Oh man. I would never want to go into business with my husband. I think that the business would be fine, but our relationship would be ruined. We think differently. That whole left and right brain thing. When given a problem, we want to tackle it our own ways (convinced that our own way is better than the other person's way). Of course we can understand the other person's point of view, but running a business is difficult and tempers would flare...
Case in point... today at my office. About half an hour after I came in my bosses became pretty unhappy with each other. I've blogged about both of them. The boss man is short-tempered and has no patience for what he sees as stupid questions (like Blake, except Blake doesn't get mean). My boss lady takes a little longer than he does to get some things, but she always tries her hardest and means well (like me). So what happens? They're 'discussing' in stressed tones if we can fit a load and unload job into next week. Problem is, there is a really large, expensive job already set for next week that my boss lady has blocked out 3 days for with most of the good crew guys. My boss man thinks she scheduled it all wrong and he's trying his best to say it nicely (because he knows I'm standing two feet away). And she says, "To be honest, I don't even know how many men we have working for us." Scary pause and then he says quietly, "How can you be in small business and not know how many employees you have? I'm going to get pissed off if you say things like that." And she was super quiet
Then he says to his wife, "Come on, let's take a walk and talk about this." And he says it quietly, but it's like something out of the Godfather. You know, "Come on, Tessio, let's for for a walk..." Then they came back and it was awkward silence until she left for an appointment.
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