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Originally Posted by Radar
Thanks for your support. I do like working at smaller companies because I feel more important, but not too small. I don't like feeling like my job may disappear because they might go out of business.
They do something like 200 million gross annually right now and have 200-300 employees.
The layout is basically 3 warehouses on the same street but a block or two away from each other. Maybe I'll get a golf cart.  They design the clothes and have them made in China or Vietnam and brought in. One warehouse is for receiving & QC, one is for shipping, and the last one is for overstock for small retail outlets. They all need to be connected. They have Win2k3 with AD, XP workstations, Linux servers with Oracle, etc. Less than a dozen servers.
I could do this job in my sleep. I can't wait to meet these guys tomorrow.
Oh, another cool thing is they are very casual. I showed up in a suit and they were wearing jeans and a t-shirt, which is how I like to work. 
The recruiter told me the range on this job is 90k-100k/year. If I get medical/dental/vision, paid training for new technology, and a matching 401k or profit sharing, I'll be set.
In L.A. that's not really big money, but it's enough to get by. If I could make that money and live in Pennsylvania like most of you, I'd be rolling in the dough, but out here you can't get a cockroach infested craphole with 3 bedrooms in the ghetto for 300k.
I think they need a lot of work done to get them where they want to be. The company is growing quickly so they need some fires put out and some re-design, standardization, and automation to allow for smoother growth. Once I get it all done, this job will be gravy. |
That's funny because my boss is trying to lay may off as we speak, because I'm her only employee and she's running out of money because the market is crashing (locally). In fact the business is so small that I can talk her out of it.
Awesome. Hopefully...lets cross some fingers here.....
Since I've been doing her graphics, I've turned into being just the marketing guru...All I had to do was remind her that I was hired as her
assistant for
everything. I had to remind her of everything that has been on the back-burner for months while I've been pumping out her artwork.
She's trying to get rid of me when this last project is done......yep...such a tiny outfit that I can talk her out of it, and I fully intend to, until I have enough money saved to even survive a job loss. Hopefully she goes for it. I'm trying to tell her the market dive is temporary.....if she likes the marketing so much (which it seems she does) I'll also be talking her into another project.....crap. I really am hanging on here by a thread...and all I can do is try to act as if I'm really a necessary expense when I'm probably not...uuuugh. This sucks. I knew it was coming...now all I can do is talk her back into my job. Even if I do...it will continually be in question. But working for one person and being the only employee helps....because you always know exactly where you stand and might get to sway some decisions.
yea...I'm just trying to stay positive even though I know my life really might be really sucky soon.
Either way....she's going to be a kick ass occupational referral contact.