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Phentex

(16,610 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 10:59 AM Feb 2012

What the main issue your business is facing today? [View all]

I just survived tax prep relatively unscathed. I was so annoyed looking at what we paid in merchant service fees before I switched to Costco processing. Damn, that was a lot of money.

But the most serious issue we have now is finding good, stable employees. And before anyone pipes up about pay and benefits, let me say that hasn't made much of a difference so far. We seem to have hired people with lots of family/home life drama and there's no way to know about this before we hire.

What's going on with your business?


Edited to add: We are also up for lease renewal and looking at other spaces. Moving won't be fun but we have not had a good experience with our landlord. Just two days ago someone walked in with information about a nice space that I would love to grab but the numbers have to be favorable and we won't talk about that until we look at it.

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Declining Demand For The Services Offered cantbeserious Feb 2012 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author jimlup Feb 2012 #2
Marketing and Creating demand lumberjack_jeff Feb 2012 #3
Demand drives the economy. Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2012 #4
thugs socratesone Feb 2012 #5
You poor thing. Phentex Feb 2012 #6
finding, training and retraining salin Feb 2012 #7
The same as you and Salin - staffing & training tosh Mar 2012 #8
I feel things have turned around the last four months Broderick Mar 2012 #9
Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team) baracuda Mar 2012 #10
Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team) ppiclaims49 Sep 2012 #11
Trustworthy Employees trishnikolic Sep 2012 #12
Issues that business is facing today... GMR Transcription Oct 2012 #13
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