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Gotta tip my hat - Da Lobsta - J Wolf

posted 9 years ago by lambiepie-2
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Oh my goodness...this was something I am so glad to have seen because I work for a company just...like..this. A delusional millennial who has found a way to draw cash out of a business to live the faux high life (AMC, other movies, cars, etc. on the COMPANY books) rather than face the reality of you've got to pay taxes, bills, people...and his family who seems to have monetarily bailed him out time and time again...Marcus gives him a deal and doesn't blink an eye in walking away when J Wolf doesn't accept.

Marcus did right. Absolutely walk away from guys like this. A potentially good business, going down the drain...

It's a shame people are too lazy to read more than one line anymore.

[–] misterbfd 9 years ago

In the 1980's I worked for a guy who owned six computer stores. I managed one of the stores for him. His sons treated the computer stores like their own personal bank accounts. They would stop in at the store and go to the cash register and just take money out of the register and leave an IOU in the registers. Sometimes leaving us with insufficient cash to even run the day.

[–] lambiepie-2 9 years ago

His sons treated the computer stores like their own personal bank accounts. They would stop in at the store and go to the cash register and just take money out of the register and leave an IOU in the registers. Sometimes leaving us with insufficient cash to even run the day.

So sorry to read this, but I know how painfully true this is. A friend of mine worked for a company where the owner took the company payroll and gambled it. The staff had to KILL each other running to the bank to beat each other to cash their checks. Depending on how much was in the account that day determined whose check would cash.

Sad to see these 80s people had children and...the same practices are back.

It's a shame people are too lazy to read more than one line anymore.

[–] Moonlighty 9 years ago

That guy needed a good punch to the face.

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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

[–] duckyslattery 9 years ago

Unlike some people here, I changed the channel. But when I checked back I saw he was with a different business.

[–] StevenSmithNYC 9 years ago

You are exactly right!

The strangest part is, this guy couldn't run a simple kitchen. The staff doesn't even know who is in charge. How hard is it to explain the management structure.

Total idiot not to partner with Marcus. Because Marcus was going to put him on salary and make him work for the business instead of using it as a personal ATM machine. The gall to rob the business and not even pay back his family members who have been giving him money. The family and friends, hopefully after seeing this episode will have a group meeting with him and take over the business or get a court to assign someone to handle it. Because it is heading towards bankruptcy anyway.