The new store has been open for about 5 months now and going well. We just hired another fulltime and I am starting to feel a little more like normal.  That is if normal even exists. I have several employees now and have had many in the past.  And I guess the thing that never changes and always boggles my mind is how I fall for the lines. I hear what I want to hear in an interview.  And I believe that people really want to work the hours/ shifts I am offering.  It has not changed one bit.  And now I am faced with the same old dilema of shifts need filling and nobody filling them.  I don't get it. Continually I being told what shifts they are taking off - never asking, but telling. Clearly I have become a pushover.  And clearly they have no respect for me or the job.  This is an age old problem that will never go away.  So once again, I need to remind people the tail does not wag the dog.  I just figured we had evolved a bit in the last 2009 years after all work is not a new concept.