To the assholes that wont stop emailing me with made up bullshit stop wasting my time. I put an ad up on a local site looking for gardening equipment so me and brother can start a lawn business. We got no money and lots of people have garden sheds full of shit they dont use so we thought it a good idea. FUCK NO!! Some asshole says come by and pick up a wheelbarrow and some shovels. we get to the house and this woman freaks out thinking where robbing her or looking tosteal shit and says she calling the cops. were starting a fucking business. Like really who the fuck does that but karma’s coming big time your way if we don’t find your bitch ass first. After we sorted it out because my bro had his phone to show the woman’s husband we were for real. We leave and check another email. This one says you cheap fucks go to crappy tire and hes got 65 cents of there money we can have. Fuck you we ain’t got the money and are trying real hard to make it. If we had money we’d have our own place and won’t be starting a business. We went to the bank and this asshole in a suit dummy says we cant even get an appointment because we don’t have any account. How the fuck does a company start then? we want to open a bank account and get a small loan but they won’t even talk us. No one sends a real email but then another asshole says hes got a couple bags of fertiliser we can have, shove that shit in your bitch face. Man fuck you all karma gonna fuck you over someday soon. Maybe sombody on here may have some extra stuff we can have we even offered in the ad to do some work for the tools and shit. but everyone’s to busy acting better. We aint bums downtown we wanna work for a pay but can’t get nowhere. —Wasn’t Born With A Silver Spoon
This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2013.
Weren’t born with a grasp of literacy either, were you, homes? Maybe you should work on that G.E.D. before trying to give Trump a run for his money. Get grammar or die trying. …and, no, I ain’t dissin’ yo MeeMaw there.
this bitch smells like fertilizer
PG yep. Who the fuck goes into anyone’s shed without permission. Even if this was legit, one would think one would knock on the door and say “I’m so and so and we’re here to get the gardening equipment”. Only an idiot goes into things that don’t belong to them. BTW if you have to get old, free, used equipment, maybe you’re not ready to start to go into business.
A snow shoveling business may be a better idea this time of year. With that said, I have no spare shovels.
Forget the banks – been there, done that, with capital and a professional business plan and existing revenues – they won’t even look at you unless you can do 30-40 percent down on a first time business loan.
I’d start with the Canada Youth Business Foundation Atlantic Office – they can probabally suggest alternative methods of funding. Otherwise, work for a few months (i.e. Feb, March, April) at a crappy job, save up a couple hundred, buy a few USED lawnmowers (I sold one recently, gas powerred a year old for a hundred bucks) and some other basic equipment and spend the first year investing in your business. FEW businesses will turn a profit in year one – pay your bills and invest the rest in the business – find a winter activity that the business can do so you arent going months without sales (salting, shovelling, etc.) and that wil sustain you for next winter and then in the spring go hard core and turn a profit in year two.
Also – make sure you take photos of all the work you do so you can show prospective clients – yard workers are a dime a dozen and most of the ones I have used I wouldn’t invite back because had I known how half-assed they’d be I wouldn’t have hired them in the first place. So show off your GOOD work – and only do good work.
I could go on and on about planning and budgeting but I digress (I do consulting however if you’re interested – but I do charge – I am trying to start a business myself..) but the number one advice I can give you is lose that fucking attitude. If you ever spoke to a potential client with a fraction of the attitude you demonstrated above, you may as well skip the lawn mowers and head right for the welfare office. First lesson I learned in starting my business is that you have to deal with the bullshit of the public and even more so with potential clients. Putting up with a few old cranks is small price to pay for a life time client.
PS. You also need a business number and a an HST number if you’re planning on doing business over $30K a year.
You are attempting to start a buisness with donated equipment and loaned money from a bank you haven’t got an account with.
You claim you want to work and are not a bum.
You think people are entitled assholes for not helping you.
Essentially you are asking everyone else to supply you with the things you need to earn money for free. This is only a small step away from begging.
You are a bum, go work at an already existing company.
You are an entitled asshole for expecting others to just freely hand over what they have worked to obtain and are trying to justify it because you are broke. Why are you broke? Did someone rob you of your life’s savings or are you just unemployed and chasing enterprenual pipe dreams because you don’t like working for the man.
You sound like a dipshit. I agree people shouldn’t be wasting your time with fake responses to your ads but you shouldn’t be wasting your own time with this ridiculous buisness scheme either. McDonald’s is probably hiring. Good luck!
from the sound of the language used, your people skills need some work before this business venture gets off the ground
Kijiji
After reading yer bitch OB… you’ve got some real probelms.
The biggest are your attitude & your complete lack of knowledge !
You might want to try working for a lanscaping company first…just to clue you into a few aspects of yer chosen business.
Best of Luck, & I mean that …but you gatta remember this life don’t owe you nothin’ !
Painey is correct. Someone is “foolin” with us, methinks.
I smell another “creative writing” project.
You can smell “creative writing”? Let me be the first to say, you are wrong again Harper. My last submission was about Lions, sorry but keep sniffing.
Blooooooooooooooooooow and Suuuuuuuuuuucks, who else?
I started to take this bitch seriously but with the bad grammar and mention of ‘karma’ I soon gave up all hope and stopped reading.
“suit dummy”
Who else read that and had a ‘Trailer Park Boys’ flashback??
i am siding with the bitcher on this one.
1. i believe it’s legit
2. i wouldn’t expect prefect grammar, spelling from someone who is aspiring to a gardening job
3. the responses he is getting sound plausible
4. said responses are gratuitously cruel (which is totally believable)
5. i betcha the jerk who set him up told him to just go ahead and take the stuff in the shed because he wouldn’t be home (i have given stuff away and told the person to just pick up the stuff if i wasn’t at home, do it all the time) it’s believable and probably quite common if no money is changing hands.
6. i don’t see anything wrong with trying to minimize start up costs by asking for free stuff. (and he does say they would exchange work for the tools). it doesn’t compare to the idiots asking for free computers, big screen tvs and other luxury shit ‘and must deliver’ .
7. the episode with the bank just indicates ignorance of banking/loan procedures. no more. again, these guys are trying to start up a yard service, not engineer bridges.
8. who says they are not already employed at minimum wage and all that goes for rent and food and kids?
maybe the guys are trying to work weekends and nights, before work, in other words, work like entepreneurs instead of employees.
and good grief, if so-called university educated twits are tossing the word ‘karma’ around like popcorn at a kiddies matinee, who’s to cast the first tsk tsk?
best of luck guys! if i had stuff to spare i would answer your ad.
This is about as real as house hippos.
Not real, huh?
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Right there with ya Shamira
I’m just wondering why they didn’t get j-roc to gank some gear for ’em.
i like you op. Here are some suggestions.
1. Open a bank account with whatever bank you want to borrow from *i highly recommend credit union but whichever one suits you*
2. Make an appointment to sit down and talk about a business loan or personal loan.
Some tips for your interview
– have a business plan drawn up. A proposal. google how to write a good one. Lots of amazing suggestions online. Try to plan at least the next five years on paper. – you don’t have to predict the future but you want to create an ideal scenario and show how you plan to get there.
– Dress up for the interview. Suit isn’t necessary but looking well presented is. They’ll take you more seriously.
3. Look on kijiji for stuff going for cheap. If you’re able to borrow what you need to get started, go for it.
4. Hit the Y on Gottingen street. They have amazing resources there.
I know it’s not great. It’s not exhaustive but it might help you get started.
Good luck op. Fuck those assholes.
i wasn’t born with a silver spoon either OP. And it’s not easy, you’re right. But you clearly want to do this and have been making a serious effort. It’s hard to know where to get started. Nobody really has that stuff available. You’ve got to find it. It sucks but I think you’ll be fine 🙂 Don’t let assholes get you down.
Having a solid proposal is your biggest weapon right now. Everybody wants to invest in a good thing.
umm..I’d love to invest capital into your new venture..sounds like a sure bet…not 🙂
advice: get some contracts signed. Banks or other will loan money based on real sales.
This bitch is funny as HAIL! I can just picture it…
Lady: “Get out my damn shed ‘for I call the police!”
Dipshits: “But we startin a bidness ma’am”
Based on your own stupidity, no wonder a bank won’t help…