Posted on 11/07/2008 11:42:28 AM PST by CWW
I have a small business with no employees. I farm out work on elance and similar sites now and then, usually using some folks in Minnesota and Washington to do work now and then.
I was prepared in the event of an Obama victory. That work usually totals about $20-24,000 a year. I will farm it out to some students in Eastern Europe somewhere, who will get it done for 1/4 to 1/3 of that price. I may have to check the work more closely, but the difference in quality is 99% for the domestic work, and 97% or so for offshore work. Its worth it for me.
I won’t fire them, though. Usually around Christmas I get a card from them, and then an email in early January talking about an increase in rates. this time, I’ll just tell them in January that I’m priced out, wish them luck, and take my ball elsewhere. I suspect I’m not the only one who will cut back on the domestic freelancers. They will probably be taking a solid hit.
I also have ICs who work for commission, and what I will do is I’ll cut their commissions down from 20% to 15 right away, and then down to 10% in Fall, 2009 at the start of my new season.
Thanks for the information. I plan to send this to my moonbat brother who has about 10 people working for in what may soon be a “formerly” profitable business. I tried to warn him about Nobama, but he was too busy looking at Soros-backed websites showing all Republicans to be idiots and all Democrats to be intellectual and moral superiors.
Guess I should preface it with a “Be Careful what you wish for” admonition.
Well Unions are evil and as VVV said if they were not, Unions would not have to coerce employees to join...duh!
3 liberals and 1 Rino who work for me will get their walking papers at the end of this month. They will get the word the day after Thanksgiving. I have no plans on replacing them. Business is down 60% from 1 year ago. The time to fire is now. Dont wait until after The One takes his throne.”
I am a life-long bookkeeper.
I am advising anyone who will listen to me to cut back your operations—cut them WAAAAY back. If you get down to the original Mom-Pop, then so be it.
If you must have a third employee- sell them a very minimum of stock- 5%-stock in your company for a minimum value. Then they are no longer an EMPLOYEE—they are an owner.
Talk to a lawyer/CPA for guidance.
Get down to the original core business you started with. DO NOT support the tax increases and other rules/regulations that will cripple your operations.
Every rule/reg is followed by an “inspector” from the Govnm’t seeing to it that you follow their “rules”.
You never get a clean bill of health from them. Always a bad review, a fine or a non-compliance write up.
Get yourself into bunker mentality and stay there until this can be reversed.
Thank you!
Doctor King looked forward to a day when people are judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. We’ve now progressed past that point, we’re not judging by EITHER. . . .
You can either take it or leave it. I personlly don't give a rip. But I have been a Freeper since June of 1998 and have posted 170 threads. And I will continue to post political and other informative news for Freepers.
Then link it as an article on the link up above.
If it’s not posted yet, as an article, then *link* the website, and give a note in your intro to the article that it is coming out (and state when it is coming out on the website and where on the website).
Otherwise, post it as a vanity, absent the relevant information... (i.e., in the vanity slot, and not the news slot)...
No matter how good or bad your stuff is — the fact of the matter is that you’re in the same league (at this point) with the hundreds of other totally useless vanities that are popping up like weeds and pests on this board. You’ve jumped in with a lot of pests (absent that information, above) — so expect to be called a pest.
Ask anyone under 30 from Michigan how they feel about Unions, they probally will utter language that would be un printible
Guess I should preface it with a “Be Careful what you wish for” admonition.
My husband and I have been using the phrase “Elections Have Consequences.”
and so it begins.
Wonder how many people who voted for 0 are losing their jobs.
Wonder when my job will go by the wayside?
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