If you were in charge of your own business

[Bardmaiden]

Lets see, actually employing shop fitters to set your store up.
Giving the staff enough time to set the store up instead of expecting them to work 7 days a week, 10 hours a day until the store is ready.
Paying them a living wage instead of minimum wage.
Respecting the fact that some people are not able to what you are requiring of them.

All of the above my current employer doesn't believe in.

[Moirae]

I'm curious, how is $75,000 a year peanuts? Most people will never see that much money in a year.

[artcurmudgeon]

I am running into this right now.

In April, 2 guys I work with started our own tech company. So far we are not able to make it our main source of income but we are growing every month.

Our goals are simple.

1)everything is transparent in the company.
2)our goal is to make enough money so the owners make $50K a year with benefits.
3)after we have the owners working full time, our initial employees will be 1099 for a short time until they hit 90 days and they are hired with benefits. we already have a part timer who is 1099, he is averaging $15 per hour and is getting about 10 hours a week(he is a student living at home and we know his parents).
4)we have been paying expenses (gas and food) when people are out working.
5)owners and the part-timer are all getting a nice x-mas bonus at the end of the year.
6)We will not go into debt to do this, we are boot strapping every step of the way and keeping our day jobs until we can transition over to the business.

We will make money, treat employees with kindness and respect and our customers like gods....