2025, A New Year

A new year brings a new chance of beginning again.  To reevaluate what could be in your life.  I have been doing the same job and living in a similar situation for a while now.  No matter how hard I try, the problem never does improve. I am constantly frustrated with my job, but even volunteering some ideas has not been successful. After being there for a long time, I hate to see it continue to become worse. It was fun once and just worsened as I continued working there.  I have also been thinking about how to improve the process. It would be nice to fix the mistakes and make the workplace enjoyable.

After much study of the businesses I have worked at and the knowledge I learned in college, I want to become a management theorist.  I have seen the other methods that were put in theory since the turn of the twentieth century. They were about making workers robots and controllable.  I understand the need to get products and services out at a particular time. Still, businesses have lost sight of the fact that the workers are human beings. I want to start a new way as a theorist that considers both the business needs and the limitations of human abilities.  It would be a better workplace if all employees were appreciated.  To give the workers respect and require management to make adequate plans. This would improve their relationship and bring about positive, relevant changes.  I want to call it Personal Best.  Workers must still work efficiently and give management the same goal. It will take some creativity, but better companies are a good cause.

I studied business in college and understand the concepts of processes. From the bottom, it has been a different view to see how management can propel the company to success or set it up for failure. It has been interesting to see how decisions can be made and their effects.  I have seen so many useless choices that have no real impact on better outcomes.  Some just change a minor issue and do nothing to improve any conditions.  They usually want an easy answer to a complex problem and only worsen things.  I have grown tired of seeing all this and want to improve management's operations.

 Too many times, the less knowledgeable ones get promoted higher.  They say yes to anything to gain power.  This makes what I call a buddy system. Everyone gets along, but no real problems are solved.  This also leads to good workers leaving at an increased rate.  As such, many will lead to a failed business when all you have left is the lazy, ineffective workers.  The biggest problem is that real issues are ignored, and they would instead break the non-problem areas.  I want to be able to judge management by their own plans.  If their plans do not solve anything, they should be able to reconstruct their ideas.  Businesses should strive to make the best decisions to improve their overall success and not let many cheap skates make bonuses on garbage plans.  Authentic relevancy would benefit both the overall business and the worker.  I saw so many ideas that simply complicated a simple process in the name of making a name for the boss.  I call it complicated to compensate for no real plan.

The newest move at my workplace is to make the workstations smaller in the name of efficiency.  The only problem was that they made my space less efficient and more dangerous due to machine use in a tiny space.  This has made me assert my ideas a little more but to no avail of management even listening to them.  I did start with management since they have the most significant responsibility to the company. Their ideas can either help or hurt how the business is run.  They need to stop ego-building and develop ideas to improve the company.  Their plans are the keyway to judging them, starting with corporate first.  The higher the pencil pusher, the less they become better for the lower employee, which I call the management disconnect.  The lower employee is hardly ever consulted on how to do their jobs.  This makes it more challenging to create an effective plan when the decision-maker has no idea how to implement it properly. The plan is set for ideal results, but no idea of the unseen factors of the lower employee's job issues.  This makes those plans worthless in implementation when there is added stress for those who must live under the plans.  

Corporates only see numbers that can be easily manipulated and do not see the complete picture of the actual occurrences on the floors of stores and warehouses. This makes things more annoying to the ordinary worker who sees changes for no real reason.  Numbers can look good, but the work could also suffer from cheap processes that will eventually cost the company money in the long run.  The short-term plans are the most important and can be detrimental to the long-term goals.  The numbers are incomplete and show only a tiny aspect of what is happening.  This makes the workers more likely to quit and want to find another workplace.

The lack of concern for ordinary workers could harm a company's long-term success.  If enough workers leave, the company could fail.  The service levels will suffer if no one is doing the grunt work.  Rewarding hard-working employees with incentives is crucial, not those who cut corners to get ahead.   Valuing good employees will make the difference, not the ego-driven losers who only produce chaos to make themselves look better.  The methods that have been in place since the Industrial Revolution have taken away the humanity of the workers.  It's time to change this view and revolutionize the way businesses operate. 

New theories can give me a change of direction in my life and also in other workers.  I want to make a world where all have a chance to succeed while limiting those who are not good workers.  My stress has increased in the last few years, and I have been dissatisfied with how everything is run. I want to make this new year improve how things are looked at and how businesses are run.  The lack of leadership has not helped throughout time.  Studying and improving myself and others around me has been a life goal.  It is even a part of my personality type.   I am always thinking about the why of anything.  I can see through the systems and ask questions to improve the many inconsistencies that seem to be present.  I want businesses to thrive and workers to earn what they are worth.  The years that have gone by are just reminders that doing better can improve so much.  I want to use the skills I have learned in college and the workforce to make a positive change. 

I can quantify and organize the ideas that constantly run through my mind.  It needs to be in a way that others can understand and place into a business. The number must be realistic, pushing management and workers to stay competitive.  It would stress those with the proper skills more to be the ones that are promoted and keep the ones that just suck up to the boss low.  It would have to have the requirements to be applied in a business more directly.  This would be a complete plan, as the early theorists used the same method.  The value of all workers would be worked into how enterprises look at the hiring process.  Also, incentive systems for continued success.  The plan must define all terms and bring to life the reality of the outcome.   I can start with a theory and move to a reality plan. It would be difficult to gain a foothold in the business world. Still, hopefully, they will see the benefits of a good workforce and successful fulfillment of goods and services.   Once the plan is well developed, the strategy is to get it into businesses.  This might be difficult due to the nature of business culture. 

The goals diverge from my lack of luster and constant annoyance with the bosses' practices.  It will make for more study and learning how to take theory and put it into practice.  The world is a frustrating place with so many inefficiencies.  It just seems that the trend is turning more workers into robots.  I would also like to write more besides that, but I need to find my passion.  It would also give me a purposeful job and a new sense of adventure.  I do hope this year is better than the last.