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Small business owners are the absolute worst. I worked for a few in my youth and they feel so entitled to exploit labour and get legit mad when they can't?
I took one guy to the labour board for unpaid wages, not even run-of-the-mill exploitation, and I thought he was going to get violent in the mediation 😬
I had one get a $12M bonus for the three stores they owned while telling me they can’t afford a raise or full time because things are tight for everyone
Then left the check on the desk after doing an e-deposit or whatever - then leaving for the day at 12:30
Lol what's most hilarious about this is that if they are getting a bonus it implies that they are not actually small business owners, they are at best franchisees. So the business outsourced the risk.
Yup they were franchisees and owned like 210 acres and a (yuppie-ass) farm with a gigantic family of ~12 kids who all had ~5 themselves.
Then they go and get that kind of payout but ‘can’t afford’ to pay another $12k yet still expected me to give my all.
I watched Hulu and went to lunch with the store closed a few times. Picked up my own door dash once.
Did you win? Sounds like you probably did if he got so
about it. On the other hand, just because one of them throws a hissy fit at the drop of a hat or gets physically threatening doesn't mean they failed to get their way.
I knew and had to spend a lot of time with a former small business owner who lost her ~100 employee business and ended up living the worst nightmare of any capitalist: being a wage worker. Having to exist on the other side of the class divide and get exploited rather than do the exploitation went a long way in humbling her I think, though it happened a decade before I met her. But she still remained one of the most petulant people, totally unable to admit to having any fault or being wrong in any way and was always just so childish for the most asinine reasons. (Though to be fair I've also known life long proles with similar issues).
Small business owners really do put the "petty" in the term petty bourgeoisie.
I did win, lol. There wasn't much question that I would win - his argument was that I didn't give notice so he didn't need to give me my last pay cheque 🤷♀️