Re: Interesting view on fee increase


"Gisele" <Gisele.1ubnzw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Gisele.1ubnzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> I'm not saying you belong to this particular group, but when you
>> totally
>> refuse to acknowledge that anything is ever out of a person's control,
>> it
>> takes me back to those days. Some things are out of an MTSO's or MT's,
>> or
>> anybody's control. Companies that people contract with go under and
>> leave
>> bills upaid, and nothing in the coffers to go after. Foreign
>> competitors
>> underbid to the point that even a loyal client feels they need to give
>> it a
>> try. People get sick. Stuff happens. There is luck involved in life,
>> regardless of how well or how poorly one prepares. Just as I couldn't
>> will
>> a patient to have a toothache back then, people can't just will their
>> companies to treat them properly. Can they do something about it? Sure.
>> In the meantime, have they been injured by the poor treatment?
>> Definitely.
>>
>> Sandi
>
> Sandi, this is not really important, but you are so far from
> understanding me! I have said many times that security is an illusion,
> being in business is a risk. I have made poor business decisions that
> did not work out. Know what? I scrapped whatever it was and I tried
> something else. My husband went through a devastating illness in the
> late 80s-early 90s. His career was gone overnight, we lost almost
> everything we had. He recovered, we got through it, we buckled down to
> work hard to try to replace some of what we had lost (we'll never get it
> all back now). We have had the greatest time together since that
> happened. I vowed at that time to not let fear of uncertaintly rule my
> life. Uncertainty is all around us. I have been lucky, but I've
> worked very hard, and I have not been afraid to try new things. These
> MTs who suddenly got theTAT cut, their work cut in half, I don't know
> how they can stand for that. I would have to go out and pound the
> payment and look for something better. If they stay doing what they've
> been doing, then I guess that mean old MTSO made the right choice.
>
> Life is hard, but is also a wonderful adventure to me. Sorry if that
> sounds like I'm bragging to say so.
>
> Gisele
>
No, that doesn't sound like bragging at all. That makes more sense to me.
It just seems that anytime someone wants to vent, or describe a situation
that really is beyond their control, it doens't necessarily help to have
someone say they must not have good business acumen or their skills might be
substandard. There may be a hundred reasons someone puts up with
substandard treatment, but that wouldn't necessarily make it right, or
diminish the person putting up with it.

Take me, for example. I'm very lucky to work primarily for a great MTSO
(waving) but I have also worked for some not-so-hot folks. But because I
have some strange restrictions placed on me that many others don't have, I
sometimes have had to take work that I would turn down if I was free for
more than 20 hours a week, could promise certain hours, etc. I don't think
that just because I continued to work for people for a period of time after
I determined they were boobs, I was disqualified from saying they were
boobs, or warning others to stay boob-free if they asked specifically about
the company.

You have obviously built a good business that works for you. Of course you
deserve credit for doing that, and have demonstrated good business sense by
doing so. However, that doesn't discount that there is also a certain
amount of good fortune involved. Once you were on the downswing. Now
you're on the upswing. Someone else might be in the opposite position right
now, fantastic MT with good business head or not.

Sandi


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