Tea Bagger Entrepeneurs

    Well, once a couple morehard working Americans have discovered the phenomenon I now call "the Tea Bagger Entrepeneur." This creature of the current generation constantly preens itself as a model of American economic values, the paragon of the American Dream, and the creator of wonderful jobs that make America strong. Somehow this new breed of "entrepeneur" has become a mutant of the real thing though. The new boss somehow believes he/she is entitled to success, deserving of every penny that can be squeezed out of a business, and is inherently superior to the drones they hire as employees. For them being the boss means sitting in an air-conditioned office while the workers are out flexing muscle and sweating, vacationing at every opportunity and passing on the rigors of running the business onto the very people they despise as drones, and acting miserly towards the very employees whose hard work and loyalty have made their business even sustainable. Let me give two examples of the new and foolhardy "entrepeneur' class of whiny, self-absorbed, do-nothing, entitlement grabbing dumbasses who pass as business owners today...

    A young man I know works for a contractor doing installations. The contractor in turn contracts with the BIG COMPANY for his work. In many ways the contractor is a bright and motivated boss, but he just can't get over the folly of bossism. He really believes that because he pays people to work that he has the right to treat them as drones, make them work for free to make his life into what he feels he is entitled to, and steal back the hard earned wages of the employees through deceit just because he is the boss.

    Specifics? Well, the BIG COMPANY pays bonuses if certain installation goals are met. The Big Company pays extra if the equipment is connected to phone lines.By having their equipment connected to a land line they can sell more services. It's been done this way for years. The problem is that in the last few years fewer households have land lines and the contractors have a hard time meeting the percentages they met just five years ago. Thus they do not earn the bonuses they feel entitled to. SO they screw the employees.

   Instead of giving employees bonuses for attaching the equipment to land lines the boss nukes employees who don't hit the percentages. For him it is an extra bonus, but for his crews the goal is a big knock to their pay checks. (It gets worse.) The boss pays installers 40 dollars a point for the installs, but if they don't get the bonus numbers he charges them $60 back, which is the amount he loses in bonuses. The man cannot seem to understand that it is unfair to pay someone $40 for hitting the gaol, but charge back $60 if the impossible goal is not met.

   The boss also told the young man that he showed management potential, as a field supervisor for the bosses crews. (It's the old dodge of giving someone hope for a bullshit title instead of paying them for the work they do.) On a Saturday the boss expected the young man to spend four hours - unpaid - to help a fellow employee whose vehicle had broken down. The young man agreed, believing thatb the boss was going on vacation out of town and was not available. So the young man - who faced a ten hour day - spent his time helping out. When he returned to the shop he discovered the boss had b.s.ed him about going out of town. He'd pulled in the shop to grab something so he could then go boating with the familyfor the day!

    All this might seem triffling if it weren't a pattern. He spent four hours taking care of an emergency - unpaid - and found he was taking on the responsibility of the owner who instead chose to screw off with the family. Then the  young man got his pay check amounting to HALF what he deserved due to a process of greedy and well thought out chargebacks. All of this might have been bearable, until the snarky business of displayed disrespect reared its ugly head.

   The young man had always done a good job. He had no problem helping out a fellow employee before setting out on his own ten to twelve hour work day. A previous customer called in and requested an install at a new residence and asked for the young man because he'd done such a fine job previuously. The young man tried to get someone else to do one of his installs because he then faced a sixteen hour day. Even worse he would get charged back if he took the new install because he would not be able to meet the "on time" demands of the BIG COMPANY and his boss. He would be penalized for doing a good job, Bringing back repeat business, and MAKING THE BIG COMPANY and his BOSS MORE MONEY after what would be a twenty hour day!

   The last straw was that the trolls at the BIG COMPANY were laughing at his predicament and insulting him and the youing man could not reach his boss who was outing thundering the big boat he was entitled to on a day when he demanded every other employee MUST WORK OR GET FIRED!

    If you can't see the problem with the above then you must also be a Tea Bagger. If you cannot see how screwed up the business model is then you would probably agree with the Tea Bagger boss who is constantly droning on that Americans are lazy and don't want to work for a living; that is all except he who boated while everyone was expected to work, who casually fobbed off his responsibility to a good employee who he tempted with trite promises, who he expected to spend a half work day FOR FREE toiling while he partied, and who he would eagerly screw over with chargebacks instead of giving him a bonus for doing a good job!

   I'm the boss. I desrve to sit in an air conditioned office and watch you work. If I don't pay you as promised then YOU are lazy! If I treat you with disrespect then YOU have a problem. I have my boat and my family to worry about, but you are not entitled to such concerns! Only I am entitled, because I am the boss and you are less than me.... And damned those lazy employees. I gotta spend so much money training new people because no one wants to work for a living!

    Case two: Another friend works for a "contractor". The woman's husband - who started the business - died a few years ago. He was a hard worker and made a good living at it. She then married a fat and lazy drooler who relishes the idea of being the boss. My friend discovered he was hired because the company needed a "supervisor" with certifications necessary to do the jobs legally. Well, our weather has been really damp lately. My friend found himself working as much as eighty hour weeks for very low wages. The business though made lots off of each contract because they could bid high due to the scarcity of available contractors. Only because my friend had the necessary certification though could the business operate.

    Well wifey and her slob spouse turned out to be perfect tea bagger entrepeneurs. When my friend worked an eighty hour week and finally went home at 1am on a Sunday night they pissed and moaned when he asked for a late morning on Monday to get some much needed sleep. When he felt he had proven himself and asked for a raise they literally sneered at him. Not once did they visit a job site or directed the crews on what needed done. Instead they had my friend show up - unpaid - to make sure the jobs got done correctly. Besides they needed a CERTIFIED person to visit each work site! What did the tea bagger entrepeneurs do? They sat in their air-conditioned office, too good to deal with the filth and rot they were hired to fix. The slob wasn't capable of getting off his ass and working, much less earning a certification his business needed. Finally, after constantly being screwed on his pay checks, sneering attitudes of husband and wife who constantly complained about "gumment regalashuns" and how the country is going to hell because of lazy people, and an inability of self-absorbed people who felt superior and entitled to making money while others worked he had enough.

   Now the company is without their only certified tech and can't seem to find another. BUT it's every one else's fault: The tyrannical gumment that insists on certification, lazy employees who don't want to work for a living, yadda yadda yadda...

   Both men - both good employees - moved on. Both would have made their employers MUCHO DINERO. Both though were unlucky enough to find themselves working for tea bagger employers, employers who believed they were ENTITLED just because they were the bosses. When will these tea bagger entrepeneurs realize some basic business principles? Is it impossible in this new age where propaganda has glorified the so-called "entrepeneur" who now expects instant success and tons of money without effort? Is it impossible that they realize that being the boss means that they are more responsible than those they employ for their own success, that employees cannot be treated like shit and still be expected to work HARDER than the person who employs them? Is America doomed to the mediocrity of wannabe entrepeneurs who are the own greatest liability? Where has the old spirit of American Capitalism gone?

    Well, it seems par for the course now. Everyone knows that Americans are lazy and don't wanna work.