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Also ex-BSA and have no issues with the changes. You need to educate yourself and reconsider what humor is, because neither ignorance nor intolerance is funny. Signs101, despite the constant bickering, is ultimately a professional forum and this kind of garbage has no place in a professional...

You're not wrong. Unless you're expanding your skill set while you're installing (which is kind of hard when you're never in the shop) there really isn't anywhere else to go. Lead installer/installation supervisor/installation manager or QC is just about the only places I can see an installer...

A thing of beauty.

Outside of career employees, the vast majority of retail employees aren't going to care. Retail generally has an incredibly high turnover. Most employees care about when they're getting paid and how much. Not saying it's right, that's just the way it is, mostly because of the fact that retail...

In this area, most people start around $12 an hour with no shop experience, then generally get bumped up to around $14 with training. People who focus on one aspect of the job generally cap out around $16-18 depending on how good they are. People who are multi-faceted and can do multiple things...

At least he stopped short of telling you your kids were ugly. Probably needs to clean of his shoes, seems like he really stepped in it.

You'd think they'd at least smart enough to sign an email containing an invoice, BOL, and packing list from somebody besides a marketing manager. You know, like a shipping manager?

Absolutely. It's instinctual, it's a survival mechanism. There are some people who focus their lives on doing good, but they're generally not disgustingly wealthy and powerful. To be clear, it takes a certain type of person to be "successful" in the Western sense of the word. That generally...

Healthcare Realty Trust doesn't show one person with a controlling stake, are you sure you're correct that he was the majority shareholder?

Sure, but that's irrelevant to employee morale and performance. Most employees aren't going to care WHY they're getting paid more and treated better, they're just going to know that they ARE getting better treatment and more pay. The reasoning is irrelevant.

There were always rumors flying around that place, even when things were good. It was a very weird, very bad vibe there. No raises at all for years, but most of the employees held a lot of loyalty for various reasons, so they stayed with the company. I really liked (most of) the people there...

Yeah, Home Depot... Ugh. My personal pet peeve. I can't stand going in there. It makes me angry just thinking about it. And you're right, any company with shareholders is going to do what's best for the rich folks before they take care of the common folks. Costco is just considerably more...

I worked for a company once that took a serious dip during the last recession. The verge of going out of business type dip. The owner of the company paid employees out of his personal bank account for a time, until things got better. He didn't just take less money from the company, he actually...

Sure, there are always extenuating circumstances and outliers, but Walmart is an objectively bad company to work for. They prioritize upper management and shareholders over the vast majority of their workforce, who can go suck an egg for the most part. They treat their employees like an...

I think the point was that the owner has loyalty to his employees, which most employers don't. Which you can clearly see from some of the posts in this thread. You may own a business that's doing well, but that doesn't make you a good business owner. I know plenty of people with "successful"...

I'm not going to argue the point with you. If you think registering your business name in PA protects your business name in OH, you're flat out wrong. It took me about 30 seconds to find an article on the internet that explains it.

Right, but that doesn't prevent someone in a different state from using the same name. Only in the state you're in. You do have to file a national trademark (as far as I know) to have unilateral use of a name.

All trademarks have to be renewed every 10 years, as far as I know. [Edit: Every 10 years according to the USPTO.] [Edit 2: Though, on the same page, it says even if it expires, the previous name owner may still have common law rights to the name. So, like all other typical government...

Although, in hindsight, that last post was pretty much a major failure. I could have just rolled my eyes and moved on, but as you can see, I can't let well enough alone.

Let me correct you here, Gino. I don't LIKE to be confrontational and argumentative. It's just the way I am and I'm trying not to be.