Month: March 2010

I’ve named this article \”How not to run a business take 1\”, because I expect to write MANY more of these.  Last night, in thinking about my list of things to do for the week, contemplated several missed appointments from a certain roofing company.  Then I took it further and decided that one of the main reasons for our economic issues is that businesses have apparently forgotten, or never knew how to be run \”correctly\”.  Or as I said it last night, \”No wonder the economy sucks.  No one knows how to run a frakking business anymore\”.

Now on to my roofer story.

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I’m going to veer off my normal course here for a minute and take part in a time-honored and under-appreciated form of expression, the RANT.  And, maybe in the course of writing it, it will become less of a rant, and more of a commentary, but I can only hope.  I will also be mentioning names of businesses, but only because they will be obvious anyway; nor do I wish to hide the identity of the guilty/offending parties.  I should also mention I am writing this stream of consciousness style, and will only edit for spelling before posting.

My wife and I drove to San Antonio today to attend a memorial service for my uncle (who died of (complications from) lung cancer.  It basically wasted him away to a shell, much as it did to my grandparents.  So, if you’re reading this and smoke cigarettes, knock that shit off, cause right now the reaper has taken 4 of 6 longtime smokers I know, with the other 2 lined up in the hopper and already exhibiting signs of joining the others soon). 

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