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beekaytee - Oct 09, 2015 4:31:11 am PDT #1194 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

Yay for stable staff!

ND, I'm keeping all my superstitions crossed for you!

I'm in a hiring suck now too.

The pet care company needs a number of new staff and I _really_ want to free up two current staff for creative opportunities.

There just seems to be a paucity of capable folks applying. I don't even care if they are not qualified. I can train them! We just need folks who can handle what is a far more rigorous and complex task than most people seem to understand.

We just keep growing and, despite having the incredible luxury of saying no to clients who are not a good fit, we are struggling at capacity all the time.

Going into the holiday season, it's pretty daunting.

I can say that we get a pretty fair quality of inquiries through INDEED vs. craigslist, but it is still, the personal contact that works best for us as a rule.


smonster - Oct 09, 2015 3:33:41 pm PDT #1195 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Man, bonny, I wish my sister lived there. She'd be great. Loves animals, super responsible, good customer service skills. She's currently volunteering at a shelter walking dogs.


smonster - Oct 09, 2015 3:34:04 pm PDT #1196 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Also, ND, that's so great. Keeping my fingers crossed for Macau.


beekaytee - Oct 09, 2015 5:56:23 pm PDT #1197 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

Man, bonny, I wish my sister lived there. She'd be great. Loves animals, super responsible, good customer service skills. She's currently volunteering at a shelter walking dogs.

I need 8 of her!!


NoiseDesign - Oct 09, 2015 7:16:08 pm PDT #1198 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

Also, ND, that's so great. Keeping my fingers crossed for Macau.

Thanks! I'd really like to see the business expand to some international projects.

I can't believe I'm actually typing that and that this is really my business. Sometimes things are a little surreal.


beekaytee - Oct 10, 2015 7:02:31 pm PDT #1199 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

I felt that way with a contract I'm working on now. It's with a group of people I would NEVER have guessed I'd have access to...doing what I love/am good at...without having to pretend I'm something I'm not. AND getting good results.

There were _eras_ of my life, not just years it seems, where I would not have thought this possible.

I wish you even greater, more surreal success with your contract, ND!


Pix - Oct 20, 2015 7:45:30 pm PDT #1200 of 1416
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Dear Congress,

Did you seriously just pass a thing that means our employee leasing company can no longer offer health care for our employees...which means we now have to bring health care IN HOUSE in our company of five people?

You suck.


Jon B. - Oct 22, 2015 6:59:58 am PDT #1201 of 1416
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Did you seriously just pass a thing

I'm not familiar with this, but isn't it as likely to be signed into law as all the other anti-ACA bills that make it through the House? i.e. not bloody likely.


NoiseDesign - Oct 22, 2015 8:11:34 am PDT #1202 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

This is actually fallout relating to a supreme court decision from this summer that finally got put into the new ACA rules two weeks before the open enrollment period.


Pix - Oct 23, 2015 6:28:31 am PDT #1203 of 1416
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

So yeah, not congress but Supreme Court ruling. So a thing that already happened. We have an appointment with a lawyer to start figuring out incorporating and starting that process. We've also just started working with our insurance agent to bring health care and workers comp in house, and our office manager is starting to get us set up with a payroll company to handle the taxes and payment issues.