Wednesday, August 23, 2006

I QUIT!!

After 11 months of insanity I am leaving my current job this Friday. This is the shortest length of time that I've ever worked anywhere and it was filled with some of the most bizarre situations. It is a Japanese manufacturing company with controlling Americans at the helm, which makes for a bad combination. How controlling? Well here is a short list of rules or requirements - (No matter how weird they sound they are all real rules)
1. all cars in the parking lot must face the building
2. Your desk is to be completely clean every night before you leave
3. For the first year new people are encouraged to clean the bathrooms before work starts.
4. All emails are to be copied to your boss or your bosses's boss
5. All community items like staplers, or fax machines are to be outlined in green tape and labeled with their name.
6. If the President of the company visits you are to stand and sing the company song.
7. Meeting will regularly be conducted in Japanese and you are required to attend even though you don't speak Japanese.

Believe me, I wish I was kidding. Those are all real rules.
So now I'm going to be working for a friend of mine who has been extremely successful with his online business. He wrote a great book on Ebay and has a tremendous mailing list and following. (I'm among his followers) Plus he is an outstanding individual that I really respect. Here's his websites, maybe you've heard of them.
www.JimCockrum.com
www.SilentSalesMachine.com
www.PartTimePlan.com

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