Thor is in his fifties. He used to be a fitness instructor when he was young, and later opened a small community gym from scratch. After several years of operation, the small community gym turned into a medium-sized gym, and then became a large gym. A large fitness club, and now it has become a more advanced "Thor Physical Training Center".
More than three months ago, Thor poached a coach from Li Dai. In Thor's opinion, he made a pretty good deal. Because the salary offered by Dai Li to the coach was not high, Thor proposed a 30% salary increase and successfully hired the coach.
Thor is very satisfied with his decision. The coach he hired has performed well in Li Dai's training center. Even with a 30% increase in salary, Thor feels that it is worth the money. After all, a qualified Physical fitness coaches cannot be cultivated in a short period of time. Such coaches with good abilities and certain work experience can be put into work immediately upon arrival. No physical training center will reject them.
At that time, Thor also inquired about the news that the Ironman Training Center had poached more people. Thor felt very regretful about this. He thought that he had started too late, otherwise he would have been able to poach more talents from Dai Li. .
However, three months later, Thor changed his mind and even regretted his original decision to recruit people.
Coaches are not scientists. If a scientist does a scientific research and can produce results within a few years, it is considered fast. Many scientists spend their entire lives researching a project and don't produce results until they are about to enter the coffin. Some scientists even have scientific research results that will not be produced until their death. It would take decades to be confirmed.
For a coach, three months is enough to see the coach's training level and coaching ability. For example, a certain NBA team changed its coach in the new season. After the new coach took office, he went through less than a month of pre-season training camp, about 20 days of pre-season games, and then another month of regular season games. It can be seen how good the coach is. It's similar in football. A coach has coached a team for three months. If you look at the team's results, you can basically make an evaluation of the coach.
As for a physical fitness coach, the evaluation time will be shorter. Short-term physical training can be effective in ten to fifteen days. Under normal circumstances, if the physical training for a month still has no effect, then it can be said that training Failed.
Three months have passed now. It is said that the new coach should have shown results long ago. However, the reality is exactly the opposite. Instead of making any progress, several clients under the coach's responsibility have suffered from problems. There have been varying degrees of regression, and the best case scenario is stagnation.
Thor had realized that he had misjudged the person. What he had hired was not an excellent coach, but a completely "parallel import" coach whose ability was simply not worthy of the salary.
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At the same time, Robin, the owner of another physical training center in Los Angeles, also looked depressed.
Opposite Robin, sitting was his partner Johnson. At this time, Johnson kept talking: "No wonder that Walker can only get a seemingly meager salary at Coach Li's training center. It turns out that is exactly what he said." It’s a reflection of his ability!”
"Sorry, my friend, I misjudged the person this time. Walker is not a qualified physical coach. His true level is only entry-level in a physical training center like ours." Robin continued: "However, when he was in Coach Li's training center, he performed very well. I also saw the successful cases he was responsible for and decided to hire him with a high salary. But after coming to our training center, he did not perform as before. Ability."
"In fact, you made a wrong decision. So I have a suggestion. Since a mistake has been made, why not correct it in time? We don't need to raise such a useless person!" Johnson lowered his voice and said.
Robin was silent for a few seconds, then nodded with recognition, and said happily: "Have you heard? Other training centers have also poached coaches from Dai Li, and those who have been poached They also performed very poorly. Fortunately, we only poached one person from Dai Li. If we had poached a few more people at that time, we might have lost a whole year's profit."
"I've also heard that none of the coaches poached from Dai Li has achieved results, let alone acted alone. If we hadn't taken the initiative to poach people from Dai Li, I would have even suspected that Dai Li was there. He deliberately made a fool of himself and gave us some useless people to cause us losses." Johnson said, shaking his head: "I really admire Dai Li's vision now. He knows that those coaches are not worth that much salary. So when we went to poach people, he didn't retain them at all, but we turned the waste into treasure."
"What I'm wondering now is why these coaches performed very well when he was there, but after being poached to other places, each one performed worse than the last." Robin said.
"Who knows? Maybe it's witchcraft from the East! Think about 'Blade Runner' Philip, who is missing two legs but can beat the top able-bodied players, and Kevin Taylor, who fought at the age of 32 To be in stronger form at the age of 22 seems impossible to me, but he did it." Johnson showed a helpless expression.
"Maybe this guy is really a wizard. His training center should be renamed. Instead of calling it Coach Li Training Center, it would be more appropriate to call it Wizard Training Center." Robin teased, then changed his voice and continued: "By the way, you know, the person who poached the most people from Dai Li was Max from the Ironman Training Center. He spent a lot of money but got a bunch of trash. I think he must have suffered heavy losses now."
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Ironman Training Center.
Jones looked decadent.
Jones feels that he is already working very hard. He arrives at the Ironman Training Center very early every day and leaves very late after work. He puts almost all his energy into work, even on his days off. Thinking about how to develop training programs for clients. In the past few months, he has not gone to movies, football games, or bars, and he has even saved time playing video games.
But Jones' efforts were not rewarded. Not long ago, all the students in the physical training class he was responsible for were wiped out, and no one passed the 24-hour frogman challenge. After that, the training results of several clients he was responsible for were very poor. Some were even dissatisfied with his training and complained directly to his boss Max.
This made Jones feel very confused. He had put in so much effort, only to go further and further in the opposite direction.
"I was not like this when I was at Coach Li's training center. At that time, my training was very efficient. Even professional athletes could make significant progress under my training. But after coming here, I put more effort into my work, but my training results are several levels lower than before. Why is this?"
Jones looked not far away. Standing there was a coach named Claude. He was a colleague of Jones and is and was once a colleague.
Claude was also a coach at Dai Li's place and was recruited here together with Jones. His situation was the same as Jones's. When he was at Dai Li's place, he was like a duck in water and received rave reviews. But after he came to the Ironman Training Center, he seemed to be... He has become a different person, and his training level has dropped off a cliff.
"I heard that Claude was also complained by a customer yesterday, and his situation is as bad as mine." Jones thought silently in his heart.
At this moment, a person in the distance shouted to Jones: "Coach Jones, the boss wants you to go to his office!"
Jones's heart skipped a beat.
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Max was sitting in his office with a very serious expression, and there were several dismissal letters in front of him, the first of which had Jones' name on it.
"It's time to settle things." Max murmured to himself.
"You should have done this a long time ago." Opposite Max, the bearded coach continued with a smile: "If we continue to let guys of that level stay here, we will only lose more and more. In fact, at the end of the physical training class When the time comes, you should fire them.”
"You're right. They made me waste an extra month's salary, and they also lost several customers. This is a big loss. Fortunately, we won't have to lose anymore next month." Max nodded,
"But according to the regulations, you still have to pay him an extra month's salary." The bearded man said.
In the United States, employees are allowed to be fired at any time, so it can be said that the typical employer has the final say. In most states, firing an employee requires a reasonable reason, such as being late for work, inefficient work, lack of professional ethics, causing a negative impact on the company, etc. However, in California, the law allows employers to fire directly without reason. As for the employees, they will be fired as soon as they are told.
In terms of labor laws, the United States does not mandate "indefinite-term contracts." American labor laws mainly protect the employment of certain vulnerable groups, such as avoiding racial discrimination in employment, avoiding gender discrimination in employment, and preventing the employment of disabled people. Discrimination and so on.
For this reason, the United States has very strong trade union organizations. If workers join a trade union, they will have more say when facing employers. If the employer dares to fire people, everyone will go on strike and quit.
Of course, dismissal compensation is indispensable. Generally, it is 1+N months’ salary compensation, where N refers to the number of years of service in the company. People like Jones, who have worked for less than a year, will only receive one month's salary as compensation if they are fired.
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Jones walked out of the Ironman Training Center, still holding the dismissal letter and a check for one month's salary compensation.
"I'm actually unemployed!" Jones still can't believe what happened.
More than three months ago, he was a "talent" who was poached with a high salary. He came here with high ambitions and was ready to show off his talents.
Three months later, he was like a beaten drowned dog, wailing constantly and walking out of the Ironman Training Center in a state of embarrassment.
"If you don't want me to stay here, I will have my own place to stay! There are many physical training centers in Los Angeles. With my work experience, am I still afraid that I can't find a job?" Jones began to motivate himself again. He took out his mobile phone and went to a recruitment office. Start viewing the latest recruitment information on the website.
Behind Jones, footsteps sounded, and Jones' former colleague, Coach Crowder, also walked out with a letter of dismissal.
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Toll Strength and Conditioning Center.
The boss Thor looked at the young interviewer in front of him, and then opened the resume he had just sent. However, one line of employment experience on the resume instantly attracted Thor.
"Mr. Jones, your resume says that you once worked at Coach Li's Physical Training Center, so why did you leave there and go to the Iron Fitness Training Center?" Thor already had some guesses in his mind, but he pretended to be calm. Ask.
"Because Mr. Max from the Ironman Training Center offered me a higher salary." Jones said proudly. In his opinion, a salary increase is something worth showing off, which at least shows that he is valuable.
However, Thor showed a wry smile and said in a very low voice as if talking to himself: "So that's it. This Jones has caused Max to lose a lot..."
"Mr. Thor, what did you say? I didn't hear it clearly." Jones asked.
Thor narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Jones with a half-smile: "Mr. Jones, my job here is not suitable for you."
"Mr. Thor, we can discuss the salary further..." Jones thought the other party was planning to lower the salary.
"No, no, no, Mr. Jones, this is not about salary." Thor leaned back and continued: "My training center does not need employees who have worked for Coach Li."
"Why?" Jones asked instinctively.
"Because I just fired an employee. Like you, he was also Dai Li's coach." Thor said, holding out two fingers: "There is a big hole on the ground. If you fall into it for the first time, you can If you say you were not careful and fell in for the second time, you would be stupid!”