Comments on: The Corner of Cross and Damon http://www.marclamonthill.com/the-corner-of-cross-and-damon-34-5906 Welcome to the Barbershop Notebooks Blog!!! Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:11:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tanya http://www.marclamonthill.com/the-corner-of-cross-and-damon-34-5906/comment-page-1#comment-849206 Tanya Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:52:37 +0000 http://www.marclamonthill.com/mlhblog/?p=5906#comment-849206 Every where I turn I see signs of Soc. (so scary) Allow large corporations to fall and give more money to small businesses???? That is Com. in theory! Mat, you can't seriously think this is a good idea?!?! Every where I turn I see signs of Soc. (so scary)

Allow large corporations to fall and give more money to small businesses????

That is Com. in theory!

Mat, you can’t seriously think this is a good idea?!?!

]]> By: jordan http://www.marclamonthill.com/the-corner-of-cross-and-damon-34-5906/comment-page-1#comment-849174 jordan Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:38:15 +0000 http://www.marclamonthill.com/mlhblog/?p=5906#comment-849174 I worked in a locally owned coffee shop for several months, and it was a circle of hell. I'm not sure which one, maybe the fifth. The owner of the coffee shop likely represents everything mentioned here with regards to the local community: he was committed to being a "good neighborhood" and would likely never leave or abuse the people that support his business. However, he was a terrible boss, a complete jerk who abused his employees verbally. It was a minimum wage, horrible hours, abusive boss, bitchy customers sink hole. Watching the McCain campaign put Joe the Plumber on a pedastal convinces me that "small business" is code for "if you have enough capital to open your own business that's awesome, if you don't, screw you." I'm not against small businesses and I'm not for saving large corporations. But I'm not overly optomistic about the potential of small businesses from the prospective of labor. If there is a worry in the colaspe of large corporations, its the lose of the battles won by organized labor for reasonable hours, decent pay, and employer sponsored benefits like health care. To focus on small businesses would require a radical shift in the way we think about the responsibility of small businesses toward their employees. "Joe the Plumber" makes me think we are a country more fascinated by the prospect of small businesses to create independent wealth, rather than a country ready to think about small businesses in terms of the quality of jobs they create within the community. I worked in a locally owned coffee shop for several months, and it was a circle of hell. I’m not sure which one, maybe the fifth. The owner of the coffee shop likely represents everything mentioned here with regards to the local community: he was committed to being a “good neighborhood” and would likely never leave or abuse the people that support his business. However, he was a terrible boss, a complete jerk who abused his employees verbally. It was a minimum wage, horrible hours, abusive boss, bitchy customers sink hole. Watching the McCain campaign put Joe the Plumber on a pedastal convinces me that “small business” is code for “if you have enough capital to open your own business that’s awesome, if you don’t, screw you.”
I’m not against small businesses and I’m not for saving large corporations. But I’m not overly optomistic about the potential of small businesses from the prospective of labor. If there is a worry in the colaspe of large corporations, its the lose of the battles won by organized labor for reasonable hours, decent pay, and employer sponsored benefits like health care.
To focus on small businesses would require a radical shift in the way we think about the responsibility of small businesses toward their employees. “Joe the Plumber” makes me think we are a country more fascinated by the prospect of small businesses to create independent wealth, rather than a country ready to think about small businesses in terms of the quality of jobs they create within the community.

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