Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I was fresh out of college. My first professional gig. The owners, all Republicans. They're a big reason I'm pro labor, liberal and Democrat. Companies renigging on promises they make to sales people. Taking big accounts that I landed and making them "house" accounts and not paying me my 15%. Assholes. That's okay they lead miserable lives. They got money but if you want to find the owner, it won't be at home with his family. He's at the strip club divorced. How sad huh? He's like Trump. Raw dogging whores.
Anyways, Pete and I never made more money that we did at this place. Pete got the city of Detroit to buy from him. That city is SHADY! To do business in the city you have to grease palms. Anyways, I don't want to ramble. I sold $600K a year. Making $90 in the 90's. I NEVER complained. Pete however made 3 times as much as I did and cried all the time about the taxes he had to pay. It's sad. It's sick. Someone who hits the lotto then complains about the taxes.
All city governments are SHADY. The worst corruption is all at the municipal level. That's because these people make so little money that they're easily corrupted. The first lawyer I ever worked for taught me that. He said you could always tell is a re-zoning application was "bought and paid for" because the City advertized it in the North York Mirror - a free paper put out monthly in
only the North York area of the city. Nobody reads the thing. It's a bird cage liner.
He said that the law requires the City to advertize these applications in a "newspaper having a general circulation in the area". Since the Mirror was delivered to every home in North York, it met the criteria, even if nobody read it. Nobody read it therefore nobody would object to the application.
Big money construction is the worst. Bribery and corruption at every level. Trump is telling the truth when he talks about all of the politicians he's bribed. Even builders I would otherwise consider honest businessmen, will reluctantly pay the bribes.