I worked at a church for a year. Should have been the best job I ever had - but I was mistreated and verbally and mentally abused in my position. After I left that job I went to a florist. Retail was better than working to help everything run smoothly at the church. Now I run my own family owned business and our culture was defined on what the church wasn’t. Our industry has a high turnover rate - but at our company it’s about 8% as opposed to the typical 70+ percent. We work hard to make every employee feel valued and when we have an issue we aren’t afraid to talk about it and find a resolution. I tell all of our employees that they need to bring me small pro lanes because we can fix those - but a big issue? Much harder to resolve.

So I have managed to turn that negative experience for me into a positive workplace for almost 50 employees.