Firing the Bad Feels so Good... Monday, February 25

Today was a busy day, ANOTHER busy day -- woke up at 7am and went to bed at 5am.

Fired someone and, I won’t lie, it felt good. 

Actually, he doesn’t actually work for me so I wasn’t in any position to fire him but I did anyways. He was hired by the person who owns our floor in the building; he’s an electrician. What’s up with all the electricians, seriously?! Anyways, his company is responsible for hooking up all the electrical wires and cleaning the place out so that our renovation team of painters, electricians (there they are again!!!), floor crew, plumbers, and ring crew can come in and work their magic. The other day he gave us this big song and dance about needing a sprinkler system, and not just a sprinkler system, a system that’d go throughout the entire building. The likeliness of this happening, getting all five separate building floor owners to install an expensive sprinkler system on their abandoned floor, is zero to none. And let me guess, he’d be the one the one to do the work, right?! Exactly. 

Turns out this was just a huge business scam but last week this was our Hiroshima. 

According to the Cheonan District Office and the fire and safety regulations, because our building is less than 11 floors, a sprinkler system is NOT required. 

So I fired him. 

I wasn’t rude about it but I did wave a random business card in front of his face and tell him, “We’re going with another company, one we trust”. To tell you the truth, there was no back up company in mind but he didn’t know. Neither did he know I had waved the back side of our vet’s card. All he knows is that he tried to play us and got burnt. 

Oh the joys of running your own business… firing someone. People either hurt you or help you, hold you up or pull you down, so ya it felt good firing someone that was trying to hurt us and pull us down.