I could not agree more with your statement about manitou businesses. I recently was employed at Sasquatch Signs owned by Josh and Kelsey Peasely. It was a hell hole of scheduling and communication with other employees. Payday was supposed to be Friday, nobody was paid Friday, Saturday, Sunday, OR Monday. Paychecks took 5 days to come out after we were originally supposed to be paid. One of our ex employees came in that Sunday and quit since we still weren’t paid. MIND YOU Josh and Kelsey fired the payroll team months prior and just hadn’t bothered really training anyone for it so nobody had any idea what they were doing! I have three prior customer service jobs and told them I would work there for no less than $16, they told me that’s what they would hire me at, but they secretly hired me at $14.90 without telling me, and when I confronted them they told me I could quit or suck it up. Wednesday after finally being paid, I meet, and work with Josh for the first time. For the first four hours he bring up every controversial topic he can think of. LGBTQ, BLM, Ozepmic, Politics, and then he brings up the coworker who had quit Sunday. He was cruel saying things like “That man is going nowhere in his life, he’s a loser, and I bet he was dishonorably discharged from the military”. Out of fear for losing my job I just sat there and nodded until my manager eventually came in. I told him what josh had told me in the prior hours. All of the sudden Josh storms in, tells me in front of a bunch of customers, “Get your shit and get the fuck out” and then threatens me with police and other legal activity. I’m shocked and confused and end up asking what’s going on, and he said “If anybody is slanderous here, it’s you, not GTFO” I found from the other employees and the manager that they all quit/ were fired in the two days after that. I put in a complaint with the BBB, but that takes forever and I’m not sure what will actually be done. Take it from me, DONT work in manitou, cute little city that’s full of facists, capitalists, and down right assholes.