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LokiDog said:
Well… good things don’t last in my world. Job was going pretty good until I started getting angry calls from all of my customers who were reporting higher credit card rates than we promised them or undisclosed installation fees of anywhere from $500-1500. Confronted the sales team lead about it, he didn’t have answers so I set up a meeting with the head of sales and basically she said we charge whatever we feel like based on the installation size and how much revenue the restaurant does; if they make $30k a month we charge $500 if they do $100k a month we charge $1500 even if it’s the same amount of labor. She also said the credit card rates we provide in our sales proposals are estimated and can’t be guaranteed. After saying some unfortunate choice words, it seems that I am going to be back on the job market here.

Anyone have/need anything remote like data entry? Even if just for a short time? I’m at wit’s end. I also really want to get out of sales. At least cold call sales. Anyone wanna mentor me into a different career field? I’ll work my ass off. I’ll wear multiple hats. I’ll answer phones, manage calendars, data entry, accounts receivable, whatever. I’m lost.
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Oh geez dude. Sorry to read this all. I really hope you find something fast.
 
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Since my billiards thread didn’t survive the Great HF Crash of 2025, I suppose I’ll post an update here.

I made the playoffs in my individual 9/10 ball league, in my first season. Making lots of progress. I finished the regular season at 8-5 ranked as a D. Hopefully they upload the matches to FargoRate after the playoffs end so I can finally get a rating.
 
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My son works for one of the 5 largest global shipping corporations in the world and can view all global freight traveling by ship or train. All I'm gonna say is that things are gonna get worse before they get better and anyone with $ in stocks is gonna lose.
 
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My son works for one of the 5 largest global shipping corporations in the world and can view all global freight traveling by ship or train. All I'm gonna say is that things are gonna get worse before they get better and anyone with $ in stocks is gonna lose.
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Yeah the main shipping ports in California have said their incoming shipments are down as much as 35%. We are playing with fire for no reason imo. We could have rolled out tariffs in a smarter more logical factual manner.
 
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Yeah the main shipping ports in California have said their incoming shipments are down as much as 35%. We are playing with fire for no reason imo. We could have rolled out tariffs in a smarter more logical factual manner.
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Fighting China is a correctly identified target IMO. The Q is how you do it and to what extent to maximize the actual outcome (which gotta be boosting the US production I guess)
 
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Fighting China is a correctly identified target IMO. The Q is how you do it and to what extent to maximize the actual outcome (which gotta be boosting the US production I guess)
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I agree but the method we did this roll out was really illogical.

We put out tariffs on almost every country in the world including some countries that have no tariffs on us and even some places that are not inhabited. Does it make sense to fight the whole world (7 billion people) at once?

The method we used to calculate these tariffs was a ridiculous joke.

Tariffs are a importer tax not a tax on the other country. We look dumb when we keep insisting the other country is paying them.

The USA has by far the largest GDP in the world. Why would we want to copy poorer countries? Free market capitalism has been great for the USA.

America first should not mean America alone. We prosper via trade. The most isolationist trade countries like North Korea are some of the poorest.

The tariffs we put on steel previously in many ways backfired on us.

145% tax on any goods is silly and unrealistic. Nobody is going to pay a $1.45 tax on a $1 good.

We have 350 million people. It is natural for us to have trade deficits with poorer smaller countries. Trade deficits are not always bad.

We should manufacture things that relate to our national security here in the USA. We need to make computer chips and drugs in the USA but the most efficient economies are the ones that thrive. We do not need to have millions of people sewing Nike's in the USA imo. Factories are not going to be built in the USA in 60 days so what happens in July?

Our goal should be free trade with as many countries as possible. Navarro is a radical that views trade as evil.

Yo-Yoing these tariffs up and down makes it very hard for USA companies to plan 30-90 days in advance.

Markets and GDP projections in decline are telling the story.

The dollar being down 5%-10% in a month is not great either.

We already raise $5 trillion in tax revenue a year. That is by far the most in the world. That is more than most countries entire GDP. The last thing we need is more taxes via tariffs.

Using tariffs to open up more freer trade makes sense but shooting ourselves in the foot because other countries do was not wise. We could have been much more logical when doing this.
 
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Unless someone has had parents in their 80s, it's hard to explain what's it's like. My 88 year old mom said to me recently "You want me to die". I know I shouldn't joke with an 88 year old but I couldn't help myself. I shrugged my shoulders and replied "Well, not right this second". 😂
 
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