Awww. This is just the cutest thing ever and a great way to start my week! Joe Trousdale, owner of Pholicious in Houston, is tap dancing for me over there in Houston and letting me know how well he is doing!
So adorable. My 8-year-old does the same thing when she comes home with a good grade on a test. Running in here waving it around and seeking a pat on the head. “Look how good I did!”
Good for you, Joe!! Kick some ass! You might just be the next Ajinomoto of Houston!
From the photo, it looks like about 11 jobs you have created for non-whites there. Very impressive. Good thing you moved because I don’t think you could find that many workers here, to be honest. I don’t know the pay or the hours or the benefits, but I’m sure they are decent. I know you were advertising $15/hr not too long ago – Finley is paying our high-school lifeguards that wage too! That seems to be the new minimum wage. Labor is very hard to find, that is for sure.
I’ll be honest though, that room doesn’t look like it’s 10,000 square feet. I think the old AmVets building here would have sufficed!
I think Joe was sore because I wrote a piece about how amusing I found it that the LEDC and Pholicious had a nice little love-affair going but it turned sour overnight. These things happen. My problem is with the very existence of the LEDC – not a Regular Joe trying to build a small business.
I’ve never met Joe but it’s hard not to root for him. The guy is building something out of nothing, he loves his guns and seems like a rock-ribbed conservative. Plus we have a lot in common: my middle name is Joe, we’re both great-looking and neither one of us is a Muslim. So he’s got to be a pretty good guy.
He is the OPPOSITE of do-nothing, asswipe socialists:
Now, all that said, I think you may have an imposter using your name on Yelp! There is ANOTHER Pholicious in Houston, apparently. And they are tarnishing your good name. I know it can’t be you, because some of the shitty reviews are from 2018. I always thought Pholicious was a clever name but maybe a lot of people are already using it? Better get on that and find a lawyer to trademark that shit, pronto!!
But seriously dude, glad you are killing it. Owning a small business is a bitch. I know. Insurance guy fucks you. Landlord fucks you. Lazy employees on their phones all day can fuck you. FedEx shipping costs only go higher. Packaging costs going up all the time fucks you. Supply chain still sucks balls for a lot of stuff. Quality control sucks these days. Input costs rising fucks you. The City raising electric rates 16% fucks you. You gotta pay EVERYONE before you make a dime. Just when you start making some dough, you will have a major piece of machinery break and cost you $10,000 out of the blue. Those first few years, you make less than your employees most of the time, if you make anything at all.
And then when you DO make it big, douchebags like Joe Biden and Clayton Tucker, who have never worked a real job in their lives, stomp around and DEMAND that you pay your “fair share” in taxes and try to put you in the poor house.
I also feel bad you have to live in Houston, which has far too many traffic jams, floods and libshits for my taste – but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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PUBLIC SERVICE REMINDER: If you run a business, the smartest business move is firing every Democrat who works for you…and making sure you never hire one. That liberal white woman you’re about to hire, she’s actually an inoperable brain tumor. Don’t let her in.
Resumes with pronouns are automatically thrown in the garbage can around here. I don’t want the headaches