And now what's crazy too is I've posted on there so many times and like, I always put my phone number that. And there's so many new people coming into this state or looking for new jobs, whatever, all the time that, you know, they scroll and scroll and scroll. I get texts almost daily from people even though I haven't posted for a job and I don't know how many months.
Acquiring Minds
When You Buy a Glorified Job, Not a Business
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I get texts all the time. Hey, are you hiring? Hey, are you hiring?
You know, I don't know how I'm on a billion different groups and I'm guessing they scroll back enough to, yeah, see it or whatever. And I save every number who's ever texted me. Every single one. I literally have a note in my phone called potential employees.
And anytime someone texts me, copy paste. I literally have a note in my phone that's just a bajillion and 17,000 numbers.
What a hack. I hope people in the audience are going to get value from that because it seems like, I mean, it turned everything around. I mean, your own words. Well, perfect segue has that.
What. So what does the business look like today, Tato? And then I want to zoom out and kind of try to distill this experience into its essence, if it can be.
Yeah. So today, you know, our employee count changes somewhat regularly based on a variety of factors, but we have anywhere between seven and nine general laborers at any one given time. Something that we kind of have skimmed over but has been an absolutely integral part of this whole experience is that Noah, the stepson of the owner, has become my greatest, greatest partner. He is very much a…
He's actually cut into the success of the business. I did that pretty early on to retain him, and I'm so glad that I did because it's so well deserved. But he and I co run the business.
We each have our strengths and he's young and, you know, he's quote unquote, just an employee. But he's way more than that. You know, he like sets his own schedule and decides what he does, you know, every day and whatever.
And in exchange, I rely on him for a lot and, you know, he Gets autonomy. Anyway, so it's he and I, and then Christian manages our shop. So Christian's in charge of bodies in and out and what those bodies do on a daily basis, definitely with lots of input from Noah and I.
Like, there are for sure days where I'm like, hey, this is how I want the day to run. And he's like, okay, no problem. But anything that goes down in the shop is his responsibility.
So it's Christian. And then like I said, yeah, anywhere between five, six general laborers, kind of quote unquote under Christian.
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