Wow…
Nobody has ever actually hurt my feelings on the internet before, until now.
I’ll give you a little insight as to what’s going through my mind.
When WE started the shop, I was a big part of it. Before we could get anything organized the shop started filling up with cars. Cars I didnt own. Cars like your piece of shit S12 thats sat for two years and counting, taking up very very valueable space… Car’s like Jovers, thats been apart for over a year now and will probably never see a track again. Your Charger, Challenger, 300ZX, and Celica are all still at the shop as well. Fuck, not a bad deal eh. Thats like $1000/month worth of storage for two years and all you had to do was come by and get dirty a few nights a week. This is not to mention Dan’s fleet of paper weights, but at least his come and go every so often.
You may not realize it, but every bay in a shop is a potential $80/hr every day of the year, and since half the bays have had non running shit boxes that you, dan, jover, james, etc. own, thats a lot of lost revenue. We had TWO FREE hoists, and instead of installing them we scrapped them! How does that show me a desire to succeed? I wrote memos about being successful, growing, making money, getting along and keeping the shop clean. None of that ever really panned out.
I guess thats the difference, I quit school to be part of a business. When you come by the shop after work it must be hard to consider it work. When I find new customers and have to turn them away because theres no room due to the above stated point I get frustrated. I stop showing up, I go back to work at PI, hoping that when I return things will be clean, a car will be done and gone, but no. Never.
Our best paying customers have been people I found. I designed the logo and HAND MADE the stickers that are now on peoples cars and tool boxes all over the city. I entered us in shows and made a good name for the shop when in all reality I was, as Sasha stated, talking shit. Nobody ever gave me credit for the things I did with my marketing and public relation talent. You got us in Modified, you’ve done some nice work saving peoples asses when nobody could figure out how to wire correctly. I never ever said you werent a big contributor to the shop, but I know what it feels like to be taken for granted too.
Another fun point for everyone, MSSC was robbed blind last year. $20,000 of shit was taken I believe… Dan somehow found out who did it, and EVERYTHING was returned to us! Everything except a bunch of MY stuff. Im the only person who lost anything to that robbery and nobody gave a flying fuck. Im not going to be mad about that??
Back when you guys wanted to close the shop as a business and just make it a club, Sasha and I were totally against it. We had a vision and a desire to run a successful business. The difference is that Sasha left and has now accomplished that with SG but I didnt have the heart to abandon the crew. Well I’ve given it lots of time, and nothing has changed, it never will. So you know what dude you might not think I was on your ship to begin with, but it would be long sunk if I wasnt around to give it a face and a public presence. All I ever wanted was to sell, its what I enjoy and do well. If you think its some sort of travisty that Im going to do that with Sasha, a friend I’ve had since years before meeting you and Dan, then so be it.
Theres a lot more floating around in my brain but I’ll leave it at that. At least until people start responding and pulling me deeper into a fight I didnt start.