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Originally posted by ZERO25
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What is it? You have been bragging for the last 3 years how good your business has been doing. Up 30-40%. Now gas goes up .75 and your business is doing bad. Now you admitting " the profit margins are relatively thin on a good year". Didn't your wise father tell you prepare in the good times for the bad times?Last edited by ss12; 03-17-2021, 07:22 AM.Haters don't really hate you, in fact they hate themselves because you are a reflection of what they wish to be. -
Small and independent business owners are the backbone of our nation and economy. If you haven’t lost sleep thinking about this week’s payroll, this quarter’s taxes, retaining good employees, and if you can adequately provide for your family then move on along, you don’t have a clue.I hate time trials.Comment
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Not for nothing, but continuing to take shots at his deceased father just so you can try and win an argument entitles you to a good punch in the throat from somebody....I didn't see where anyone was saying their business wasn't good, just that Joe and crew fuel debacle was eating into the profits.Originally posted by ss12 View Post
And you probably wouldn't know this being you've been paying to clock in for so long , but thin margins make people a lot of money, especially when high volume comes into play.
why continue to rag on the mans father like that? You take cheap shots at him all the time......speaks more about you than the point you're trying to make.Where is the move over flag when you need it?????Comment
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Good post kaz
But in SS defense,They don't teach how to handle those situations on the employee break room posters at most Union shops.....he wouldn't have any idea what you're talking about.Where is the move over flag when you need it?????Comment
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I'm not the one who keeps bring of his father. Since he has brought up his father on several occasions on this forum its up for debate, deceased or not. Have you ever bought up your father and how great of businessman he was. No and we do not debate your father on this forum.Originally posted by Barbecueboy View PostLast edited by ss12; 03-17-2021, 10:21 AM.Haters don't really hate you, in fact they hate themselves because you are a reflection of what they wish to be.Comment
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I see you are still jealous of my union jobs. And thinks to my union job I'm able to support all of the local small and big businesses in my area. I would support your business if it was in this area.Originally posted by Barbecueboy View PostHaters don't really hate you, in fact they hate themselves because you are a reflection of what they wish to be.Comment
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We've had this discussion, the term jealous doesn't fit at all.....just honest about it, how it works, and what it does to increase the cost of the end product.Originally posted by ss12 View Post
Congrats on working that system to your advantage, some of us chose a different more rewarding path to get where we are.
And come on man, the guy has done nothing but praise his father for his upbringing and values and you have done nothing but throw rocks at his dad......you've earned a punch in the gullet from someone.Where is the move over flag when you need it?????Comment
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I'm the one who said "profit margins are relatively thin on a good year", not ZERO. Please get it right or leave it alone. From what ZERO posts it is evident that we are both small businessmen and we both know that we have to account for every penny of expense in order to know how to make long term business decisions. Be advised that I'm not knocking you guys that punch a time clock but the reality of your situation is this: you don't have to accurately compose and interpret a profit-loss spread sheet. You're required to show up, do your job with the skills and motivation that is required, and go home. Small business people live and die, eat and breath their businesses 7 days a week. At least the successful ones do.Originally posted by ss12 View Post
ss, try not to diminish from your credibility and respect by making flippant and unflattering remarks about someone's family, let alone parents that are deceased. You can hold your own without stooping to that level.Comment
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Originally posted by CIRF View Post
Sorry I just went back and re-read Zero's post and now see where he was comment on your post. I apologize to everyone I offended. I understand that a business owner job is 7 days a week but at the same time no one should cut down anyone who went to work everyday that he was schedule
to make a living for his family union or not. I didn't take advantage of anyone I was just trying to support my family the best I could.Haters don't really hate you, in fact they hate themselves because you are a reflection of what they wish to be.Comment
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A shop owner told me 3 years ago that his daughter bought a electric car, and loved it until a battery went bad, and carried it in for repair, then found out that you had to replace all the batteries at the same it cost her 2,000 $, that may not be the case now - just saying.Comment
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spoken like a true libtard ! You are not sorry for what you said but sorry that you got called out on it ! Childish !Originally posted by ss12 View PostComment
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Yes he is still jealous and always will be no matter what he tells you. You're still in their heads lolOriginally posted by ss12 View PostComment
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While in college I worked summers as a welder in a steel fabrication factory that built industrial racking. Big stuff. I was a card carrying, dues paying member of the union. It was the IBEW=International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. At that time the IBEW was a pretty high powered nationwide union. It might still be for all I know. I made dam good money as a 19, 20 & 21 year old kid. Even as a snot nosed kid I could see where a union was an asset to the rank & file hourly workers. I also found out first hand that the union protected people who should have been terminated. I reckon the old law of physics applies in that for every action there is a opposite and equal reaction. The hard core union workers felt that the protection of those worthy of termination was the price to be paid for what they perceived as the advantage gained by the threat of strike or work slowdown and collective bargaining leverage.
The moral of my story is during those 3 summers that I was a welder and a union member I figured out that for me personally that life was not my goal and aspiration. I knew right then I would not allow myself to wash out of school and go back to that job or one like it. In the long run I may have been better off financially to commit to a lifetime of doing the time clock boogie. At this point I would probably be able to retire in 10 years or even a little less according to the guys I've stayed in contact with from those days. Early retirement won't happen given my situation as it turned out to be, but that's okay. I run my own show and can enjoy life as much as discretionary income will allow.Comment
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The Union protects union member to a point. If the company supervisors don't document bad behavior there is much a union can do. The company has to initiate the process. Union members do not support lazy people and will support the company on a member that's shows bad behaviors. Sooner or later bad employees are flushed out. I have been an union employee for 40 years and have never been on strike.Haters don't really hate you, in fact they hate themselves because you are a reflection of what they wish to be.Comment
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