Reply #52: Small business owners can often suck ass tremendously

[JVS]

When working for a small business, conditions often go unregulated which would be examined by the government in a larger business. Further, the impersonality of larger companies often shields employees from the unbridaled avarice of the owners. I've worked for a small business where conditions were so bad that one of my coworkers was gleeful when she got a job at Walmart. Some of the owner's behavior would be unthinkable at a less personalized business. He once went so far as to hint that he believed that some employees might be holding out money from him and that he saw some nice car-stereos in the employee's cars which were unprotected during our workshifts, so we should just think about that. There is a certain advantage to being just another number.