@ennafer Caterers, photographers, videographers, puppeteers, solo harpists, solo keyboard players, caricature artists, wedding event planners and a thousand other types of sole proprietors don’t fill out resumes.
Our businesses work very differently. It would be very difficult to explain this to someone who has not actually run this type of business, so I can appreciate that you might “think” that you can grasp the way these types of businesses work, but you don’t or you would not have responded as you did. Not saying that you aren’t sincere, just oblivious to the realities involved.
Your downvotes are surprising.
The build up is slow, work gets booked out into the future. It’s generally, speak to forty people and get one booking. Then contracts, insurance, customers that have changes, advertising, website design and on and on and on.
Then there are fixed and variable costs. When the Commonwealth withheld payment in which they have admitted in writing and via saved voice message was their error and would be paid to me. And, I allege violated State, Federal and Constitutional Law, there was zero income. Services that had grandfathered pricing had to be dropped. This damaged my business and subsequently damaged other businesses because I had to eliminate those bills. This will further trickle down to tailors, cleaners, my insurance broker, restaurants where I would have dined. Keep in mind, this is not just my business that they are losing, this scenario applies to hundreds of thousands of people. Do you know what that means? It means that YOU pay more money for everything! As you will soon realize.
Here is the part that you clearly need to understand if you are well intentioned and honestly attempting to give a reasonable response.
The successful people in these types of businesses do NOT contact customers and beg for work. That drives the price down to nothing.
Would most people hire the florist for their wedding if they came asking for work or would they hire the one who was almost impossible to get because they were the best? Trust me, the majority of people want to hire the best and sending a resume or contacting customers to ask for business is like begging someone to go on a date with you.
Now let’s add in something else. Contracts were postponed. Those people will flat out lose their deposits with zero recourse. Its not me screwing them, it’s L & I and I have made this clear to L & I.
Do you still feel that your answer is accurate?
Additionally, my post clearly asked a different question and that is, if the decision was made that we should all go out and work, shouldn’t the employees of L & I stop working remotely. I mean it’s safe now right? Is it safe for us, but not for them? I postulate that maybe they aren’t comfortable with the prospect of facing the people whose businesses and lives they just ruined.
