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Never work for family owned companies.
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Working for a medium to small, to very small business means that, quite the opposite will be true. Things are going to be very personal, even when it's "Just business." And how can they not be? When things are literally being run by a single person or a single person and their immediate family members, and it's just you and them dealing with any problems that might pop up, things get very personal very quickly.
Working for small businesses with owners who are also amazing managers and leaders is the dream. But the reality is that a great many people running small businesses give in to the intense stress of doing so and become ruthless about the company's bottom line, even when the company grows to hire employees.
This young worker described how he took a seasonal landscaping job and enjoyed the work, being outside, and his coworkers, too. The manager, the daughter of the owner, was really great too. It had all the makings of an incredible job for a young person trying to make some money.
Things took a weird turn when he started receiving emails from the owner of the company, his manager's mother, whom he had never met. She was throwing about wild accusations about how he was spending too long on properties and not doing a good enough job. Where she had gotten this information was entirely unclear.
Unfortunately, when he addressed it with his manager (again, the boss's daughter), she took her mother's side and added salt to the wound by adding that younger generations were too sensitive.
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