loy·al·ty
- the quality of being loyal.
"her loyalty to her husband of 34 years"
- a strong feeling of support or allegiance.
plural noun: loyalties
"fights with in-laws are distressing because they cause divided loyalties"
I have been thinking about this column probably three or four weeks.
Over that period of time I have tried to evaluate this part of my life all the way around.
I have spent most every day of my life being loyal to other people. I cannot say I have never made mistakes and lost my sense of direction on this, but I have made an effort not to.
It really isn’t difficult if I tell you something or ask you something and you are truthful then I will be truthful with you. If you ask me not to share facts – especially not known by others I do not repeat that information.
The only thing I really stress is that if I hear this information repeated by someone else, I generally assume you shared it. Rather you told one person and it was shared I am confident it wasn’t me.
It’s just a matter of how I operate. Yes, I have made mistakes in conversations by misunderstanding but at the end of the day it’d never intentional.
This leads me to being in business or even if you work for someone else you have a responsibility to be honest.
It irritates me beyond words when someone takes the time to speak about something, establish barriers, and then sometimes within hours it comes around that only I was willing to be loyal.
I am not pandering I am just saying that in the 35 years give or take that Marilyn and I have been business I have found just how bold folks can be.
I have said all this to express frustration I have experienced in business here.
I have never made a secret of our operations. What our rates are, or specials are have been shared with our business associates. We don’t go out and create new charges or circumstances just to make a sale.
If something comes from us as an offer, we will stand behind those offers.
In addition, and this is my issue – if someone asks me, I will share. Our package rates and other sales topics appear on our website.
I have encountered this more and more, so I want to set this out.
Yes, we have a special ad rate for businesses now. It is in place. It is a full page and it is available with so anyone can take advantage.
I have felt like with COVID ravaging businesses everywhere – I would create a package to help folks struggling in recovery.
I have offered it to every potential advertiser and those who have been with us. I am unlike corporate people that dang a big special to new business and offer nothing to regular business.
I simply don’t do things that way.
We support our area. However, back to my position on loyalty I don’t want to hurt anyone in business, and I would appreciate the same.
In the past four weeks I have been told things that have been said and spread about our operations.
We do not fabricate numbers. We do not create misinformation about competitors. If there are factual errors in what is spread, we do address that. And it has happened more than I would like to share.
We continue to celebrate the people who support us and help us continue to do what we do.
There are some new things on the way for us, I just have to get some things straightened out.
We look forward to another year and appreciate your business and support. To those that read our paper also online plus those who view our streaming it is great to be able to help communicate with our audiences.
And so, for another weeks, thanks and thirty.
