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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Have you considered that being a small business owner might not have made you a better person?
What did you do for employees who were fired? Did you try to help them line up another job, or just told them you were downsizing and moved on?
You said this was a big deal for the small town you were in. What was your reputation as a business? Did you get the job done at all costs, or did you start cutting corners towards the end?
I've met plenty of small business owners in 20 years of industrial manufacturing. Not a single one of them was a good person. They took the hard decisions they had to make to run their business and applied them to every aspect of their lives. Everything is a fight, and every compromise is a war. Its hard to be friendly to someone who competes with the rest of the world at large.