Just work Already!

It it so much to ask that I hire employees to work and do their jobs. I really do not appreciate having to pick up the slack for anyone anymore. I am working just has hard as anyone else if not more.  I am running the business working over 12 hour days and I just want employees who appreciate their jobs and want to work. It just seems that employees are always complaining about not having enough money, working too hard, and just wanting to get off to go fishing.  When it's slow they complain about not having any money, then when it gets busy they want time off. Why?? Once summer hits, this is when they can make the most money and when I need them the most!  For some reason my employees have taken up fishing this season, so they find every excuse to leave work together mind you and let me tell you this that they do not answer their work phones once they have ran their last call or think they did.  So I end up having calls that need to be ran and struggle getting them ran. I had 4 employees today submit time off requests for July.  Okay, this is when I need my employees the most for the summer and not to mention it's when they make the most money out of the year, and all they want to do is escape the heat!  Hello this is our business to be in the heat. We are a service company so let's enjoy the work when it's here.  We do everything to keep our employees busy, even when it's slow, so when we need you..... please just work!!  I am getting really tired of hearing their excuses especially about paying their bills, struggling, but yet when we are busy all they try to do is get done to go to the lake to go fishing.

Just know this....... I am hiring people who want to work!  And guess what????  It's working. I am getting some new employees that want to work and actually are doing a great job!  Whoo hoo.... Thank you to those employees who show up to work to work and are respectuful to the ones you work with.  Trust me, you are noticed.  Keep up the good work!