asked for a raise (im the only employee at a small cosmetics company. i handle the manufacturing, labeling, packing, and shipping, as well as keeping up inventory and keeping the place in order. basically everything) and my boss responds by trying to gaslight me, pulling this “we’re a small business 🥺” bullshit
he just bought a 60,000 dollar car and is taking his second vacation of the year next week
he keeps trying to hold “a week of personal time” i had to go on strike by myself to earn, “paid winter break” etc over my head. all shit that the government forces you to give your employees in every other country on the planet. america is a shit hole with no workers rights and it allows the parasitic small business tyrant class feel like they’re doing something good by offering the bare minimum. literally “i treat my slaves nicely” shit
sorry yall just wanted to rant. fuck america and work under capitalism
Seriously though, $60,000 car and one employee?
yeah they make bank because the product has low cost to produce and a high profit plus only one employee (my dumb ass) facilitating every step of the process
Why not just quit and work for yourself doing the same thing and make all that money for yourself?
the initial investment it would take prevents me
i know the formula and the manufacturing process- which we’re the only company with this process. i could use basic kitchen equipment to replicate the product but its the initial cost of the ingredients. if i could afford that initial cost, assuming i could actually sell the product it would become profitable very fast tho
I would try to find a friend and start a co-op, to lessen the burden. Or if you know the start up capital costs, go to a bank and get a business loan. You can literally explain that you know the entire business and that will allow them to get their beaks wet on something that has already been proven to be a profitable enterprise, they love that kind of backdoor bullshit. The only thing stopping it is if they own a patent or copyright in the actual product.
Do you live close to any of these places?
https://seedcommons.org/our-network
Because this is exactly the sort of thing that this org aims to do, to give people like you the startup capital to enter the market.
I would start making a list of all your customers and that way, if you do go for it, you can take that business with you (or at least attempt to). If you do it, I would quit when your boss is on vacation to fuck them over even harder.
there are small business loans that are usually cheap govt backed programs
FR. Since you're running their business for them already it should be relatively straight-forward. Easy enough to find out who their suppliers are, given I imagine you probably manage shipping and receiving as well. Accounting you may have to learn a thing or two, but nothing you can't figure out. Fuck these leeches.
Start stealing it and sell it on ebay
sadly not a good plan. i had initially planned to do this when i first started working here to get some side money but this dude is neurotic and scowers the internet to find people possibly selling knockoffs of the product or selling it unauthorized or anything
Sounds like a dope-ass margin. Or tax evasion. Could always be tax evasion.
just big margins. an ingredient order is placed about every 6 months. the product is just made with various oils and waxes. while the order will costa few thousand dollars, in one day i produce thousands of products all of which individually sell for enough that one day of production will easily pay for an entire 6 month’s worth of ingredients.
on that note, his wife accidentally fucked up once and gave me an order that didnt have the prices removed, so i could see what they sell everything for and the total amount of the order. one medium-small sized order i ship out pays for my entire month’s salary. im packing dozens upon dozens of these orders every month, with some larger ones that will likely be about a year’s worth of my salary coming in every couple months