[LargeFormat] Weekend trading

[philip lambert]

At least you have the project outline, so what you need now is a convincing
business plan and cashflow forecast for the bank, which I will be happy to
put together for you (bound in morocco leather) in return for a couple of
gold molar crowns.  My travel expenses would be charged at cost.  Hope this
is a viable proposition. Your affectionate nephew Philip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: [LargeFormat] Weekend trading


> Dear Nieces and Nephews,
>
>     At the cost of clogging the electric artery again I'll add some more
to
> the trading tale. As a professional I am allowed to open early, trade
late,
> and stay open all weekend if I want to. Freedom of a health profession,
> hurray. But it comes at a cost that renders it impossible.
>
>     Saturday is not an option for me.
>
>     Sunday is fine but the overtime rates for the staff that must be
present
> would completely negate any additional profit. Plus I do not believe I
could
> keep my staff if I asked them to work Sunday - it is their day of rest.
>
>     If I were to adopt the trading plan of a number of my competitors it
> would mean cosmetic and aesthetic dentistry promoted at very high
pressure.
> I would sign myself off the Repatriation Department list and the old
> soldiers and sailors would have to go stand in line at the state
government
> clinic. I would bleach everything in sight with as high percentage of
> peroxide as I could ( short of producing an actual explosion in the
> chair....) and I would be pushing anti-snore devices, plastic bite blocks,
> and rubber mouthguards into anyone who walked in the door. I would be
> sending out fridge magnets, fluffy toys, frightening letters, and suchlike
> to gin up business. I would consider neon signs for the window and Captain
> Marvel space suit uniforms for the staff. I would have 14 hygienists and a
> nutritionist chained in the clinic and I would feed them on raw meat in
the
> case of the former and raw tofu in the case of the latter. I would have
> every known electronic fund transfer machine sitting next to the chair
and
> I would play on them like a Wurlitzer.
>
>      In short - I would have a modern practise. As it is I just cure 'em
as
> they come in the door and hope for the best. But don't imagine that it is
a
> path of riches.
>
>      Uncle Dick
>
>
>
>
>
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