Shut your Dogma!!

Dogma: A generally held set of formulated beliefs

    I used to have to listen to my boss preach his lame ass common sense business crap.  Too bad in the end it had to be filed under I am full of bullshit, hear me roar.  Let me first state that I am not writing this out of bitterness, for it has been a good 4 months since he has sold the business and moved on.  I have relocated to another company doing the same grind.  So it's not like I'm out of a job bitching about the unfairness of it all.  And to tell you the truth leaving this industry and going to work for the family business I just might do.  I believe the rant comes from a coming of age type of thing.  Like when you hit 28 or 29 (or younger) and you look at your parents as just being regular everyday people just trying to get by.  With that in mind let me continue.

       So basically for the last 6 years I've listened to this guy preach to me about being successful in business and if you put out a good product the customers will come, and well blah, blah, blah, take business 101 at any local jr. college for the rest of that story.  But the one thing that I know about business is competition.  when the competition got too great he left.  And it's not like he wasn't making a profit, because he was.  Just not as big as it used to be.  For years the company was on a uphill slope, then the tech boom hit and like everything else it went a million miles per hour.  So my boss was taking a nice warm slice of bread from the middle of the loaf.  Fucking delicious!!!

    Then the tech market crash, and then 9/11.  And as the years waned on that slice became the butt.  He was making a little profit, but not what he was during the tech boom.  Sales slipped, I guessed it would have been better if he would have hired a sales person, but he didn't.  And as we lost major accounts, we had no one bringing in new blood.  His son was great for replacing parts on printers that the end user didn't need, but the minute I tried to do the same I got another face of dogma about how I shouldn't be taking advantage of the customer.