People Nowdays Would Rather Choose Being Unemployed Than Having A Crap Job?

Well, Human Resource thing is now getting my attention and being my focus, as my business at the moment, taking ‘human’ as the main key partner and key resource if i may add. I am starting up my own car rental and i integrated it with online car service, Uber. Well, as a start up, with every detailed plan you did before you really take an action and thought everything is well-calculated, you really wish everything will be fine and the result would be fascinating.

At first, i thought the only thing that has to be prepared is the car itself, fuel, handphone and any other operational thing. While the human resource, i lean on Uber’s Driver training. The result? As i was expected, ‘Fascinating!’. The first 2 drivers were good friends of mine. And they keep it really good in their mind that i am a good friend of theirs. Good! They last in 3 months with not achieving any weekly target. Until i had to cut them off in the third month. Feel sorry to them, but in this phase i learned how to make barriers between the business thing and friendship thing. Then i read some articles in some local magazine which stated that people tend to make an exception and high toleration when they are making a business with their good friends which may lead to bad habits of particular company. It emphasis with some real example such as;

• Highly tolerating when the partners did not reach the targeted target (this first point is what i had been experiencing)
• Highly tolerating of non-stated financial use (this would be burden the work of accountant staff)
• Highly tolerating in partners’ time management

This high toleration thing is really hit me hard. Well i took 3 months to cut them off. Another friend said that if he was in my shoes, he would cut them in the first week. Okay.. i feel stupid right now.. well, at least i learned something. And yes, we still make a good friend.

Well, 3 days before i and those 2 good friends of mine were not having any relationship in this business, i made a back up plan. Yes, i found another driver. A recommendation from a friend. I trained him myself after Uber’s Driver training with any tips and tricks that i think would give him an acceleration in his job. Well, it did! First day he only made 1/4 of the target. Second day he made half of the target. Third day he reached the target. I was thankfull having him as my partner. And the fourth day he said he quit. Okay. The only reason he is quitting the job was because he got exhausted of what he is working on… then i asked, ‘what is your plan after quitting the job?’ he answered, ‘i don’t know’. I surprised. He is 35 years old with a wife and 3 childs and he said he did not know what he is going to do to even sustain his life.

So people nowdays would rather choose being unemployed than having a crap job? Well, that’s not even that crap

I stated that maybe he is too old for this. With no back up plan, i looked for another driver. I wanted this one would have no relationship with me or any friends of mine and not too old to handle this. I planned i would act like a good manager. Well i got one from a website, called him and due to this is a new guy, for a precaution issue i met him in his house.

He is 26 years old, has a wife and not having job. Perfect. I maintained the distance between me as a manager and him as the driver. I trained himself again after Uber’s Training, same as the previous driver. Well, as expected, fascinating!. First day he made half of the target, second day he almost reach the target and personally text me because he is sorry and said he will make the target by tomorrow, third day he made it. Fourth day, he made it within only 6 hours of work. I was thankfull he is not quitting the job in the fourth day like the previous driver. Aaand.. the fifth day, he said he is quitting the job. I shocked. I asked what is the problem, he answered he was lazy to wash the car by himself and i didnt provide him with money to wash it in the car wash. What kind of reason is this?!

Well i learned in this 2 last driver that last 4 to 5 days, sometimes people are just cant get enough of what they have. As a human being, we will ask for another pleasure, but on the other hand we somehow did not realize the pleasure we are looking for is in the fight we fight on. They felt win from quitting the job. I felt win from learning some lessons.

Well, as we are, a human being, we actually never lose. Either we win or we learn.