Re: Companys you may not want to subcontract

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
> "Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > By larger security companies not paying their subcontractors, I think it
> > is easy to see them all in a negative light, especially if that company is
> > the only large customer you have; you're tempted to see it as a one off
> > event. In that light only, those companies then seem to have the moral
> > compass of plague filled vermin, are are to be avoided.
>
> As a large entity where many things are compartmentalized for efficiency its
> clear that they do not have a moral compass except where dictated by law.
> Even then its quite often offset by what they can get away with or if they
> can shift accountability to others.  How many times have you heard, "I'm
> sorry.  I agree, but its company policy?" as an excuse for getting screwed
> from some middle management type or even from a scripted nobody.  The
> response should always be the same to those:
>
> "You work there and you know it.  That makes you just as guilty as the
> hidden evil bean counter who enacted that immoral policy.  You should quit."
>
> Only by magnitude is it any better than committing genocide because you are
> "following orders."
>
> > I see it differently. I think larger companies always manage their short
> > term cash flow issues on the backs of their smaller vendors, no matter
> > what the industry (except some governmental entity such as
>
> Yeah...  and to the small contractor its effectively the same thing.
>
> My policy works better for me.  Do good quality work.  Be honest with my
> customers.  Get paid well for it.  Have a progressive payment policy.
> Refuse any work for any customer who has any amount past due.  Do not
> subcontract for somebody you don't know personally, and then stick to your
> payment policies firmly.  And always, always, always, tell out of town
> companies that if they can't support their clients in my home town directly
> then they shouldn't do business here.  I am sure as hell not going to fix
> their problems for them and take my attention away from the customers who
> have supported me and my family for the last 18 years.  I may not get rich,
> but my bills get paid, and even if sometimes I struggle with that sometimes
> I don't ever feel slimy from what I had to do at work.
>
> To be honest contracting is such a sleazy unethical business, and big
> businesses are so universally amoral that I wish I could just withdraw...
>
> Fortunately I do have a fair number of customers who appreciate the way I do
> business.  Those are the ones who make it worth keeping the doors open
> instead of just swiping a used refrigerator box and moving down to the
> river.



OH, come on Bob. I know you could afford at least a "new" refrigerator box with probably even an "extension" stove box for sleeping quarters.

Doesn't sound too bad at that ..... with a river view and all!