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It’s a sad scene

Money doesn't even do it nowadays

We have to literally turn away work. We could prob run two whole more crews but

Our whole business has been built on reputation. That reputation could be torn to shreds by unreliable workers

We got a lot of work by good referral . We cannot afford to let that get ruined

Yeah, it's a word of mouth business and reputation business.

Exactly. And that is SO valuable to our business; that: it’s more worth to turn Away work and therefore potential profit; rather than to have our whole business ruined by tainted reputation

I just dont get how people survive on 500 to 800 a month

We had to fire several workers. I actually started working during the summertime doing bookkeeping and caught onto the fact that someone who was before doing officework was siphoning money out of the account secretly

Fucked up shit man

We’ve tried several times hiring : and each time has just not planned out at all. Recently we tried giving a young kid a chance but I think he was still battling addiction and kept coming up with excuses to not show up for work etc

Not to mention the fact that our work doing chimneys and roofing is both dangerous and skilled. So it’s doubly difficult

It's always good to know that people like us still exist. That's how I win my staff over 100% of the time. I'm there to get dirty not micromanage

Yeah, addiction wrecks both industries. I fell victim to it myself years ago. Made me better, though. My experience come in handy for alot of my staff that's currently going through it

That's one reason I got out of the restaurant business. Corporate cut payroll so the managers became glorified employees

They got to pay the corporate salaries somehow. Though it would be better invested into the actual building than someone sitting in an office down the road not going through the day to days

I say that, but I'm on the path to corporate. They are trying to bring me on to go into kitchens to train new kitchen managers in systems and processes. Just wish it would come faster

You can only polish so many turds

Yeah I remember you saying that. That's where u want to be at

No doubt. Way less hectic

Not yet. I ruined my 20s in addiction so I've been spending my 30s building the ahit I should of been doing back then

I make more than that to be fair

500 a month is nothing