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What is a Bid? Letter of Intent?
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<blockquote data-quote="dannyboy" data-source="post: 364593" data-attributes="member: 484"><p>Kinda funny. During my career at UPS, I developed a business on the side. And the business has taken off in directions I had never anticipated. It is very different!</p><p> </p><p>For well over 30 years, you show up, clock in, do the work, clock out, and every week, get paid. You even get paid for time you dont work, like vacations, sick days, optional day.</p><p> </p><p>Someone else is in charge of lining up the daily work, someone else takes care of cleaning the facility, paying for the fuel, uniforms, supplies, someone else takes care of customers that are idiots, employees that are idiots, getting new business so you have money coming in to pay everyone. </p><p> </p><p>Before, someone else had to deal with employees not wanting to work some days, and your family has grown to include problems in their family as well. Nothing like an employee who's daughter is pregnant for the second time before she turns 17.........</p><p> </p><p>And for the first time I can remember, I am the last person to get a check each week. And if there is not enough money for that, then I do without.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, I do understand your view, you show up for work and after your shift ask "is this all there is to this job?" What a piece of cake!</p><p> </p><p>But I enjoy the challenge of owning my own business. Maybe I was too bored in delivery and just didnt know it. But it is different working for a union company one year, and then owning a business the next. You make a lot of mistakes that at the begining are good for the employee, but hurt the business. The trick is to find that middle ground, to where they have a job to go back to the next day.</p><p> </p><p>d</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dannyboy, post: 364593, member: 484"] Kinda funny. During my career at UPS, I developed a business on the side. And the business has taken off in directions I had never anticipated. It is very different! For well over 30 years, you show up, clock in, do the work, clock out, and every week, get paid. You even get paid for time you dont work, like vacations, sick days, optional day. Someone else is in charge of lining up the daily work, someone else takes care of cleaning the facility, paying for the fuel, uniforms, supplies, someone else takes care of customers that are idiots, employees that are idiots, getting new business so you have money coming in to pay everyone. Before, someone else had to deal with employees not wanting to work some days, and your family has grown to include problems in their family as well. Nothing like an employee who's daughter is pregnant for the second time before she turns 17......... And for the first time I can remember, I am the last person to get a check each week. And if there is not enough money for that, then I do without. Anyway, I do understand your view, you show up for work and after your shift ask "is this all there is to this job?" What a piece of cake! But I enjoy the challenge of owning my own business. Maybe I was too bored in delivery and just didnt know it. But it is different working for a union company one year, and then owning a business the next. You make a lot of mistakes that at the begining are good for the employee, but hurt the business. The trick is to find that middle ground, to where they have a job to go back to the next day. d [/QUOTE]
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