[thedynasty]

Originally Posted by racer

you do realize taiwanese and japanese are a totally different race and culture & countries

lol

Taiwan has a lot of Japanese influence due to years of colonization.

[Metho]

Originally Posted by kakashi

ISO14001 doesn't mean shit

It's funny, the company I work for had pens made up that said they were ISO 14001 certified.

Not a small, shitty company either. Shell Oil.

[SC_MMA]

I work in a furniture warehouse and if I am having a bad day or am lazy I am gonna sleep on your sofa or mattress or whatever you bought.

Also every item of furniture is broken in some spot somewhere. We just color most of it in with a marker and I'm almost positive the factory does this too. A company actually makes all the markers special colors that are exactly the same as the furniture, but you can still tell where we color in if you look closely.

I had a friend who every time he would deliver something would make noises like he was straining himself to try and get a tip.

If you notice that your furniture looks like it has a cut in it we did that. We open every box with a knife and cut a lot of stuff. Customers ask what it is all the time and I straight up lie to them and say that its a distressed finish made that way by the manufacturer.

Not anything bad but truck drivers are some of the nicest guys you will ever meet.

[OyaRetsamDnarg]

Originally Posted by SC_MMA

Not anything bad but truck drivers are some of the nicest guys you will ever meet.

True for the most part. Janitors too once you get to know them.

[Darkballs]

i make a bunch of money repairing hospital equipment for various private companies. many privately manufactured medicinal machines have defects and will thus go through a nationwide recall. due to F.D.A. standards, never have i seen a recall be mandated by law to be 100% of the defective product. there are usually just too many machines out there already in use, and it would be too difficult to isolate every last one of them. so 5% of defective machines (I.V. pumps, heart monitors, automated syringes...ect) are still out in use.

also, about half the hospitals i've worked at (and i've worked at quite a bit) don't bother with doing the necessary PM's (preventive maintenance) which are required to keep the various machines in working order. if you ever are dealing with a hospital and have reason to believe that you got bad treatment (infection, death, or just simple pain) ask that the hospital quarentine the machines you were hooked up to. if any of these haven't been through the mandatory PM's, you've got quite a large (and easy) lawsuit.

[u4ia]

You can get away with stealing clothes in pretty much any retail store if you simply deny it and walk away. You are trained to question the person, but you cannot stop them.

This especially applies to Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch ;)

P.S. - If the alarm rings, the employees will ask to take your bag because "they forgot a sensor." Again, just walk away.

[enginekid]

people that just hold a lid with their hand and twist using the strength of their wrist and fingers usually can't open jars very well. so, they end up smacking the lid with something or banging the jar on a counter top.

To open a jar properly and easily with a tight lid you should press the heal of your hand against the lids edge, wrap your fingers around the lid, and use the strength of your bicep muscle to power through while twisting with your other hand.

[enginekid]

actually this post sucks and i remove it

[syon]

Originally Posted by bobbylight

I have thought of doing THIS EXACTLY. I decided against it though because stealing is wrong.

So is killing homeless people with hammers, but I do it.

[yendor28]

Originally Posted by gattaca

I started a Sewer and Drain Cleaning Company in January of 2006 . We had a very rocky start because my partner was stealing from the company and I didn't know about it, and he also was not answering the phone when he was on call.

I bought him out in August of 07 when we had about 4 weeks left before we were going to be shut down for not paying our Phone Book Ad bill . It only took 2 weeks to get things rolling along well. I mended some relationships, secured some contracts, worked WAY fucking harder and smarter, slashed costs, and raised prices. Our first winter (Nov 06-March 07) we averaged only 1/2 job per day. This last winter, my company averaged 2.5 jobs per day. Also, we went from 6 total sewer replacements in year one to averaging one every 3 weeks ($1800 profit in 1.3 days)
I got into sewer work in a weird way. I owned 20 rental properties and had to have the sewer line cleaned in one one day. The guy came and had this cool machine and after 20 minutes, he was done and I paid him $75. When he left I did some math and thought "that's a sweet gig". This was Feb 2004. The next year in the summer (2005) I had a guy working for me and one day he mentioned that he used to clean sewers. So I pitched the idea to him that we start a company since he knew the technical stuff and I knew business stuff. So we did. But he turned out to be a real retard. So now he's bought out and I work and average of 4 hours per day and average over $100 an hour.

I actually make $85/hr most of the time, but when we get big replacement jobs, you make about $130/hr so it averages out to over 100.

Anyway, it's tough to say how long it took to get rolling along good. On one hand, if it were not for my partner and his contacts, the company would have had a slower start. On the other hand, if he had not been such a goof, we would have been profitable after 8 months instead of 20 months (with him gone).

Every year though, new companies start up and they don't last long at all. they just don't get it.

You know why lawyers are rich? They don't undercut the other lawyers. There's an unwritten price and they all use it as a minimum. When new sewer guys come in, they slash their price to get market share. But that's based on the assumption that the customer places price as a priority. My own research shows that customers, when their sewer is backing up, don't care about price. They care about how fast you can get there. So I kick ass because I'll be there
fast and charge you a high rate. These other losers book jobs around their schedules and then charge cheap rates and if they do not have a good financial setup, they wil be out of cash in no time.

Anyway. This is too long already. Drop out of business school, but some good business books, read them and read them again and then read them again and grow some balls and start a company.

Great post, love your style!

thanks