Datsun1500 wrote: I have owned a business for 20 years, with employees. I must be different from most, but that must also be why no one quits. I would not be as successful without them, and I realize it.
And I would agree! Good on you for creating a healthy employment atmosphere 
There is whole spectrum of behavior by bosses and company owners when it comes to ethics, decency, and leadership.
The most abusive situation I ever heard about was a guy whose wife and son were hospitalized after a serious car crash. This was in the days before everyone had a mobile phone. The boss was called at 10:30 in the morning and asked to relay the information to his employee. The boss waited until 4:30 in the after after the shift was over to tell the employee because he didn't want work interrupted. This was at a very large company.
In contrast, 5 years ago my wife was hospitalized and off work for a 2 months after an injury on the job. Her boss, the owner of the business, had flowers waiting for her when she got home along with get well cards signed by all 45 people who worked at the company. He paid the difference between her regular salary and the short-term-disability pay for the time that she was off. He also called periodically to check-in and see how she was doing. You could be cynical and say that he was coving his butt for lawsuits. But I talked to him during this period and his concern was genuine and heart felt.
My experience has been the good people in the world far outnumber the bad. They don't make headlines as often. But they are still the majority.
Type Q wrote: My experience has been the good people in the world far outnumber the bad. They don't make headlines as often. But they are still the majority.
I agree. The problem is all it takes is one of the latter to ruin it for quite a few of the former.
Paul, man you and yours are in our prayers. Hope things get better. Yell if you need me.
To those posting about bad bosses I've got one for you. Years ago I was managing a Jimmy Johns here locally. 4:30 am to 6pm was a normal day for me, granted I could have left @5 but traffic was such a joke that by 6pm if I was lucky I was getting off the interstate heading home. If I waited till 6 to leave it was a 20 min drive, so I used that time for paperwork and numbers. One of the girls I had running shifts for me on my days off came to me asking for more hours, I told her I would see what I could do. I asked the owner if I could let her cover 3-5 and I could get out of there by 3:30 or so, after paperwork and deposits etc were done. Holy crap you would have thought I asked for a percentage of the company the way he went off. I would get it if I was running bad numbers, or wasn't breaking every sales record they had, but my numbers were on point, everything was where it needed to be.
One of the last straws per say that broke the camels back was when a group of my employees went out partying on a rented boat. 8 college kids, rented boat, drinking at night. Didn't end well, one of them ended drowning. Everyone on that boat worked for me, ended up giving 3/4 of the store time off to deal with it and go to his funeral in Miami. I sent a letter along with a check to the kids mother to be donated in his name somewhere as I was unable to attend. Almost everyone who worked that week ended up in over time, including the employees I borrowed from the other location in town. My labor costs were through the roof that week. The owners answer when I asked what he thought I should have done? Work more myself, or hired new employees. I already pulled 70hrs a week on avg for him, and I'm going to waste the money and man hours to train new employees? SERIOUSLY?
Got a pretty good job offer today.
No decisions yet, but thought you would like to know!
Thanks guys. 
SVreX wrote: Got a pretty good job offer today. No decisions yet, but thought you would like to know! Thanks guys.
GREAT TO HEAR!
good luck
hope it's 10X better than the old job
That was quick at least.
You're not moving to CO are you? 
Very glad to hear this!!
good on ya!
Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: That was quick at least.
I've got a friend who has told me that I always land on my feet.
Maybe he is right. 
Congrats on the offer. It is well deserved I'm sure.
Great news, Paul! Keep in touch.
Local or..??
In reply to bluej:
No. Not local.
I am not looking local.
Man! That was quick!!
SVreX wrote:Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: That was quick at least.I've got a friend who has told me that I always land on my feet. Maybe he is right.
Attitude makes all the difference in the world.
Glad things are looking up.
dyintorace wrote: Man! That was quick!!
Not what you think- different.
2nd choice to what you and I have been discussing.
I'm being patient.
You're hopefully former boss was out of line and is a dick. Family comes first.
I work under 3 workaholics. We're all salary mind you... My direct boss has no problem with 10+ hour days, another sales manager loves working 10-12 6 days a week, and the branch manager who is over all of us is 12-14 hours a week but does take the occasional weekend off at least. I'm very fortunate that the job market for what I do is extremely small in Alaska, and that my direct boss believes that as long as my accounts are seen and the numbers are in it's not his business what I do with my time so I'm able to hold the "family comes first" and a 40-ish hour work week line stronger than I could in other places/positions. I'd rather be unemployed than be a slave so long as my wife and I don't have kids...
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