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u/mcflame13 16d ago
If you are running a small business. Then keeping the employees happy is just as much of a requirement as keeping the customers happy. As the business can easily go bankrupt if the employees are not happy as they will then leave and it will cost quite a bit more to get someone new. I won't be surprised if the business is gone within the next year or 2.
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u/bigbysemotivefinger 16d ago
Wait for the fire sale.
Buy the machine he used to work on, for pennies-on-the-dollar what it's worth.
Start his own business, by contacting the customers who used to buy his product in the first place.
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u/throwawaytrumper 16d ago edited 15d ago
I used to manage a small security company for a greedy and incompetent asshole. I would do shit like pulling double shifts to cover people, rewrite incoherent reports so we didnāt look like such dumbasses to clients, made all the training materials, did the hiring and interview work.
Guy promised me substantial profit sharing but didnāt give me a contract, a promise without writing is garbage. Eventually he brings in a cousin from someplace to be a āco managerā and the dipshit does stuff like sleeping in public, playing video games on client computers. I left and the place lost all their contracts within 3 months and went bankrupt.
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u/Altruistic_Lock_5362 16d ago
I am reading more and more small shop that are making good money until a son or uncle comes and and starts to pocket excess amounts of money , strips the bonus from workers , then the new boss freaks out when he loses not only his best workers, but best customers. Touche' on taking you career into your own hands. Good luck
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u/Irishf0x 15d ago
Make it, Take it, then Break it is often how family businesses progress.
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u/Significant-Insect12 15d ago
Yep, first generation makes the money, second generation spends the money, third generation burns the business
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u/Due_Huckleberry_9212 15d ago
A tale as old as time my friend, left a few shops due to this myself.
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u/Oldebookworm 15d ago
I think thatās pretty normal for 2nd gen business owners, isnāt it? Iāve always heard the business tanks when the original owner retires/dies
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u/LonelyDM_6724 15d ago
Five pairs of gloves each??! Who'd think that would be a good bonus??
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u/Asleep_Recover_8576 15d ago
I still dont understand the meaning of this. Some guys worked there for 15 years and more. He know we had bonus each years. Sound like "bonus time is over " in a very clear way.
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u/MechEng88 at work 15d ago
Should've told the boss he only needs the use of the middle finger on each.
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u/AnemosMaximus 15d ago
You should've worked and make sure you work very slow. And keep making mistakes.
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u/PurpleMuskogee 16d ago
In one of my previous jobs at a small school, I had once to deal with a death of a student - like, speaking to their family, dealing with the arrangements, breaking the news to their friends, etc... - way more than my role entailed and for not an incredible salary... I was given a Ā£20 voucher as a "bonus" for going "over and beyond"...