Mike Andes, speaking at a business conference (YouTube video titled “Heckler CONFRONTED at Business Conference ("Freaked out MAD")”, June 9, 2025), responds to audience comments about full-time employees and describes his frustration with recurring financial losses in the off-season for home service businesses. He recounts burning $100,000 each off-season, emphasizes the strain of keeping full-time staff year-round, and requests a follow-up Q&A on stage later that evening to dive deeper into solutions.
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I get freaked out, mad about this stuff. My question was, when it gets slow, what do you do with these full time employees? And then Eric went around the room and said, you got a full time employee, you got a full time employee, you got a full time employee. Okay, so the statement that no one here has a full time job. I didn't say no one here, but I asked Duff, you have a full time employee, is that you can call on your fence today. Yeah. Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, all. Every day. You've got a fence schedule seven days a week, 365 days a year.
That was my whole point was that like there, there's. I got you, I got you, I got you to be your camp. I have po with kids. I do whatever I've been to backwards. I used to burn $100,000 in the off season of all my profits for the first nine months of the year. Just got burnt one quarter every single year. I'm just frustrated. Yeah. I'm going to tell the story this after evening. It almost killed me. It really almost died. So please give me till this evening. Yeah. And if you could please do me a favor, do a Q and a at 5:30, 6 o' clock with me right here on stage. Once I talk about this because I feel your frustration. I'm super mad about the whole home service industry. I travel around the country literally this week, talk to three companies, all of which are struggling, can't make money and have these problems. I get freaked out mad about this stuff. I use software and I get in these boots and I talk in front of me because I care about home service business owners. They're having this problem.
