It amazes me that people who can’t distinguish between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ are allowed to manage people
Hot take: a million dollar company is a small company. The owner better stop acting like his company is something exceptional
Never mind that surely a big company doesn’t explode the second someone calls in sick. The whole sign makes no sense at all.
I’d say it’s a lukewarm take at best. A million dollar company is something like a small (<10 people) consulting agency or a couple hot dog stands in a relatively busy area. So like you said, nothing exceptional.
Leaving out self-employed individuals and 2-3 person hair salons and the like, a million dollar revenue is not really something difficult to reach. Especially if you include things like retail, where moving any inventory increases revenue a lot. Even for companies outside retail, when keeping in mind how much one is able to bill for things like trades in the US, revenue increases quite quickly.
Hey look, a giant sign telling you to unionize
FTFY
So, act like a million 💸 company and cover your employees’ babysitting and taxi expenses. Also hire enough people.
A million dollar company could just be a warehouse and 10 employees. I don’t know why they are acting like it’s a lot.
Where I live, a million dollars doesn’t buy you a house. So I don’t know what this bitch is talking about.
We currently own two modest houses until the spring when we will sell one, but right now that makes me a million dollar company.
A “million dollar company” could be pulled directly out of their ass. Jenny’s illiteracy doesn’t inspire confidence in her accounting skills.
Assuming they mean revenue, i did more than that working out of an RV one year.
Walter?
Trailer trash thinks it’s a lot.
I’ve seen monthly AWS bills bigger than that, every time I look at the damn dashboard.
They can’t afford to check their grammar. You think they can afford to give their employees benefits? You expect the poor CEO to take a pay cut to pay for all of this? You’ll just have to go to poor Timmy Executive and tell him he’s not getting that second yacht for Christmas this year.
Spring for the spell check function for management.
Wouldn’t do much good in this case - “your” and “lets” are actual words.
Word processors also have grammar checkers. Hell, my phone gave me a blue line while I typed this comment.
and you need to know grammar to use a grammar checker. My paper in uni I decided to just hit corels gramatik and accept all changes (did it a few times just for funsies) that paper went from above acceptable to an atrocious mess in no time
Yes, except “hire enough people”. You can’t staff enough to cover 4 out of 8 employees off from a combination of sick, bereavement, and vacation.
It happens. All you can do is prioritize tasks, make it work the best you can with the resources you have, and manage expectations.
If the work can’t be rescheduled, and isn’t worth paying someone OT to cover, well, then, it’s not worth doing.
Also have some professionalism and make sure your management knows how to spell
Maybe she sincerely means ‘million dollar company’, a company too dirt poor to pay to have adequate coverage…
If you want me to show up on Christmas, just pay me enough to show up on Christmas. It’s really that simple, you’re a million dollar company, act like it.
Hey Jenny,
Why does a million dollar company employ someone who can’t spell?
Kind regards,
pyre
PS - Suck my entire dick.
i mean you’d think a million dollar company would be able to afford time off for christmas
I dunno. $1M sounds like a really small company….
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Your dad should run for President. I real and decent human would be a great change. I’m so sick of the soul-less cunts they keep offering up…
My sick?
Yes your sick. If your sick is sick buy it some medicine
“we are a million dollar company, you have no choice but to come in and make your $90 on this day”
Ya ok. If we are a million dollar company then where’s my share?
Fuck that mentality.
I worked in a service center for a big company back in my 20’s, they would factor in callouts to their staffing plan, and use historical data for it. They also paid 2.5x time on holidays like the 25/26 December. That’s what a million dollar company should look like…if you want to make sure there’s coverage, you pay for it.
A million dollar company is relatively a small fry. That’s what an average auto repair shop can make in a year in revenue. Small companies are way more likely to break labor laws and treat their employees like shit.
Fair enough. The company I’m talking about did a million a month in payroll.
Nothing says “million-dollar company” more than a printed-out email pinned to a corkboard.
a million for a company is not that much though
Absolutely not, but the wording suggests that she wanted to use it to portray the company as particularly valuable.
yeah, can’t take it seriously when they can’t even differentiate your and you’re
thats like 2 devs, QA and a PM and bills for a year
it sounds like it could be a blue collar job though, as remote is not even entertained
Chock full of grammatical errors.
I’ve learned that’s either a sign or a requirement of middle management. I like to go through and correct the errors on posted messages.
Hire enough staff that a few missing makes no difference to operations.
You’re a million dollar company. Act like it.
Also, pretty sure my company got sold for a lot more than that and we’re amateur as fuck.
I’ve worked with Fortune 100 companies that were total Mickey Mouse outfits.
I got sued by a big supplier over literally nothing, after I had refused to honor an illegal clause in a contract (which literally would have put me out of business, so it was a serious issue). They couldn’t sue me for that, so they claimed I hadn’t returned some rented equipment, which was a lie. But they said that I better pay up ($10K), because who did I think the judge was going to believe, some loser (their lawyer’s word), or a Fortune 500 company? I didn’t say it, but in MY county, I doubted the judge was going to favor the big corporation.
When we got to court, I had my lawyer ask me about my new supplier’s inventory control system, and explained how the new system had bar codes, and every piece of gear is carefully tracked. The company that was suing me, couldn’t even tell the court how many they had in stock, how many they rented out, etc.
The judge looked at the Plaintiffs, and said, “This is the most amateurish inventory control system I’ve ever seen. I don’t understand how you got to be a Fortune 500 company by doing business this way. You expect me to tell this man to pay you $10,000, when you don’t even know if the equipment is actually missing?”
She found for me, AND made them pay my legal fees. After two years of worry, it was one of the most satisfying days of my life.
She found for me, AND made them pay my legal fees. After two years of worry, it was one of the most satisfying days of my life.
This is great, but at the end of the day, they still harassed you with their bs lawsuit, and they still gave you 2 years of stress. Justice would be them getting counter-sued and you getting compensation for psychological trauma. (even though you will never get your health back 100% from a process like that.)
I can’t argue with that, but there wasn’t really a case in that.
One reason why there are so many nonsense lawsuits in the US is that unlike Europe and the UK, it’s unusual that the loser has to pay the winner’s costs. In Europe that’s standard. As a result, an American person or group is much more likely to sue, because if they lose all it costs them is their own legal fees. AFAIK they also do the reasonable thing and cap fees so that if someone sues a rich multinational corp and loses, they’re not out millions of dollars because the multinational hired a huge, expensive team to defend themselves.
Justice would really be a world where these nonsense lawsuits didn’t happen at all.
While some “nonsense lawsuits” do happen, there is a very strong extent to which the notion of “nonsense lawsuits” being an epidemic in America is pro-corporate propaganda. Designed to get people to side with the big guy over the little guy who was wronged by them.
Take the infamous McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, for example. The woman in question received third-degree burns. Coffee, the normal way it’s served hot, does not do that. Maccas was serving it overly hot. They had even received multiple reports of it being a problem ahead of time. And the woman initially only wanted them to pay for her medical bills. When they refused prior to the lawsuit, she sued. They again refused the offer of medical bills during settlement negotiations, and she rightly won big. Maccas’ negligence caused serious harm, and it’s right that they were stung for it.
there is a very strong extent to which the notion of “nonsense lawsuits” being an epidemic in America is pro-corporate propaganda
Really, it’s not. Every other country looks at the absolute chaos of lawsuit nonsense in America and recoils in horror.
Take the infamous McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, for example. The woman in question received third-degree burns.
Sure, and in most countries that would be solved by good regulations not lawsuits. As you said, they’d received multiple reports of it being a problem, but the US laissez-faire system means that corporations are free to do whatever they want until someone gets severely injured. In a properly run country this woman would never have been injured, and if she was injured she wouldn’t have to rely on lawsuits to get her medical bills paid.
in most countries that would be solved by good regulations
Quite likely both, actually. Good regulations help reduce the chance of it happening, but if it does happen, damage is done. Regulations might mean they receive a fine, but that doesn’t make the victim of their negligence whole. Medical bills aren’t all there is to it. There’s the cost of pain and suffering. Probably time off work. (And having good leave policies doesn’t necessarily help, because now that’s leave she’s used for this that she can’t use if she later needs to for another reason.) Cost of repair/cleaning the car. Lawsuits would still happen.
And anyway, I’m not defending American anti-regulation bs. I’m defending people’s right to sue companies that wronged them. In the absence of good regulations protecting consumers, suing a company that did the wrong thing isn’t “absolute chaos”. There is no “absolute chaos of lawsuit nonsense”. That is corporate propagandistic bullshit.
Contrary to popular belief, the US isn’t actually unusually litigious. European countries are just as litigious and Germany, Sweden and Austria all have higher numbers.
The reason we have more “nonsense” lawsuits is because we have a culture that says caveat emptor is a sound defense and negligence on one parties side is equally the fault of the injured party.
“Why didn’t you look at your food before biting the metal fillings? It’s your responsibility to make sure what you eat is safe” and “you walked on my icy sidewalk, you slipped, and now you want me to pay for your ambulance? I should have put down salt, but you should have known better than to walk there” are both reasonable statements to a lot of Americans. Hell, we have special derogatory terms for lawyers that work with individuals who have been non-criminally injured by someone else.On paper, paying the other parties legal fees if you lose sounds good, but what it does it keep individuals who can’t afford to pay legal someone else’s fees to withold valid legal complaints. In an ideal world they would proceed because they were right, but we live in a world where sometimes the person in the right looses, or they reasonably thought they were and were wrong. Due diligence or actual correctness is no assurance of justice, so a lawsuit is a gamble and a more expensive one if you also have to pay the other parties costs, and if they’re a business which has lawyers on staff they might not even view a crippling legal cost as an increased expense.
On the other side that business just tells their lawyer to file the paperwork, they’re already paying for the legal consult so they’re advised going in if it’s a good idea, and if they lose they’re out a few weeks of lawyer salary.Lawsuits are a mark of people using societies tools to resolve disputes. There being more in places with higher trust in social institutions makes sense. People are willing to use the system and they trust it’ll deliver justice.
The US is up there because people need to use lawsuits to make up for our lack in social safety nets, and our preposterous number of businesses are constantly using them to settle disputes.We should eliminate the court fees entirely and provide the trial lawyer equivalent of a public defender.
A bolt in your oatmeal is a good reason to sue, and if you can’t afford a lawyer to help you pay to get your tooth put back in it doesn’t seem unreasonable for society to give you access to someone to help you find a path to remunerations.
Thanks for sharing 😆 10/10 very satisfying
Thanks, I still smile when I think of it. I had some more fun details in an answer another post, so make sure you see that one, too.
Fuck yeah, congrats.
It was cool walking out of court with my lawyer, both of us wanting to celebrate, but the other team was dejectedly walking down the hall in front of us, shoulders slumped, humiliated, so we didn’t want to interrupt THAT. They got their asses handed to them badly, and they were feeling it. My lawyer grabbed my arm and pulled me into an alcove and pretended to use the water fountain, and said “We make a GOOD TEAM!” We played them like a fiddle, and she was rightfully excited.
That final monologue from the judge wasn’t the only fun thing that happened.
They were first questioning the regional inventory rep, and the local branch manager kept whispering in his ear. After a few questions, the judge asked “Who are you?”
“The local branch manager.”
“Are you under oath?”
“Uhhh…”
“NO! YOU ARE NOT! SO BE QUIET! When I want to hear from you, you’ll be put under oath, and then you can talk. Until then, be quiet.” She was giving peak Judge Judy vibes.
Then it got really good. The judge then said: “In fact, I want you to sit by yourself in the back of the courtroom. MOVE!” And he had to go sit by himself in the back of the empty courtroom like a fucking misbehaving child. Heh-heh.
And when he did testify, he brought no supporting documents with him. He couldn’t tell how many times a year they inventoried their gear, how many they had in inventory the last time, how many they had in stock today, and I even had my lawyer ask if they repurposed equipment for other uses, to which he said Yes, but then couldn’t say how many had been repurposed at all. He literally had no grasp at all about how much inventory they had. Nearly every answer was “I don’t know.”
This was the testimony they were relying on to accuse me of stealing from them, which I hadn’t done. They were literally counting on the judge finding against me just because they were a big company.
By the time judge had to render her decision, she was REALLY pissed off at them. I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to hear a judge tear into the people that have wrongfully tortured and harassed you for the last couple years.
in MY county
Howd you manage that? Any company worth a shit had a clause that all cases be held where they decide, typically where theyre head quartered
I’m no lawyer, but from what I understand, they have to sue in the county where the violation took place, so that would be the location of my business, since supposedly it was my business that stole the equipment.
Ah probably because they sued you. I think the clause usually is a catch all for people filing claims against them. Thanks!
They are a singular million, sad face
Jennifer B Winston will not negotiate with terrorists
a company worth 1 million is basically a 1-5 person office.
One of them ain’t much of a person
This only happens in America. You guys have it bad over there.
Which America out of the two?
out of the four? There’s Northern Northern (Canada), Middle Northern (shithole), and Southern Northern (Mexico). And of course all of Southern.
Lol all colonies are shit over here
It’s colonies all the way down
The map says North America and South America, any other subdivisions are arbitrary.
All subdivisions are arbitrary.
Central America?
I dont believe in that separation. Its all just people. Politics try to make you guys two sides fighting eachother but you have much more incommon with eachother than the owner class.
They said that to point out you said ‘America’ when there’s a north America and a south America and your statement is only true for one country within one of those. We all know what you meant, but let’s stop playing into US exceptionalism by using the name for two whole continents as a synonym for it.
I don’t really like anyone else assuming what I meant, but in this case yes, exactly that.
America is never associated with South America. It always means North America. If someone means South America, they always say so.
Yes, because of US exceptionalism. That’s a bad thing, and we can try to not play into it.
Im ok thanks, but you go ahead. :)
Only thanks to idiots and narcissists are so many using America synonymously with todays shithole totalitarian regime between Canada and Mexico. As the preposter said, let’s not play into that.
Do what you want. :)
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We are a million-dollar company. Let’s act like one.
Okay so that means you’ll schedule several people to be on-call, right?
Right? I work for an actual megacorp and our policy is almost the exact opposite on every point.
Sick workers make more sick: don’t work and feel better faster. Distracted workers makes mistakes and cause problems: don’t work and take care of your kid. Rested workers work better: take the time around the holidays off entirely. Productivity is crap then anyway and with so many vacations it’s easier to plan around a block where nothing happens than to deal with random teams having unpredictable delays. Car broken? Expense a Lyft. We have a corporate account and your ride to work is a rounding error compared to the sales visits.If you’re going to invoke money you should actually understand how big companies function and view money.
We have so many tickets open with third party companies that almost certainly won’t get resolved until the new year that there’s no point worrying about our productivity.
This
clears throat Don’t you think we should ask for more than a million dollars? A million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
My sick what?
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe referring to a specific sickness a person has?
But more likely just skipped English class.
