I think maybe one or two people showed up. Ever. Like come to find out people, especially during COVID times, can perpetuate their unemployment by showing proof that they're looking for jobs. And so you can do that if you're, you know, you can show that you're interviewing on indeed and stuff.
Acquiring Minds
When You Buy a Glorified Job, Not a Business
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I can't tell you how many people I had just not show up like, or if they would do a phone interview and I'd be like, great, do you want to start Monday? And they're like, yeah, yeah, for sure. Fill out all the employee, like fill out.
Then just never show up. I mean, so much heartache. Wow. And then I was like, okay, I obviously can't hire myself, so I'm going to go find a staffing agency.
Also had no idea that general labor staffing agencies existed. That was totally new to me. That kind of blew my mind.
I was like, holy shit. People made a business out of this. That's amazing. So had a guy come in, meet with me.
Of course he, you know, sales guy, right. Could have been more delightful, blah, blah, blah, total use car salesman and sold me on his services. He ended up placing three people for me at 5,000 ahead non refundable.
If you fire them, by the way, you get like, I don't know, a month or something and Anyways, you can guess the end of the story. I fired two of them. The third stole from me.
Like, literally took the company credit card and went to the mall and had a great little evening. And so that was another 15 grand, just gone. Like, I couldn't do anything about it.
It was gone. It was part of the contract. I signed it and I didn't. I literally didn't have it.
Like, it didn't exist. It was going to go on another credit card that I had somehow figured out how to get the balance down on a little bit. I had absolutely no way to repay that.
And I came home and I just had a complete mental breakdown. I had pretty much cried every single day leading up to that, just, like, in general. But this was like, full blown. Like, I was like on the kitchen floor just bawling.
And how many months into this is this, Tato?
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