Misadventures In Small Business: Recent Episodes
Erin Clark
It's nice to have coworkers that know how to phrase things concisely and accurately! Funny story from 2003 involving a flesh-fencer from Bank of America and my coworker's reaction...
A tragedy occurred at a company Christmas party back in December 2001; here are the ugly details!
Sometimes verbal communication needs to be loud, profane, and menacing for the listener to decide to obey simple commands. Funny story from fall 2014...
Side jobs used to be really hard to find, so don't judge; be thankful for the internet and smart phones! True Misadventure from 1992, I'm sad to confess.
Sometimes you just need to honor a dare, even if you don't completely understand what it is! From 1998.
Some guys are lazy, have no perspective, or are just hygienically nasty! Here are a couple mini-stories from 1995...
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Going back to about 1994 for a story about a swish and an older woman being creeped out by his flaming-ness.
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Just in time for Christmas; a story about someone who alternated between being mean, miserly Scrooge and generous, repentant Scrooge during all the years I knew him. Fortunately friends and family only knew him as the good Patriarch.
Sometimes useful things are left behind at vacant properties. Some of these come in handy on the site (razor wire) and some get taken home for personal use (80 pounds of frozen chicken).
Have you ever "locked swords" with a grabby employee? I don't even recall whether this was 2012, 2013, or 2014 as I needed therapy afterwards!
Interacting with people from different backgrounds is enlightening, educational, and most importantly - funny as hell! Flashback to 1990 with a MUCH younger version of myself...
Someone might leave something behind on your client's property. The polite, civilized thing to do is return it to them...
Oh yeah, I didn't customize the display photo for this episode; you're welcome!
This is for real; be careful what you use on hard surfaces or your hands!
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200817/toxic-methanol-in-hand-sanitizers-poisonings-continue
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/toxic-methanol-that-causes-blindness-found-in-hand-sanitizers-fda-warns/
This is your brain on drugs! How do you check a property 3 times one night and miss the smashed in front door?!? A Misadventure from 2013...
A cold night, a junkie, and a vacant building converge for a humorous Misadventure from January 2016...
So this Misadventure details a patrol driver having "an accident" while driving and then not telling his boss (me) that the driver's seat was not a good place to sit. We will travel back to Fall 2013 for this Misadventure...
Sometimes people bring their problems to work, what makes it far worse is when they work on a client's property and this happens. Today's episode is a Misadventure from 2011...
Some headaches are universal no matter how large or small the business. Others are unique to either large or small business. Today's Misadventure is not something typically seen in small business, but is still worth sharing. Let's travel back to 2017 AND early 2018...
I'm sure that for every bad tenant there's a bad landlord somewhere, but today's story is about a very bad commercial tenant. This is a true story from 2014...
Small business owners and managers spend a lot of time apologizing for and literally cleaning up after bad employees! This is a true story from 2011...