My husband is a 23 year US Army veteran. He is having trouble finding work. People telling him he is over qualified. He has a Commercial Drivers License and still cant get a interview or a job. Alot of people don't appreciate what skills military veterans bring to the civilian world
I'll be looking for a driver probably around New years. If he's still looking, look up 40 TON TRANSPORTATION in Michigan. I'm always looking for good, experienced employees.
The Case IH dealership i worked for used to call me thier long term plan . Then they sold out twice and half the people i worked with dont work for them anymore ... Never would work for a dealer again. I get plenty of offers but im happy with just farming .. I wish you the best of luck with finding good employees. I know you will . Your a good smart individual 👌
I was a CEO of a small service corporation. I know how challenging finding and keeping quality employees. You said in your video you wish you could clone yourself. If you cloned yourself you wouldn't work for you, you'd start your own business. My solution to this problem was profit sharing for every employee who met agreed goals. They then had a vested interest instead of just punching a clock.
The employees didn't want extra income? I didn't make profit sharing inlieu of salary, I made it in addition to salary. I found out quickly my FTEs who were doing most of the work got on board and those who were just punching a clock didn't want anything to do with being held to a higher standard. It turned out to be a great asset when I interviewed potential employees. The ones who just wanted to trade hours in the building for a paycheck stood out and made tossing their application in the trash easy.
OK my two cents is most people are not getting paid enough a lot of times when you find quality help you’ve gotta pay them top dollar for instance for my part-time hay help I pay $30 an hour when you find somebody who is a member of your tribe - i.e. same work ethic values like hard work You have to pay them in order for them to afford to live in the high inflation rates we have right now I always have help. A lot of people can’t find help. There is a lot to be said about paying top dollar for somebody that will produce twice as much as what an ordinary person. People with poor work skills. It doesn’t matter how much you pay them they still won’t work.
I pay very well with great benefits...that's not it. I've raised starting wages multiple times. It doesn't seem to matter. Money only provides short term positive effects.
@@GoodWorksTractorsI’m glad you said that. It’s not about money… it’s about fulfillment. Money doesn’t fill what is missing from the equation. It’s spiritual. Just look at why you make videos. You are giving to a certain degree, guidance, understanding, logic, etc. while trying to make sense of the world you are in and sharing it with whoever… AND in another comment you said the young people rather watch tik tok… Why? What does it offer that the working world doesn’t? Two economies… one is like a drug… drugs are generally about medication…. ‘Self medicating’…. It’s all about filling what is missing. Hard work no longer fills the void. The world around us is metaphorically falling apart… just look at politics…. Politics is basically about business… as voters are tax payers. People need fulfilment… how can you spend the bulk of your time AND energy on something that is ultimately causing you to feel even more ‘empty’?
Competitive salaries motivate workers, reduce turnover, and enhance overall job satisfaction. Lower turnover leads to cost savings associated with recruitment, training, and lost productivity. Moreover, a stable and experienced workforce often contributes to a positive work environment and increased organizational success.
Competitive salaries don't motivate employees...we pay darn good for warehouse workers and it's incredible how hard it is to find and retain quality employees. I'm all about creating a positive envirnoment that is geared towards a very balanced work/life schedule...no weekends, no nights, never more than 50 hours a week, paid holidays, I buy lunch on Friday's, paid time off, paid work wear, flexible work schedule, bonuses, other benefits, etc. That's just for a simple warehouse position, packing and shipping. It's like pulling teeth to find quality candidates.
@@GoodWorksTractors I want to emphasize that my intention is not to suggest any shortcomings in the compensation you provide, but rather to share insights based on my experience in fostering employee retention. In some instances, departures can be attributed to issues with supervision or management rather than the work conditions. I am not implying this pertains to your situation; I hold you in high regard.
My friend Courtney , My tractor dealer here in Middle TN has the same issue, he had 6 Mechanics that decided to not show up after a few weeks of working. He is an awesome boss to his employees just like yourself, with high integrity. I am semi-retired and I cannot believe how easy it is for me to walk in anyplace and get a job within 20 minutes to 1hr. walking into a place. I am a retired building contractor 61 yrs.of age and I would still get hired. I hear of these problems everywhere as I know people in different states. I will pray for your situation sir. Lord Bless you
I’m just learning about the different attachments for compact tractors and really don’t know how things work yet. I just retired from my previous life after 33 years and am really enjoying learning about your skills. I wish I had more knowledge I would love to do this!
Hi, just an idea , look for friendly, older, retired people. Some would like to make some extra money, but more then that , they have a purpose to continue, and give them more value in life.
People will not work for pennies anymore. If you pay pennies thats the kind of riff raff help your going to get maybe none at all. You got to pay enough for the person to be able to afford to work there. Tons of places here in SD whine about not being able to get good help but if you dig into it they arent paying a wage that would even pay for an apartment. Then the people who are good workers know what they are worth and are not going to stay at a crappy company. The job market isnt like it was 30 years ago either. Older people are like broken records that still think a single 20 something can afford a house a new car and start a family on a single income because they could back in the day! 🙃 Then they turn around and say no one wants to work when they offer the fine job of scooping hog crap or similar for 15bucks an hour. Why do crap work when you can make the same or more money doing easier work. Shoot walmart or amazon pay better than a lot of wrenching or welding jobs here.
@GoodWorksTractors it's a tough market, there are good workers out there but the performance gap between them and the run of the mill worker has gotten a lot bigger. The competion between employers over that top 20 percent of people with values and pride in their work is pretty stiff. A lot of the time they find a good job with good leadership and they stay. It's not often that demographic is unemployed or looking for work to begin with. Either they are fleeing bad management or it has to be a really good offer.
I saw your add on Indeed the other night and I cant find it today. Grew up on a farm in Indiana, bought a couple properties and moved up here just north of you in Grand Junction/Pullman area. I'm just now starting to look for work, my other half too. We'll send our resumes. Long time follower and customer. :)
I was in the concrete construction business before retiring, I once asked a fellow competitor are you having trouble hiring good help, and his answer was I can't even find any bad help to hire. Nothing has changed there still is a big labor shortage.
Your in a tough situation. Was in business for 38 years. Sometimes you can't micro manage. You may find that you don't want to be any bigger. Bigger is sometimes bitter sweet. You'll have to learn not to be so perfect. As you said if they were like you they would be doing there own thing. Good luck. Employees are hard to find much less good ones. Enjoy your honesty.
Thank you for making this video. I called the shop three weeks ago and left a message. Someone answered my second call, wrote down my contact information and said they would get back to me. You returned the call. I said I watched all your videos and asked about which quick attach to order when buying a HLA 1500. You gave me great advice on what to buy and what not to buy, no on the UHMW edges. I could tell you were busy when you told me to order on the website instead of finishing over the phone. This RUclips explains why.
This is a tough situation. I so admire your honesty and devotion. Courtney. I'm praying that you will receive the help that you need. Bill Holly Springs, MS
Just about every business in the country has a hard time getting good help….nobody seems to care anymore….just there for a paycheck and don’t take pride in their work! I have some theory’s on why this is but won’t get into it, it’ll be too lengthy and create disputes.. 40+ years old and older seem to be the better workers as far as quality work goes…..ethics are different with newer generations.
Even if you never talk on the phone again, get your hearing checked! Hearing loss is a one way street, downhill. As for the 'right' person, they are out there. It's just a matter of finding them. Have faith.
Yeah, I've seen that with my grandfather...he couldn't hear anything as long as I knew him. Motorcycle LEO in Detroit...then a crane operator after that. Noisy environments.
I have run a small Business for 40 years and am currently in Northern Michigan. I think you have a great business and some amazing principles and have an amazing future in business. Have you considered using a coach? I wish I had. My business pays sales people a fair wage and with commission the ability to make a six figure income. Hang in there. I see great things in your future.
Cortney. It’s hard to find good help anywhere. If they show up for work then they want to be on their phones all day while at work. I had a helper at my job and I told him for a month straight that he couldn’t be on his phone all day. I told him the customer comes first and we take care of the customer. The customer is the reason why we are in business and they are why we get a paycheck. Without them spending their time and money here, we won’t have a job. He no longer works the company because his phone was more important to him than his job.
They understand but they will only do what their priority is, and usually it’s just themselves and the rest is I’ll do it when I feel like it. I’m in my late sixties and working in a totally different field than I was for 4 decades because of layoffs. I work because I like to stay busy and the owner does not want me to leave. I used to be in the computer field. Now I’m in the HVAC business. It’s a totally different field but help customers every day which I like and customers love me. I’m in the Florida panhandle finding good workers is very hard, the middle aged guys can’t keep up with me. Helping others keeps me young. Love your vids gd luck.
What you need is a person who sells tractors and attachments. Poaching good employees from other businesses is the easiest way to find people but they usually have a premium cost.
Answering the phone is great however should never come at the expense of customers physically at your location. My grandfather owned and ran his own hardware store and always preached that the phone is second priority to customers in front of you! Of course there weren’t internet customers in those days lol
It’s unbelievable how people don’t want to work. I wish I knew more about tractors. I’d jump right in! It’s not rocket science to provide great customer service and with great products that people are COMING TO YOU for, they sell themselves! Go find you a gen X employee Courtney!
Consider looking for someone who is newly retired. We have had great luck with "bored" retirees looking to do something worthwhile. Phone calls and e-mails can be handled remotely. One of our employees, a retired flight attendant, spends summers a long plane flight from here but is still able to handle phone calls and computer-oriented tasks.
As for hearing, I had mine tested and the tests identified a “noise notch” with response down about 70dB. That was a result of exposure to outdoor power equipment such as chain saws while fighting forest fires. That made it very difficult to understand higher pitched voices, especially on the phone. I have some very good Bluetooth digital hearing aids that were about $1600 from Costco.
I found that the most difficult part of owning a business is finding good help and even more difficult to keep. Talented people are very ambitious and are always looking for ways to better themselves so as an employer you have to get creative to keep them and that includes paying them top dollar and as you said in a reply to a comment “they will make you money”. I once interviewed someone and I asked him, if I hire you what will you do for me? His answer was “I will make you money”. Best answer I’ve ever gotten in an interview. I hired him and never regretted it. He has since moved on to bigger and better things. Good luck with your search.
I have been doing sales for 20 years now and I get where you are coming from. I’m in the same boat, I need to get the customer the right answer in a timely fashion. If the clock strikes quitting time and I don’t have all my customers answered, well then it’s not time to quit yet.. Hang in there, the right person does exist.
Job descriptions and requirements are often a turn off and not even related to the actual work. You might be looking for a salesman when the best fit might be a mechanic or farmer that are familiar with the products. And be easier to teach the sales part than to teach a salesman the technical/life experience part. Everyone does things different. That can be hard to accept by a boss. A company I worked at had back-office people rate the employees in my area. The Manager, Foremen, Leads, and others shown the list all disagreed. Funny in that the worst and best were the most swapped, while the more average were not. Can be very difficult to assess an employee without stepping back and really thinking.
The only folks I generally rule out are the ones who’s previous three or more jobs all have start and ends dates in the same calendar year. I understand one job not being a good fit, but multiple occurrences establish a pattern of behavior.
@GoodWorksTractors Or it is as result of working for businesses that did not survive because of various internal or external reasons. I was terminated because I reported contract violations and gross negligence by a federal contractor for Job Corps. My professional license was compromised and put at risk. I sued, and lost. I was deemed not protected as a whistleblower because I wasn't privy to reporting to the Inspector General WHILE employed. The point is how am I supposed to explain this on a resume when I worked there only 6 months? It does look bad that a healthcare professional gets fired in a probation period. But who is going to believe it was the employer that was corrupt, not me? Not getting past the ATS means no human will ever see my resume and ask to explain. The worst is assumed. Shitcanned.
@@gckshea I’m f you’ve got three or four places of employment in a row that all closed two or three months after you were hired, then that’s about the biggest run of bad luck I’ve ever heard of.
Lol, so just devels advocate here, but how can you be a perfectionist and have a Lions jersey (sweatshirt) on in your videos 😂. GWT great stuff and content you make. Just bustin balls. Have a great day. Oh ya I also live in MI and am a Lions fan.
Did you ever have your hearing checked? I had trouble even hearing my own grandchild, so I went and got tested and found I had otosclerosis and ended up getting ear surgery. Now, I can hear a world of difference. I was willing to do what i needed to hear again and not miss out on life.
Totally hear you. Finding that vested interest niche that works for all three. Yes ... three. The business, the business owner and the employee. All three "has to" care for each other to sustain and grow. When the three, stay focused on the same realistic mission statement and goals ... it works. Expectations ... only lead to confusion and results in inefficiencies. Roads have lanes for a reason and not all vehicles on that road are trucks. I pray you are able to find that lane for you and employee(s) that can find theirs for GWT. It takes two four-letter words ... time and work.
the federal government screwed business owners, local ford dealer would interview people - offer them a job. the persons would not take the job because they still had unemployment benefits left. we need to be like Mexico, do not work do not get a paycheck or a hand out.
unemployment is pretty low. not sure where you're getting your info. Nobody is getting paid to not work. The people who don't work and get paid are called the top 1%.
@@tman8939unemployment benefits is insurance no? In Canada at least it’s actually something you have to pay for… ie. it’s a deduction off of every pay until you stop working. SO if the US is based on the same pool of money that employees have to pay into, then you are judging insurance as being bad-and when someone needs it they won’t have it and you are saying that is good for the overall big picture… ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BE LIKE MEXICO? (You know what else comes with it?)
Courtney, You are an absolutist for change in how business is done. From the timeframes of me first watching your videos from when I first saw the storage bin days of you being slammed full of tractors and gear; including with all of that equipment sitting just outside and rowed up like somebody had laid chalk lines at times to make things line up straight, to the pristine picturesque examples of the tractors that you had for sale. I'm not sure if you have ever stepped back and really taken all of that in, for what you were really showing. Was it organizational prowess, or was it how to cram as many tractors and as much equipment into a limited confined area to make it easier to inventory? Or to just care for and reorder by just glancing across the lot. Joking with grace by the way (just to get you to laugh about this) for all statements here by me and that stated; it is very admirable for a business owner and very admirable for self-initiative as well. I was paying attention and I am absolutely sure that many, many, many more thousand(s) (194K Subscribers more) did and are listening and paying attention. I have some of the same outlooks, roadblocks, and the same inherited analogies from within and for my own requirements of myself and of others I work with and share life with. It gets harder and harder to find my true north at times when all I want to do is do the right thing and make sure that I can do all that I can do to help. And if I can help someone do better, be better, have better, and then for those that you are trying to help, to then possibly to be able to transfer the same help or forward actions onward to someone else to be helped again (sound familiar?). Yet, so many times it is unknown why; they then take the advice or even the help, as being demanding, or critical assessment and react defensively. Especially with all of the critics from around the full spectrum of entitlements that our society's beliefs are forcibly embedded in by others. Here, recently I have discovered some relief and some solace in watching another RUclipsr (Dr. Kim Sage) whom I find amazing in her explanations and content for myself. Now I know how the true draw-of-meaning is for many things that I have seen happen to me and continues to happen even daily when people have misconceptions of why I do things a certain way and can also explain why it has to be done exactly that way for many bilateral reasons with evidential matter to prove the needs to the highest degree. It is absolutely crippling at times and causes a shutdown of the processes for me. I am not advertising, but you should check out Dr. Kim Sage. Great content that you are giving and sharing, I really like and enjoy the musical engagement at the end of the videos, and even though I do not consider myself a highly religious person; I do enjoy waiting to see your next thought processes for which verse you would cite to, and wonder from both sides of what intentions sometimes. But also, I do ask myself why you actually choose those certain particular verses for that context and for that certain video content base. I do read the verses and they shine with meaning on many, many occasions more than I can count; without you actually speaking a word of it physically. That is a very intelligent skill set that you have tapped into; to be able to draw thousands of people to the end of your videos and to actually engage them honorably with what you have there at that point to share. Avid watcher here, and even long before that I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for sharing what you do and you do great work.
I’m an engineer that manages projects and people, so I have to be on the phone more than I want, and I can’t hear well on the phone either, AirPods have helped a TON!!!!!
I closed a "potentially" highly successful business, due to employee problems. It was literally costing my health. I ended up having heart surgery which I firmly believe was due to stress. It isn's worth killing yourself. I just dealt with a company yesterday that (apparently) won't answer their phones. It ended up costing me over two hundred dollars because I couldn't talk to a person and ended up having two people sending me the same components. I knew how frustrated I was trying to order the parts, I didn't want to fight the battle to correct the order. I just bit the bullet and paid for something I didn't need.
It is funny, I refuse to do business where email is requirement….lol. I understand your position completely, but if I can’t talk to a person, then I’m not having any relationship business or otherwise. I imagine I’m in the minority though.
As a content ‘creator’ you should realize that you do it because people are hungry and you are trying to feed them (and it’s ‘immaterial’)… it gives you more to in return right? At least when you feel like you’ve done a ‘good work’. SO think about how unfulfilled people generally are from their work. You need the few people left who get fulfillment by what comes out of/from their work environment… ie. they want that which is actually valuable… ie. where did Christ say to store your treasure? (=it needs to be spiritually fulfilling… like where doing the right thing is elevated above the financial aspects of work.) Of course there’s more to it… but when you realize we are in a raging war between the material world (vice/compromise/corruption) and the spiritual (virtue =way, truth, life), and one side is depleting the other side of power/energy. It means people are hungry for fulfillment… some feed the flesh (still) and some are hungry for something better.
It's also difficult for a good employee to find a good employer. I have worked for the same company for 25 years. At first they were decent to their employees. Eventually things changed. Sick time was taken away, vacation time was reduced. Holiday pay taken away. Every benefit has been taken away or greatly reduced. Now the quality of the people they're hiring has completely gone down. There are still good people out there trying to work for a living but they're getting fewer and fewer every day. I'd love to work for you except most of my experience is with bigger tractors from the 60s-80s. Probably something not very helpful anymore. I do also suffer from the same hearing and phone issue. By the time someone gets me to understand what they're trying to say both of us are getting angry. Keep looking decent people are still out there.
Courtney, you don't need a salesman or woman. You need a product specialist... someone who can shadow you and take notes on everything... every piece of hardware you know about... and mimic your knowledge. Knowledge specialist... the sales will follow. Good luck.
Hi Courtney, my wife and I also have a small business that we decided to keep small because we ran into the same problems. We are OK with our business staying a hobby business. Business growing pains can really suck. I know this comment doesn’t really help your situation but sometimes just knowing there’s others out there that have dealt with the same things help. So good luck you’re doing a great job you’ve got a great channel. Keep up the good work.
Courtney. I hear you and experience the same. I need more ME's. We will never find the passion in others we have for our family business's. I sure wish you luck. You seem an extremely kind and informed owner that clearly goes WAY above and beyond. You are rare. I feel your pain when you say How do I continue with what I enjoy and am good at if my business is not fitting all needs of my customers. This is why you will succeed! Find a kid to do your social media replies and speak to him 5 times a day with follow ups that require you. That person will soon learn to sift the serious buyers that need quicker responses. Teaching all you know is not possible.
The worker you are looking for is out there but they are worth six figures. Can you afford to pay a worker that much and still make money on them? I would rather make a little money on an excellent employee and not have to deal with headaches. Than make a lot of money on poor employees and deal with all the headaches.
The company I work for went most of the summer one employee short. Took months to get someone in the door. Job literally pays around 100k a year (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on OT). I feel most companies are now just resorting to headhunting people who are willing to work with better pay, benefits, & personal time off.
I haven't read all of the other comments, as there are just too many for me to read. But my take on your situation is that you're going through growing pains. Been there, done that. I survived, and came out on the other side better off though, and I respect your intellect, and am confident that you'll do the same. Also, I'm FAR from being a tractor expert. But I do own a Kioti RX 7320 and a Kubota BX 2350, and I've become relatively well informed on tractors and the correct sized implements for those machines recently. I'd be interested in doing some sales/marketing for you if you'd be interested in discussing the matter further. I'm always open to discussions if you felt like talking about it. I wish you all the best regardless of if you wanted to pursue that or not.
I agree that the person you are looking for is out there but it would cost you 6 figures. I believe if you was going to spend 200k in two super duty’s for right offs you can only drive one at a time. I would use them write offs for spending on good employees.
Look to newly retired teachers who need to bridge the insurance age gap until they reach sixty-five. To be honest, you may lure teachers nearing retirement away to your company. Teachers are very smart, usually, and for that kind of compensation package at which you hinted they might jump the educational ship a few years early.
I have suggestion about your video and that is put the Rim Guard commercials at beginning or at the end, not in the freeken middle of the show, I hate that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I prefer emails and hate phone call, but sometimes I just need to get in touch with someone to solve problem, so when I do have to make a phone call, for the love God and US Constitution, have someone that speaks English and no freeken robot to give stupid robot answers..........
Courtney see if you can hire an office specialist aka secretary to answer the phones. If nothing else, they can take down all the pertinent information and suggest looking at your website as well as shooting someone an email. You might also want to streamline the products available so the OA could click on a specific model of tractor and up would come everything associated with that type and model. I haven’t been on your website in awhile so I can’t recall if that’s what you’re already doing. Younger generation with good work ethics are still out there and not everyone over the age of 50 has good work ethics. The younger generation is more trained with computers, their verbal skills need a bit of work IMHO I recently met an awesome 16 year old who is one of the hardest working person I know. On the flip side had to fire a 37 year old who throws tantrums like a 2 year old. We’re thinking untreated mental health issues.
Your asking for someone who is a subject matter expert, extremely good at working with customers, and (since you run an efficient business) able to handle a large workload each day. You never once mentioned what the employee would get for providing that. A couple comments alluded to a 6 figure salary, but that wasn't in the video. If I were able to do the work, why would I choose to work for you rather than all the other employers out there? And if those reasons exist, does your target demographic know that?
This wasn't a full on job offer in the video...simply putting a feeler out there. The folks actually interested are already contacting me. A few good ones too :)
Is your brother Chris, who shoots your videos, an employee and business partner already? He must be, or he must have other employer commitments, because he seems like an obvious person that knows your business and could be a key person. Or hire someone to do what he does with your YT videos to free up more of his time for other things. But he probably loves doing the videos and editing and doesn’t want to give it up.
He works for me...he's beyond full time with video work and some website work too. He also owns RhinoHide canopies with me. His plate is full. You're right, the video/editing type stuff is his wheelhouse.
Put your kids to work like Millennial Farmer has done! This years harvest his son (14 yo) running the combine all alone with a 40’ corn or Bean head on it…. And his daughter ( 13 yo) running the 300 hp tractor pulling a hopper bottom that holds 80,000lbs of grain when full. Family is how you can git er done!! Hope you find the right folks for your needs it’s tough out there….
As a 40 plus year IT person who has worked in the customer service area, the answers are out there, but you risk ruining your business or turning off customers at best. I work for the nations number one heath system and know that people and automation can solve this, but you need a human in the end to answer the phone, computers can not do that with there say 1 for ....
I would love to work for you ,I’m retired and have worked on and owned all types of tractors , Deere , new Holland,etc however I live near Cleveland oh,
You might have reached your max and time to sell the business and do something else. I own my company and that is where I'm at. 2024 is the year I'm pushing to sell my business before I burn out. I've had employees but now I'm down to a few. Sales are better now then when I had my guys collecting a pay cheque. LOL Good luck
You may have to rely more on AI. I assume you have all the data on what you have sold. If the customers provided the tractor model they are buying it for already that would be great as you would have what size attachment you have sold for what model tractor in a giant data base. The more data, the better at telling the right attachment. While not replacing people completely, it could allow fewer people to do more.
Hi Courtney, not meaning to sound disrespectful, but i listened to you describe your personality and ive worked for employers with such, but when your employer expects you to be exactly like them, well not going to happen. Employer or employee, you have to have an open mind set. You may think you know everything, and even if you did, it never hurts to listen to the ideas of others. Again, not meaning any disrespect, maybe its time to relax. Everyone out there isn't Courtney
Too many boomers retiring. not enough new blood in later generations cover. It’s not false to say there’s a lack of work ethics nowadays. But I wouldn’t sell my soul for $10 an hour. I still remember when over a hundred people would apply for a single opening. Sounds like you’ve got a good kind of problem….you’re too busy
Well the funny thing is, this change we’re experiencing, actually reflects certain aspects of the gospel… He said don’t store up what nature destroys. Meanwhile it seems like we’re not really paying attention enough to ask the question why? People are hungry spiritually… look how fat the nation is and yet how utterly devastatingly withered it is regarding its love of the truth. ‘A people without understanding will come ruin.’ (We live in echo chambers. Just look at our politics!)
They want to make $120k/year working 32 hours a week from home with four weeks of PTO straight out of college with a worthless Liberal Arts degree. It's sad and is killing small farms and businesses when the next generation simply doesn't want to work.
Courtney, I'm sorry to tell you this, but with the new generations of woke workers. You will have to do it the old fashion way, by having a large family of children, so you can train then to have work ethics or hire veterans.
I really enjoy your videos but the video with the tractor with and without rimguard is very deceptive without rimguard the load is way higher than the one with rimguard in the tires
Man I would be at your door with a resume if you lived in the tropics. I'm a gen x worker who has been spinning wrenches since age 11, and employed since 14. Also a peace officer. Just working on getting out of Canada lol.
Try hiring part-time seniors. They might be able to give you a dependable 4 hours a day, but not 8. So, hire two and have them buddy up. Not like they can't come to work because a kid is sick.
I e-mailed you a couple days ago and was totally amazed at the quick response from you which I didn't really expect. I figured it was a computerize response until I read it. I was impressed for what its worth.
Me too. I emailed him late in the evening and received a response in about 10 min, then a follow up in the morning. I stick to GWT when need something.
If my english was better, if i lived in the States and if i didnt love my job, i would apply for sure. It looks like an awesome job. Good luck, you'll find someone that fits eventually
If I could clone myself - sounds great for a worker, but like you said a cloned me would have left his job just like I did years ago and then I would have to compete with myself as my clone opened up a rival business doing what he knows best - the shit I do. We got tired the past three years with this labor issue - so we just downsized. Screw it. We are busy as hell and make more money now than before with less workers
I can attest to your responsiveness (and helpfulness) to email. Good luck in your search. Many businesses are having trouble just finding ANYONE willing to work. Even ones with low standards.
Is this a question or a statement? An unanswered phone is a lost sale. While not ideal, it >is< acceptable to take a message. Talking to a human is far more likely to result in a sale than getting routed to voicemail or the phone never being answered. If I'm hunting for a product and the phone isn't answered or it goes to VM, they're struck off the list. If I talk to a human who takes a message, they'll stay on the list, but I'll also continue calling the next ones. If I talk to someone who has the information I'm looking for (like application, pricing, availability) and it matches, then it's a sale.
I'd much rather have the phone answered and take a message than not answer the phone or answer the phone and give out bad information....you'd think it would be easy to answer the phone and give a knowledgable answer...yet, here I am telling you otherwise :)
My husband is a 23 year US Army veteran. He is having trouble finding work. People telling him he is over qualified. He has a Commercial Drivers License and still cant get a interview or a job. Alot of people don't appreciate what skills military veterans bring to the civilian world
I've never told anyone they were overqualified, haha. I consider his military experience to be a very solid asset.
That’s true happens to me
I'll be looking for a driver probably around New years. If he's still looking, look up 40 TON TRANSPORTATION in Michigan. I'm always looking for good, experienced employees.
The Case IH dealership i worked for used to call me thier long term plan . Then they sold out twice and half the people i worked with dont work for them anymore ... Never would work for a dealer again. I get plenty of offers but im happy with just farming .. I wish you the best of luck with finding good employees. I know you will . Your a good smart individual 👌
Thank you Adam!
I was a CEO of a small service corporation. I know how challenging finding and keeping quality employees. You said in your video you wish you could clone yourself. If you cloned yourself you wouldn't work for you, you'd start your own business. My solution to this problem was profit sharing for every employee who met agreed goals. They then had a vested interest instead of just punching a clock.
I've thought about that...we surveyed another business of ours and the employees didn't even want to do it...so, I haven't considered it here.
The employees didn't want extra income? I didn't make profit sharing inlieu of salary, I made it in addition to salary. I found out quickly my FTEs who were doing most of the work got on board and those who were just punching a clock didn't want anything to do with being held to a higher standard. It turned out to be a great asset when I interviewed potential employees. The ones who just wanted to trade hours in the building for a paycheck stood out and made tossing their application in the trash easy.
OK my two cents is most people are not getting paid enough a lot of times when you find quality help you’ve gotta pay them top dollar for instance for my part-time hay help I pay $30 an hour when you find somebody who is a member of your tribe - i.e. same work ethic values like hard work You have to pay them in order for them to afford to live in the high inflation rates we have right now I always have help. A lot of people can’t find help. There is a lot to be said about paying top dollar for somebody that will produce twice as much as what an ordinary person. People with poor work skills. It doesn’t matter how much you pay them they still won’t work.
I pay very well with great benefits...that's not it. I've raised starting wages multiple times. It doesn't seem to matter. Money only provides short term positive effects.
@@GoodWorksTractorsI’m glad you said that. It’s not about money… it’s about fulfillment. Money doesn’t fill what is missing from the equation. It’s spiritual. Just look at why you make videos. You are giving to a certain degree, guidance, understanding, logic, etc. while trying to make sense of the world you are in and sharing it with whoever… AND in another comment you said the young people rather watch tik tok… Why? What does it offer that the working world doesn’t? Two economies… one is like a drug… drugs are generally about medication…. ‘Self medicating’…. It’s all about filling what is missing. Hard work no longer fills the void. The world around us is metaphorically falling apart… just look at politics…. Politics is basically about business… as voters are tax payers.
People need fulfilment… how can you spend the bulk of your time AND energy on something that is ultimately causing you to feel even more ‘empty’?
Competitive salaries motivate workers, reduce turnover, and enhance overall job satisfaction. Lower turnover leads to cost savings associated with recruitment, training, and lost productivity. Moreover, a stable and experienced workforce often contributes to a positive work environment and increased organizational success.
Competitive salaries don't motivate employees...we pay darn good for warehouse workers and it's incredible how hard it is to find and retain quality employees. I'm all about creating a positive envirnoment that is geared towards a very balanced work/life schedule...no weekends, no nights, never more than 50 hours a week, paid holidays, I buy lunch on Friday's, paid time off, paid work wear, flexible work schedule, bonuses, other benefits, etc. That's just for a simple warehouse position, packing and shipping. It's like pulling teeth to find quality candidates.
@@GoodWorksTractors I want to emphasize that my intention is not to suggest any shortcomings in the compensation you provide, but rather to share insights based on my experience in fostering employee retention. In some instances, departures can be attributed to issues with supervision or management rather than the work conditions. I am not implying this pertains to your situation; I hold you in high regard.
@@GoodWorksTractors. Dang. Wish I lived close to you!
My friend Courtney , My tractor dealer here in Middle TN has the same issue, he had 6 Mechanics that decided to not show up after a few weeks of working. He is an awesome boss to his employees just like yourself, with high integrity. I am semi-retired and I cannot believe how easy it is for me to walk in anyplace and get a job within 20 minutes to 1hr. walking into a place. I am a retired building contractor 61 yrs.of age and I would still get hired. I hear of these problems everywhere as I know people in different states. I will pray for your situation sir. Lord Bless you
I appreciate it Melissa!
2:33 "I'm not arguing, I'm explaining why I'm right."
Haha, duh!
I have to pay north of 30 an hour for landscape help. Prevailing wage is 46 an hour. Good luck.
I’m a retired NZ farmer, running a bed and breakfast in Japan now with my wife.I’d come and work for you if I was able to come over there!
I’m just learning about the different attachments for compact tractors and really don’t know how things work yet. I just retired from my previous life after 33 years and am really enjoying learning about your skills. I wish I had more knowledge I would love to do this!
Hi, just an idea , look for friendly, older, retired people. Some would like to make some extra money, but more then that , they have a purpose to continue, and give them more value in life.
People will not work for pennies anymore. If you pay pennies thats the kind of riff raff help your going to get maybe none at all. You got to pay enough for the person to be able to afford to work there. Tons of places here in SD whine about not being able to get good help but if you dig into it they arent paying a wage that would even pay for an apartment. Then the people who are good workers know what they are worth and are not going to stay at a crappy company. The job market isnt like it was 30 years ago either. Older people are like broken records that still think a single 20 something can afford a house a new car and start a family on a single income because they could back in the day! 🙃 Then they turn around and say no one wants to work when they offer the fine job of scooping hog crap or similar for 15bucks an hour. Why do crap work when you can make the same or more money doing easier work. Shoot walmart or amazon pay better than a lot of wrenching or welding jobs here.
Man, I find it tough to take anyone seriously if they think I don’t or won’t pay well. It’s like you think I’m a complete idiot.
@GoodWorksTractors no your good that's just the situation here in SD.
@GoodWorksTractors just finding people that could pass a random drug test is like hitting the lottery any more with new hires.
@@dssssc sorry, didn’t mean you personally…just speaking to the internet at large 😂
@GoodWorksTractors it's a tough market, there are good workers out there but the performance gap between them and the run of the mill worker has gotten a lot bigger. The competion between employers over that top 20 percent of people with values and pride in their work is pretty stiff. A lot of the time they find a good job with good leadership and they stay. It's not often that demographic is unemployed or looking for work to begin with. Either they are fleeing bad management or it has to be a really good offer.
I saw your add on Indeed the other night and I cant find it today. Grew up on a farm in Indiana, bought a couple properties and moved up here just north of you in Grand Junction/Pullman area. I'm just now starting to look for work, my other half too. We'll send our resumes. Long time follower and customer. :)
I was in the concrete construction business before retiring, I once asked a fellow competitor are you having trouble hiring good help, and his answer was I can't even find any bad help to hire. Nothing has changed there still is a big labor shortage.
Big quality labor shortage...I reject maybe 100 applicants a day or more...lots of bottom of the barrel folks out there.
Your in a tough situation. Was in business for 38 years. Sometimes you can't micro manage. You may find that you don't want to be any bigger. Bigger is sometimes bitter sweet. You'll have to learn not to be so perfect. As you said if they were like you they would be doing there own thing. Good luck. Employees are hard to find much less good ones. Enjoy your honesty.
Thank you for making this video. I called the shop three weeks ago and left a message. Someone answered my second call, wrote down my contact information and said they would get back to me. You returned the call. I said I watched all your videos and asked about which quick attach to order when buying a HLA 1500. You gave me great advice on what to buy and what not to buy, no on the UHMW edges. I could tell you were busy when you told me to order on the website instead of finishing over the phone. This RUclips explains why.
Glad to hear it, thanks for following along :)
Sounds like you're looking for a unicorn: A technical extrovert.
This is a tough situation. I so admire your honesty and devotion.
Courtney. I'm praying that you will receive the help that you need.
Bill
Holly Springs, MS
Just about every business in the country has a hard time getting good help….nobody seems to care anymore….just there for a paycheck and don’t take pride in their work! I have some theory’s on why this is but won’t get into it, it’ll be too lengthy and create disputes..
40+ years old and older seem to be the better workers as far as quality work goes…..ethics are different with newer generations.
I agree with that assessment.
Even if you never talk on the phone again, get your hearing checked! Hearing loss is a one way street, downhill.
As for the 'right' person, they are out there. It's just a matter of finding them. Have faith.
Yeah, I've seen that with my grandfather...he couldn't hear anything as long as I knew him. Motorcycle LEO in Detroit...then a crane operator after that. Noisy environments.
I have run a small Business for 40 years and am currently in Northern Michigan. I think you have a great business and some amazing principles and have an amazing future in business. Have you considered using a coach? I wish I had. My business pays sales people a fair wage and with commission the ability to make a six figure income. Hang in there. I see great things in your future.
I appreciate it!
Good luck and hoping you find some good people 👍🏻
Appreciate it!
Cortney. It’s hard to find good help anywhere. If they show up for work then they want to be on their phones all day while at work. I had a helper at my job and I told him for a month straight that he couldn’t be on his phone all day. I told him the customer comes first and we take care of the customer. The customer is the reason why we are in business and they are why we get a paycheck. Without them spending their time and money here, we won’t have a job. He no longer works the company because his phone was more important to him than his job.
Exactly right...shouldn't be hard for them to understand either.
@@GoodWorksTractors no it shouldn’t but they don’t seem to want to understand!
They understand but they will only do what their priority is, and usually it’s just themselves and the rest is I’ll do it when I feel like it.
I’m in my late sixties and working in a totally different field than I was for 4 decades because of layoffs. I work because I like to stay busy and the owner does not want me to leave. I used to be in the computer field. Now I’m in the HVAC business. It’s a totally different field but help customers every day which I like and customers love me. I’m in the Florida panhandle finding good workers is very hard, the middle aged guys can’t keep up with me. Helping others keeps me young. Love your vids gd luck.
@@jwmustang1 you are telling the truth! They want to get paid the big bucks but don’t want to put in the big work.
What you need is a person who sells tractors and attachments. Poaching good employees from other businesses is the easiest way to find people but they usually have a premium cost.
I don't mind premiums...
Retired perfectionist auto shop owner, here. I feel your pain.
Appreciate it!
Answering the phone is great however should never come at the expense of customers physically at your location. My grandfather owned and ran his own hardware store and always preached that the phone is second priority to customers in front of you! Of course there weren’t internet customers in those days lol
We don't get many walk-in customers. We're a warehouse and don't advertise locally. We have no resemblance to a John Deere dealership or similar.
It’s unbelievable how people don’t want to work. I wish I knew more about tractors. I’d jump right in! It’s not rocket science to provide great customer service and with great products that people are COMING TO YOU for, they sell themselves! Go find you a gen X employee Courtney!
Consider looking for someone who is newly retired. We have had great luck with "bored" retirees looking to do something worthwhile. Phone calls and e-mails can be handled remotely. One of our employees, a retired flight attendant, spends summers a long plane flight from here but is still able to handle phone calls and computer-oriented tasks.
Yeah, we've got two on the payroll now. I'd love to find more like them.
As for hearing, I had mine tested and the tests identified a “noise notch” with response down about 70dB. That was a result of exposure to outdoor power equipment such as chain saws while fighting forest fires. That made it very difficult to understand higher pitched voices, especially on the phone. I have some very good Bluetooth digital hearing aids that were about $1600 from Costco.
I found that the most difficult part of owning a business is finding good help and even more difficult to keep. Talented people are very ambitious and are always looking for ways to better themselves so as an employer you have to get creative to keep them and that includes paying them top dollar and as you said in a reply to a comment “they will make you money”. I once interviewed someone and I asked him, if I hire you what will you do for me? His answer was “I will make you money”. Best answer I’ve ever gotten in an interview. I hired him and never regretted it. He has since moved on to bigger and better things. Good luck with your search.
I have been doing sales for 20 years now and I get where you are coming from. I’m in the same boat, I need to get the customer the right answer in a timely fashion. If the clock strikes quitting time and I don’t have all my customers answered, well then it’s not time to quit yet.. Hang in there, the right person does exist.
Job descriptions and requirements are often a turn off and not even related to the actual work. You might be looking for a salesman when the best fit might be a mechanic or farmer that are familiar with the products. And be easier to teach the sales part than to teach a salesman the technical/life experience part. Everyone does things different. That can be hard to accept by a boss. A company I worked at had back-office people rate the employees in my area. The Manager, Foremen, Leads, and others shown the list all disagreed. Funny in that the worst and best were the most swapped, while the more average were not. Can be very difficult to assess an employee without stepping back and really thinking.
The only folks I generally rule out are the ones who’s previous three or more jobs all have start and ends dates in the same calendar year. I understand one job not being a good fit, but multiple occurrences establish a pattern of behavior.
@GoodWorksTractors Or it is as result of working for businesses that did not survive because of various internal or external reasons. I was terminated because I reported contract violations and gross negligence by a federal contractor for Job Corps. My professional license was compromised and put at risk. I sued, and lost. I was deemed not protected as a whistleblower because I wasn't privy to reporting to the Inspector General WHILE employed.
The point is how am I supposed to explain this on a resume when I worked there only 6 months? It does look bad that a healthcare professional gets fired in a probation period. But who is going to believe it was the employer that was corrupt, not me?
Not getting past the ATS means no human will ever see my resume and ask to explain. The worst is assumed. Shitcanned.
@@gckshea I’m f you’ve got three or four places of employment in a row that all closed two or three months after you were hired, then that’s about the biggest run of bad luck I’ve ever heard of.
Lol, so just devels advocate here, but how can you be a perfectionist and have a Lions jersey (sweatshirt) on in your videos 😂. GWT great stuff and content you make. Just bustin balls. Have a great day. Oh ya I also live in MI and am a Lions fan.
Haha...they are working towards perfection baby!!
Did you ever have your hearing checked? I had trouble even hearing my own grandchild, so I went and got tested and found I had otosclerosis and ended up getting ear surgery. Now, I can hear a world of difference. I was willing to do what i needed to hear again and not miss out on life.
Totally hear you. Finding that vested interest niche that works for all three. Yes ... three. The business, the business owner and the employee. All three "has to" care for each other to sustain and grow. When the three, stay focused on the same realistic mission statement and goals ... it works. Expectations ... only lead to confusion and results in inefficiencies. Roads have lanes for a reason and not all vehicles on that road are trucks. I pray you are able to find that lane for you and employee(s) that can find theirs for GWT. It takes two four-letter words ... time and work.
Workforce problems started getting bad when they began paying people to not work.
the federal government screwed business owners, local ford dealer would interview people - offer them a job. the persons would not take the job because they still had unemployment benefits left. we need to be like Mexico, do not work do not get a paycheck or a hand out.
unemployment is pretty low. not sure where you're getting your info. Nobody is getting paid to not work. The people who don't work and get paid are called the top 1%.
@@glendonmorgan7253 BAAA!!!
@@tman8939unemployment benefits is insurance no? In Canada at least it’s actually something you have to pay for… ie. it’s a deduction off of every pay until you stop working. SO if the US is based on the same pool of money that employees have to pay into, then you are judging insurance as being bad-and when someone needs it they won’t have it and you are saying that is good for the overall big picture… ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BE LIKE MEXICO? (You know what else comes with it?)
It didn't help matters, that's for sure
Courtney, You are an absolutist for change in how business is done. From the timeframes of me first watching your videos from when I first saw the storage bin days of you being slammed full of tractors and gear; including with all of that equipment sitting just outside and rowed up like somebody had laid chalk lines at times to make things line up straight, to the pristine picturesque examples of the tractors that you had for sale.
I'm not sure if you have ever stepped back and really taken all of that in, for what you were really showing. Was it organizational prowess, or was it how to cram as many tractors and as much equipment into a limited confined area to make it easier to inventory? Or to just care for and reorder by just glancing across the lot. Joking with grace by the way (just to get you to laugh about this) for all statements here by me and that stated; it is very admirable for a business owner and very admirable for self-initiative as well. I was paying attention and I am absolutely sure that many, many, many more thousand(s) (194K Subscribers more) did and are listening and paying attention.
I have some of the same outlooks, roadblocks, and the same inherited analogies from within and for my own requirements of myself and of others I work with and share life with. It gets harder and harder to find my true north at times when all I want to do is do the right thing and make sure that I can do all that I can do to help. And if I can help someone do better, be better, have better, and then for those that you are trying to help, to then possibly to be able to transfer the same help or forward actions onward to someone else to be helped again (sound familiar?).
Yet, so many times it is unknown why; they then take the advice or even the help, as being demanding, or critical assessment and react defensively. Especially with all of the critics from around the full spectrum of entitlements that our society's beliefs are forcibly embedded in by others. Here, recently I have discovered some relief and some solace in watching another RUclipsr (Dr. Kim Sage) whom I find amazing in her explanations and content for myself. Now I know how the true draw-of-meaning is for many things that I have seen happen to me and continues to happen even daily when people have misconceptions of why I do things a certain way and can also explain why it has to be done exactly that way for many bilateral reasons with evidential matter to prove the needs to the highest degree. It is absolutely crippling at times and causes a shutdown of the processes for me. I am not advertising, but you should check out Dr. Kim Sage.
Great content that you are giving and sharing, I really like and enjoy the musical engagement at the end of the videos, and even though I do not consider myself a highly religious person; I do enjoy waiting to see your next thought processes for which verse you would cite to, and wonder from both sides of what intentions sometimes. But also, I do ask myself why you actually choose those certain particular verses for that context and for that certain video content base.
I do read the verses and they shine with meaning on many, many occasions more than I can count; without you actually speaking a word of it physically. That is a very intelligent skill set that you have tapped into; to be able to draw thousands of people to the end of your videos and to actually engage them honorably with what you have there at that point to share. Avid watcher here, and even long before that I subscribed to your channel.
Thank you for sharing what you do and you do great work.
You are the best all the time thanks. I would like work for this kind the person Not just for money all is for better service
I’m an engineer that manages projects and people, so I have to be on the phone more than I want, and I can’t hear well on the phone either, AirPods have helped a TON!!!!!
I closed a "potentially" highly successful business, due to employee problems. It was literally costing my health. I ended up having heart surgery which I firmly believe was due to stress. It isn's worth killing yourself.
I just dealt with a company yesterday that (apparently) won't answer their phones. It ended up costing me over two hundred dollars because I couldn't talk to a person and ended up having two people sending me the same components. I knew how frustrated I was trying to order the parts, I didn't want to fight the battle to correct the order. I just bit the bullet and paid for something I didn't need.
Sorry to hear that...I'm not letting it get to that point...life it too short
It is funny, I refuse to do business where email is requirement….lol. I understand your position completely, but if I can’t talk to a person, then I’m not having any relationship business or otherwise. I imagine I’m in the minority though.
Doesn’t bother me at all. It’ll bother you after I say “what” “please spell that again” and “can you repeat that” and then still get it wrong. 😂😂
As a content ‘creator’ you should realize that you do it because people are hungry and you are trying to feed them (and it’s ‘immaterial’)… it gives you more to in return right? At least when you feel like you’ve done a ‘good work’. SO think about how unfulfilled people generally are from their work. You need the few people left who get fulfillment by what comes out of/from their work environment… ie. they want that which is actually valuable… ie. where did Christ say to store your treasure? (=it needs to be spiritually fulfilling… like where doing the right thing is elevated above the financial aspects of work.) Of course there’s more to it… but when you realize we are in a raging war between the material world (vice/compromise/corruption) and the spiritual (virtue =way, truth, life), and one side is depleting the other side of power/energy. It means people are hungry for fulfillment… some feed the flesh (still) and some are hungry for something better.
It's also difficult for a good employee to find a good employer. I have worked for the same company for 25 years. At first they were decent to their employees. Eventually things changed. Sick time was taken away, vacation time was reduced. Holiday pay taken away. Every benefit has been taken away or greatly reduced. Now the quality of the people they're hiring has completely gone down. There are still good people out there trying to work for a living but they're getting fewer and fewer every day. I'd love to work for you except most of my experience is with bigger tractors from the 60s-80s. Probably something not very helpful anymore. I do also suffer from the same hearing and phone issue. By the time someone gets me to understand what they're trying to say both of us are getting angry. Keep looking decent people are still out there.
I appreciate it Chuck, I'll find the right person...shoot, hopefully mulitple people. I wanna keep growing :)
Courtney, you don't need a salesman or woman. You need a product specialist... someone who can shadow you and take notes on everything... every piece of hardware you know about... and mimic your knowledge. Knowledge specialist... the sales will follow. Good luck.
Hi Courtney, my wife and I also have a small business that we decided to keep small because we ran into the same problems. We are OK with our business staying a hobby business. Business growing pains can really suck. I know this comment doesn’t really help your situation but sometimes just knowing there’s others out there that have dealt with the same things help. So good luck you’re doing a great job you’ve got a great channel. Keep up the good work.
Hey, I appreciate...it can be good to know you're not on an island :)
Courtney. I hear you and experience the same. I need more ME's. We will never find the passion in others we have for our family business's. I sure wish you luck. You seem an extremely kind and informed owner that clearly goes WAY above and beyond. You are rare. I feel your pain when you say How do I continue with what I enjoy and am good at if my business is not fitting all needs of my customers. This is why you will succeed! Find a kid to do your social media replies and speak to him 5 times a day with follow ups that require you. That person will soon learn to sift the serious buyers that need quicker responses. Teaching all you know is not possible.
Great recruiting video. I hope it works.
The worker you are looking for is out there but they are worth six figures. Can you afford to pay a worker that much and still make money on them? I would rather make a little money on an excellent employee and not have to deal with headaches. Than make a lot of money on poor employees and deal with all the headaches.
Yep, I can afford them. Good employees make you money. I fully expect this position to earn well into the 6 figures.
The company I work for went most of the summer one employee short. Took months to get someone in the door. Job literally pays around 100k a year (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on OT). I feel most companies are now just resorting to headhunting people who are willing to work with better pay, benefits, & personal time off.
I haven't read all of the other comments, as there are just too many for me to read. But my take on your situation is that you're going through growing pains. Been there, done that. I survived, and came out on the other side better off though, and I respect your intellect, and am confident that you'll do the same.
Also, I'm FAR from being a tractor expert. But I do own a Kioti RX 7320 and a Kubota BX 2350, and I've become relatively well informed on tractors and the correct sized implements for those machines recently. I'd be interested in doing some sales/marketing for you if you'd be interested in discussing the matter further. I'm always open to discussions if you felt like talking about it. I wish you all the best regardless of if you wanted to pursue that or not.
Type 1 is #1. 😂
That background is awesome.
Haha, I'll take it!!
We all have personality flaws, all you can do is accept it then work on it , working on humility is well worth the effort
Sometimes those company ASKING to many questions papers and papers and don’t call you back. That’s why Iam not fill forms (paper’s work)
I agree that the person you are looking for is out there but it would cost you 6 figures. I believe if you was going to spend 200k in two super duty’s for right offs you can only drive one at a time. I would use them write offs for spending on good employees.
Odd, this assumes I'm not going to pay in that range.
Id love to work for ya but I live on the opposite side of the state
Look to newly retired teachers who need to bridge the insurance age gap until they reach sixty-five. To be honest, you may lure teachers nearing retirement away to your company. Teachers are very smart, usually, and for that kind of compensation package at which you hinted they might jump the educational ship a few years early.
Im not in sales but good help is hard to find in west Michigan
Great videos
I will send you an email on some ideas. In post Covid there are more options for this type of help.
Thanks Jim
@@GoodWorksTractors i did send you that email this morning.
I wish I could help. I'm passionate about tractors and equipment but i'm nested in California
I have suggestion about your video and that is put the Rim Guard commercials at beginning or at the end, not in the freeken middle of the show, I hate that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I prefer emails and hate phone call, but sometimes I just need to get in touch with someone to solve problem, so when I do have to make a phone call, for the love God and US Constitution, have someone that speaks English and no freeken robot to give stupid robot answers..........
Thanks for chiming in!
then you'd just skip the sponsor! wanna keep it unpredictable so we really hammer the message in for them!
This counrty is in serious trouble
I'd like to see a change in direction
What about having distributors of your products?
to bad im in Canada or i would work for you :)
Courtney see if you can hire an office specialist aka secretary to answer the phones. If nothing else, they can take down all the pertinent information and suggest looking at your website as well as shooting someone an email.
You might also want to streamline the products available so the OA could click on a specific model of tractor and up would come everything associated with that type and model. I haven’t been on your website in awhile so I can’t recall if that’s what you’re already doing.
Younger generation with good work ethics are still out there and not everyone over the age of 50 has good work ethics. The younger generation is more trained with computers, their verbal skills need a bit of work IMHO I recently met an awesome 16 year old who is one of the hardest working person I know. On the flip side had to fire a 37 year old who throws tantrums like a 2 year old. We’re thinking untreated mental health issues.
Your asking for someone who is a subject matter expert, extremely good at working with customers, and (since you run an efficient business) able to handle a large workload each day.
You never once mentioned what the employee would get for providing that. A couple comments alluded to a 6 figure salary, but that wasn't in the video.
If I were able to do the work, why would I choose to work for you rather than all the other employers out there? And if those reasons exist, does your target demographic know that?
This wasn't a full on job offer in the video...simply putting a feeler out there. The folks actually interested are already contacting me. A few good ones too :)
Good for you
Is your brother Chris, who shoots your videos, an employee and business partner already? He must be, or he must have other employer commitments, because he seems like an obvious person that knows your business and could be a key person. Or hire someone to do what he does with your YT videos to free up more of his time for other things. But he probably loves doing the videos and editing and doesn’t want to give it up.
He works for me...he's beyond full time with video work and some website work too. He also owns RhinoHide canopies with me. His plate is full. You're right, the video/editing type stuff is his wheelhouse.
I would like to have one of them trucks behind u
Higher some veterans. They work good and learn fast.
I think the new problem is: How do we motivate this new generation? I don't understand what appears to be a new type of work ethic.
We could be twin brothers.....
Hehe...we'd fight about Ford vs Ram :)
@GoodWorksTractors Eventually you would see the light! 😅🤣
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GO LIONS!!!
Put your kids to work like Millennial Farmer has done! This years harvest his son (14 yo) running the combine all alone with a 40’ corn or Bean head on it…. And his daughter ( 13 yo) running the 300 hp tractor pulling a hopper bottom that holds 80,000lbs of grain when full. Family is how you can git er done!! Hope you find the right folks for your needs it’s tough out there….
My oldest is working for me three days a week while he's in college...the younger two are too young still.
@@GoodWorksTractors EXCELLENT!!! that’s awesome! Teach em young and to take over when you wanna retire!
As a 40 plus year IT person who has worked in the customer service area, the answers are out there, but you risk ruining your business or turning off customers at best. I work for the nations number one heath system and know that people and automation can solve this, but you need a human in the end to answer the phone, computers can not do that with there say 1 for ....
Are you still looking for a sales person?
I would love to work for you ,I’m retired and have worked on and owned all types of tractors , Deere , new Holland,etc however I live near Cleveland oh,
I also know a lot about horsepower ratings for equipment, attachments etc I don’t know if I could work unless I’m around the products you sell ,
We do not want our employees answering the phone. The messages never get passed on well.
Find a very young man or women an train them for your future of your company.
GO LIONS
You might have reached your max and time to sell the business and do something else.
I own my company and that is where I'm at. 2024 is the year I'm pushing to sell my business before I burn out.
I've had employees but now I'm down to a few. Sales are better now then when I had my guys collecting a pay cheque. LOL
Good luck
Try hireing a south african we work hard and can't find jobs in our own country
You may have to rely more on AI. I assume you have all the data on what you have sold. If the customers provided the tractor model they are buying it for already that would be great as you would have what size attachment you have sold for what model tractor in a giant data base. The more data, the better at telling the right attachment. While not replacing people completely, it could allow fewer people to do more.
Hi Courtney, not meaning to sound disrespectful, but i listened to you describe your personality and ive worked for employers with such, but when your employer expects you to be exactly like them, well not going to happen. Employer or employee, you have to have an open mind set. You may think you know everything, and even if you did, it never hurts to listen to the ideas of others. Again, not meaning any disrespect, maybe its time to relax. Everyone out there isn't Courtney
Too many boomers retiring. not enough new blood in later generations cover. It’s not false to say there’s a lack of work ethics nowadays. But I wouldn’t sell my soul for $10 an hour. I still remember when over a hundred people would apply for a single opening. Sounds like you’ve got a good kind of problem….you’re too busy
This generation of young people do not want to work!
They just want to Tik Tok
Well the funny thing is, this change we’re experiencing, actually reflects certain aspects of the gospel… He said don’t store up what nature destroys. Meanwhile it seems like we’re not really paying attention enough to ask the question why? People are hungry spiritually… look how fat the nation is and yet how utterly devastatingly withered it is regarding its love of the truth. ‘A people without understanding will come ruin.’ (We live in echo chambers. Just look at our politics!)
They want to make $120k/year working 32 hours a week from home with four weeks of PTO straight out of college with a worthless Liberal Arts degree. It's sad and is killing small farms and businesses when the next generation simply doesn't want to work.
Courtney, I'm sorry to tell you this, but with the new generations of woke workers. You will have to do it the old fashion way, by having a large family of children, so you can train then to have work ethics or hire veterans.
I really enjoy your videos but the video with the tractor with and without rimguard is very deceptive without rimguard the load is way higher than the one with rimguard in the tires
Man I would be at your door with a resume if you lived in the tropics. I'm a gen x worker who has been spinning wrenches since age 11, and employed since 14. Also a peace officer. Just working on getting out of Canada lol.
Haha...maybe someday! GWT Carribean branch
Try hiring part-time seniors. They might be able to give you a dependable 4 hours a day, but not 8. So, hire two and have them buddy up. Not like they can't come to work because a kid is sick.
I can attest to Courtney answering emails. Hes answered each one of mine.
When people get paid to Set on their a** and do nothing. Why should they work?
I e-mailed you a couple days ago and was totally amazed at the quick response from you which I didn't really expect. I figured it was a computerize response until I read it. I was impressed for what its worth.
Me too. I emailed him late in the evening and received a response in about 10 min, then a follow up in the morning. I stick to GWT when need something.
If my english was better, if i lived in the States and if i didnt love my job, i would apply for sure. It looks like an awesome job. Good luck, you'll find someone that fits eventually
If I could clone myself - sounds great for a worker, but like you said a cloned me would have left his job just like I did years ago and then I would have to compete with myself as my clone opened up a rival business doing what he knows best - the shit I do. We got tired the past three years with this labor issue - so we just downsized. Screw it. We are busy as hell and make more money now than before with less workers
South Park did it
I can attest to your responsiveness (and helpfulness) to email. Good luck in your search. Many businesses are having trouble just finding ANYONE willing to work. Even ones with low standards.
Thank you!
They should answer the phone and get a phone number for you to get back to them.….!!??😮😢😊
Is this a question or a statement? An unanswered phone is a lost sale. While not ideal, it >is< acceptable to take a message. Talking to a human is far more likely to result in a sale than getting routed to voicemail or the phone never being answered. If I'm hunting for a product and the phone isn't answered or it goes to VM, they're struck off the list. If I talk to a human who takes a message, they'll stay on the list, but I'll also continue calling the next ones. If I talk to someone who has the information I'm looking for (like application, pricing, availability) and it matches, then it's a sale.
I'd much rather have the phone answered and take a message than not answer the phone or answer the phone and give out bad information....you'd think it would be easy to answer the phone and give a knowledgable answer...yet, here I am telling you otherwise :)