LOL. Hilarious. Most people get their 9 - 5 start from somewhere including you. Since you're trashing the 9 - 5 segment you must also be trashing the people who put in longer hours too. Tell me, any of you Billionaires? Surely you all must be doing better than Jobs, Gates, Li, Watsa, Thompson, Buffet and Zuckerberg with a statement like that. What's that? None of you are billionaires or pretty close to B? None of you are on the rich list huh? None of you are known for great accomplishments outside your crappy retail store? Then surely you must have a great skill set that's of great importance to society like that of pediatric cardiovascular surgeon. No to that too eh. Then Shut The Fuck Up.
Most of my customers are 9-5 regular working folk, keeping a family and a house.... the "american dream" kind of folks. I will NEVER slight anyone for making a living at whatver they choose to do, where they choose to do it or why..... UNLESS they behave like you do calling us liars about our businesses and how we've chosen to make a living, and a damn good living at that. You've called us liars from day one about the wealth that we have been afforded by taking the risks we have taken. So you get back what you dish out! Want to have a respectful discussion, absolutely. Want to call me a millionaire wannabe liar, be prepared to hear something back!
To my knowledge there are no billionaires in the crew. We are retailers at the end of the day, we are not Canada's elite. we own businesses to serve local communities. I don't arrive to work in a limo, I mow my lawn, grocery shop and play beer league hockey with the guys.
As far as outside accomplishments, I think you'd be surprised what Canadian Tire and our Dealers do contribute and do accomplish. I'm confident if I were to list some of them here you'd just say we were making the donation for our own gain and "fame" - which is why i won't bother. We've been down that path before on here. we donate and participate for the purpose of allowing others to benefit who may not be as fortunate as we are.
We chose the career path to own businesses for many different reasons. Same as a cardiovascular surgeon did for his or her own reasons. I don't do science and biology, they don't do economics.... so the point you're trying to make seems rather lost on me. Have i saved a life? No. Would I want a dying or sick person to have me as their prime source of care....no lol There are trained professionals for that. I'm not one of them. However we have and do have ex lawyers and medical professionals who have changed paths and joined Canadian Tire dealers....just fYI.
Anyways the point being, we are retailers. So i haven't performed life saving anything. I have saved many flooded basements by providing sump pumps, many cold powerless winter nights with generators, plumbing fittings on a busted pipe... and then the fun stuff like a kid who gets his first pair of ice skates or the college kid putting their first dorm room together. I do my job to make those things happen, the truck driver does his job to bring those things to my store, the factory worker does his job to make those things...and the surgeon does his! We all make the world go round, not just doctors.
