I am not talking about overtime I am taking about gainshare
6 replies (most recent on top)
Man I miss the days of real gainsharing... Maybe I was working a little harder than some others on the team, but being able to noticeably increase your pay was a real reason to work on certain teams, Seafood and Specialty come to mind. Holiday payouts close to $1000 every year and $200-$300 monthly (real money) while at the same time breaking sales records. Yes please. Then all store came along and my moneys would go all over the store. I couldn't get behind it. The fact that my extra labor dollars were going places I had very little control over was a tough pill to swallow.
Gainsharing is a form of fraud, in my humble opinion. PROFIT SHARING is legit. GAINSHARING allows management to continually move the goal posts in such a way that eventually, you would need one team member to do the work of five to get a payout. Customers are not served properly and the big money goes to the top. Notice that in gainsharing you don't get a piece of the profits, just a mythical slice of what you saved in order to generate bigger profits.
I'll never forget how our team would bust their butts to earn "gainsharing" and get like a whopping $7.34 or some such nonsense.
At one store I worked in, the opening team screwed up royally which put one department into such a deep hole that gainsharing could never be earned. Which was fine, really, because that eventually what happens to any team that earns it. After all, if you can do more with less, that reduced labor quota becomes the new baseline. Welcome to the bloody rat race.
God, was Southwest not making any money, because we were getting gain share nearly every month since the single team pay out. The only down side was having it be 1/4th of what it was when it was by team.
Boo freaking hoo. Southwest stores with one store labor haven’t received it in years. Take the raise and stop complaining.
I don’t get those emails anymore I went to school and I got a real job !
Read John's email.