Depressing

patooyee · Feb 2, 2009

I just finished my taxes to find out that I still owe the government money and then one of my employees comes in and tells me that she is going off her birth control because the government raised the dependant exemption to $3500. She doesn't care who the father is and she is getting all of her taxes back that she paid out. What does she say she is going to do with the money she gets back??? Go on a shopping spree. Yet she is the same employee that asked me to loan her $100 to buy her daughter a Christmas present last year and then when she got back from her Christmas vacation she had $1200 worth of new tatoo work done all down her back and foot. The best part is that she will get paid leave when she is too pregnant to work!

uke:

Apparently you can make a decent living breeding these days.

J. J.

rock mafia · Feb 2, 2009

patooyee said:
Apparently you can make a decent living breeding these days.

J. J.

Just look at the dumb bitch who had the octuplets. People should be sterilized after 2 kids if they can not suport them themselves.

patooyee · Feb 2, 2009

Ironic part is that all this time I thought SHE was the one working for ME when in reality I am the one working for HER.

J. J.

J.A.B · Feb 2, 2009

It is amazing how many women here at work keep having kids and can barely afford to buy enough gas to get back and forth to work. Yet their continue full force with the baby factory.

I mean you just want to say say something but hell they will probably sue your ass then.

It's like nobody has an common sense anymore.

rock yuppie · Feb 2, 2009

I use to feel sorry for my employees when they would come to work with their stories of trouble. I've loaned money, financed cars, bought Christmas presents and even stocked employees pantries with food when they were down on their luck. Almost every time I would get burned in some way. I've always paid my people through rainday (Grading Business doesn't always work in the rain), but lately I have had a change of heart and mind. Several times I have asked my employees to wash the company trucks next rain day. They never did, so I did. Now they get paid for the time they work, thats it, no hand outs, no loans, no give a damn. Next time they come to me pissing and moaning, it :gtfo:

:****:

patooyee · Feb 2, 2009

Its hard to give a ****. I had 2 employees this year who were good, long-time loyal employees, borrow money from me this year and then quit without notice. Good thing they're stupid as **** though as I just kept their last paychecks and got my money back.

J. J.

Bones · Feb 2, 2009

Can I ask what business you run JJ? Just curious.

patooyee · Feb 3, 2009

Restaurant called Shane's Rib Shack. We got good bones.

J. J.

Bones · Feb 3, 2009

patooyee said:
Restaurant called Shane's Rib Shack. We got good bones.

J. J.

Mmmmm! Your in GA right? Or is it FL? I will be in south central GA in April for a wedding.

TwinStick · Feb 3, 2009

patooyee said:
Restaurant called Shane's Rib Shack. We got good bones.

J. J.

That's pretty cool. The first one, the one Shane started in was about 300 ft from my high school. Literally a little shack that most of the kids that I went to school with worked at. It was amazing to see the buisness take off in the first 2 years. I think we kept that place in buisness the first year or so.

B Gillespie · Feb 3, 2009

JJ, I hear ya.

When I first started my business, I wanted to be the "cool boss" and help everyone out. Employee morale was a big thing for me, and I did everything I could to make everyone happy and joyous. As you stated earlier, it always seemed as though someone was needing a handout. After calculating my books for 2008, I "gave out" about $3500 in payroll last year.

I realized last year after having my ex partner sell trade secrets to a competitor for cash, losing a million dollar per year contract to bribes, and having the same employees begging for favors walking out on projects when any real wok became involved, I was done with the charity.

Two favorite quotes of mine:
"No one watches your money like you do." I am sure Warren Buffet was not the first one to say it, but that is one of his guidelines for running his operaions.
"If you dont watch your own ass, no one else will."

patooyee · Feb 3, 2009

The original shack is still just like it always was even though the town around it has grown a lot. It is kind of out of place now. A shack at a major intersection with a Rite-Aid an a bunch fo banks accross the street. My Shack is in Gulf Breeze, FL. We have 85 stores nation wide right now and we're the fastest-growing BBQ concept in the nation.

J. J.