tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post895436545067756463..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Against My Better Judgment, I Keep My PromiseBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-66354520240558301132012-08-02T19:30:23.761-07:002012-08-02T19:30:23.761-07:00Wait a second, just wait a second! You're tell...Wait a second, just wait a second! You're telling me that my secretary is threatening a sexual harrassment suit, my cook quit, I'm short money I owe the IRS, thugs and tattooed ladies are demanding jobs on my premises and my vendors are ripping me off.<br /><br />And you're asking me what I should do?!?!<br /><br />There's only one thing to do. Call in Marvin The Torch, burn the place down in the middle of the night, take the insurance money and run.<br /><br />Yours crankily,<br />The New York CrannkThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-32997909700188379582012-08-02T12:37:00.298-07:002012-08-02T12:37:00.298-07:00I've read your posts on this subject with vari...I've read your posts on this subject with various levels of bafflement. At first, I read this list of questions and shook my head wondering how any of these things relate to the very different job of being president.<br /><br />But now I think I understand.<br /><br />These questions all relate to powerlessness. You want a president (and by extension any public servant) to know what it is like to be the underdog. They should act to reduce the burdens they place on those who lack power. I think that I agree to this more general point. <br /><br />The focus on business and small business in particular is a bit too narrow and rubs me a bit the wrong way. For many of your questions, there is an equivalent where the small business owner is in a relative position of power over another. Whether it is an employee who is not allowed to take a bathroom break or a customer who is threatened with a lawsuit unless they remove a (justified) negative review.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-17736963023513779442012-08-02T05:41:42.980-07:002012-08-02T05:41:42.980-07:00"She says go ahead if you want to, but she..."She says go ahead if you want to, but she'll complain to the authorities that she demanded sex from her."<br /><br />Oops #2.<br /><br />I note for the record that none of those (except 26 USC 6672, and that one's borderline*) doesn't apply to Community Organizations/non-profits either. <br /><br />That is, none of them is anything other than a cost of social interaction, not specifically a cost of doing business.<br /><br />(I'll also quibble that most of them are better indicators that you're not doing well running a business, since 95% of running a successful business is properly managing your cash flows. That these questions come from people who deal with bankruptcies may have skewed them.)<br /><br />*Try telling the guys at Staples or Costco that you're buying for the local non-profit without having the letter wuith their ID that documents that.Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-49503155256238811432012-08-01T21:03:01.768-07:002012-08-01T21:03:01.768-07:00Ruin a restaurant? Good one!
A friend of mine run...Ruin a restaurant? Good one!<br />A friend of mine runs as restaurant in SF and had his cook quit. He asked a friend what to do and the friend said: How about the wait staff? They know the menu. My friend bumped up the wait staff and it worked. Great group of Mexican Americans. Happy Ending.dilbert dogbertnoreply@blogger.com