several, and sent a few charts to a friend who is a beginning stitcher.
Here's a link:
Coffee break? What's that? I remember seeing it in the employee manual, but when I walked past the boss's office, he always thought of some copying or faxing or something that needed to be done right now, not ten minutes from now.
Think we should get together a class action suit against every lawyer in California for working their employees through their breaks?
Amen to that.
Employers often don't see beyond the bottom line. If a long-time employee threatens to leave for a job that will pay them more, it's viewed only as an opportunity to save money by hiring a lower-priced employee. No thought given to the cost of advertising/interviewing for a new employee, or the time spent by higher-paid supervisors training the new employee, or the learning curve of the new employee, or taking the chance that the new employee will never be as good as Tamara or Karen. Only that the person leaving is getting paid $50K, but we can get the 20-year-old bimbo for half that.
Yuck. It's not as if you can argue with them either - or rather, you can argue, but it won't do you any good. Dora Merry Xmas from the land of the taxed (in Sask)
Lucille i am glad you wrote this letter. Like you and probably many others here , we had to actually work our way bringing up children , while turning each cent twice over... Thus now with time, we can use our well earned resources, for some Fun stuff as well. Esp after the alongated descriptions here of people getting low wages , becausse [amongst other things] if they won`t agree , there are always workless people who will take their place. One of the things that will make more jobs , is also more shopping. Thus if Lucille and me and other people can afford a bit more, [ and i am sure none of us is wasting anything] or better quality stuff , eventually several people more have a job... The idea that Dianne wrote
Is what people here , and all over the globe think about Americans. But it is probably true about a Whole level of World Tycoons, Politicians, Heads of various Global Establishments. But from what i read here, many people are level headed enough about their incomes and how they use it. mirjam
This was true for us when we grew up , and still is for many people here . I am not so sure your generalization is what is going on. In Israel, we have a bad economy , and the Biggest number in the world of Vulonteers , for every possiblr cause. Many young people collect food and other things and bring to the [alas too many ] needy. Many vulonteer in all kinds of social activities... side by side with older people. mirjam
WELL explained Tamara !! Happy New year to you mirjam
So DON'T read it ! You know KILLFILE !
"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" > ..
You are lucky. We have fewer and fewer of them in my city. Maybe 2 now. When I was a girl, there was a wonderful fabric store in the city where I grew up. Mikado Silk---even the name is evocative. The owner was Japanese. And he carried all kinds of wonderful fabrics, bolt after bolt arranged on tables, where you could touch and learn the romantic names--organza, crepe de chine, .... My mother, who was frugal to the point of cheap, and a big fan of Fortrel, rarely went there, but once I could master the bus downtown by myself (age about 10) I would often include it in my Saturday round of investigations. I wish we had a real cloth shop. You've brought back memories. Dawne
Yes, and I will tell you why. I ran to Walmart to buy my husband his favorite TV dinner. It's a family box dinner by Prego called Chicken Florentine. He loves that. I noticed Walmart has not had it for months, so I asked the frozen food manager and she told me they discontinued selling it. I said, "now I have to drive 6 miles to HEB (a locally owned supermarket chain) and she said to call 1-800-walmart and tell them you have to go elsewhere. She also said she has been instructed to do anything to keep shoppers from having to go anywhere else. That indicates to me the typical Walmart mentality. Ever see one of their morning sale staff pep rallies in the middle of the store? It reminds me a bit of an Amway mentality.
The reason they are worse than every other competitor is because each of the Walmart kids, I believe there are 6 or 7, have personal worth of over 18 billion dollars EACH. They are greedy. We don't need two Walmarts in my small town in Texas, but we have two. It's their goal to have a Walmart every three miles on any major road. They are pretty close to that goal just in this part of Texas.
Nothing. But when it turns into greed, which is what his kids turned it into, it's wrong. IMO
What hatred? We're having a very low key discussion about a very important issue in America and elsewhere. Because you see it as hatred, doesn't make it hateful.
You can't determine what you will "here" or not. Since you know this is an adult discussion which is not ONCE been hateful or flame ridden, either don't read it at all, or join in.
And then you go on to post several paragraphs on the subject. Interesting.
I loved Mikado Silk too! Last time I was in Saskatoon I was greatly anticipating a Major Haul and was very sad to see the place had closed. Phooey! If you come to Van Island, Victoria has a few good fabric stores - Gala Fabrics, Four Seasons Fabrics and Stretch and Sew.
emerald
My curiosity has gotten the best of me. What kind of business owner doesn't tell his staff to try to keep a shopper from going elsewhere? I imagine that should be a major part of customer service.
And having pep rallies seems to me to be a good thing. It's a good way to get staff to remember that they are there to serve the customer and what's good for the customer is good for them in the long run.
I'm not talking specifically about Wal-Mart, it seems to me that it's good way to run any business whether it's a retail shop or an office or factory environment.
Lucille
Mark and I are planning to move out of this
You could always try coming here to the Big (not so) Easy, a large portion of which is currently off the grid. However, I can, and do, buy virtually everything I need on Magazine Street. The ads say "Six miles of shopping, art galleries, boutiques and antique stores", but there are also grocery, drug and hardware stores, shoe repair shops, doctors and dentists, veterinarians, gas stations and car repair places, you name it, plus don't forget a very good needlework and yarn shop and restaurants ranging from neighborhood diner/bar up to very posh white cloth establishments.. There are even a couple of schools and a police station, so I tell people "you could live and die on Magazine Street and never go off it unless you needed either a hospital (which is one block away) or a new car dealer, for which you have to go either downtown or out to the burbs.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans
The only ones that come to mind here are the quilt shops, and I'm not sure that I'd make clothing from most of what they sell.
If a business doesn't have something, they should be willing to tell you where to get it. If my LNS doesn't have a thread I need, she'll offer to get the shop on Newbury St. in Boston to send some out or tell me to go on in there.
Elizabeth
Quilt calico makes great summer dresses and skirts.
Elizabeth
I agree with you about them being willing to tell you where it is available and/or order it. I've even had stores offer to mail it if they could find it for me in another place.
If I read it correctly, the example given was an attempt to keep the customer happy by giving them a phone number to call to report that this item was discontinued but still wanted. I've been asked to do that in my local supermarket and in a Geoffrey Beene outlet store that I like to shop in. They asked me if I wouldn't mind calling corporate and saying that a particular size that I wear was appearing less and less in the store. When I questioned why they couldn't just order it, they claimed that they were sent merchandise from the home base and didn't have much input. However, they thought if the customers themselves asked, maybe the policy could be changed.
I thought of that as a good thing and it seemed to me they were trying very hard to keep me happy and keep me shopping there in the future.
Lucille
To my knowledge, there are no longer any federally mandated breaks. Some states have laws, but the Feds dismantled these safeguards.
That is why my husband can work a 12-hour shift without breaks. He can eat on the job, if he can find the time.
And no, I'm just not complaining here. I have worked with State legislators . . . to no avail.
Dianne
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