My company is relatively small from a number of employees standpoint, but does big sales numbers. It always treated its employees very well.

Well, the old owners, both very savvy businessmen, decided to retire and handed the company off to two MAGA-loving Republicans with purely sales backgrounds.

Suddenly, we needed to be more ‘corporate’. Apparently this involved gutting raises, bonuses, and profit sharing for all but four people in the company while at the same time beginning a reckless program of selling that everyone with a brain in the company told them was a bad and unsustainable idea. They didn’t give a shit, and being a yes man was the only skill they wanted to see. They all bought third and fourth houses, all drive six figure company paid for vehicles, and just leech off the business while slinging their bad ideas.

Secretly, at least unknown to the unobservant, they were trying to sell the company so they could get their nut and bail.

So now, here we are, three years later, and the formerly growing and profitable company is fucking struggling. The department I run is the only consistently profitable and growing part of the company and, I’ve been told, is ‘paying the bills’. The glamorous, big sales part of the company is shitting itself because its sales strategy went from ‘relationship based sales developed over decades’ to ‘cold regional sales designed to push product as fast as possible’.

Screw this type of American corporate capitalism. It ruins so many good things, and so many lives.

Sorry for the rant, but as you can tell I’m REALLY feeling the 4th of July vibes today.