Feeling better, of course work isn't helping it any. Dressed accordingly for the climate in "my" office (which I have virtually no control over - it was 53 in there Friday & yes this is inside the dealership) Then yesterday the owner calls me to the conference room to give some input on a project and OMG it was at least 90 in there and he's sitting there in a sweatshirt and a fiberfill ski vest like he's sitting outside. I told him I'd stay for a few minutes but that's all because it's too hot in there and he gave me a look of complete disgust. I came so close to just handing him my keys and walking out.
I'm still paying for the time I spent in that room yesterday. I got too hot. IF we didn't have the expense of the new tax office hanging over us I'd tell them to find someone else. They'd find out real quick how much I cover for my assistant and just how much he doesn't know, doesn't do and how he has gotten by for 3 years just being a kiss ass to the owner.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. The tax office is my wifes, all I know about taxes is I pay too many. It's been a long time since I owned and operated my own business. I do love what I do and Angler's is a great company and I really do love the owners, I've worked there twice (97 - 02 & 11 - ?) As for my helper, the one he replaced began in 2010 and quit because his wife got a job with Aldi and quickly became manager which meant they had to move so she could take over her new store. The original agreement was new guy would take his place and after a time if he wasn't "getting it" then he would go back to the position he had before. Well as you can guess, once it was obvious he wasn't getting it and never will the owner has either forgotten what he said or just doesn't care since new guy kisses his butt.
He's a great guy, I do like him but Parts is not his calling. Parts requires memory and money skills, neither of which he has. Whatever the PC tells him to give for change is what he gives and then he blows up when his cash drawer comes up short. But me and the accountant have showed him how to make change so there's no doubt change is correct and we've both told him the PC is only as accurate as the amount you tell it you're being handed. IE a customer handed him a $50, he punched in $20 then had to get out a calculator to figure out he needed to give the man an additional $30. This process took nearly 5 minutes. He's good at jobs where you do the same thing day after day after day, that ain't parts, what we do today might happen again tomorrow, next week, next month maybe not again until next year. He takes notes to the point that he has so many he can't find the note he needs. One of the sales reps from a supplier of ours comes to help us with open house, therefore she really knows nothing about our system and yet she works circles around him. I could go on but you get the picture.

I did quit my former job with O'Reilly Auto Parts to come back to Angler's. O'Reillys is a good company to work for but as with ALL corporate America, their upper management is so out of touch with reality they won't even listen to the facts when they're being slapped in the face with them.

Well, off to work I go. Feeling pretty good today.

Afraid I'm the one footing the power bill on nearly all my machines except for the one at my sons house, moms house and my mother-in-law. Not allowed to crunch at work. Most of my machines are either 16 or 24 core. Also have a couple of 12s and a few 8 core. Only thing less than 8 is a quad core tablet I picked up for $40 just to crunch with and 2 dual core laptops I revived from junk. Used to have a couple dual core phones someone gave me but they finally gave up the ghost.

48 machines plus 13 virtual machines. I used to fix computers and give them to people (mostly kids) who couldn't afford one. Many of those would let me run the project on those machines. Nobody wants big desktops anymore. These entitled kids think someone is just supposed to hand them a laptop or tablet. I've got so much hardware just sitting collecting dust I stopped getting people to give me their old machines.
I enjoy watching my numbers grow. I've always gone at everything I do full force. You should see my teddy bear collection although I have gotten rid of 700 - 800 of them.

The largest part of my collection are Boyds Bears so yes they all have names. I wouldn't be afraid to say there are probably still 3000 here even after the weeding. At the peak of my collection/obsession I was about 150 away from having every bear Boyds made. Then I lost my extra income that was financing the collection and thus began the weeding. Most all of them came from various Boyds dealers except for some of the older rarer ones which I picked up from other collectors.
Teddies do talk to you, my new wife has even started bringing home some new friends which she met in a store in a nearby town.