Domino's Industry in Australia Experiences

  Good Morning or Good Afternoon or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately three minutes to read from start to finish.

From November 2016 to July 2019, I was employed in Domino's industry in Australia. Overall, I was employed at total of eight different Domino's stores, but I have worked at total of eleven different Domino's stores. Overall, I always just wanted to work so I can get paid and various work schedules has kept me busy. 

I had some great fun times, I had some bad times, I had funny moments, I have faced disappointing customers who have complained about their orders was wrong, I was not supposed to make any friends with several customers but a several customers wanted to become friends with me and catch up with me outside hours of work, and I have faced great customers who always seemed to be happy that I would be their constant delivery driver. 

You may ask me, "Why were you employed at that many Domino's stores?" 

I was employed at that many Domino's stores because each store has gotten me to work for a period of time whether it has been a few short months or it has been more than three months. Most causes for me to change stores is because the team management has been changed, they have dramatically changed my working hours from the weekly income that I can rely on for living and saving, to barely able to afford the cost of paying my bills.

Other causes for me to change different stores was because whenever it was not caused of change of the team management, another store was offering more hours than the current Domino's store that I was employed at and sometimes the Domino's stores would be located shorter distance to commute to each shift. 

You may ask me, "Why is the numbers that I was employed at has different total to how many total of stores that I have worked at?" 

I remembered there was several times that I had shifts when I have been rostered on, and I was expected that I would be working at the Domino's store that I was employed at. Shortly after I have arrived to work and I was about to clock in to start my shift; I have been informed by the store manager for me to go and work at a 

different Domino's store. 

I have been told the main reason why for me to go and work at a different Domino's store. I still got paid for the time that I was working at a different Domino's store and the main reason why was my store manager bas been requested by someone from the management team of the different Domino's store for having a few delivery drivers because they were understaffed on busy evenings. 

While I was employed at Domino's in Richlands, I was not expected to train a new delivery driver one evening because I have reflected from my experience as a new delivery driver that I was trained from someone from the management team. I enjoyed the opportunity to train that new delivery driver. 

I remembered when I was promoted to be a store manager by a store manager within a week after my twenty-first birthday. The store manager has asked me about how I would feel to become a store manager. I know that I would not have enough confidence to become a store manager because when I was asked, I was employed for less than three months as a delivery driver, and I knew that I did not have any experience of being a in-store. 

It was matter of short days when the management has changed, and I was still a delivery driver. Although about three months later, I was employed at Logan Central Domino's store. I was working there for several weeks until the store manager has decided to have a short conversation with me via messages one evening. 

I was informed that the store manager has something to tell me on my next shift and I would have to wait for what he has to say. I kept guessing to myself about what would my store manager has to tell me, and I knew that I did not do anything wrong. When I was about to start my next shift, my store manager has told me that "You are a marketing manager." 

It felt unreal for me and it has taken me to feel reality a week later because I knew that I was not expecting to have a new position at work. I know that I felt happy for not just to be known as a delivery driver, I was also known as a marketing manager. 

I was able to get more hours because I was a marketing manager, and I felt so grateful for all of the opportunities for me to fulfill the responsibilities of both positions (delivery driver and marketing manager) that I have held. I had another opportunity to train another new delivery driver at a different Domino's store, and that was fun because it was on Halloween evening. 

The new delivery driver and I was given some candies from one of the customers and has told us that we can either keep the candies to ourselves or share with everyone who is also working on that evening. We certainly kept the candies to ourselves, and it felt like a great reward. 

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The Blessing of Work ~ Part Two

 Good Morning or Good Afternoon or Good Evening, 

this post should take four minutes to seven minutes read from start to finish.

This post focuses on a BYU Devotional in March 2005, and it is called "The Blessing of Work" by Elder David E. Sorensen. This post is part two, and I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the Devotional. 

Elder Sorensen has mentioned the following; "Learn to Love Work

One of the best ways I know to enjoy life is to learn to love work. ... The happiest people I know are those who enjoy their work whatever it is. ... Remember the old saying, “Your attitude determines your altitude.” 

We should be able to find ample purpose in our work, no matter what it is. In any honest work we can serve God. King Benjamin, the Nephite prophet, said, “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God” (Mosiah 2:17).

Even if our work simply helps to provide for the necessities for our families, we are still helping God’s children. The Lord is not pleased with those who are lazy or idle. ... True Latter-day Saints will not voluntarily shift the burden of their own support to someone else. You should determine, young friends, right here and now, that to the extent possible in your own situation, you will be self reliant all of your life. 

Many of you young women are now or will become mothers and may be blessed to spend many years at home raising children. Others of you sisters may not be able to become mothers or, if you are mothers, may not be able to stay at home full-time. 

Whatever your situation, I would encourage all of you young women to follow our prophet’s counsel and get as much education as you can. Education itself is valuable. Your education will give you a sense of security if you are home raising children. 

Should your future lead you into the paid workforce, generally speaking, education will allow you to have more meaningful and more rewarding employment. Our work itself must have integrity and be for worthy purposes. 

Our Heavenly Father is not happy when we receive gain from evil or idle pursuits. 

... President Kimball defined the difference between honorable work and evil work: 

Clean money is that compensation received for a full day’s honest work. It is that reasonable pay for faithful service. It is that fair profit from the sale of goods, commodities, or service. It is that income received from transactions where all parties profit.

... Today there are many who offer the lure of easy money, suggesting shortcuts to quick riches and a life of ease. We hear about them all of the time. These offers are illusions, and the prophets have consistently counseled against falling prey to the temptation of “easy money.”

... In the workaday world there are many who are spiritually insensitive because they are carnally minded. Try to avoid them. How tragic it would be if, because of our employment, we were put in contact with those who would destroy our spirituality. ... Naturally we should find the proper balance between work, rest, and relaxation. 

Without work, rest and relaxation have no meaning. There’s an old saying: “Doing nothing is the hardest work of all.” Not only is it pleasant and necessary to rest, but we are commanded to rest on the Sabbath day (see Exodus 20:10). 

... Some of you may know that Sister Sorensen and I spent a few years in Asia. While living there we heard an old adage: “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” For the most part I believe that is wishful thinking. ... But the reality is that work is not always naturally appealing. 

I think a more appropriate maxim might be President Thomas S. Monson’s counsel. He said, “Choose your love; love your choice” (CR, October 1988, 82; or “Hallmarks of a Happy Home,” Ensign, November 1988, 71). He was actually speaking about marriage, but I would submit that this advice applies to your chosen vocation as well.

"The only way to do great work is
TO LOVE what you do." - Steve Jobs. 

Choose the job you love, then love your choice. ... When the going gets tough as it inevitably will - they start thinking that perhaps their chosen work isn’t really all they thought it would be. ... You’ll find these folks saying, “If I only had decided to study medicine instead of the law, I could have been a great doctor.” 

... If I were the boss like him, I’d work at it really hard and treat people well and be successful.” People who can’t get out of this rut often have difficulty achieving excellence in any profession. They fall in love with a career but then become disenchanted with the small and simple things and end up quitting to pursue their fantasy over the next horizon. 

They drift from job to job, never settling long enough to truly achieve excellence. ... Once you have chosen your work, love it! No job is perfect. Every job has its challenges and its days of drudgery. Just like marriage, success and excellence at your work will likely require years and years of dedicated and persistent effort.

... You will find more success if you enthusiastically persist in your work despite the shortcomings of your job and despite the daily small and simple things. Focus on the career at hand and resist the temptation of wandering eyes. In fact, I am so bold as to say it doesn’t matter so much what job you choose. I promise you that if you stick with it and pursue excellence in your chosen career, you will indeed enjoy a large measure of success and you will end up loving your work more than you might have imagined.

Words of Counsel

... First, work hard to get along with others. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Indeed, be a light, not a judge. Studies confirm over and over that people generally do not lose their jobs because they lack the technical know-how or skills. More frequently, the difficulty is that they can’t get along with other people.

... Second, remember that people seldom improve when they have only their own yardstick to measure themselves by. ... Learn to measure yourself with someone else’s yardstick occasionally. If your boss comments that you lose your temper too easily, take it seriously. 

If your spouse comments that you lose your temper too easily, and your friends comment that you lose your temper too easily, it is likely that you lose your temper too easily. When you hear such feedback, listen before you deny it. Evaluate it. Weigh it. Do you think changes are in order? Regardless of criticism, learn to get along with other people. If you want to get along with them, you can.

Third, be an optimist. Do not accept pessimism, especially when it is directed at you personally. Do not accept pessimistic statements about your Heavenly Father. Consider their source they come from Satan. ... It takes work to reject Satan’s messages, but such work will lead to happiness.

A word to the returned missionaries: Do not abandon the principles or the habits or the great experiences that you learned in the mission field. Do not abandon your appearance. ... Dress for success! When your personal habits reflect the cleanliness, the dignity, and the principles of the gospel you taught as a young missionary, they will serve you well in the workplace.

Summary

My message this evening could be summed up in two statements. The first is from President David O. McKay. He said, “Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success” (Pathways to Happiness [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1957], 381).

The second is from our own dearly beloved living prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley. He said: The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. [“Our Fading Civility,” Brigham Young University inauguration and spring commencement exercises, 25 April 1996, 15]

It is a given that there will be disappointment and discouragement along the way, brothers and sisters. Orson F. Whitney comforts us: No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. 

All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. [Quoted in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972], 98]

... I promise you and bless you that as you work at keeping the standards the Lord has set through the scriptures and His prophets, as you study, as you pray, as you pay your tithes and offerings from the money you earn from your work, you will be more successful in all of your life as well as in your daily work. 

You will become a better worker. You will be a more productive worker. You will be a more effective worker. All because the Spirit of the Lord will be with you and aid and strengthen you. ... President Hinckley said: “Things are not as bad as we sometimes think. 

... We do not need to fear. We have nothing to fear if we will live the gospel, if we will make our decisions in the light of the gospel. If we will get on our knees and pray to the Lord for His enlightenment, understanding, direction, and courage, we do not need to fear.” ... I know Jesus Christ can help each of us in our work if we will help Him in His work. 

... I know and testify that we have a living prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley, who can help us in our work if we heed his counsel. ... You are the hope of the communities where you live. You will become the future leaders of this Church, the future leaders of the communities, of the world. 

I bear you my humble testimony that if you will work for our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, that He will bless you and watch over and keep you all the days of your life. ..."

If you would like to read the whole devotional either now or in your own time, here is the link below. https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/david-e-sorensen/blessing-work/

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The Blessing of Work ~ Part One

 Good Morning or Good Afternoon or Good Evening, 

this post should take three minutes to five minutes read from start to finish.

This post focuses on a BYU Devotional in March 2005, and it is called "The Blessing of Work" by Elder David E. Sorensen. This post is part one, and I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the Devotional. 

Elder Sorensen has mentioned the following; 

"... We are here to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ. ... As you study the true Church and allow the Spirit to work within you, you will have the answers and come to know how to respond to the various situations you will face. Concerning the Book of Mormon, a young missionary shared this thought with me, which I have found to be true over the years: Remember that the Book of Mormon is not on trial - we are.

... It is my hope that what I say will help guide you in the work you are now doing or may be doing in the future.

Those of you who are graduating from high school or college, or are otherwise in the workforce, may be asking yourselves questions like this when you apply for employment: “What are my working hours?  

... Will I have enough time to hang out with my friends or pursue my hobbies?” With questions like these, however, when you focus on your leisure hours instead of your working hours, you may be prevented from seeing a much greater opportunity.

God’s Work

Work is an eternal principle. Whom do you know who has all the riches of the earth and more and yet is continually working? Our Heavenly Father! He is a worker. ... Jehovah worked to create the heavens and the earth. ... But Their work did not end with the Creation. 

In the Pearl of Great Price we read, “This is my work and my glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39; emphasis added). This, of course, includes every man, woman, and child. Of all the things He could concern Himself with, our Heavenly Father has chosen to labor for the benefit of our eternal souls your soul and my soul. ...

"the Harder you work the Better you get."

Work Is a Blessing

You and I also have a work to accomplish. Satan would tempt us to believe that our work is not worthwhile or that we have no need to work at all. He is wrong on both counts. We do have a need to work. 

We have a responsibility to take care of our own needs and the needs of our families. This tradition of being self-sufficient has been the Lord’s way since Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden. 

... But providing for ourselves is not the only purpose of work. Suppose you were given a great sum of money or for whatever reason became instantly financially self-sufficient. Even then the command to labor has not been lifted.

... As Elder Neal A. Maxwell described, “Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity” (CR, April 1998, 50; or “Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel,” Ensign, May 1998, 38).

Work is not a curse but a blessing; by work we not only obey the commandment of God but also enable ourselves to participate in God’s saving grace. ... Have you ever thought about what would happen if people did not work?Would our schools function? Would our government run? 

Would our televisions have programming? Although we sometimes think it would be nice to have all the money we ever wanted and never have to work again, I can assure you that is not the path to true happiness. ... Work is a family responsibility. I know some of you are away from home. I remind you that right now you are benefiting from the work of your family. 

Your parents have worked hard to provide for your physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being. They do not expect anyone else to take over this responsibility for them. They do expect you to share some of the load. ... You have received much. In turn, you are expected even required to offer similar support and love to your own children and families. 

... As you grow older, your parents expect you to provide for yourselves and become independent. We all share in the work. Remember it is important to start early in life to teach your children that they should do their part in the work of a family. 

Those of you who have had the experience of growing up in a home where you were taught to work can bear testimony to its value in your life today. ... So far as we are able, Church members should do their best to provide the basic necessities of life - food, clothing, and shelter for their families.

We understand that in some places in the world you may encounter hardships when trying to provide for your families. These trials could include chronic illness, the loss of a spouse, the addition of an elderly parent, or providing for your children’s education. Our Heavenly Father is mindful of families in these situations. It is my conviction that He will give you the strength to carry on. He will always bless us if we ask Him in faith.

Work Is a Service

Good work attitudes, habits, and skills are learned through successful work experiences. ... As Eleanor Roosevelt said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” (Points to Ponder, Reader’s Digest, February 1963, 261). You control your own attitudes - especially you young people in your attitude about work. Self-confidence and empowerment can serve you well—in the classroom, on State Street, or on Wall Street.

Instead of thinking of our daily work as an imposition, we should think of it as an opportunity. That’s just the way my father taught me to feel about the cows. Those teachings have remained with me all my life, and I continue to visit the ranch and its memories as often as possible. ... If my father could find purpose in a few cows, surely each of us can find purpose in our work."

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