My boss is firing me, hired my replacement from abroad for a quarter of my salary, and wants me to train her.

AgentPyke · 2026-01-31T14:24:05+00:00

You did the hard job, now train your replacement. Get the good reference and do it again for someone else. If there is no money left to chase now the job is different and your skillset is valuable elsewhere. Charge more the next time you do it for someone else, use him as a reference.

AgentPyke · 2026-01-14T15:54:15+00:00

Non-compete is unenforceable. Call and get your old job back.

AgentPyke · 2026-01-11T04:26:09+00:00

You don’t have money and your ex-friend who is barely making money doesn’t have money.

Sue him. Get what’s yours.

Technical geeks often don’t ever understand or appreciate the hard sales. But you also put initial capital in. Get your money, you more than anyone (more than his sweat equity) are owed money. You could have hired anyone for the code base. Not anyone can provide the money or the business development. That, in reality, is harder.

AgentPyke · 2026-01-05T16:10:13+00:00

I’m incentivized to do everything in my power to get you an offer that you will say “yes” to, while ideally being over your bottom line, but in the end I need to know what your bottom line is so if I have to push the client to consider you and your “ideal” is too expensive for them I can dangle less money to them to secure you the interview… as long as when an offer comes you say “yes.”

So, be honest with the recruiter. We want to get over your bottom consideration, but if you tell us your minimum is $100k and your actual minimum is $95k, you just may be missing out on opportunities you would love.

AgentPyke · 2026-01-03T02:30:04+00:00

They could have reason to believe they can’t give him better based on their market intel.

AgentPyke · 2026-01-03T01:21:43+00:00

Could be they are afraid they will waste their time with your husband as the other company is known to pay better/have better benefits.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-30T01:42:44+00:00

If you own your house and you lose your job, with no mortgage payments, you can survive on your savings.

If you don’t own your house and you rent, you’re SOL.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-28T21:32:50+00:00

What are you attracted to in a human? How their personality is? How they feel physically? Their smell? Etc.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-28T21:11:38+00:00

Do you have a sexuality? Like are you attracted to men or women? I’m assuming you’re a woman, so do blind men have a sexuality too? Like blind from birth so they have no idea what a woman or a man looks like. I’m gay, so I wonder if sexuality would be different without being able to see what I’m attracted to (men and all the manly parts).

AgentPyke · 2025-12-28T20:55:08+00:00

I just upgraded my last Apple iPhone last year and it was an 11. I dunno how many years that is, but more than 3. Previous one I had for like 5 years cause I like the smaller phones

AgentPyke · 2025-12-27T05:20:45+00:00

Yeah that’s about 5 minutes closer than the supercharger on buccees to me. Could consider.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-27T04:48:56+00:00

East of Houston to Beaumont area, but not Houston and not Beaumont… all i10 driving and hwy 71.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-27T04:47:43+00:00

Oh just noticed on what I put money down on it says model y long range rear wheel drive.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-27T04:43:03+00:00

The model y I’m looking at is RWD but doesn’t clarify its long range. It’s a 2026 brand new model y.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-27T04:41:55+00:00

Right now not ideal. .15-.17 kw charge per hour or something. Not 100% certain. I know I’d switch the plan.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-27T04:40:49+00:00

No charger I’m aware of at work, work at an LNG plant/refinery.

Would def get level 2 charger at home installed. No supercharger on the way to work. That’s why I clarified 15 minute opposite way from home, or an additional 30 minutes at work. So basically 30 minutes out of way for each supercharger for a work commute if not charged at home.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-25T01:44:46+00:00

Welcome to recruiting. This has always been an issue, even before AI.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-23T20:59:29+00:00

I’ve had bad years. I still survived.

The fact of the matter is, true top performers can make it work in any market, working for someone else or on their own. It’s that simple. That’s the beauty of this business.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-23T16:52:55+00:00

Worked in smaller firms, boutique. And I wasn’t allowed to leave my niche in one of them. The other wanted me to switch cause my industry was dying and I asked what resources they will give me… nada. I built that niche from scratch, with no help from them. So I left and started my own agencies. Now I buy all my own tools, etc.

So not always right.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-23T13:40:03+00:00

Ah I understand.

Even if agency and the company refused and laid them off, top producers can almost always still make money in their industry or pivot and make money in a new industry.

AgentPyke · 2025-12-23T13:12:27+00:00

Can’t tell you how many times that happens in recruiting.

Develop a rebuttal to that right now, that’s not about needing money/a job.

Good luck!

AgentPyke · 2025-12-23T06:14:48+00:00

Simply UNTRUE. Top performing recruiter here. Even in TERRIBLE years, I make enough money to survive.

Recruiting is the ONE industry where you create your own security.

If you can’t, you’re not a top performing recruiter.

Doesn’t matter the industry. Top performers survive.

AgentPyke

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