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Originally Posted by aceventura3
In your post you said that you choose to hire people that would "steal you blind". Isn't that an operational business decision. People can run successful businesses and not be involved in the day to day operations, so even if you chose not to be there, your business______ (fill in the blank with the proper word) because of the way you ran it.
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Yes, I did. When the person running the business cares little and is taking all the money he can out to go gamble. Then the "good" employees aren't going to stay with a sinking ship. So they leave and you end up surrounding yourself with people who won't lecture, who don't give a damn what you do, and you believe that is ok. I know I did that. I pushed everyone out that told me I was fucking up my life and put in people who didn't give a rat's ass. They saw me as someone they could take advantage of because I didn't care.
Yes, there are a lot of people that can run successful businesses and not be there. But they hire the right people. I had the right people and it would have done well with them. But as stated, I pushed them out.
When you see your "owner" coming in and taking every penny out of the bank account and register on Thursday. Then going to Casino Windsor or Paradise Riverboat (Peoria, Ill.) and coming back broke Monday and yelling at the staff for not making more (even though sales were steady), you are not going to be there. You know the owner doesn't care and the business is going to die. Good employees left, bad employees that knew it was a sinking ship came in and I didn't care.
So, it wasn't business philosophy of "I paid my workers too much" or "I was too liberal with my workers"....... It was I didn't feel challenged anymore and I just didn't give a rat's ass. And the people I hired that did care, I made damn sure I kicked them away so I could practice my addiction.
Had I not kicked people away, had I stayed true to my vision and got the help for my addiction before I self destructed..... I would have continued growing and probably would still be open with more stores, paying the best wages possible, maintaining the quality standards I had and still making good money for myself.
In the end it wasn't "I failed", in the end it was a life experience I had to go through to learn from.