A Merry Christmas Wish
Business has been picking up faster than I expected it. I have even been considering turning this blog into a business blog. Google has an official blogger, BlueHost has an official CEO’s blog. Maybe Main10 needs to have one too. Still not sure if it does, or if this would be the right blog for it. So anyway… I went to meet with a potential client the other day and give him our schpeel. Seemed like it went well. He was very interested in what we had to say. He even wanted to hear our proposal. So then I had to run off to 10x. I was still part time there even though I was working on a way to leave completely. So I get there and all the offices are empty. The place feels like a morgue. “Something just isn’t right here” I thought to my self. Finally I found someone. Josh had a very grim look on his face. Turns out that they (innuity) are closing the place. Maybe I don’t have to actually quit after all! Sure enough, I am included in the layoff. One person got an offer to move to Seattle. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that she will be working for me. ;) I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how I was going to hire all these people and be able to pay them. Well, that has been the story of my life for the last 6 days (excluding Sunday) Still working on getting everyone in here to talk to me. But I have been able to get 2 of them so far at least. So in the 7 moments that I have had to stop and ponder anything, a question arises. What kind of company plans a big Christmas outing to Tucanos and then lays off most of the staff 2 days before. Sure they give everyone a severance to almost cover things through Christmas. How kind of them. This brings me back to the whole reason I wanted to work for my self in the first place. I think business owners have a moral obligation to not just provide a living for their employees. They have a responsibility to give them a better life. I am pretty sure that putting people in the unemployment line less than a week before Christmas is NOT giving anyone a better life. Except possibly the few executives who will be able to provide themselves with a hefty Christmas bonus from the money they are saving from 20 some odd salaries that just got eliminated while blatantly lying to customers about being able to ensure high levels of ongoing service. They are just milking the clients that are stuck in their contracts for the last half of the month knowing full well that most if not all of the clients will be leaving by January 1. I remember writing a while back about how sad it is when stupid inept executives from a bigger company buy out a smaller profitable innovative company and bleed it of all it’s resources. I knew they would ultimately arrive at this but honestly I a little surprised that they got there so soon. Merry Christmas John Wall and Jim Crisera. May your holiday spirit be returned to you ten fold.
