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Post by Ken on Mar 2, 2005 23:29:52 GMT -5
JBOY, you are a good man. Starting your own business takes guts and ambition, two traits that are in short supply nowadays. I applaud you!
Sure it's going to be tough, but my advice is...be aggressive! Go out, make flyers, put them up in supermarkets, pet shops, everywhere that its legal to do so. Then, get some money together and ADVERTISE! Go to the local newspapers or Pennysaver/Moneysaver/Pussysaver, whatever its called up there. Then find the Pennysavers for all the surrounding counties and put in an 1/8 pg. ad in their business sections. I worked at the Pennysaver and believe me, it is worth the investment to advertise there weekly.
I gave this same advice to my brother who has also recently gone out on his own and it worked like a charm. Advertising and networking takes time and money but if you dedicate yourself to it, that money will return ten-fold.
Also, make sure that your estimates will compensate you fairly, don't UNDERestimate how long a job will take. ALWAYS overestimate the job a little in time and money and the customer will not be disappointed. If you finish early, the customer loves you. If you come in under budget or have extra money, keep it or refund the customer a bit. Actions like that will spread like wildfire, especially if people think they found an honest guy!
Good luck bro!
Rob,
That sucks! But you are a very influential and charasmatic guy, you'll find work soon and quickly. Maybe you could subcontract for JBOY, OR, did you know you could teach in a private or parochial school without a college or HS degree? Talk about a grind.
Good luck my friend.
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Post by Rob G on Mar 8, 2005 19:22:30 GMT -5
I still stand by my motto
Sleeping is better then working, And i have been doing alot of sleeping
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Post by LORD BOOTH on Mar 8, 2005 20:36:55 GMT -5
i wish i had your job.
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Post by larry g on Mar 9, 2005 0:41:10 GMT -5
email me some of those flyers jboy and ill put them up at ibm
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Post by pete nice on Mar 28, 2005 23:32:49 GMT -5
To Rob and Johnny, sorry about the tough ass breaks, i think we have all had them at some point in our lives. I know I had my share, but for me they were usually 100% my fault. It sounds like both of you got hosed. I would say good luck, but then I would be acknowledging the fact that luck exists, and we already know what type of luck you would have.
If it is any consolation, you all know you have a free place to stay down in Virginia Beach. The summer is coming. I have a feeling it's going to be a good for bikinis.
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Post by abisai on Mar 29, 2005 17:41:36 GMT -5
Welcome to the messageboards Mr. Pete. Hope you come back often.
To everyone else, North Carolina is WAY better than Virginia. Come here instead. I'll even wear a bikini.
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Post by Rob G on Mar 31, 2005 9:18:34 GMT -5
Well I have been baning on he unemployment for a hwile which is always great. Trying to explore alternate options to get my knee fixed. And then today My old Job, the one that just closed calls. Message on machine says. "Hey, we gonna reopen and want you to comeback".
Well thanx for telling me. I dont know what happened but whatever. Ofcourse i will probably go back as I know they are aware and will tolerate my knee problems.
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Post by Rob G on Apr 4, 2005 11:44:43 GMT -5
Hey hey,
I going bakc to work. Me old job is opening again and I going back. And this time I got medical insurane cause i am a very special person or so they say. So things are shaping up.
With my insurance i hope to purchase a new knee and perhaps replace that tooth that fell out of my mouth. Also i investigate the strange bone that pertrudes from my wrist. If i can just make my car work ALL THE TIME i will once again have a fully operational death star.
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Post by Ringleader1 on Apr 6, 2005 13:27:00 GMT -5
My job quest started yesterday. I got an interview tomarrow. It´s another east fishkill job I.B.M. related. Its more money than the last. Each time I lose my job I get a better one for more money. This is better than raises. I am upto about 14 and hour with at least 21 an hour for 16 hours a month. Not great but until I graduate It´s a step up. Hey, I need to get in touch with Cheese he makes good money. I was hoping he could get me an aplication where he works. Oh well, they hunt goes on and the vacation is over. The time I spent with my baby and the trip to Florida was great. So, its back to work for me.
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Post by Ken on Apr 9, 2005 7:01:48 GMT -5
Well, my boss, Principal Cuntface has been up my ass for the last month. She usually targets the few men who work in the school, and thus far I have managed to avoid being targeted by being the model teacher and being grade leader and volunteering for various things, but seems to have come to an end now.
She has been calling me into these meetings that on the surface, seem harmless but then she just starts to berate me left and right for totally stupid and inconsequential things, such as catching one of my students chewing gum. WHOA! Gum-chewing makes me a horrible teacher I guess.
I was hoping this harrassment would just blow over because it's that time of the year where everybody is sweating out the state-wide reading and math tests, but its just gotten out of control. So, I called in the union. I met with my chapter leader and got good advice.
So the secretary calls me on the class phone and tells me that Principal Cuntface wants to see me. I told her "NO, not without Union representation. And not at lunch, or one second after 2:50pm." The secretary stammered and told me she'd call me back. Five minutes later, she called me back and told me that the meeting was non-disciplinary in nature and therefore didn't require a union rep. I told her I'd get back to her after checking with my union.
So as it turns out, for non-disciplinary reasons, I can meet with Principal Cuntface. So I did and she was as polite as any person ever was. Now, every time I see Principal Cuntface and the Union Rep in the same place, I walk up to my Union Rep and start a conversation, so Principal Cuntface can see this and get the fuckin point.
Anyway, I think it's time for a change. I can't stande4 chaffeuring these kids through the hallways. I think it's time I tried middle school. All I'd have to plan is one lesson a day, and no walking the students through the halls and up the staircases. Time to put out those resumes.
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Post by Ken on Apr 9, 2005 7:05:49 GMT -5
By the way, congratulations Rob on the reopening fo the restaurant, but more importantly, HEALTH INSURANCE! Get yourself all checked out, get x-rays, bacterial cultures, sonograms, the finger up your ass to check your colon, two fingers on your balls to check for hernia, and all that good shit.
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Post by Ringleader1 on Apr 11, 2005 14:09:53 GMT -5
Ken, I love the fact that you don´t take any crap. I don´t either. I got fired for the first time ever a little over a year ago for this reason. My boss, an I.B.M. manager, also Freddies manager, was giving out formal complaints on two third of the employees working for her. I mean people with 10 plus years and no other complaints against them. Anyway I brought it to her attention that I didn´t think that this promoted a healthy work environment. People were ratting on the fellow worker for coming back from break 1 minute late to get brownie political points. drama blah blah blah. Something got screwed up on the 20+ year old tool I worked on like it did every day and she tried to blame it on me. But with no real proof she couldn´t make it stick. She put me on another tool and while training I followed suit with the procedures of the guy training. They turn out to be wronge (I thought they were, but when In Rome..) so she had me fired (right before my kids birth). The trainer kept his job of course. I was tempt, no benefits working with dangerous chemicals and in a bad working environment It was the best thing that could of happened. I got a better job and learn that She fired almost all of the 15 or so temps that were there with me. The state of employment these days is bad. All of that because she had an 80 year old husband (shes in her 50s) and needed a life and some dick.... Ken, I hope she is not the one in charge of promotions or you could have to talk to that rep again.
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Post by Ken on Apr 13, 2005 14:19:31 GMT -5
Thanx Ring. My wife always says that things happen for a reason, so when looking back at being fired, although at the time it may seem bad, later on, it turns out to be the best thing in the world. I'm happy for you. I'm happy for me too. She really hasn't bugged me for the last week or so.
I did have an observation by her today, two hours long. This is one thing I hate about elementary school. Our reading program is two hours long every day, so she has a right to observe us for two hours. In a middle school, where the periods are anywhere between 45-55 minutes long, the principal can only be there for one period. That's a lot less pressure.
Anyway, I think my lesson was satisfactory. Actually, I think it was fuckin' phenomenal, but satisfacotry is the best Principal Cuntface will give me. Oh well.
I'm networking like crazy, got resumes out like crazy, talking to people, having the word put out for me, anything I can do man. I'm outta there!
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Post by abisai on Jun 9, 2005 13:47:46 GMT -5
I walk into work every day and basically hate every living thing that I come into contact with. I need to get out of here before I hurt someone's feelings. I drop applications online and all that. I think I hate the entire pharmaceutical industry and everything that they do apart from the actual science. I would not know anything about that, because the only thing I never learn anything about it the scientists and what they have done. Instead its dumbass salesmen and gimmick sales pitches that are rewarded. I am surrounded by incompetence daily but firmly believe the people above within and around it accept it as a means of attaining job security. I think they think if there were no stupid problems they would be unemployed. Fact is, they should be, because there are lots of really retarded problems. I've been spending the better part of this workweek bantering with Ringo about economics which has been the one thing I have enjoyed during the daytime.
Lisa has one more year of school. I have two more months until my contract is supposed to expire and they give me lip service about extending it and basically avoid me or anything about me from then on. I have no job leads and an asshole a day telling me to sell insurance for his company. You know, to all those contacts I don't have who cannot find me work apart from selling insurance?
I need a fucking vacation and I don't have any and cannot take off any time because I face possible unemployment within the next 60 odd days. FUCK THIS PLACE
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Post by cheeze1 on Jun 10, 2005 13:48:52 GMT -5
all jobs suck it is a way of life and a shitty way at that look at me i work a billion hours a week in a hot ass factory risking life and limb more limb than life but nonethe less just shitty the other day i redislocated my shoulder andinstead of going to a doctor i called the companys alternative a hotline that all they ever tell you to do is put ice on it.
now the company has brought in a forth crew which cuts my hours i am fine with that i need more time to relax but to accomadate for this they require the whole plant to be on rotating shifts on a weekly basis.
fucking shit
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