It’s not good…to treat your employees like crap.
Maybe someday your employer will cut your wages and hours without any notice then you can say that’s a good sane business practice
Even in my very first job in fast food (Chick-fil-A), if it started snowing in any significant way, we’d close up shop with no notice. As hourly employees, you sorta knew this would happen from time to time. Same with heavy, continual rain.
As far as closing because of “attendance,” when things were incredibly slow, we’d be given a mandate from the manager to cut a certain number of people. Some were excited about the opportunity to leave early, others wanted hours.
It’s optimal for everyone if everything is perfect, but it’s never going to be perfect.
There are stone-cold rules in a corporate environment. Look at the difference in quality and service that you find in a farmer’s market versus a corporate grocer. Look at a corporate medical provider versus a private medical advisor.
If it makes you feel a bit worse, at a publicly-traded medical practice I worked at, we were reminded we worked for our “stakeholders,” which included patients but also included stockholders. So hitting target revenue superseded unbiased patient care. Target revenue meant we were supposed to push certain medical solutions to meet corporate goals. It meant unnecessary procedures.
I guess my two points are:
Corporatism takes the soul out of a business and makes it cold to feelings and impacts. But we put up with it because there isn’t a better alternative.
I think you make an assumption on hourly employees. Where you might be bothered by fewer hours and a smaller paycheck, not everyone is as dependent on that final cash number. Some are willing to sacrifice the security of a consistent paycheck for the benefit of flexible working hours.
