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"small business owners" can drink bleach

most of the ones i've worked for can, for sure

small business owners can hang out with coal miners at the blockbuster video.

i have less sympathy for "small business owners" after working for one who embezzled money from his employees

small business owners more like labor regulation wilfully ignoranters

They are the worst people in the world.

on the other hand my brother is literally a small business owner, though maybe we're not counting restaurants as "small businesses"

the dudes who own my local comic shop are "small business owners" but I don't think they have any other employees and they alternate getting high and running the store, so I give them a pass.

Our own jjusten is a small business owner, iirc. I think scott seward qualifies, too. they both seem better than the worst people in the world, but that's pure guesswork on my part.

There are definitely exceptions, but small businesses are where the vignette of exploitation plays out at its rankest and most vulgar. None of the corporate world's many layers of abstraction to fuzz the image--just a dickhead in a BMW 3-series bitching about having to pay his workers minimum wage.

while they're in earshot, probably

my mom is a small business owner, she's pretty nice

small business owners are often people who are too crazy or incompetent to work for other people. i like the crazy ones.

Hey, it's not all of them! But enough that there's a discernible "type", closely related to the legendary Large Adult Son.

Or the newspaper comments section "As a taxpayer"s

"cleaning up" cords is a fools errand born out of wanting something that can't happen. it will only make your life more difficult when you inevitably have to move things around. just plug things in to the most convenient, accessible place possible and be done with it.

let the cords hang and pile naturally and let go of your need for them to look tidy

Yeah every time I see one of them Brookstone "charging station" thingies I laugh a bitter laugh. How then do you charge the thing and use it at the same time, unless there's one next to every bed, chair, and couch?

We normally have at least four different cable types lying around. There are I think four iPads, two Kindles, an iPhone, and two Android phones (one mini-USB, the other USB-C). Along with various power banks, power tools of varying voltages, and car-dependent thingies. Plus RCA audio, component, 1/4", 1/8", XLR, and HDMI. It is spaghetti even at the best of times.

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Some terrible people are small business owners (I've met a few), but not all small business owners are terrible people. I kinda don't even understand that as a generalization. But I guess that's why god made this thread.

Cleaning up cords/most organizational things you have to buy is a waste of time and money. Just stop buying shit. period.

#notallsmallbusinessowners

wait cj is god?

There's a difference between "person who owns a small business" and "small business owner" in the Republican-stump-speech sense. The latter should all be rounded up and gassed. (Along with the politicians who fetishize them on the stump.)

yeah every freelancer is a small business unto him or herself

also some of us prefer the term "petite." fyi.

Shortarse will do for me tbh

Not all small business owners are enthusiastically exploitative capitalists, I think it's just as simple as that. But many are.

my mom is a small business owner, she makes clothing, costumes, etc. and the business is just her. she employees a few friends/relatives part-time to help with surging.

but yeah this doesn't seem to have anything to do w small businesses as they really exist, more just another spot to whine about GOP talking points

basically it's your small businesses that have a business model based on not being able to give their staff decent wages and conditions that can fuck off

this doesn't seem to have anything to do w small businesses as they really exist Seriously? I have heard the kinds of shit-heads I'm bitching about rant about the minimum wage many times. U really positing that this is some kind of straw man fiction?

the thing is that in general the small-business is lionized but in terms of workers welfare they're more likely, by virtue of their size, to be worse places to work than larger organizations in the following ways:

more likely to have lower wages, less likely to offer good benefits packages, less likely to be unionized, and less likely to have established procedures for dealing with workplace bullying and harassment (and in the U.S. at least small businesses are exempt from many labor code protections),

Also when small businesses are praised for being "job creators" it's key to remember they're also job killers.

Lots of restaurants (just to take one category) open, thrive, and close within the space of a year or two.

In one sense they created jobs, sure, but in another sense they destroyed as many as they created.

doesn’t necessarily make small business owners worse people. that is a failure of government

NB I’m sure there’s some survey showing SBOs are more likely to be republican or whatever in case fine

They are the wealth-makers, they are the dreamers of dreams

my controversial opinion that I actually believe is that if you’re going to defend small business owners from a #notall angle, you should be cool with people doing the same for white people, men, etc

I kind of like that people are notalling small business owners here. But it's also the part of my day (after lunch) I just give up all hope for humanity.

you should be cool with #notall anyway

I feel like I'm in crazy town, population y'all. Uh, go Big Corporate, I guess?

#notalllasagnas

#notallnaps

Like, when you're talking about the abuses and infractions shitty small business owners get away with, I think you're just referring to shitty business owners period.

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#notallpetitbourgeoise

... are Nazis but...

if you’re going to defend small business owners from a #notall angle, you should be cool with people doing the same for white people, men, etc

that is fine. i am sick of #notall being used to shut down discussion. if nuance is a bad thing and we should only aspire to generalizations then communication is only going to break down further and further into meaninglessness.

i'm all for it

breaking down into meaninglessness

♫ no more sleepy dreaming ♫

the reaction to #notallmen isn't about literally it being all men

I know what you're saying, but in practice it is close. don't @ me