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We’re RGIS and You Suck

Our district has finally gotten around to distributing the March  2009 Team Member Handbook.  In order to continue my employment with RGIS, I have to sign the “RGIS Team Member Handbook:  Acknowledgement of Receipt” form. The Cliff Note Version: RGIS can do whatever they want and I can’t do a damn thing about [...]

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The Top Gun Myth

Top Gun:  Top Guns are our fastest and most experienced counters and are placed in areas such as checkout or areas that require advanced counting speed and accuracy.  Top Guns are everything that RGIS stands for and are the “cream of the crop”.  A Top Gun’s professionalism and skills represent the best we have to [...]

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Today, the thought crossed my mind that it really doesn’t matter if RGIS loses clients over the next several years. RGIS, LLC is owned by the Blackstone Group, a private equity and mergers and acquisitions company.  If RGIS can demonstrate significantly better profitability for a couple of quarters, it becomes a much more attractive company [...]

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Unhappy But Productive
There is not much joy and happiness at inventories since the rollout of the productivity pay in our district.  It seems that most of my fellow employees are pissed off or scared or both.   Most have taken “Count or Die” to heart.  Many are actively looking for new employment.  A few have just [...]

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Gone, Daddy, Gone

It seems that not everyone in our district is pleased with getting their pay cut.  A couple of 20 year veterans have quit.  I also suspect that I’m running an inventory because the teamleader scheduled for it quit.   He told me a couple of months that the next they cut his pay, he’s gone.  Perhaps [...]

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Count or Die!!!!

And then they changed what it was
Well, the shit has hit the fan at RGIS. Starting April 25, the new “productivity pay scale” comes into effect. Lots of long term employees (including me) are going to get significant pay cuts. I feel like Grandpa Simpson  “I used to be hip and with [...]

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