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00:00:02 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I sent, probably gonna do this out of order, but, we met with Christophe today. Conversation went pretty well, I thought. He wanted to talk about the tenant, and I I don't think he expected to get the opinion he got. So In one minute, I guess. Well, I'll get to that in a minute. Let me get through AdaptX. So AdaptX is pretty simple. Essentially, they're creating fake users, and they're forwarding those fake users to distribution groups. Okay. And then they have guest users. That's how they're teams ing. And the guys at Adapt X or at Shaper are super frustrated that this is not working well. And I suggested at least for the people that are we're gonna keep, like, we need to get them accounts. He told me that HR is a hard no on creating accounts for, and I quote, legal reasons, which usually just means we don't want to, not there's really legal reasons. We own the company for god's sake, Scott.

00:01:04 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah.

00:01:06 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
What's the legal reason?

00:01:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So

00:01:07 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
what And I just said I just said, so who's the problem? The US or or HQ? And he kinda goes, oh, maybe maybe it might be a little bit more. Give me the name at HQ because it isn't The US, I assure you.

00:01:19 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I I work for that guy. So

00:01:22 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. I I'm pretty confident we don't have a US problem here. So he has a meeting tomorrow, and I sent that email to you and Lisa to maybe try to either of you happen to be in whatever meeting this is tomorrow. Like, can we try to squash whatever barrier there is? Because, ultimately, now we're gonna start creating two accounts. We're gonna create several more for some of these users, contractor accounts, access specific accounts. Dude, we could just create them a normal user, set them a laptop, and be done with this. It would be a lot easier.

00:01:52 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I I guess I still don't understand. What's the problem?

00:01:56 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Oh, I just think it's it's an it's a shift from standard, and you know how they are about their standards. So I don't know. Do you know that we have a folder in the AdaptX? So if you were to go here into this I made a folder. It is restricted to me, you, Gage, and Lisa Law. It says Shaper employees transfers, and she is updating this list with all the transfers now for us.

00:02:27 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That's So

00:02:27 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
if you need it, it's there. Yeah. It's but the person I need isn't didn't sign the agreement, so I'm glad we checked because I thought Brendan had accepted. And I'm not taking people's word. Like, Pascal seems to think he has, but I haven't told Pascal that he's not. So Well, every

00:02:48 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
now and then, someone will tell you, well, I plan to well, until they do, it doesn't really matter what they plan to do. So

00:02:54 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. I gotta figure out if Pascal knows that or not at some point today. But, anyway, I just thought it'd be helpful if you knew that. So, yeah, that's that's the Adapt X update, the HR update. Alright. So the tenant thing, he was pretty reasonable about this. He's like, so I hear you have another tenant. We're very surprised. And I said, well, I don't know why you're surprised. The no has come from you. And he looked at me funny, and I shared his email with him. And I'm like, dude, you you literally have you guys have been unwilling to edit spam filters and send email. Like, I don't know where the yes is or where you think the yes is coming from, but it's not here. And he goes, uhoh. I said, and here's the thing, man. You wanna see the tenant? So I shared my screen, showed him the tenant. And he goes, oh, that's it? I was like, dude, I don't know where this is. This is spiraled out of control in terms of scope. There are five users, six users, whatever the number is.

00:03:52 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I said, dude, we're not shadow tenant of of the whole company.

00:03:56 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I know. It is stupid. And so I just said, like, this email needs to go to these people. If you can do that, I'm game. And then I told him that secondarily to this, I even highlighted I was like, we need these two accounts. They need to be tied in. They need to have graph API capabilities. You can do that with modern auth. I'm not asking for old school auth. Like, you can use Microsoft modern auth to do it. You can get this done, dude. We'll close tenant. And he was like, oh. Then I told him that I think security is not good at their job. Yeah. Turns out, fun fact, there are three departments in play. There is IT operations, which for this conversation is him. Okay. There is alright. Hold on to your boots because this one gets wild. There are two more departments, information security and IT security. They are different departments. I was gonna say Different things and different Jiras and different tasks. And information security does not report to IT any longer. It was a recent change. So, allegedly, my ticket has been assigned to the wrong queue for six months. And I told him in no uncertain terms that that is not an excuse for the person in information security being competent enough to reassign this to IT security or vice versa. I said, we're not going to play like this as a Jira boo boo. This is a Some Okay. It was in the wrong ticket. I said, if I assign a ticket to database and it's supposed to go to servers, database moves it to servers. And he's like, fair point. Fair point. Like, alright. So let's cut out the, like, oh, it's not our that's not this company. It's that company. I I don't I just don't care, man. It's your job. If you're in the ticketing system every day, it's your job to make sure the ticket's in your queue. Within thirty days are redirected, I think that's excessive, but I'll give you thirty days. But, like, you can't just not reply and say fuck it. It doesn't doesn't play well. Yeah. And so I think Gage was a little shocked that I was like, dude, I don't buy that at all. Gage happened to be on this call. So, anyway, I just told him, like, dude, that you can tell me that it's two different departments. That's fine. But there's a department and a ticket in Jira, and they're not doing their job. And this is not the first, second, or fifth time this has happened to me. And he's like, fair. Totally fair. I was like, gar what is his name? Marcio Marcel. I said, Marcel can be a great dude. He cannot be a great dude. I don't really care. My judge is if he opens my ticket, has a conversation in a competent fashion, we make a decision together. If that works, then he's he's a great guy. And he's like, that's that's fair. So I feel like the issue is gonna be the biggest grind right now seems to be with security.

00:07:04 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It which? So information security or

00:07:08 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
IT security.

00:07:09 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay. So who's who?

00:07:11 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Information security has no IT security is that's a good question. So let's let's let's break that down because I've actually need to break this down anyway. So let's jump into here. Right? So right now, it is, let me make sure I got this right because this gets, so information security. So this ticket was put in. Well, to be fair yeah. See how it says second security? I haven't saved this yet, so it probably is still so it's this team is who it's been originally assigned to. So let's go in and look at teams. And see who this team is. What the fuck? Sorry, man. My language today is rough. Okay. It's it's just rough today. That's this. This is so bizarre. I thought I was gonna not have access to Teams, and that was gonna be super entertaining for me.

00:08:33 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, it's weird that you're on one tab, but it made you log in on the other. It's

00:08:37 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. So IT security is Marcel only. Okay. Information security that is how you spell it. Right? It is. To be fair yeah. It's a IT second too. I think that's who it's assigned to.

00:09:14 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It's not in here?

00:09:16 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
It's not in here right now.

00:09:19 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Oh, is that because does that go back to what he was saying as it's a whole separate Jira or something like that?

00:09:25 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Well, I'm wondering. See, it is still assigned to them. I don't think it's a separate Jira, dude. I think oh, there. Hans Ra and Dominic Hop.

00:09:41 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So I know I work with Dominic almost every day. He's he's not normally one to let something slide, so I'm kinda that's weird.

00:09:50 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Well, it it's clearly the wrong. I thought to get I we clearly pick been picking the wrong ticket, but they need to change the name of that.

00:10:03 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Mhmm. Well and they need to like, somebody on the other side should have said, this isn't us. Like, just to let it sit and rot for a year or whatever.

00:10:11 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
But to be fair, I've I've put this ScreenCloud ticket in on three different occasions over the course of three years. So no one's gonna sell that to me that this is just a clerical error. Like, we've been avoiding the shit out of this for years. Right. So and that was my point to him. Like, sure, there's maybe a clerical error on this one, but, dude, you can't explain the last two. And the UI path fight is gonna be entertaining because I did tell him, like, I need graph API capability. I there's a lot. This is gonna be like a octopus with a 100 tentacles and different things, and they're not gonna like that. So, anyway, that's where that's at. It was a good conversation. I mean, I don't I don't dislike him. He's he seems Gabe said he was kinda rough with him recently, but I've never had him be rough with me. I did tell him, just so I wanna be transparent with you. Mhmm. I am going to send him the email I sent you sent to Berc just so he is I told him about we want this to be transparent. Like, you didn't he hasn't see nobody's letting him see the email. They just keep telling him about how messed up this is. And I'm just like, dude, it's not that messed up. And so I showed it to him, and I'm like, dude, we're not we're not asking for the world here. And I said, we sent all that to Berc.

00:11:33 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I said, we're trying to

00:11:35 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
be good friends. I think there's some politics in the IT department at the headshed South Of Berne but North Of Christoph is what I'm thinking. I'm thinking the Matthias and the Thomas, and I think there's some weird jockey in there.

00:11:52 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I don't know. Hold on. Let me pull up the IT structure real quick. I just wanna see. Let's go to burn. Yeah. So it's gotta be Matthias, which is so Matthias has always been a little bit hard, but he and I have we had over time found a way to work together. Not a big fan of Ronnie. He thinks Ronnie's funny, but he doesn't like Ronnie's work style, which we you and I can both appreciate. Interesting. I I guess I just so Christophe is really the hold on. Let me so we'll

00:12:40 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Mattias Freytag doesn't he Mattias Freytag does not do English well.

00:12:44 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
No. He does not. And he he struggles That's part

00:12:47 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
of the problem. That's part of the problem.

00:12:50 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So the only three people I know on that team are Tim Mahorek, Wolfram Schmidt, and Chris Christophe Heilman. I know those three guys pretty well. Nelly is just secretary. I know her okay. I don't know the other guys at all. Oh, wait. Simon Schmidt.

00:13:03 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I've worked We've worked with Nelly quite a bit. I've had great I mean, I think Nelly's great. I think Wolfram's great. I've not had a ton of issues with Christophe. To be fair, we we we do have some issues with Stefan and his attitude.

00:13:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah.

00:13:18 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
That's an issue. But,

00:13:26 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
you know, Stefan's a pain in the ass. Michael Pfeiffer, I I've had run ins with Michael in the past, but we kinda worked through those.

00:13:32 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
So I I've I like my Michael Pfeifer delivers, and he has circumvented security. Like, I I don't I don't have issues with him. I he and Ronnie have beef, but I think that might be a mess making.

00:13:51 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So Thomas's team is the team I probably know the best because they were the former networking team. So Marcel, Michael Rupp, Herman Koehler, I know all those guys. And then I told you, Thomas and I were decent, and he seems to have

00:14:05 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
So I've had the beat. Has done Rupp has done me well. I have not found Thomas to be I maybe you should just still reach out to him and do a one on one and figure out how things are going. I I'm open to feedback, but, like, I I don't see it just seems like he is leading a no first initiative there.

00:14:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I need to find out what his new because I haven't really talked to him since he changed roles, so I just kinda wanna see, I guess.

00:14:35 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I I think it'd be good for you too to I still think that'd be a helpful idea. Yeah. He certainly isn't gonna speak highly of me at this point, but I know that. I I I'm sure I pissed him off, but, like, I and I'm not I'm not willing to to say I was I mean, I'm willing to say I was wrong. And at some point, like, I'm willing to hit the reset button, but they just don't seem to be very go getters in solving problems.

00:15:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. It seems like

00:15:08 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
But I also think I also acknowledge that's the team we need to build the best collaboration with to get stuff moved forward.

00:15:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. No matter what

00:15:17 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
It always gotta be figured

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out. Right? So

00:15:19 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
You gotta be friends with security. And I I do acknowledge, but I think you have to have a little beef and then maybe we can mend that. But they just have to know we're not gonna tolerate the constant no's.

00:15:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, I was gonna say we especially, I guess, now that we have Rise on our side, I mean, we've been tasked with doing something that requires us to be more than just a single a simple back arm piece of the company, which is what they still seem to view us as. So

00:15:49 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Well, I don't disagree with them. Okay. So that was that was the updates on that. I mentioned Bernie, I just wanted you to have that on your radar that you'll have a copy of that. The last two items are if you made any progress with Philip and trucking agreement.

00:16:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So Philip, I've reached out to. He has ignored me thus far, but I do know some was it you that told me he's in Germany or something?

00:16:15 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I think Casey did.

00:16:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay. So it could have just been he was out at dinner or something like that. I don't know. But we'll see if he pings me today. Let me see if he's showing up as Alright. He's showing I

00:16:35 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
wonder who I wonder who his alignment is there.

00:16:40 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
At HQ, you mean?

00:16:42 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

00:16:47 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Like So what are the minimums we want out of Philip? We just want him to know the plan for the IT assets, and he's to inform his teams?

00:16:56 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Or we can inform them. I we just want his support.

00:16:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Mhmm. Okay.

00:17:00 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Make sure that we're not gonna have another mudslinging contest. He is green.

00:17:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I I just said he's green, so I might try to ping him right after this.

00:17:12 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to try to prevent another mudslinging content. I think it'd be easier if he's aware before Jeremy's aware. And if he wants to inform Jeremy and Ian, that's fine. But and then I have a meeting this afternoon with them, with, Casey and I'd say in my next meeting is with Casey and Amity maybe. Yeah. To work on oh, and Ren to work on r and d assets. Okay.

00:17:46 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
When's that one?

00:17:47 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
So I feel like It's as soon as it's 1130 when we're down here. Okay. I think it's very not me, but I I'm gonna join because I'm sure there's a question or two, but most of it's gonna be Ren.

00:18:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I know

00:18:01 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
it's I think

00:18:01 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
this is for Ren. So

00:18:04 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. I think it's more him than anybody. But I think it's good.

00:18:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
A 1230 call too or no?

00:18:11 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Let me see. Pull my calendar up here. I have nothing at 1230. No.

00:18:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay. It's Amity, Patrick, Casey, and me. It's the NetSuite contract negotiation. Oh. Amity's wanting us to try to get an eight month contract out of them. So

00:18:29 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
When when does that renew?

00:18:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
To be honest, I haven't seen the contract yet. Amity got a copy, and she was supposed to send it to me, she never did.

00:18:38 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Well, eight months is, like it means it expires next month.

00:18:42 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Hold on. Let me find out. She sent it to me. Oh, she did oh, wait. Oh, she sent me the extension. Amity, there's a quote for a twelve month extension. It ends 83127, so it must end 83126 right now.

00:19:03 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
That's insane. Jeez.

00:19:06 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So they have sent us they're saying they can only do a twelve month renewal, and they want 100, wait, 146,000.

00:19:17 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I would probably tell them that then we need to move our other business, SawStop office shitty product.

00:19:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. No kidding.

00:19:24 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I would leverage one to the other.

00:19:29 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I so we're gonna talk because they've got, like, premium support. They've got a sandbox environment. They've got Suite Cloud Plus mid market. They've got One World Clouds are like, everything's 30, and I'm like, we don't need all this. We just need to be able to export and be done.

00:19:45 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. After 1031. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's probably just whoever can play a good game of poker.

00:19:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah.

00:20:02 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Sadly.

00:20:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
What was yesterday? 0316? I had a meeting with Amity, but I can't find it. Must have been this one. Anyway okay. Oh, it's when I went up to her office. Dude, she kept me so late yesterday. I was mad. I was trying to get out of there. Alright. Amity, you mean? Yeah. Remember when I dropped my bag off and I had to go up to her office? I didn't get out of there till, like, late.

00:20:50 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Is she frustrated, or what's her deal?

00:20:54 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That was all about this Oracle thing, and she thinks it's asinine that we'd spend a 150. And Casey thinks we need to because he wants a full year, and she doesn't think we need a full year. And so

00:21:04 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
she's need a year?

00:21:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That's what she said. It's like, why is Casey pushing on this? And I said, have no idea. Ask him.

00:21:12 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Just export that shit.

00:21:13 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. That's what I said. And I said

00:21:15 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
It's a general ledger for god's sakes.

00:21:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I said, let let let's just push on. We'll figure out how to, like, export it. We'll throw it in a SQL database, and we can run queries off it. We'll be fine.

00:21:25 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. I don't understand.

00:21:26 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Because we don't need inventory movement or anything. We just need historical

00:21:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
If you want me to join, we'll just add it. I mean, I'm happy to come. I don't I'm not a, by any means, a NetSuite expert, but I'm certainly happy to see if we can find solutions.

00:21:39 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I'm gonna forward it.

00:21:40 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Is it with is it with the NetSuite folks? No. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't I just don't see that as a huge deal. Like, I think you should keep it till January. Here's the thing, though, and you're gonna I know you're tired of hearing me say this, and I I'm sure everyone is. But, like, what are we gonna do about ecommerce? Yeah. It's tied to NetSuite. Like, I just I it keeps coming back to, like, you gotta figure out how you're gonna order the cash. We gotta figure out the order part before you can figure out the cash part.

00:22:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
100. Yeah.

00:22:20 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Bizarre. So I'm just scrolling

00:22:22 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
the emails. I just saw the Catherine email. And then you're so you asked her

00:22:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
What a joke. Yeah. I I I just think they're unbelievably upside down and behind. And I started did you see I started an email or a Word document to Yeah. Reply to her?

00:22:39 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That's what I'm actually

00:22:40 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I was yeah. I was gonna put some thoughts in there, and then we'll circulate it around and see if we can I I don't understand? Dude, they're such a mess over there.

00:22:55 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So she doesn't have any idea what servers are in this like, she's in charge of it from IT, but she doesn't know any of this? Like, that's impressive. Bless you.

00:23:06 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Dude, I think she's not in IT.

00:23:09 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I mean, yeah. I guess that's my point is we put her in charge of I the IT part of this project, and she doesn't even know these things. That's wild.

00:23:18 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Oh, I'm clear that this is wild. But there's no part of this that is not wild to me.

00:23:25 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
True. So she wants to cancel tomorrow's did she already do it, or is that our meeting?

00:23:31 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yep. I think that's your meeting.

00:23:33 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay.

00:23:34 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
If you wanna leave it, I don't care. I mean, I will show up regardless, but I think it's your meeting. When she said she was gonna cancel it, I thought that was funny.

00:23:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So But since she's not ready. But when did she make it, though? She made it

00:23:49 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Next week. I guess we should all make sure we can attend next week. I'm there. What day is it? Tuesday?

00:23:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Hold on. Let me cancel this one real quick.

00:24:02 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I think it's the nine on Tuesday, which I'm fine with.

00:24:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
No. Yeah. It is nine, and then shit. I've got man, you're one on one. Everybody just screw Shawn, man. They just put meetings right over you every day.

00:24:19 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. That's that's the recurrent one, though. Yeah. You might as well just move my one on one because that's a recurrent meeting, I believe.

00:24:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I'm gonna move it to Fridays probably just because

00:24:31 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. I'm fine with that. You're gonna hurt my

00:24:33 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I'm out of office on Friday, though. I'm going to Louisville. It's my annual guys trip. So

00:24:41 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Oh, that'll be fun.

00:24:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
The bad part is

00:24:43 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Is Bourbon in Louisville or what?

00:24:46 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. This time. So we move it around. So we did New Orleans last year or no. New Orleans two years ago, South Carolina last year. This year is Louisville. But the bad news, it's Keeley's 20 birthday is the twenty fifth, which is Wednesday, and she'll be in the hospital. So she'll be getting out the twenty sixth, and then I'm supposed to leave the twenty seventh, but they also

00:25:05 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
She's kinda gonna get to she's not gonna try get to try a a 21 year old beer for a while anyway.

00:25:11 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It's gonna be a hot minute. So

00:25:13 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Anyway. Okay. So

00:25:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I canceled that, and then I'll just I'll move our one on one later. I don't know. Okay. Yep. I invited you to the NetSuite contract meeting. I don't maybe it's pointless. I don't know the point of the call yet, but at least we can have a conversation. Damn. You were up early and going at it today.

00:25:38 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I couldn't sleep. I got up at 0530. I went you ever been to half liter?

00:25:44 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
No. What's that?

00:25:46 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Half liter. It's in. It's a German beer place, but they have bourbon. And so I go there a lot of times. Somebody of mine drinks beer, and I drink bourbon. I don't know. I just woke up, a little heartburn, 0530, and thought, yeah. Might as well just get started.

00:26:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I woke up at 0530 as well, but I was like, after this, I'm going back to bed.

00:26:06 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I I hate it's spring break, and I hate converting when my because my kid will sleep in the day, and then I end up sleeping in the day, and it just it's hard to get back. So I just try to stay at 0530 or 0600 almost every day, 0630. Somewhere in there, six, 0630.

00:26:20 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Oh, bring me. So okay. So interesting update for you real quick that isn't it's kinda tied to this, but we may be rehiring Brent Shively.

00:26:35 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
This this joint is on quite a hilarious track. He was in you know, he he was hired to do some shit for Shapr recently?

00:26:45 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. Well and if you For SRSA? It's probably gonna be for Sustainer. So

00:26:50 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Oh, is it really?

00:26:51 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Chris is after him pretty hardcore, and I I ok'd it. So

00:26:55 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Good for him.

00:26:58 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
He he called me the other day, he's like, I just don't wanna work for Festool anymore. I said, okay. I get it, man.

00:27:05 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
That's bizarre.

00:27:06 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I said you'll probably still tech on paper be a TTS employee, but I was like, we can we can work out some agreement. So

00:27:14 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Bizarre.

00:27:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Alright.

00:27:18 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
But that's his his brain separated. So what's he gonna do?

00:27:22 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
He would take Chad's job?

00:27:24 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Yeah. I I saw that that road closing in there. Is that this week?

00:27:34 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I don't know. Actually, I think I just saw some emails going back and forth between Lisa, and so I gotta read all those in a little bit.

00:27:43 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Poor Lisa. I feel like she's realized that she took the wrong place, this job.

00:27:48 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. She we had a call with Paylocity today to go over their pricing and everything. And, like, even on just unrelated things, you can just see her head just about ready to fucking explode. So

00:28:01 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Which is why I don't understand why. Like, stop the bleeding, put a tourniquet on, and then slow down a little bit. Like, I this company does not seem to get that right now. But hey. I'm curious. Mhmm. Genuinely curious. How much does a product like Paylocity cost?

00:28:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
About I think it was 60 a year or something like that.

00:28:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
For our for our entire organization?

00:28:30 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. Canada, US, everything.

00:28:34 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Is that per user based?

00:28:37 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. It's well, it's it's so the base system's per user. I'll send you the quote once I get it. I don't have it yet. But I'm not

00:28:44 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
that worried.

00:28:45 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It's a well, I it's a software product, so, actually, you have to approve it. You are gauge, one of you. So, basically, it's a per user cost, and then they add different cost for, like, tax filings and and whatever because they do all the payroll taxes and and things like that in the states. So

00:29:04 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Interesting. I was just curious.

00:29:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I I think UKG actually came back cheaper. I haven't done the math side by side yet because I need I need to take the time to do it. I just it's honestly not my responsibility. So

00:29:18 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I will say this. Paylocity's employee retention tool is pretty awesome.

00:29:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I I think I'm actually team Paylocity. I think I liked their interface better. Yeah. I I know that's what Lisa wants. So

00:29:32 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I'm just worried that we're not I mean, Lisa's got a whopping three months of experience. I'm just I have a feeling that there's just gonna be a, well, let's fuck around and find out approach and not, like, let's actually make sure they can do all of the things that we need to do. And I don't disappointing to see that that's I get that she doesn't have time, but then the project should get put on hold maybe.

00:29:57 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, Paylocity so the reason why she wants it so bad is it's the one she used at her old job.

00:30:03 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Oh, yeah. I mean, every company does this. Every employee wants the thing that they like to last, but my point is just no idea what we do here. Still learning. Right? Yeah. Three months in. And

00:30:15 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, she's taking it from Kate, which don't get me wrong. Kate knows the current payroll, but Kate just hates it so bad she can't see straight. So

00:30:24 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I would agree. And it the thing is, are we buying a payroll system? If we're buying a payroll then just go buy a payroll system. Right. That'd be a lot cheaper. If you're buying an HR management tool, then buy an HR management tool and scope it. But, anyway you wanna talk trucking contract?

00:30:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yes. I haven't reviewed

00:30:46 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
it yet. I I I didn't think you have. He is going to Vegas on Wednesday, so it's not like he can do anything right now, but I'd like to send it to him by the end of the week if we could.

00:30:56 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. We can do that. I might always come home and do it last night, but like I said, Amity kept me so late that I never got to it.

00:31:02 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
You know, don't worry about it, man. I I mean, it's it's just yesterday we chatted about it. So sorry. Had to read something. Yeah. I think I'll go back through it again today as well. But

00:31:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Cool. Anything

00:31:25 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
else that you need? Would it

00:31:27 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
be helpful to you to have access to up to date staff directories out of the HR system? Do you does IT need that at all, or is that something that would be more engaged? Or

00:31:38 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
At some point, it would be nice to be able to reconcile between the two digitally, but I would not put the effort into building that until we switch. Hold on. But when we switch, the answer is yes. It would be helpful.

00:31:55 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, I created this for Vera, and I just added you to it. So

00:32:01 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Our source of truth is not HR currently. I I figured as well.

00:32:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
But this at least gives the ability to go back and forth. Hold on. I'll do it in our regular chat, Shawn.

00:32:14 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
But, yeah, I would, at some point, prefer to digitize this functionality, but I don't know that now is the time for that.

00:32:25 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Check that out when you get a chance. You can export from it. I'd ask that you change your password. I don't know if it makes you, but I'd ask that you do that. So every day at 10AM, this thing updates itself off of the current HR system.

00:32:42 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Okay.

00:32:44 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
And then, let me make you an admin because then you can see. So if you go into the click on your name up there, it'll take you to your profile. But you can go down and you can see the diffs between each upload. So, anyway, it's just a it's it's not anything I just I needed something for Vera to have so that she could keep fleet up to date. So

00:33:12 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
because there's so many changes?

00:33:14 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, historically, there have been she just they get really out of sync, and then they needed a way to get it in sync. Don't ugh. No. But you know what I mean. So, anyway

00:33:27 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Makes sense.

00:33:31 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
But this also, like, historical, and it will have pay grades in here once I figure out how to get those in. So

00:33:39 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Just out of curiosity, like, why won't they just give Vera an access to Paycor? It just seems like we're going about this.

00:33:46 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. They can't give access without giving access to pay with that. Well, they can give you access to your own team, but if you go above that, you can see people's pay and I don't know.

00:33:57 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
That seems bizarre. I don't know

00:34:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
if I believe it, but they won't give me admin access to go in and look at permissions. I think we could set I mean, you know permissions as well as I do. There's no chance

00:34:08 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah.

00:34:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
An HR HCM doesn't have the ability to set permissions. They're just set wrong.

00:34:14 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
So but whatever Yeah. I think the I think the goal is to make sure pay yeah. I think the goal is to make sure Paycor fails, though, and that's where I have I did There doesn't seem to be any interest in solving problems here.

00:34:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
The real issue with Paycor is they can't do Canada. So no matter what, we gotta change something in Canada. So the idea what Amity wants is one system that can do both. And I I don't disagree that that would be helpful for us. So because, like, I I can only this only has US staff in it. I have no way to get to Canada staff because they're in ADP, and I don't I'm not I'm not interested in doing that. So

00:34:56 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Buddy. Alright.

00:34:58 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Cool. What else? I'll look at the contract. You I put you on that call. I'm trying to think of what else we have.

00:35:11 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I think that's probably I sent that email out about Festool Academy. I don't know if I didn't include Robert. I think Robert is probably buried in other things, but I don't think Robert I can't tell if Garrett wants Robert wants Garrett to run with this or he gave it to Garrett to fail. But so I don't know. If you talk to Robert one on one or anything, you might mention, like, hey. Do you anticipate new classes? If they do, like, now's the time to try to get those done.

00:35:45 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
K. I haven't talked to Robert in quite some time, but I I'll try to and see what's going on. So

00:35:52 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
No. This doesn't have to be a priority either.

00:35:55 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. But I'd still like to get it figured out.

00:35:57 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
He seems pretty wrapped up in whatever Robert's wrapped up in.

00:36:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Firing everybody is the word.

00:36:08 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Is he done with

00:36:09 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
that for a little while, or he got more? Ryan Bell resigned yesterday.

00:36:14 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Oh, after a conversation?

00:36:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. So I guess he had a one on one with Robert, and don't know if they were trying to put him on a PIP or what, but he just resigned. So

00:36:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Interesting.

00:36:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Alright, man. Well,

00:36:33 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I'll get through

00:36:34 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
some of this shit and figure out what we're gonna do about it, and then I'll see you at that 1230 call if you have time. So

00:36:41 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yep. Sounds good, man. Have a good

00:36:42 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
one. You too. Take care.