Fellow Business Executives:
As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure that our Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8%, but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off eight of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.So, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.
If you have a better idea, let me know.
None come to mind.
With thanks to Tom Flake, via e-mail.
In a just world that's the way it would work. Too bad this isn't a just world.
Posted by: NJR | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 09:56 AM
Well, maybe they will finally become informed on exactly what it was Obama said during the general election. Since they obviously didn't listen nor did they have simple math skills to conclude that his 95% tax cut would have consequences to small businesses who employee about 50% of the population.
Posted by: jcheney | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Bbbbbbut he's going to pay our mortgages and gas!
This was the most frustrating thing about talking to the true believers who couldn't name one thing he'd done or accomplished, what he really believed, his policies or anything else.
Just the magic of his presence is required, I guess.
Posted by: Mommynator | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Thats a good idea. That way they can also benefit from the jobs they claim he'll make.
Posted by: Saint | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM
So you would have kept those employees and kept losing money as a failed CFO if McCain was elected? This blog should be called Brutally Horse shit.
Posted by: Your the problem | Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Right, whenever it's necessary for a company to lay people off, they only issue pink slips to the folks who've been losing them their money all along.
Who's the horseshit?
Personal experience beats out your sarcasm and thin, washed-out propaganda. I know of one. He spent two years dishing out his crap, "Oh there's just something about him, I can't explain it, he's a lighterworker" blah blah blah...voted for Him...stock market went to crap...he got laid off. That's one guy I know who voted away his own job. There are probably millions more, by the end of next year.
Truth hurts.
Posted by: Morgan K Freeberg | Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 11:52 PM
“So you would have kept those employees and kept losing money as a failed CFO if McCain was elected?”
I don’t see anywhere in the post where it states that the business is failing. Actually the man is acting prudently by thinking ahead and taking action to prevent damage to his business. The exact opposite of what you accuse him of.
BTW, what are you qualifications regarding what constitutes running a successful business?
Lastly, are you disputing Obama’s plan to raise taxes on businesses or just mouthing off?
Posted by: tim aka The Godless Heathen | Friday, December 19, 2008 at 09:05 AM