Young worker, early 20s, quits family-owned landscaping job when 70-year-old owner of the company, whom he has never met, sends him scathing emails

Young worker, early 20s, quits family-owned landscaping job when 70-year-old owner of the company, whom he has never met, sends him scathing emails

A young landscaper quit the family-owned business where he had started working after receiving an unhinged email from the owner of the company, with his manager, the owner's daughter, then pushing aside his complaints.

For all the grief we like to give corporate culture, from the impersonality of the way employees are treated, down to the canned and calculated way that everything is communicated, down to the way that all of the edges are sanded down and rounded off, well, everything. The fact remains that these things have been done intentionally, and for good reason. Removing all the personal touches that make life worth living also make is so that you aren't exposed to both the good and the bad of what makes something "unprofessional."

Never work for family owned companies.

Working for a medium to small, to very small business means that, quite the opposite will be true. Things are going to be very personal, even when it's "Just business." And how can they not be? When things are literally being run by a single person or a single pers...