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4 Months of Success – and many returns
This marks month four of exceeding the financial goals for the new company. This means that we are doing better than we had planned in our budget – billing out approximately 10% more a month that we had anticipated. The best part? We’re just getting started! Clients keep calling us for work, and despite the other company’s hilarious attempts to roadblock old clients files, we’re stacking up projects right and left. In May we launch…
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Destiny – on the Happy Road
I guess it was almost 14 years ago that I first met her. Such a happy girl, full of spunk and a tongue that just wouldn’t stop – Not like that… Destiny Rose, a black and white Shih tzu, who had a serious tongue fixation. She was Suzanne’s dog, her best friend for 14 years. Suzanne had to have her put to sleep recently, which I know was a hard decision to come to. Destiny…
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The Cult Leader Visits DC
Bill Maher did a spectacular job of speaking on the Catholic Church and the Pope on Friday’s show.http://www.billmaher.com/?page_id=232 So I wonder when CNN says: “Security precautions have been taken in the air, on land and in the water for the visit.” Do you think someone is protecting the children, altar boys or underage?
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Broadway
So I had my first weekend trip to NYC to see a Broadway show. I took the train up, as i find it much more relaxing than the airplane. I had downloaded the movie: Starfall to watch on my way up which was very enjoyable, and there was a cute guy sitting across from me too – that’s always a bonus. I arrived around 12:30, had lunch at the Ruby Tuesday that was right near…
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
I found this on Wiki and it seems oddly appropriate for what’s been happening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_slicingSlow slicing (simplified Chinese: 凌迟; traditional Chinese: 凌遲; pinyin: língchí, alternately transliterated Ling Chi or Leng T’che), also translated as the slow process, the lingering death, or death by/of a thousand cuts, was a form of execution used in China from roughly AD 900 to its abolition in 1905. The term língchí derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain…
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The Question On Everyones Mind
“So, Jamez…” they say, “I’ve been reading your blog and was wondering if you’ve been unemployed since January.” No actually. I haven’t been unemployed all year, well half a day I guess… Jim started up his own company and I’ve gone to work for him, doing the same things we did at the last place. Its been very interesting, setting up an office, choosing furniture, computers, supplies. There are so many things you just take…
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Let's Be Perfectly Clear
I was fired, you sent a kill command to my blackberry, my computer and told me to vacate the premises. So when you have employees call up or email and ask where files might be, I am under no obligation to answer. I was willing to stay with the firm for 30 days, and remain reachable beyond that for questions and support, your ego wouldn’t allow that to happen. As a result: Do I have…
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Where there is smoke…
I had started to decide in November, during the company retreat to Cancun that I needed to move on. The amount of animosity between my two bosses kept growing and growing. Both of them were talking to me about what was going on, but neither would talk to the other. I expressed to John, while in line to go back to the US that if I quit, he and Jim would be forced to reconcile…
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When did it start? and why?
I don’t know the why of it… I can speculate that he was having troubles making payments on his credit cards and to investments groups that he belongs to (he has a habit of discussing his financial issues in the open office for all to hear). In the summer he first started to talk about changes, and made me start to wonder what was going on. He mentioned selling staff and consultants shares of Company…
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Hypothetical Math
So the two Principals of the firm both billed out (each) $350,000 annuallyThe top architect, under the Principals billed out about $250,000 annuallyThen approximately (by the rest of the staff) about $142,000 annuallyand add in consultants billings are about $101,000 annuallyBringing a grand total of billed amounts to clients at $1,200,000 roughly You have annual payroll of about: $965,000 The President of the company decides to hire someone to be the “marketing manager” to sell…
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