Mercenary Audio fires employee for blogging

joelpatterson · Post by **joelpatterson** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:10 am

RefD wrote:
@?,*ƒƒƒ&™ wrote:Who cares?

Not my problem.

This is not even interesting.
interesting enough for you to bother posting to this thread, apparently!

man, i used to post here and the *other* place when i worked for FedEx Kinko's as a backend systems geek at their corporate headquarters and i was never even warned, much less let go for it...and that's Big Corporate America!

wtf?

They knew you would beat the living crap out of them if they said one word. ONE WORD!

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:41 am

if the intern at my studio was blogging about studio recording instead of wrapping cables I'd fire him....

John

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:03 am

toaster3000 wrote:if the intern at my studio was blogging about studio recording instead of wrapping cables I'd fire him....

John

What if he was blogging while making pancakes for everyone?

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:48 am

now pancakes, that is a whole 'nother fucking story.

J

misterock · Post by **misterock** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:24 pm

I am 40. I was an employee for 13 years before I owned my own pad, and coincidentialy, I've currently owned my own expanding pad for 13 years. I am upto 45 employees. the business started with 3, my partners and me.

Being an employee, the less money you get, the less you cared. Employers understand this but are still dicks while at work. They don't fire you because they don't pay you squat. I always hated that, so none of my employees fit this category. Then there are the interns who will work for free and love the work for what it is. This type of employee does not exist in my business, but it does exist in the recording business, I am a perfect example. I was an ADAT rep for a local retailer when they first came out. I worked for jack. I also still believed I had a music career ahead of me.

I am not in the music or recording business, but have spent $50,000+ on gear over the years, recorded many bands and written and performed several hundred songs, studied and used the gear to it's hilt etc... I still play but no longer pursue the career because I live like a rock star anyway.

So I am now the asshole boss who lost his way. Sold his soul and went into a commercial business that he has no passion for, but it pays, and it pays well.

45 employees. Sales $4.5mil Payroll $1.5mil not including beni's at $1mil. We are a manufacturer so tooling, raw materials and shop upkeep cost us $500k. So after everything, 3 guys make $100k each + travel and vehicles. Not a bad way to live.

Sales staff and those close to top brass: This is the worst or best place to be in small business. Face time is big here. The owners may not be there, but they were when they paid their dues, that's how they figured it out. Some employees seem to embrace me and think they are me, they think they know where I am when I'm not around, they think I am living the high life, which in some cases I am, but they think it belongs to them. They don't know where I've been, over 1/2 the time it's work.

The most important messages in this thread ar:

1: It's OK to start your own business
2: Treat your work like your own business and earn WAY more money ( I did this for a few years), bosses LOVE this (or get fired and start your own business like I ultimately did)
3. Be a bouncing bitch, standing down people with checkbooks
4. Not all bosses are so loaded that they can live your dream and their dream simultaneously.
5>>>START YOUR OWN BUSINESS

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:18 pm

that's a good story. does it have anything at all to do with the thread?

jv · Post by jv » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:55 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:that's a good story. does it have anything at all to do with the thread?

I was wondering that also. I think when he says, "I live like a rock star anyway", he means he takes a lot of drugs.

Jon Nolan · Post by **Jon Nolan** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:30 pm

how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb.....?

ThunderFaceWizardHead · Post by **ThunderFaceWizardHead** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:41 pm

misterock wrote: 3. Be a bouncing bitch, standing down people with checkbooks

ftw?

I own my own business as well, but I live like a roadie from a 70's prog rock band at best.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:00 pm

Jon Nolan wrote:how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb.....?

the fish.

lancebug · Post by **lancebug** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:12 pm

ThunderFaceWizardHead wrote:
misterock wrote: 3. Be a bouncing bitch, standing down people with buttcheeks
ftw?

I own my own business as well, but I live like a roadie from a 70's prog rock band at best.

Thats gross.

lharless · Post by **lharless** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:08 am

OK! Everybody, back to work, or you're fired!

Jon Nolan · Post by **Jon Nolan** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:53 am

dwlb wrote:
Jon Nolan wrote:how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb.....?
the fish.

i love that joke.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:52 am

Jon Nolan wrote:
dwlb wrote:
Jon Nolan wrote:how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb.....?
the fish.
i love that joke.

good movie, too.

hiddendriveways · Post by **hiddendriveways** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:26 am

I think misterock feels akin to Fletcher. He gets to be Mr. Big Man and shit all over the little guy. Straight out of the Guitar Center tool-brain playbook.

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