I am being laid off tomorrow

[Buster's Dad]

Although I am semi-retired, I was working 20 -25 hrs a week at the local hardware store. Yesterday they informed me that as of Fri. I was gone, business to slow they said.
Last spring we got the same story from the boss, we all deserved raises, buT due to business being slow he was cutting everyone's hours, cut a total of 40 to 50 hrs off of the entire crew.
2 days later he shows up driving a new $36,000.00 g.m.c pick-up pulling a new $18000.00 Lund boat, needless to say there were some very pissed off employees.
So I guess I will just putter around the house till something else pops up.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by dtebbe

I 2nd the notion.. if you don't like it take the risk and start your own business.

DT

Yep, something a lot of people don't understand is the person that takes that risk and liability is the last one to be paid. When things are starting out and even a good period of time into a business that is doing well everything else is taken care of and sometimes there isn't a whole lot of money left to the owner. If it gets to the point where you can some toys from the success of your enterprise then more power to you. Enjoy it bc if you are in that position you earned it.

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Are you kidding? 36K for a Chevy pickup? Granted, I haven't bought one for awhile but I can't believe they cost that much.

Obviously, that's a loaded Silverado or comperable. But you can easily spend high 40's on a pickup these days.

Dodge has a V10 perfomance Ram they're selling for over $40k base price.

[jjjayb]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Are you kidding? 36K for a Chevy pickup? Granted, I haven't bought one for awhile but I can't believe they cost that much.

Guess you haven't looked at a 1 ton Diesel lately. Got 50 grand laying around?

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by jjjayb

Guess you haven't looked at a 1 ton Diesel lately. Got 50 grand laying around?

Hold on, lemme check.

Originally Posted by ZachKC

Yep, something a lot of people don't understand is the person that takes that risk and liability is the last one to be paid.

Like when a customer left me with a $16k dent in my wallet last summer. My people got paid out of my pocket. They don't see that part. They only want to look at the new, shiny tools and think I'm raking it in. Not so. One day I will be, but right now all my extra money goes into building my business.

Any of you people want to bitch about your boss, go check into what running a half page ad in the yellow pages costs. Check what insurance costs.

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Are you kidding? 36K for a Chevy pickup? Granted, I haven't bought one for awhile but I can't believe they cost that much.

Guy here at the church has been holding off on a truck himself. He's looking for a 1 ton Ford extended cab with the Duramax Diesel. Even used but newer/low mileage, he's looking at close to 30k for it.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Like when a customer left me with a $16k dent in my wallet last summer. My people got paid out of my pocket. They don't see that part. They only want to look at the new, shiny tools and think I'm raking it in. Not so. One day I will be, but right now all my extra money goes into building my business.

Any of you people want to bitch about your boss, go check into what running a half page ad in the yellow pages costs. Check what insurance costs.

Yup, thats only the start...you and my old man could go on for days im sure.

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by Phobia

go check into what running a half page ad in the yellow pages costs.

NO STINKIN' KIDDING!!!!


Talk about highway robbery! We had a little podink SW Bell book here that wasn't a half inch wide wanting $300 a year out of the church for a 1 inch space. Then they tried to tell me the deal I was passing up when I told them that perhaps the last Pastor paid it, but we weren't.

[Over-Head]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Like when a customer left me with a $16k dent in my wallet last summer. My people got paid out of my pocket. They don't see that part. They only want to look at the new, shiny tools and think I'm raking it in. Not so. One day I will be, but right now all my extra money goes into building my business.

Any of you people want to bitch about your boss, go check into what running a half page ad in the yellow pages costs. Check what insurance costs.

ya forgot juggling accounts so the "employiees get paid", or the ever present "suplier who wants HIS cash in 30 days, even though he pay's his own bill's on 90 or 120

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

NO STINKIN' KIDDING!!!!


Talk about highway robbery! We had a little podink SW Bell book here that wasn't a half inch wide wanting $300 a year out of the church for a 1 inch space. Then they tried to tell me the deal I was passing up when I told them that perhaps the last Pastor paid it, but we weren't.

They want $300 a MONTH for the same space in KC.

A half page ad costs $1500 a month. That's $18k per year. I can't imagine what SWB gets in a large city.

[KC Jones]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Like when a customer left me with a $16k dent in my wallet last summer. My people got paid out of my pocket. They don't see that part. They only want to look at the new, shiny tools and think I'm raking it in. Not so. One day I will be, but right now all my extra money goes into building my business.

Any of you people want to bitch about your boss, go check into what running a half page ad in the yellow pages costs. Check what insurance costs.

More power to you. Frankly I'm amazed that you've undertaken starting your own business while you've got young kids. I keep thinking about starting my own biz, but I'm not sure what I want to do and I have no idea how I'd put food on the table while it starts out.

[Spott]

You might want to start thinking about which power tools you can swipe from work since you know that you're getting canned tomorrow.

[Manila-Chief]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Obviously, that's a loaded Silverado or comperable. But you can easily spend high 40's on a pickup these days.

Dodge has a V10 perfomance Ram they're selling for over $40k base price.

Yikes!!! And my wife said she wants a pickumup truck in retirement.... maybe this will change her mind????

Originally Posted by Manila-Chief

Yikes!!! And my wife said she wants a pickumup truck in retirement.... maybe this will change her mind????

She can still get an affordable truck. My F-150 was roughly $20k. It's nothing special. I need a bigger truck, but this one would suit the needs of most people.

Originally Posted by KC Jones

More power to you. Frankly I'm amazed that you've undertaken starting your own business while you've got young kids. I keep thinking about starting my own biz, but I'm not sure what I want to do and I have no idea how I'd put food on the table while it starts out.

Well, I've always had my own business. For a lot of years it was computer related, but 2 years ago, I fell back on construction.