I didnāt eat today. Ugh. Hope Iām not heading for trouble again. Guts feel ok though. Brain feels a lot more clear and focused today.
The fact that I was able to take no shit from Keith and reflect back at him his behavior, was fascinating.
Before, I would have been literally gaslit, that Keith was berating me and lecturing me and I would always be wrong.
Well today, I just wasnāt having any of that shit. I noticed there was a field sensation around me, like a bubble and through the silence of my snow globe, there was Keithās behavior:
Slapping his desk, turning tomato red, raising his voice, staying in a persistent level of rant. It was like my snow globe went up around me and saw his nonsensical attitude, and just - bounced everything off - I couldnāt even understand half what he was saying.
But, he did slap me about abit and scold me for using a calculator wrong, shout at me, storm off to his desk when I insisted I would do it my way. Bitch and whine at his desk all day, call up the shipping company and ask a string of ridiculous questions.
He has no clue what an ass he is.
So I wrote to my merchant platform, and asked if they could explicitly tell me why tax hadnāt been charged on a bunch of my sales even when I have the tax turned on; (because you know Keith is lecturing me and being an absolute arse about percentage losses and shit).
I found a legal article online and sent it to him with the answers. But he still doesnāt believe me and continues to overwrite my intention with my email lists, take over it himself writing in my name, and basically being an ass.
He is so desperate for money, and giving me a hard time. So Iāll wait until my loan offer, then tell him. His despicable behaviour is ugly and disgusting to share a room with.
We had a conference call to set up the shipping company: I asked if I had done the imports correctly, why there werenāt enough customers fields, if my mapping of the CSV would be copied for the rest of the automatic POST through the API, and if I set up the API correctly etcā¦
Keith was dumbfucked. He said he was going to do all of that but heās been arseing about arguing with shipping companies about integration - instead of actually just doing the work and figuring it out. So while he was bashing me and shouting from his desk, I quietly went in and just configured everything, the Google merchant system, the Etsy import, the Samcart import, so now itās all automatic.
And I just canāt begin toā¦ shake my headā¦ heās being such a jerk. When he actually calms down Iām going to tell him, a list of shitty behavior he has to stop or Iām taking the loan - fuck him and his nasty verbal bashing.
Later in the day he realized he had no fucking clue about Etsy, because I forced him to go in and email every one on there his big wonderful plan on getting sales. So after a while if fucking around on Etsy messaging all the favorites; he realized a tip of the iceberg on what I had been doingā¦ heh.
He didnāt understand etsys fee structure, listing structure, advertising enrollment, so I basically had to tell him: Etsy is a startup platform for people that donāt have a website. They take a commission of your sales (in my case itās a hefty 21.5%) but they do all the advertising for your shop on Facebook, Twitter and google - so I literally donāt have to worry about getting banned. Thatās why the commission is so high.
I explained to him our own website, has an annual fee, and merchant processing fees, but they take ZERO COMMISION. ZERO. Everything you take is yours, they even calculate and collect taxes, and the only overhead is the merchant platform hosting.
I chose it because it was FUCKING AWESOME. Every other merchant platform takes a FEE, in addition to your monthly subscription. In addition to the merchant processing fees. PLUS, my system means I donāt have to retroactively set aside tax money, itās all collected in relevant state columns, so weāll know what we owe at any time.
So, despite all my understanding about ecommerce, because heās convinced heās the money guy, he rips into me for using a calculator differently than him. And bitches about his tax workā¦ which is irrelevant with this ecommerce. Itās all tabulated in the reports dashboard.
Jerk.
So anyway, I was mighty tired and exacerbated over his incessant yelling and ranting and decided to stay all day downstairs.
I didnāt cook I didnāt eat. I didnāt even want to be in the same room as this asshole.
The bunnies were upset.
When I was super tired I came up, got back in my computer, requested confirmation from the merchant platform the zero columns were correct - and to tell Keith directly because he wonāt listen to me.
Then I got into the advertising creatives. I managed to do about 6 banner ads, I still have another 8 dimensions to go. And the funniest thing? The marketing partner ACCEPTED the ads like - IMMEDIATELY! And right below the banner creatives, they gave me green validation check marks to say I was safe for all platforms! Not just porn hub!
So I was so proud because someone must have been bored and literally on my profile reading through the ads. I would move on to the next ad, and buy the time the screen refreshed from the previous upload, it had gone from Yellow pending to GREEM APPROVED, AND EARNED A SAFE CHECKMARK to be allowed to display in social media networks.
LOL. So, after I finish uploading the creatives and defining the next campaign, I will have to connect this marketing platform to the electronic AI loan calculator. They like to see what kind of ROI we get on conversions and like to compare marketing outflow with sales, so each traffic individual has a specific value on his head. Which is currently sitting at $71 - so, that means I can afford to spend up to $10 to get a conversion. It actually works out at about $30 CPA, because advertising just takes a chunk of value away from the product cost. I factor that in, and came up with my pricing strategy.
And Keith didnāt, because he doesnāt know, he wonāt hear me out, he bitches about my rejected campaigns, and is just a bit of a work monster. Today he was bitching at me for STILL not having molds completed. I just had to remind him, we have people waiting two weeks already, and I havenāt started becauseā¦ look what you make me do.
I mean itās that obvious, he drags me out to the bank with him. He steals my time on petty conference calls instead of do it himself and set systems up for me. I have to sit with him on this bullshit call while he exacerbates the tech support.
Too left hand cornerā¦
I donāt see it.
(But itās right there he literally canāt see it) like his brain works differently and doesnāt see web structure at all.
So Iāve been doing all the tech. Connecting shit with APIs and Webhooks. Iāve been grinding my time away on these awful integrations and he just bitches. Constantly.
So I found my virtual snow some force field today and it was so funny to feel. Like a barrier of his utter garbage was now silent.. and instead you could just see the red faced flapping and belly shouting.
Does he not see this? So I couldnāt help it:
āI want you to pause and listen to yourself, check your tone please because Iām no comfortableā yeh he blew up. Doesnāt like being tone polices but I think Iām gonna do it anyway. And mention if I have to do this three times Iām going to accept a loan offer because I donāt want his bitchy parade pissing all over my mentality.
Night night.