Thanks. Yeah the whole thing just feels like I'm in an Indian Caste system. Never able to move up. Some of the family politics... My grandpap started the business. He had 3 kids. My mom and her 2 younger brothers. My mom joined in '86 when we moved back from Cali. Her brothers were there since the beginnning '72. My grandpap "sold" the business to her brothers in '96. Was never clear on why my mom wasn't included then. Part misogyny for sure. I joined in '02. My younger cousins joined in '06 and '13. Their dad "retired" in '13, giving them each half of his half. Our uncle, the other brother, no longer has any kids in the business. My cousin who joined in '13 pretty much runs things now. The talk with him is always, "They'll be more money for you when the real estate deal goes through and we buy the other uncle out." A big gas station has been trying to buy the property for 15 years. But I've literally been hearing something like that for 10 years now from before my uncle, and now my cousin. And in that 10 years it's gone backwards. They've canceled my families side of health insurance, while keeping theirs etc. I get no benefits other than a paycheck now. All their vehicles, insurance, gas, repairs etc are paid by the company. The disparity between our incomes goes way beyond our w2's. All the while keeping in mind that I've been a stellar employee and in reality growing the service side of the company to what it is today. That's part of the problem too. The company started as just a construction company. Thats what the market was. But the market just naturally expanded, like most markets these days, into a big service market as well. But my uncles and my cousins look down on the service side and act like as if we service guys don't work as hard as them etc. It's all fucked. Fuck China, Maybe I'll move to Mars.
