Great Employees

We have great employees at Bubbles - here's a photo of most of our 20 full-time workers. 

Ukrainian businesses are not known for "employee training's" or "boss involvement" ...

So having weekly training meetings, and an owner who's a part of every step of the process from getting clients, to folding and delivering the finished product, is new.

Last week we had everyone write down one employee who each person felt had worked hard, and gone above and beyond ... the results were overwhelmingly one lady. 

We acknowledged this woman for her great efforts at the weekly training meeting, and gave her an additional day's wages as a "than you."

Everyone was in shock - no one here has ever heard of such a thing.

And since then we've been asked multiple times if that is going to happen every week ... to which the answer is no - but at random times we'll do it again.

We mentioned this to a local friend who when he heard we gave the woman who worked the hardest an additional day's wages then said, "You took back the bonus after you gave it to her, right?"

"Uh, NO. That would defeat the purpose," we explained.

 To which he scoffed.

I guess that's just one example of the type of Ukrainian business owner's mentality that we're learning to work with and trying to overcome.