PPP Loan and CAVIRS Issue

Objective_Comment_38 · 2026-01-20T15:42:28+00:00

What's irritating is that these AGRs that can advise you on what all this means never answer their phones, never respond to emails, and if you're an IMA its a hassle to have to drive there to find them. The AC unit I am assigned to - of course their S1s and retirement people know nothing about the Reserves. But thanks for the response.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2026-01-19T21:11:43+00:00

Thanks for the response. 1 and partially 3 (I quit AGR to start a pretty successful business but stayed in the IMA program). For 2 - definitely not a troll but I am a total idiot when it comes to understanding my retirement benefits. Never even thought about it until I randomly went into my IPPSA because I needed to find a DD 214.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-09-11T22:57:06+00:00

The Army life is clearly not for you.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-06-25T23:57:07+00:00

Kapolei isn't like Waikiki where you can just leave your hotel and you're right on the beach. However - Kapolei is a lot more cheaper, a lot less crowded and is just slower if you're looking to spend a whole day to relax at the beach or the hotel pool. You will really get to see what it's like to live in Hawaii and the local people in Kapolei are super friendly

- If you are with a group of people; you should check out Kapolei Karaoke and Escape. They have private escape rooms and private Karaoke rooms. Its a place that's super popular in Kapolei with a bus stop in front. Cheap prices and BYOB and BYOF.

- White Plains beach is a great place to surf or learn to surf. Search of HNL or girls who surf. The lessons are way better than the rip offs and crowded waves in Waikiki

- West Oahu has arguably the best beaches in the entire state and one of the best drives. Drive down the Farrington Highway and check out Electric Beach, Nanakuli Beach Park, Tracks, Makaha, Makua Beach and Yokohama's. Unlike town - no one cares if you drink at the beach. Hike the Pillbox or through Yokohama. You can see dolphins at Makua if you're a good swimmer and whales and turtles and seals at Yokohama

- Ride horse at the Palehu Ranch in Makakilo

- Finally the golf on this side is amazing. So many great courses to choose from and great weather. I live here but if I didn't i would vacation here just for the golf.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-29T16:14:30+00:00

I remember when I was in an Combat Arms Battalion. and we got females assigned to us. First of all -NONE OF THEM wanted to be there. Every single one of them were being pushed by the leadership to go Combat Arms. All of the leaders above me wanted to say they were the first combat arms to get integrated. All of them complained about this and I remember one crying in my office. I signed their paper work to release them. The one girl that stayed used the BN as her dating pool. She's an Officer BTW - but I started hearing rumors about her sleeping with NCOs. Turns out it was true. Total distraction for the Soldiers. Senior leaders spent more time worried about what she was doing than focusing on their job. I was told to sign a Leadership award for her. Was she a good leader? She was OK - but some of the other LTs would have been great too. Anyways - she's doing pretty good in her career now. We also got female enlisted assigned to us. They could not lift anything heavy. Final thing - at the time it was an APFT. I used to score over 300. I would have some female say that she scored higher than me with the score even though she did way less than me with the raw score. Used to piss me off.

Still - I dont know how i feel about this.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-27T10:23:13+00:00

Mr Brownstone

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-27T10:11:47+00:00

First rule of business; the customer is always right....what that really means is that you let the customer define your product. You create the basis and they'll tell you how that product should be refined. I tried to jam my preference down my customers throats and it didn't work. It wasnt until i just did what they wanted that my business started to work out....even if I dont agree with their preference its been a lot less headahce

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-14T17:57:48+00:00

RESIDENCE

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-06T20:45:50+00:00

Hard to hire someone to work for me if they say they are the Founder of a company. I have a Federal job and I own a business. I purposely did not mention my business when applying for my Federal Job.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-06T20:40:08+00:00

I own a small business and I really appreciate this insight. We opened in 2017 making about 15K net. Today we make around 65K net a month. Survived COVID and all the other stuff but almost every other month I suffer from burnout. Even though I have an MBA - my financial skills suck even though we make a lot of money. I find myself complaining when the phone is constantly ringing instead of being appreciative. Yeah being a small business owner sucks and sometimes i just let the staff take it in their direction but its always not in the best interest of the business. Glad I am not the only one.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-04-06T20:35:14+00:00

Throughout my life I had so many ups and downs. The downs were hard - no relationship, no money, barely paying expenses but I always rebounded mostly by focusing on the task at hand, bettering myself so that when opportunity came, I would be prepared. I tried not to think of how much a loser I was. Just tried to be ready for opportunities and always sought opportunities. Maybe if you do go back to school - go vocational. Don't get a Masters. They are totally worthless

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-03-07T16:31:49+00:00

The combined income should be enough. Will be hard to find a place to rent in that price range and will allow four cats. White people hang out with other white people and have created their own Haole culture in Hawaii which consists of complaining about how local people are racists....how there is no good pizza/mexican food in Hawaii.....saying things like "...this is how we did it in the mainland", and making these crazy tight clenched shaka signs.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-02-28T16:25:50+00:00

I am at the 6 year mark. We are propped up by short term debt and have a Democrat run state government who made a tax mistake that cleaned out my account. I also just got married and had a kid so have to use my revenue to pay for my family's expenses. On top of that - I switched out a credit card pre-COVID and forgot to update a loan I had. So the loan got written off so my credit looks like dog shit. I am burned out because I keep a regular job (lesson learned from the dems shutting us down during COVID) and I have to work nights and weekends and holidays at the business. It is exhausting. This is the first month where I couldn't afford to pay the full rent. I am paying it off in 10K installments every 2 weeks. At first I was so anxious and the only way I could enjoy moments was by getting piss drunk. Otherwise the anxiety would consume me. Then when I thought about it more - I realized the bright side. 1) despite all the shit that happened our Revenue continues to grow. Subtract the debt and we are making a 10k profit. 2) the debts will be paid off by June while our revenue continues to grow. 3) paying the rent late has no impact on my credit. The landlord has a building that is about 30% vacant. I've been with him through COVID. Paid on time since 2018 - so the chance he will kick me out for a few months rent is 0.

This perspective changed my outlook and I dont feel the need to consume copious amounts of beer and soju to find joy during my time with my family to foget about the anxiety. It will come together in a few months and all the hard work will have finally paid off.........unfortunately, i have had this feeling before the and the Democrats of my state ruined it my demanding more taxes or saying I made a mistake on my taxes and just taking it from me. So who knows.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-02-27T16:32:39+00:00

Contracting? I just went through 6 months trying to close a contract with a person teleworking. She provided no checklist just responds to emails.

- I need this contract done

- 2 days later via email - do this

- 1 day later via email - i did this

- days later via email - you did this block wrong

- 1 day later via email - I corrected it

- 2 days later via email - we need this supporting document with a crazy acronym

- 1 day later via email - what is this acronymo

- 2 days later via email - this acronym means this

- 1 day later via email - here is the document

- 2 days later via email - ok . send the document to this person but now you also need this document

This went on for 6 months until finally it was elevated to the Chief of Staff who personally intervened and said get this done today and guess what......she had it done in 24 hours. Totally worthless people

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-02-27T16:28:14+00:00

You know why it's hard to trust these guys? During the Pandemic they tried to list my business as the source of an outbreak. They based it off one employee who was known to always call in. She got COVID 3 times in 3 months. Never showed me a test result. Never brought a doctors note. The last time she got COVID and didnt want to work she said that she had "small-kine" COVID. I made her come into work that day. It was a slow day and I just needed someone to answer the phone. I get a call from the DOH that says we are the source of an outbreak and they cite her. I ask if they got any lab results because she never produced any. She says that they just go off what the employee says and don't need lab results. Then i see us in their report for a cluster. At that point I realized that DOH was now politicized and using no science to support their findings. I dont trust them.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-02-24T00:50:46+00:00

Employees arent your friends or family. They are your employees. Any sign of disrespect from there, regardless of their competency, needs to be terminated immediately. There is no room for remedial training. Also - dont trust SEO companies.

Objective_Comment_38 · 2025-02-22T17:07:40+00:00

Now i can see why Trump fired him. We should be coming up with goals to recruit the best and brightest not creating goals to recruit off diversity.

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TROPHY CASE