Would you work for a new (small) LP?

torontoke

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If you understand how cross border parent companies operate and the grocery industry, you'd be much more incensed about the treatment of many thousands of Canadians and the theft of their pensions and greatly reduced wages.

I haven't advocated taking advantage of anyone at any time. Fabricating lies is quite unfortunate and speaks to your character.
Please do go on and tell me about my character
 

thelast1

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I'm still waiting for the lesson on "cross border parent companies" and those poor souls suffering in the "grocery industry". This is riveting!
The company in the tax favorable country charges the baby company higher than necessary and thus transfers money out of the country. It's very, very basic economics.

When safeway did this in Canada they went so far as to cause the Canadian outlets to "lose" money, intentionally bankrupting them. By doing so the pension money went to the creditors (foreign parent company), and they made the wage cuts claiming insolvency. Can't pay staff with money they don't have right? Right!

It's just basic tax avoidance schemes that were brought to you by free trade agreements.

Is that not common knowledge? The financial rape of the common Canadian in the last 30 years should be required reading.
 

buckets

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Holy crap. A cannabis growers union. A Cannabis trimmers union. I wonder how many other types of cannabis related unions there could be? A Canadian Cannabis Seed Growers Union...There's three that I could see happening later down the line....
 

VIANARCHRIS

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The company in the tax favorable country charges the baby company higher than necessary and thus transfers money out of the country. It's very, very basic economics.

When safeway did this in Canada they went so far as to cause the Canadian outlets to "lose" money, intentionally bankrupting them. By doing so the pension money went to the creditors (foreign parent company), and they made the wage cuts claiming insolvency. Can't pay staff with money they don't have right? Right!

It's just basic tax avoidance schemes that were brought to you by free trade agreements.

Is that not common knowledge? The financial rape of the common Canadian in the last 30 years should be required reading.
That might be moderately interesting if I were a finance student, teach, or maybe an ex safeway employee, but what in the fuck does that have to do with medical marijuana? Did you get booted from the Financial Post site? Those with money will always engage in tax avoidance, often assisted by government, and here's a tip - they've been doing it since long before free trade agreements.
 

VIANARCHRIS

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if liquor can handle unions so can this, they have good wages. They even offered to do it..
And floor sweepings would be $20+ /g. Not a fan of unions. Employing unionized staff is expensive and the customer pays for it. It's great for the employees if that's what they're into, but it's only going to drive business to the small craft grower or the BM with much smaller overhead and payroll, imo
 

ANC

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And floor sweepings would be $20+ /g. Not a fan of unions. Employing unionized staff is expensive and the customer pays for it. It's great for the employees if that's what they're into, but it's only going to drive business to the small craft grower or the BM with much smaller overhead and payroll, imo
If you don't pay people properly, then they are picking up your tab.
 

Princess of Pot

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So....I got a letter from HC saying that my application is now in the last stage of review. It's sort of bitter sweet. I love cannabis - all aspects of cannabis: growing it, smoking it, selling it :) so being an LP is actually the perfect gig for me. But I hate most of the current players, they have exhibited ignorance with respect to our "cannabis culture" and have been the cause of a LOT of pain and suffering to sick people.

That being said, I honestly think I can do it differently. I don't want a bunch of suits investing in my company telling me how to cut corners to keep costs down and returns high. I want to keep it small with a skilled and knowledgeable staff. Above all, I want to keep it grassroots. It will be a really small LP -- wayyyy smaller than any right now. I am looking to put together a grow team of cannabis experts. Compensation would be very fair. It also, wouldn't be catering to the medical market (except that we would have a certain amount of stock allocated for compassionate reasons and give it to patients that qualify for cost or even free, depending on their situation).

It'll take me a while to build my team and get us across the finish line, but if anyone is interested, shoot me a DM and we can chat :)
 

thelast1

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So....I got a letter from HC saying that my application is now in the last stage of review. It's sort of bitter sweet. I love cannabis - all aspects of cannabis: growing it, smoking it, selling it :) so being an LP is actually the perfect gig for me. But I hate most of the current players, they have exhibited ignorance with respect to our "cannabis culture" and have been the cause of a LOT of pain and suffering to sick people.

That being said, I honestly think I can do it differently. I don't want a bunch of suits investing in my company telling me how to cut corners to keep costs down and returns high. I want to keep it small with a skilled and knowledgeable staff. Above all, I want to keep it grassroots. It will be a really small LP -- wayyyy smaller than any right now. I am looking to put together a grow team of cannabis experts. Compensation would be very fair. It also, wouldn't be catering to the medical market (except that we would have a certain amount of stock allocated for compassionate reasons and give it to patients that qualify for cost or even free, depending on their situation).

It'll take me a while to build my team and get us across the finish line, but if anyone is interested, shoot me a DM and we can chat :)
Best of luck. I know am applicant that's been in the final stage for 2+years. I hope you don't end up in the same boat.

Good luck on your recruitment. May I ask the name of your company?
 

cannadan

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So....I got a letter from HC saying that my application is now in the last stage of review. It's sort of bitter sweet. I love cannabis - all aspects of cannabis: growing it, smoking it, selling it :) so being an LP is actually the perfect gig for me. But I hate most of the current players, they have exhibited ignorance with respect to our "cannabis culture" and have been the cause of a LOT of pain and suffering to sick people.

That being said, I honestly think I can do it differently. I don't want a bunch of suits investing in my company telling me how to cut corners to keep costs down and returns high. I want to keep it small with a skilled and knowledgeable staff. Above all, I want to keep it grassroots. It will be a really small LP -- wayyyy smaller than any right now. I am looking to put together a grow team of cannabis experts. Compensation would be very fair. It also, wouldn't be catering to the medical market (except that we would have a certain amount of stock allocated for compassionate reasons and give it to patients that qualify for cost or even free, depending on their situation).

It'll take me a while to build my team and get us across the finish line, but if anyone is interested, shoot me a DM and we can chat :)


refreshing to the ears
 

VIANARCHRIS

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If you don't pay people properly, then they are picking up your tab.
You don't need to pay union dues to receive a fair wage - that's just a union recruiters sales pitch. Millions of Canadians, the large majority, have never belonged to a union and are doing just fine. I'm all for people making a decent wage, union or not, but the customer is always going to go for the deal. Higher wages result in either higher consumer cost or lower shareholder earnings - and you know the customer isn't going to come first. That's just the reality.
 

ANC

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Not true, Higher wages of CEOs isn't doing that at the moment?
If you don't pay people properly who is paying for the shortfall?
 

VIANARCHRIS

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If you don't pay people properly who is paying for the shortfall?
You still don't explain why one needs to support inflated salaries for Union execs and their staff in order to get paid fairly. I can pay employees fair wages, save them from having to donate a percentage of their earnings to a union, give them the power to negotiate their own working conditions and keep prices lower for the customer. I wonder if anybody has added up the money paid in union dues and lost wages during strikes over their time in a union? That's money they've given away for absolutely nothing. I get that some people on here are die-hard union members and think they made the right career move, but I am just as convinced that my life has been better for not belonging to a union.
 
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