"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I guess you guys will understand what I do when you reach our level of volume and wear the hats I wear.
Quote from: alan802 on December 20, 2013, 08:56:18 AMI guess you guys will understand what I do when you reach our level of volume and wear the hats I wear. How many years has SRI been screen printing?
Brandt I have already agreed there is a difference between an owner and what he does and what a manger does. I do not doubt it for one second. I see what the owner here does every day, we discuss all the time taxes, bills, fees, paper work paper work paper work and I can tell you I do not envy him for one second. Thats one of the many reasons I strive to take as much of the work load off of him as I can.
Him as an owner invested his money and credit in to this business, I invested my personal time and life in to it. We both are invested in to the company but with different sacrifices. Fortunately we are an LLC so his liability is minimal unless he was negligent or has guaranteed any of his personal worth on the business.. I can tell you tho that is not the case. If the business failed he would be safe except for losing a job. This is not to diminish the sacrifice of an owner at all its just my way of saying if you make your business successful enough you can eventually be off the hook personally if things failed. Whether i am ceam of the crop or not I do not know, I know the best I can offer is 100% effort. I am not as capable as Tony but with me I am as loyal as can be and think of this job as not just a job but a future and refuse to allow the company to stagnate.
Every single one of those things you listed in the second paragraph are actually what i do every day and then some. I am not just managing printing I am managing every single order that comes through here and i am also managing the building and every thing in it. These are all things the owner counts on me doing so he can concentrate on both sales and the financials. Your doing this stuff your self because you are still young in the business but judging from your success you will grow to the point where you will hire a production manager and you can work solely on your business. Trust me you will be greatly satisfied when the day comes where you can walk in to work and not have to worry about proofs, ink colors, toilets, and whatever crap.
BTW I make a salary my check is the same week after week. Yet I work a ten hour day five days a week. If I work the weekend it changes nothing. For instance I will be spending a long weekend here soon fixing a broken head on our 12 head. It does not benefit my pay check it benefits the company and in the long run it pays out. I take work home just about every day. I do not leave at 5 and forget this place it is just as much part of me as my children are.
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on December 20, 2013, 09:12:50 AMQuote from: alan802 on December 20, 2013, 08:56:18 AMI guess you guys will understand what I do when you reach our level of volume and wear the hats I wear. How many years has SRI been screen printing? Almost 8 years.
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on December 20, 2013, 09:12:50 AMQuote from: alan802 on December 20, 2013, 08:56:18 AMI guess you guys will understand what I do when you reach our level of volume and wear the hats I wear. How many years has SRI been screen printing? Almost 8 years. And Mike, I was wondering if anyone was reading some of those because personally, I think it's some of my best work. If I got one to laugh at them then it was worth it.
Yep, nothing to it. Think you have fun toys now, just wait, it gets better.First time I heard the peanut butter reference I about choked on a frito pie I was eating while sitting on top of a 36 story building in down town Fort Worth. If I would have gotten that food lodged any tighter in my air hole I was going to be dead because no way I could have gotten down in time. I was the only person within about 20 floors because the building was shut down and we were doing the asbestos abatement management for that place.
Kevin I would say the evolution of an employee to an owner is nearly as old as prostitution. It is the risk you will have to take with your employees. If you want to employee people with enough ability and intelligence to manage the place the risk will be even higher. But as I said earlier I truly do not desire ever to be on the owners side of things. Its not something I desire as a job I prefer working with my hands and using my brains on machines etc. Plus a huge difference between me and the owner his college education is in business mine is not. He is business davy and the best part his connections are huge. Its his connections that earns us most of our clients. I would not have that if I left and started my own business. I would surely struggle and possibly fail.
Just because people don't do something doesn't mean they can't.