Help me Polish my complaint :)

[dragon]

I am the most widely skilled person on the Ranch. I have done everything in my power to be as helpful to the Ranch as is humanly possible. I have worked at the Ranch for just a few weeks shy of a year.

I am still working for my starting base pay.

I still do not have a structured hourly full time job.

I do not like being ‘on call’ at all hours of the week. I want to know when I am on duty and when I am off without having to ask every day of the week. I want to have a life other than the Ranch.

I am not paid enough for my skills. I am the only person regularly employed by the Ranch who can Skin and Cook. I am also significantly knowledgeable in the fields of septic, plumbing, basic electrical, construction, and animal care and training.

I do not like being harassed toward making purchases that are not only outside of my financial ability on my payroll, but also should be covered by the Ranch, NOT myself. I should not have to provide vehicles to be used/abused by Ranch use.

I should not be harassed into doing a job other than what I was hired to do. I was hired to be a SKINNER, therefore I skin. I do not fetch hogs from the field, I do not take calls from Hunters, I do not take Hunters into the fields, or drive them around. These are the jobs of a GUIDE. I am not paid Guide wages. I should not be expected to perform as a Guide. If my job is changed, that is fine. But I should be officially notified of that change, and my pay should be increased to match. Even should this take place, I will not provide vehicles, communications devices, or other such items that are to be used by the Ranch. The Ranch should provide these devices and tools. I will be happy to respectfully use/ care for such devices should they be entrusted to me for use, in the best interests of the Ranch.

I am highly skilled, fast, efficient, clean, and neat in my job as a Skinner. This results in meat landing in the freezer before it ever has a chance to spoil, and the customer receives all of their meat. This is very appreciated by the customers to the point where many specifically request that I, personally, tend to their animals even if there are other Skinners on duty. This means that I do not spend a great deal of unnecessary time on any given animal and sometimes results in down time with no hogs on the ground. This is evidence of my skill and value, not of my being a useless accessory to the Ranch.

I am a Novelty to the customers of the Ranch just by being who and what I am and being employed by the Ranch. This results in more word of mouth advertisement for the Ranch.



End resolution:


I want a significant pay raise OR be allowed to keep all of the skinning fees from skinning jobs that I personally accomplish. No more working two hours on a bison that pulls down a $250 skinning fee, and only getting paid $18 for all that exhaustive work and effort.

I want to no longer have to suffer harassment on matters that the Ranch should deal with itself. If the Ranch needs reliable communication devices for the employees of the Ranch, the Ranch will provide this. If the Ranch needs vehicles to do certain tasks on the Ranch, the Ranch will provide them. Same for any other matters of Ranch Business.

I want a structured, set hours on a weekly basis.

I want a full time (40+ hrs a week) job. I am willing to work longer hours, but I expect to be paid for every hour spent on the Ranch. No more being required to be there 24 hrs a day and only be paid for 12. I am willing to work odd hours of the day, or longer shifts, but they must be regular and steady.

[Ruby]

ok so (I figure this will be easier here than in the cbox)

I would take this whole thing and save it somewhere, then re-phrase it all like you were talking to your best friend. If that doesn't get results, break out the straight-forward one.

So something more along the lines of:

I've noticed recently that these are the ways in which I'm super awesome __________ and I don't believe I am being fairly compensated, compared to the other workers. This is why ___________. I'm sure you are very busy running your ranch, and with so many people to oversee, I must have just slipped under your radar. I would really appreciate these things: ____________________.

You see what I mean, yes? <3

[dragon]

yes, I took it to my folks and they said pretty much the same thing. That this was a rant, and that I needed to rephrase it so that it was a bullet point business improvement plan that would go over nicely. Like I was trying to help him by pointing out problems in the business.

Unfortunately I'm still so steamed that this is virtually impossible for me to do at the moment. So I asked my brother's girlfriend (who is an english teacher) to try and help me with it. Only there's another problem: she said that this is practically how she currently feels about HER job, and as such ... isn't going to be a whole lot of help.

*le sigh*. Maybe I need to sleep on it. But it is saved on my compy and on my mom's as well. We're going to try to shorten, abbreviate, and make it nicer. I have about a week to do it in, cause the boss is ON A CRUISE *steammmmmmm* (I know where he got the money to pay for that trippppppppppp)

[Ruby]

yeah, work things are hard I'm sure you'll get it sorted out in the end, though. I'm happy to read it again if you want!

[dragon]

Here is Mom's rewrite of it. Now it just sounds like a dirty laundry list.... :/ Thoughts?

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Dear Paul,

There seems to be a lack of enough and good quality employees here at the Ranch. There are of course reasons why this situation occurs. Correcting the following issues will make things easier on yourself as you will end up with good quality, reliable workers, who care enough to stay and do a good job for you, making your life easier, your troubles fewer and most importantly for you, the business grow.



1) Lack of fairness in the treatment of workers;

a) Some are allowed to keep all the skinning fees while others only get a few dollars for the same job.

b) Employee tips being “dipped” into causes hard feelings.

c) Theft of equipment that is owned by employees – this isn’t the clients (hunters).

d) A lack of notification that rules have been changed until after a “mistake” is made.

e) Too frequent rule changing. Stability and consistency is important.

2) Unreasonable rules and a lack of long term planning;

a) For those who live there, it is their home, not being allowed guests on off hours.

b) Being told to do jobs not hired for, without just compensation.

c) Expected to provide items that should be provided by the Ranch, including but not limited to:

i) Cell phones.

ii) On property or company business transportation.

iii) Disposable gloves

3) Not feeling appreciated or valued as a worker. The following items are not rewarded;

a) Having multi-talents (being able to do any and all jobs).

b) Experience both in and on the job

c) Skill and quality of work.

d) Seniority; regardless of sex, race, on or off property, family membership or not.

e) Uniqueness and novelty that attracts positive attention to the business.

f) Being asked for by clients (hunters).

g) Being off property and available on demand.

h) Being reliably prompt and on time.

i) Being able to work quickly, doing excellent job, without injury.

j) Not damaging company property.

k) Preventing damage to company property (repeatedly).

l) Reliability.

4) Working hours; scheduling

a) Not having steady, consistent, reliable working hours.

b) Too few hours per week

c) Too many consecutive hours.

d) Not being informed of work hours in advance.

e) Being misinformed of working hours.

f) Not being notified of change in working hours till after arrival.

g) Being asked to work, without pay for all hours put in.

h) Being “on call”, but not compensated for time.

i) Overtime is not compensated.



Be honest would you like to work under the above conditions? If one treats others the way that they wish to be treated, life is so much easier for everyone, especially for you, as you will be repaid with a lot less stress, reliable workers, quality workmanship, and much better functioning, prospering business.
Thank you,