I can't get a non bias answer from anyone eles, so I'd figure if ask y'all .
I worked at a automotive shop for 7 1/2 years. It was a two man show. Me and the owner. We never had any problems. We both got married, me and my wife had a child....blah, blah blah. Well in 2008 when the economy bottomed out, we were on hard times, shit was bad. We scratched and clawed to stay a float. Well a chance came up to buy the property next to where we were located. The loan payment would be half of what the rent was, so the boss man jumped on it, and we turned a run down, 60's gas station into out shop. Well his wife, who owned a convince store, decided she was part of this too, and put in her 3 cents. She hated all the "shit" as she called it at the old shop. It was cars, used stuff that we either took off or bought on the low to "flip" and this is where almost half my income came from. Me buying and selling rims and stuff to people who couldn't afford new stuff. The new shop opened, and business picked up. It wasn't unusual to work 13 hour days,6 days a week. I knew the boss man was stressed out about dumping his entire savings into the new shop. Me with a son now, my wife started letting it be known she wanted me to leave. As time went on, the boss mans wife got more involved, then one day about 7 months ago, she sold her gas station, and became full time at the shop. To put it nicely, shes a old bitch. 16 years older than my boss man, everyone thinks he married her for her money, they think she married him so she could continue he partying lifestyle. The more she was there, the more she bitched.....the boss man would pull me to the side and say "please listen to her for me, so I don't have to hear it". As thing got worse, I was taking my frustrations out on my family. My wife told me to get a new job, or eles. I told he find me one and I'll go. Well she did, she found me a job I couldn't turn down. I put in my 2 weeks, and we parted on good terms. In the 2 months since then, shit has gone bad. My boss mans wife stalks my Facebook page ( I built the shop one, added the almost 5,000 people through networking, all while she bitched how dumb it was, but has since taken the shop page over as her personal page) I made a comment as to a paid Holliday, at the shop, if it closed for any reason, I didn't get paid. They want to got to the lake for a 4 day weekend, I was just shit out of pay for those days. So my wife made the comment "you should, like a respected employee". Well 5 days later, the shop page replies back to my post "glad you lily your new job, just. Thought I tell you that from a respectful employer" I was on that page everyday, I know nothing stays in the news feed more than 30 mins because there are so many friends, so to find that, you had to look. I wasn't worried about it. So I stop by last week. No one will talk to me.....no one. Finally the customers clear out for a minute, the boss man walks back in, and I say"damn, y'all busy!" He replies back "yeah, you leaving was the best thing, you must of held me back, I got more shit now than I can handle" and he walked out. I just left. 2 days later I got my business licence and got on the phone.
I still have all my connections, and my phone still rings constantly. So here comes my reply to what he told me. Third shift motorsports group. It is a network of already established repair shop, and car customizes who I have became friends with over the years, who can't chance leaving their day jobs to go into business. Right now there are 9 places...that gives 9 garages, 4 lifts, 16 bays, and 24/7 hours. These people do not need to sell anything we sold at the shop to stay afloat. I know the price points at the shop I worked at, so I know where to tell them to price it to be lower. It's just extra pocket money to them.
Before I pull the trigger, I have a bit of a reserve. I take great pride in that shop, I was there for 7 1/2 of the 10 years its been open. When I left, more people called and asked "what's he going to do now?" I was very honored. I know the place isn't that busy, he just has to work now, something I did 80% of while I was there. I put in the labor, he sold and ran the front. All those months his wife was there, all she wanted to do was play with the sticker machine. So she never learned to price out jobs, or anything. And everything that was there the day I went was lined up when I still worked there. And the kicker, if and when he ditches his bitch wife, he was a really good friend. Theres no doubt if I hit the go button I will destroy his business. We live in a very small town. It's not big enought for 2 shops, let alone 9.and none of mine have overhead related to aftermarket parts, and the installers are night and day better.6 of them have had cars in national publications. All of them have a degree in something. Asc, mecp, ones a certified Harley mechanic, 4 are engineers that I've know form my days at they shop, and work with now.
Sorry for the long read. Here's the question
Do I ruin his lively hood just because of what he said to me to put him back in check?
I worked at a automotive shop for 7 1/2 years. It was a two man show. Me and the owner. We never had any problems. We both got married, me and my wife had a child....blah, blah blah. Well in 2008 when the economy bottomed out, we were on hard times, shit was bad. We scratched and clawed to stay a float. Well a chance came up to buy the property next to where we were located. The loan payment would be half of what the rent was, so the boss man jumped on it, and we turned a run down, 60's gas station into out shop. Well his wife, who owned a convince store, decided she was part of this too, and put in her 3 cents. She hated all the "shit" as she called it at the old shop. It was cars, used stuff that we either took off or bought on the low to "flip" and this is where almost half my income came from. Me buying and selling rims and stuff to people who couldn't afford new stuff. The new shop opened, and business picked up. It wasn't unusual to work 13 hour days,6 days a week. I knew the boss man was stressed out about dumping his entire savings into the new shop. Me with a son now, my wife started letting it be known she wanted me to leave. As time went on, the boss mans wife got more involved, then one day about 7 months ago, she sold her gas station, and became full time at the shop. To put it nicely, shes a old bitch. 16 years older than my boss man, everyone thinks he married her for her money, they think she married him so she could continue he partying lifestyle. The more she was there, the more she bitched.....the boss man would pull me to the side and say "please listen to her for me, so I don't have to hear it". As thing got worse, I was taking my frustrations out on my family. My wife told me to get a new job, or eles. I told he find me one and I'll go. Well she did, she found me a job I couldn't turn down. I put in my 2 weeks, and we parted on good terms. In the 2 months since then, shit has gone bad. My boss mans wife stalks my Facebook page ( I built the shop one, added the almost 5,000 people through networking, all while she bitched how dumb it was, but has since taken the shop page over as her personal page) I made a comment as to a paid Holliday, at the shop, if it closed for any reason, I didn't get paid. They want to got to the lake for a 4 day weekend, I was just shit out of pay for those days. So my wife made the comment "you should, like a respected employee". Well 5 days later, the shop page replies back to my post "glad you lily your new job, just. Thought I tell you that from a respectful employer" I was on that page everyday, I know nothing stays in the news feed more than 30 mins because there are so many friends, so to find that, you had to look. I wasn't worried about it. So I stop by last week. No one will talk to me.....no one. Finally the customers clear out for a minute, the boss man walks back in, and I say"damn, y'all busy!" He replies back "yeah, you leaving was the best thing, you must of held me back, I got more shit now than I can handle" and he walked out. I just left. 2 days later I got my business licence and got on the phone.
I still have all my connections, and my phone still rings constantly. So here comes my reply to what he told me. Third shift motorsports group. It is a network of already established repair shop, and car customizes who I have became friends with over the years, who can't chance leaving their day jobs to go into business. Right now there are 9 places...that gives 9 garages, 4 lifts, 16 bays, and 24/7 hours. These people do not need to sell anything we sold at the shop to stay afloat. I know the price points at the shop I worked at, so I know where to tell them to price it to be lower. It's just extra pocket money to them.
Before I pull the trigger, I have a bit of a reserve. I take great pride in that shop, I was there for 7 1/2 of the 10 years its been open. When I left, more people called and asked "what's he going to do now?" I was very honored. I know the place isn't that busy, he just has to work now, something I did 80% of while I was there. I put in the labor, he sold and ran the front. All those months his wife was there, all she wanted to do was play with the sticker machine. So she never learned to price out jobs, or anything. And everything that was there the day I went was lined up when I still worked there. And the kicker, if and when he ditches his bitch wife, he was a really good friend. Theres no doubt if I hit the go button I will destroy his business. We live in a very small town. It's not big enought for 2 shops, let alone 9.and none of mine have overhead related to aftermarket parts, and the installers are night and day better.6 of them have had cars in national publications. All of them have a degree in something. Asc, mecp, ones a certified Harley mechanic, 4 are engineers that I've know form my days at they shop, and work with now.
Sorry for the long read. Here's the question
Do I ruin his lively hood just because of what he said to me to put him back in check?
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