{"id":82074,"date":"2023-08-17T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/?p=82074"},"modified":"2023-08-17T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:40:08","slug":"boss-fires-all-employees-who-dont-have-a-six-pack-i-have-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/lifestyle\/boss-fires-all-employees-who-dont-have-a-six-pack-i-have-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss fires all employees who don&apos;t have a six-pack: &apos;I have standards&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Boss claims he fires any employee on his team who doesn&#8217;t have a six-pack: &#8216;I have high standards, quit settling&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andy Elliot, from the US, requires all his employees to have six-packs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He was criticised for his &#8216;unreasonable&#8217; standard<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Aussie marketing boss loves controversial &#8216;bare minimum&#8217; trend<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A boss has come under fire for revealing a &#8216;unique&#8217; requirement for working at his sales firm.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Elliott, a professional sales trainer and car salesman, demands all his employees have six-packs in order to work at his company.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old claimed that he has high standards for his employees and needs his team to &#8216;step up&#8217; in order to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Six-pack or you&#8217;re fired &#8211; that&#8217;s what I tell my entire team,&#8217; he said. &#8216;If you don&#8217;t have a six-pack, you don&#8217;t work for us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Andy shared that he wants his employees to have a sense of routine and discipline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/17\/06\/74412937-12415417-Andy_Elliott_right_a_professional_sales_trainer_and_car_salesman-a-15_1692250222436.jpg\" height=\"578\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Andy Elliott [right], a professional sales trainer and car salesman, demands all his employees have six-packs in order to work at his company<\/p>\n<p>The sales expert expands on his line of thinking in a video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s called a standard &#8211; how about we raise them? How about you guys quit getting civilised and quit settling?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that many would disagree with his tactic and find it strange &#8211; but he doesn&#8217;t concern himself with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are some people in this room that said they would sue their company if they told them they had to have a six-pack,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We know you would sue &#8211; that conversation is for the 1 per cent &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t for you,&#8217; he spoke to them directly.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: Aussie marketing boss loves controversial &#8216;bare minimum Mondays&#8217; trend &#8211; and says it&#8217;s the &#8216;best decision she&#8217;s made&#8217;\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/17\/06\/71520411-12415417-image-a-16_1692250223130.jpg\" height=\"772\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>Many pointed out how &#8216;ridiculous&#8217; the standard was, and shared equally unrealistic standards.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You can&#8217;t work for me if you&#8217;re bald,&#8217; a man said, referring to Andy&#8217;s haircut. &#8216;Grow hair or get out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I served in the Marines for 13 years with some absolute savages,&#8217; another said. &#8216;True professionals who were smart, tactically sound, strong, loyal, courageous, and in unbelievably shape as demonstrated in combat &#8230; none of them had a six-pack.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is a terrible mindset just from a fitness perspective,&#8217; a fitness trainer said. &#8216;It&#8217;s a very small percentage of the population that can even achieve this.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8216;Plus, the quality of life sucks. Lots of people with six-packs are in actual horrible health!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Andy Elliott (@officialandyelliott)<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed out that there were several jobs where a person&#8217;s physical appearance doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The company will go under because you had to pay people an absurd salary for a &#8216;skill&#8217; that has nothing to do with their job,&#8217; one said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yeah, why would I want an IT guy that can run a five-minute mile and bench 150kg but doesn&#8217;t know what a USB is?&#8217; another asked.<\/p>\n<p>But many defended Andy&#8217;s point of view.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everyone is so stuck on the six-pack thing, but the point he&#8217;s making is have a standard for your business and stick to it. The standard is your preference!&#8217; a man wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s talking about discipline,&#8217; another said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Look at all the people who are whinging or attacking him because they don&#8217;t have any discipline in their lives,&#8217; a third wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/real-life\/article-12415417\/Boss-andy-elliott-fires-employee-doesnt-six-pack-high-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boss claims he fires any employee on his team who doesn&#8217;t have a six-pack: &#8216;I have high standards, quit settling&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boss fires all employees who don&amp;apos;t have a six-pack: &amp;apos;I have standards&amp;apos; 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